This little mail box is not a suggestion box.

This box was used if you wanted to turn in a neighbor or friend for being unloyal to the government. You had to write it, and sign your name, no anonymous letters here. Then you had to have two other witnesses sign it. Then trial, and verdict. If later facts found that you lied, then you die. Death Row did not have to have many cells. Justice was quick.

Italy Day 9 - Day on our own to explore the island.

October 15th 2014
Today was a guided tour day in the morning, and a shop-till-you-drop day in the afternoon, also known as free-time. We were guided through the Doge's Palace, the prison where the bad boys were kept, went over the "Bridge of Sighs", saw St. Mark's Cathedral, the Duomo, as it is called. Some interesting things about this island. It is built in the middle of a lagoon. About 900 years ago, or more, ... 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

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