"EXPO Milan 2015"

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BTDT, but will get back - relatives in Torino. In fact Renata Temperino's father (and distant cousin of mine) has a signed letter from one of the US Generals in the Po River campaign honoring him for his help in WWII. Torino was an industrial center, but they fled to Borgiallo as it was bombed and then helped the Allies. They also invented and built Temporino vehicles for the allies in WWI, but the depression did them in and they sold out to Fiat. But while Italy is a modern state, government corruption and socialistic taxes keep the middle class from saving up their money and then moving up. They live well, but on the edge and are not displeased with their lot - not enough for a revolution.

"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."