Inside Colosseum

Pompeii Ruins

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July 22nd 2014
Today I went on a tour of Pompeii. We saw some of the original skeletons from the eruption of mount Vesuvius.The people didn't die from the eruption. There was a lot of underground water and the lava from the eruption made the water really hot and the smoke from the water came up to the surface and it was so hot that nobody could breathe. ... 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