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December 19th 2015
For winter break this year, I traveled south again, towards the warm Mediteranean. Rome was the first of my four-city holiday tour. I was happy with the weather and the amazed that I wasn’t even a block from the train station when I came across my first ancient ruins. I heard it said once that Rome is “a layer cake of building over thousands of years” or something like that. Anyway, it’s ... read more
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Italian Flag 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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