Tag: rome
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June 12, 2008 08:09 AM EDT --
I know we always thought a unicorn looked like a horse, but here is a deer with a horn in middle of his head. Deer are born with one horn but this horn is in the middle of the head. Here's . . .
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April 06, 2009 01:02 AM EDT --
Today, a 6.3 Earthquake hit central Italy. It was felt in Rome, and has killed six people including four children. It has also been reported as high as 6.7 on the richter scale. Buildings . . .
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October 06, 2007 07:55 PM EDT --
My brother, sister-in-law (SIL) and I woke up early the morning of September 16 in our closet of a hotel room to catch the bus to the Beauvais Airport. We were at the airport by 7:20. . . .
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September 04, 2008 08:31 PM EDT --
I've visited the Colosseum twice and it still amazes me that it is still standing today. The construction of the Colosseum began in 72 AD. These pictures are from my trip last year . . .
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October 08, 2007 02:59 PM EDT --
Although we remember Rome more as an empire, for almost half her history she was in fact a republic, and like us, an altogether imperfect, yet earnest, democracy. This now rather obscure fact was . . .
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July 17, 2008 12:29 AM EDT --
I found this article today and thought it was interesting. Rome put a ban on snacking near its monuments. I guess I can understand this, if it is for the preservation of the art.
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/rome-bans-snacking-near-monuments/20080716153109990001?icid=100214839x1205687735x1200270183 . . .
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May 01, 2007 06:17 PM EDT --
While on a recent trip to Rome Italy we came across a very strange but magnificent site in the Piazza del Popolo square.
There were row upon row of . . .
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May 24, 2007 05:38 AM EDT --
My wife works in the travel industry. She is organised. She makes lists and timetables and she keeps to them. She anticipates everything that can go wrong and she makes sure she can avoid or fix each one. . . .
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September 03, 2008 08:47 PM EDT --
I can't believe it's been almost a year since I visited Europe. While in Rome, my brother, sister-in-law and I attended the Papal Audience with Pope Benedict XVI. I am fortunate to . . .
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January 19, 2008 12:58 AM EST --
yet another secret. Follow the link below to find the article on the Last Supper. A musician and computer technician in Rome claims to have found a musical composition hidden in the Da Vinci's . . .
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April 26, 2008 07:32 AM EDT --
I just finished reading a book that had to be savored. I just have to share it with you! It makes me sad to think how few people are going to read this novel. It is so far superior to most of what has . . .
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May 11, 2009 08:30 AM EDT --
The visit of Pope Benedikt the 16th to the middle east
is a delicate matter
yes,
the man served in Hitler youth
and later the German army in ww2
yes
the man reinstated . . .
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September 26, 2007 11:47 AM EDT --
I've enjoyed Mythology since I was younger, and continued to through Latin class in High school and a college Mythology course...taking a trip to Rome topped it off a few years ago, one place I always . . .
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June 24, 2008 04:16 PM EDT --
I'm baaaaack! Back in Brussels that is. In the last 2 weeks I have been in 4 countries, 7 (or 8?) cities, on 4 planes, 2 trains, and walked something less than 1000 miles. [Okay, it's . . .
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March 03, 2009 03:43 PM EST --
Welcome back...running late this week. Seems it's been a little crazy around the office. Unfortunately, one of the crazy things was that my upcoming trip to Sweden for a conference was . . .
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May 07, 2006 10:58 PM EDT --
Rome and Ho-ho-kum equally gone
Sucked down past their foundation stones,
Reduced to shattered pots and shards
Around which the patient grasses grow.
Here In Phoenix, at . . .
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April 05, 2008 10:26 AM EDT --
At times it is hard to write, but I try
With all my heart and much might.
Still my body puts up a fight,
So I struggle for what is right.
My brain is on sudden blink, I put forth . . .
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November 07, 2007 05:32 AM EST --
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For two days we were happy.
And in the center of that happiness
We walked on the Sacred way,
Ruin around us, to the Palatine.
Climbing, we heard the bells.
From Rome and the ruin beneath . . .
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November 11, 2009 03:21 PM EST --
Vatican looks to heavens for signs of alien life
Four hundred years after it locked up Galileo for challenging the view that the Earth was the center of the universe, the Vatican has called in experts . . .
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June 23, 2007 02:27 PM EDT --
I know this is only a little to do with Gardening (I could probably make it relate by talking about the amazing Villa Borghese Gardens!) but I wanted to share it with you because it’s something I . . .
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