Pompeii was an ancient city in what is now the comune (municipality) of Pompei, near Naples, in the Campania region of Italy. Along with Herculaneum,...
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Pompeii is a 2014 epic romantic historical disaster film produced and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. An international co-production between the United...
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Mount Vesuvius (redirect from Pompeii volcano)
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD destroyed the Roman cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis, Stabiae and other settlements. The eruption ejected...
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Pompei or Pompeii in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pompeii is a ruined Roman city near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania. Pompeii, Pompei...
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Pompei (redirect from Pompeii, Campania)
Pompei (Italian pronunciation: [pomˈpɛi]) or Pompeii (/pɒmˈpeɪ(i)/, as in the name of the ancient city) is a city and commune in the Metropolitan City...
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Erotic art in Pompeii and Herculaneum has been both exhibited as art and censored as pornography. The Roman cities around the bay of Naples were destroyed...
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Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD (redirect from Pompeii disaster)
The event destroyed several Roman towns and settlements in the area. Pompeii and Herculaneum, obliterated and buried underneath massive pyroclastic...
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"Pompeii" is a song by British pop rock band Bastille. It is the fourth single from their debut studio album Bad Blood and was released on 11 January...
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Live at Pompeii is a live album and film by David Gilmour, the guitarist of Pink Floyd. It was recorded at the Amphitheatre of Pompeii. It documents his...
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Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii is a 1972 concert film directed by Adrian Maben and featuring the English rock group Pink Floyd performing at the ancient...
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The Amphitheatre of Pompeii is one of the oldest surviving Roman amphitheatres. It is located in the ancient city of Pompeii, near Naples, and was buried...
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pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Like the nearby city of Pompeii, Herculaneum is famous as one of the few ancient cities to be preserved...
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Up Pompeii! is a British television comedy series set in ancient Pompeii and broadcast between 1969 and 1970, starring Frankie Howerd. The first series...
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"The Fires of Pompeii" is the second episode of the fourth series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was broadcast on BBC...
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The Last Days of Pompeii is an 1834 novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. The Last Days of Pompeii may also refer to: The Last Days of Pompeii (1908 film), an...
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Pompeii is a novel by Robert Harris, published by Random House in 2003. It blends historical fiction with the real-life eruption of Mount Vesuvius on...
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Gladius (redirect from Pompeii sword)
created over time new types of "gladii" such as the Mainz gladius and the Pompeii gladius. Finally, in the third century AD the heavy Roman infantry replaced...
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Pompeii is an EP by Beirut, released in 2007. It features only the work of Zach Condon and pre-dates the Gulag Orkestar debut album. While initially only...
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The Last Day of Pompeii is a large history painting by Karl Bryullov produced in 1830–1833 on the subject of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79....
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Apocalypse Pompeii is a 2014 American disaster film produced by The Asylum and directed by Ben Demaree. The film stars Adrian Paul, Jhey Castles, John...
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The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum is a large 1822 painting by English artist John Martin of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. It follows...
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Shrine of the Virgin of the Rosary of Pompei (redirect from Our Lady of Pompeii)
Frisk, M. Jean. "Our Lady of Pompeii", Marian Library, University of Dayton Pastoral Visit to the Pontifical Shrine of Pompeii Cruz 1984, pp. 88–89 "Irresistible...
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Alvinella pompejana (redirect from Pompeii Worm)
Alvinella pompejana, the Pompeii worm, is a species of deep-sea polychaete worm (commonly referred to as "bristle worms"). It is an extremophile found...
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Lupanar (redirect from Lupanar (Pompeii))
"brothel") is the ruined building of an ancient Roman brothel in the city of Pompeii. It is of particular interest for the erotic paintings on its walls, and...
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remake/prequel to 1975's Death Race 2000, and the epic romantic historical disaster Pompeii (2014). Anderson and producer Jeremy Bolt founded Impact Pictures in 1992...
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The Last Days of Pompeii is an Italian-American 1984 television miniseries filmed at Pinewood Studios and broadcast on ABC-TV and Rai, adapting the 1834...
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Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. The novel was inspired by the painting The Last Day of Pompeii by the Russian...
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The Pompeii Lakshmi is an ivory statuette that was discovered in the ruins of Pompeii, a Roman city destroyed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius 79 CE...
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Up Pompeii is a 1971 British sex comedy film directed by Bob Kellett and starring Frankie Howerd and Michael Hordern. It was written by Sid Colin based...
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intact temple was one of the first discoveries during the excavation of Pompeii in 1764. Its role as a Hellenized Egyptian temple in a Roman colony was...
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