Of the many eruptions of Mount Vesuvius, a major stratovolcano in Southern Italy, the best-known is its eruption in 79 AD, which was one of the deadliest...
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Plinian eruptions or Vesuvian eruptions are volcanic eruptions marked by their similarity to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, which destroyed the...
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resulting from the collapse of an earlier, much higher structure. The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD destroyed the Roman cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum...
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Vesuvius, that lasted until the eighteenth century. Mount Vesuvius AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius Carracedo et al. 1993, p. 203. Principe et al. 2004...
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Pompeian Styles (redirect from Roman wall painting (200 BC–AD 79))
historians to delineate phases of interior decoration leading up to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD between stylistic shifts in Roman art during late Republican...
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Pompeii (film) (category Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD)
Canada, it is inspired by and based on the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD that destroyed Pompeii, a city of the Roman Empire. The film stars Kit Harington...
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the villa was buried in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. It was excavated from 1909 onwards. It is now a popular part of tourist visits to Pompeii...
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Volcanic lightning (category Volcanic eruptions)
in the ash cloud. The earliest recorded observations of volcanic lightning are from Pliny the Younger, describing the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79...
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by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, thereby preserving their buildings and artefacts until extensive archaeological excavations began in the 18th...
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pieces of art that were well preserved from the ash of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. It is one of the most luxurious aristocratic houses from the...
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Herculaneum (category Mount Vesuvius)
in the modern-day comune of Ercolano, Campania, Italy. Herculaneum was buried under volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD...
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and was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, that also buried the city of Pompeii and the neighbouring town of Herculaneum. Six bodies...
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Pompeii (category Mount Vesuvius)
20 ft) of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Largely preserved under the ash, Pompeii offers a unique snapshot of Roman...
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Oplontis (category Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD)
was buried in ash during the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. However, the force of the eruption was even stronger than at these cities...
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Herculaneum papyri (redirect from Vesuvius Challenge)
library was incorporated in it. Due to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, bundles of scrolls were carbonized by the intense heat of the pyroclastic flows...
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Pliny the Elder (category Deaths in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD)
of the Germans"). Pliny the Elder died in AD 79 in Stabiae while attempting the rescue of a friend and her family from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius...
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eruptions by human death toll. Lists of disasters List of volcanic eruption deaths List of natural disasters by death toll List of volcanic eruptions...
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Agrippa II. Her son, Agrippa, was one of the few people known by name to have died in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Her father had betrothed her to...
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Ultra-Plinian eruption columns more than 30 km (19 mi) high, bigger than the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD that buried Pompeii. Hawaiian eruptions are a...
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Vitrification (redirect from Vitrification of radioactive waste)
suggests during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, a victim's brain was vitrified by the extreme heat of the volcanic ash; however, this has been...
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Fortune favours the bold (category Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD)
when deciding to take his fleet and investigate the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, in the hope of helping his friend Pomponianus: "'Fortes' inquit...
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Mount Tambora is a volcano on the island of Sumbawa in present-day Indonesia, then part of the Dutch East Indies, and its 1815 eruption was the most powerful...
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about the family members, who were likely killed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Traditionally, Pompeii is geographically broken up into...
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Pliny the Younger (redirect from Calpurnia (wife of Pliny))
describes the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in October 79, during which his uncle Pliny the Elder died (Epistulae VI.16, VI.20), and one in which he asks...
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Pompeii (novel) (category Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD)
Random House in 2003. It blends historical fiction with the real-life eruption of Mount Vesuvius on 24 August 79 AD, which overwhelmed the town of Pompeii...
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Pompeii, in Regio 1 Insula 21. It contains the casts of 13 victims of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The insula once contained more town houses than...
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preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The house was discovered in 1879, and was given its modern name to mark the 18th centenary of the disaster...
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Etna Stromboli Vesuvius Vulcano Phlegraean Fields Ischia Lipari Panarea Marsili Pantelleria Ferdinandea Alban Hills Palinuro The volcanism of Italy is due...
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Berenice, comes to join him in Rome, but he exiles her to please the Senate. August 24 – Eruption of Mount Vesuvius: Mount Vesuvius erupts, destroying Pompeii...
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Atrani (category Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD)
villas existed along the Amalfi Coast and were covered in debris from the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. The debris was deposited on the mountains encircling...
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