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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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August 19, 2007 10:16 PM EDT --
You’ve seen that commercial where the woman gets so frustrated with set in stains that she hurls her washing machine out of the window? Getting clothes clean can drive a person crazy. . . . more
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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. . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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. . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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March 19, 2008 11:06 PM EDT --
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23715140/
Retreat decorated with goods allegedly looted from Imperial villa
By Frances D'Emilio updated 6:28 p.m. CT, Wed., March. 19, 2008
ROME - . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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June 23, 2007 04:12 PM EDT --
I know this is absolutely nothing to do with Dogs (well if I stretched a point I could probably make it relate!) but I wanted to share it with you because it’s something I am very pleased with.
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October 30, 2007 05:41 PM EDT --
Once upon a time 3 couples ventured into Rome, Italy, with a great deal of anticipation. Which was greatly rewarded. Buildings, monuments, and Rome itself are all so old, that to return to . . . more
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March 14, 2008 03:46 PM EDT --
One of my favorite paintings in the world is Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew . Now located in San Luigi dei Francesi near the Pantheon and Piazza Navona, this and . . . more
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December 10, 2006 07:14 AM EST --
It's been a few weeks since we returned from the Mediterranean cruise, the winning prize for the 2006 Gather Travel Writing contest. The wonderful folks at Gather scrimped . . . more
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June 07, 2007 02:55 PM EDT --
As every good student of Cicero knows, Rome sits on seven hills: The Palatine, the Capitoline, the Esquiline, the Aventine, the Quirinal, the Viminal, and finally the…the um…well, that other . . . more
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