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Mandorla - more addictive than heroin

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September 15th 2006
Geo: 36.6185, 14.9894I killed time until the bus to Siracusa. I traveled with the girls that I kept running into last night (Jill - Ohio, Sheree and Maryam - both from California). All three are doing their master's degrees (international relations) in Bologna this year.I sat around the hostel for a bit and then we all sat and had coffee (and an arancini for me - the "breakfast of c ... 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