• The Vesuvians (Italian: I vesuviani) is a 1997 Italian anthology film directed by Antonio Capuano, Pappi Corsicato, Antonietta De Lillo, Stefano Incerti...
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    director and screenwriter. Libera (1993) Black Holes (1995) The Vesuvians (1997) Chimera (2001) The Seed of Discord (2008) Armando Testa - Povero ma moderno...
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    eruptions or Vesuvian eruptions are volcanic eruptions marked by their similarity to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, which destroyed the ancient Roman...
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    Mount Vesuvius (redirect from Vesuvian)
    and the damage caused to the local villages were recorded by USAAF photographers and other personnel based nearer to the volcano. Large Vesuvian eruptions...
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  • Following a segment in the anthology film The Vesuvians, in 2001 De Lillo directed It's Not Right, which entered the main competition at the Locarno Film Festival...
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  • Ormonde (1885), Friar's Balsam (1887), Orme (1891), Matchbox (1893), Vesuvian (1896), Hawfinch (1897), Frontier (1898) Frank Butters – Toboggan (1927)...
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    releasing 100,000 times the thermal energy of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The event gives its name to the Vesuvian type of volcanic eruption...
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  • The following is a list of RAL Classic colours from the RAL colour standard. The visual samples are approximate and informative only. Below is a list of...
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    Herculaneum (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the New International Encyclopedia)
    time, the only discovered Vesuvian city (in 1709). Pompeii was revealed in 1748 and identified in 1763. Unlike Pompeii, the mainly pyroclastic material...
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    Campania (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia with Wikisource reference)
    nuts and is also the leader in the production of tomatoes. Typical products are: Apple "Annurca" with distinctive ripening process Vesuvian apricot Neapolitan...
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  • ichthyologist. Enzo Moscato, 75, Italian playwright, actor (Libera, The Vesuvians, The Remains of Nothing) and stage director. Bertin Ollé Ollé, 62, Cameroonian...
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  • Ponticelli and of much of the Vesuvian area, could soon crumble under the declarations of the new pentito. On 6 November 2019, the Carabinieri arrested Federico...
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    Sator Square (category Archaeological discoveries in the United Kingdom)
    and there is plenty of evidence for Jews in the Vesuvian towns (including a kosher version of garum, the Roman staple of rotten fish sauce). "Alpha" and...
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    He has directed more than ten films since 1995. In 2014, Stefano directed the drama Snowscape, about Donato (Roberto De Francesco), a man looking for something...
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    cotunnite. The Vesuvian sublimate occurrence was originally named melaconise or melaconite by F. S. Beudant in 1832. Tenorite was named in 1841 after the Italian...
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    Cumans (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    17 March 1241. When news of this outrage reached the Cuman camp there was an eruption of "Vesuvian intensity". In revenge for this victimization they...
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    even had glass stems. Both Vesuvians and Prometheans had a bulb of sulfuric acid at the tip which had to be broken to start the reaction. Samuel Jones introduced...
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    Vesuvian Fire, because of its use in demonstrations of tabletop "volcanoes". However, this demonstration has become unpopular in schools due to the compound's...
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    for the allied armies as they advanced through Italy. It was the contemporary report by Pliny the Younger that led scientists to refer to Vesuvian eruptions...
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    lies on the southern extent of the Eurasian Plate, which is surrounded by the Aegean Sea Plate, the Adriatic Plate, and the Anatolian Plate. The Apennine...
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    the Meetings of the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee. The Endowment. p. 176. "Prof. G. Mercalli Burned To Death; Famous Director of Vesuvian...
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    feldspathoid and a member of the sodalite group. Hauyne was first described in 1807 from samples discovered in Vesuvian lavas in Monte Somma, Italy, and...
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    stratified volcano, composite cone, bedded volcano, cone of mixed type or Vesuvian-type volcano. A spatter cone is a low, steep-sided hill or mound that consists...
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    won the European Film Award for Best Actor twice, in 2008 for both Gomorrah and Il Divo and in 2013 for The Great Beauty, as well as winning the David...
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    Corsicato, for whom Cotroneo wrote the episode "La stirpe di Iana" of collective film The Vesuvians, and the screenplay for the feature film Chimera.[citation...
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  • The Butterfly's Dream (1994) Black Holes (1995) The Vesuvians (1997) Red Moon (2001) Pater Familias (2002) On My Skin (2003) Mario's War (2005) The Red...
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    near the Vesuvian Gate, bordered by the Vicolo di Mercurio and the Vicolo dei Vettii. The house is one of the largest domus in Pompeii, spanning the entire...
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    National Archaeological Museum, Naples (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
    lively runners. The museum's Mosaic Collection includes a number of important mosaics recovered from the ruins of Pompeii and the other Vesuvian cities. This...
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    Italian film, television and stage actress. Born in Taranto, Saponangelo is the daughter of a workman and a housewife. Her father died when she was two years...
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    Baiae (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    Serapeum. The same combination of light tuff and Vesuvian pumice is found in the Pantheon, Rome, re-structured at the behest of Hadrian. The drum supporting...
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