A smaller canal

VENICE

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August 2nd 2005
arighty, so I'm gonna do this in list form: overnight bus to Edinburgh, kinda rough, Layne had to sit next to this creepy guy who ate whenever he wasn't sleeping. he gave me the willies from the row ahead of me. Kinda slept, not really. Thought I was gonna get some major reading this weekend, didn't at all. Arrive in Edinburgh at 7:40 in the morning and go shopping which was a bad idea be ... 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