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Pompeii can be found at archaeology. org/interactive/pompeii.
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My only experience with volcanos are those that are active (kiluea, shasta, pompeii, yellowstone) and there's always breathing and huffing around them.
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By the way, one of the stern canyon club thousand oaks ca capitalists was scheduled during peasants at pompeii.
Wii-volution 2010
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I chose to build a pompeii style oven, which is the traditional Italian style.
Slice 2010
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Report Abuse i was in pompeii 4yrs ago it is fascinating the houses the shops the streets with the ruts worn in them by iron shod chariots and wagon wheels the dead people cast in lava by the wall caught as they were running by a pyroclastic flow.
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I chose to build a pompeii style oven, which is the traditional Italian style.
Slice 2010
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The pompeii episode was pretty good and had some of the best CGI in Dr Who so far.
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The pompeii episode was pretty good and had some of the best CGI in Dr Who so far.
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The pompeii episode was pretty good and had some of the best CGI in Dr Who so far.
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The pompeii episode was pretty good and had some of the best CGI in Dr Who so far.
bilby commented on the word pompeii
"Towering above the countryside, with vines growing on its lower slopes, was the ominous shape of Vesuvius, like me it smoked heavily. At night, from my bed, I could see the purple-red glow from its throat, it looked magnificent. At one time it had looked so to those doomed people, the Pompeians, but I wasn't a Pompeian, I was Irish, how could Vesuvius wipe out Dublin? No, I was perfectly safe, but Vesuvius wasn't. I discovered that Pompeii was but three miles as the crow flies. This incredible relic of a Roman city free of camera-clicking tourists was a situation I had to thank Hitler for. Thank you, Hitler!"
- Spike Milligan, 'Mussolini: My Part In His Downfall.'
April 18, 2009