The alps

Day 29 - Torino

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August 19th 2013
We went to watch the US and Canadian First Nation teams play and to watch the semi-finals for our grade (we will play-off for seventh or eighth tomorrow). But in typical Italian style they had changed the formats and the semis and the medal games were all being played today at the field near our hotel. So Dad, Mitchell, Raechel, Rowie and I went up to the Alpine museum as the view was so much clea ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more