Overlooking the Sassi Area of Matera

The Time We Didn't Kill Anyone, We Didn't Get Killed, and We Didn't Kill Each Other

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September 30th 2013
We're sitting in the Rome airport, looking at appropriately (since we're leaving) gloomy and rainy skies, it has become clear that I'll be back home before this blog is ever completed... Of course we have hours of travel ahead of us before arriving back in California, so who knows? I'll certainly give it a try! ******************************************************************** ... read more

Europe » Italy

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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