They drew the inspiration from the inauguration of the first funicular of Mt. Vesuvius. |
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The Pompeii figurine carries a terminus ante quem date of 79 CE, when the Vesuvius erupted and buried Pompeii in a layer of ash. |
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The frequent but low-level activity of Vesuvius in recent centuries has relieved the build-up of pressure in the magma chamber. |
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When supervolcanoes erupt they do so with a force thousands of times greater than eruptions such as that at Mount Vesuvius. |
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An earthquake in ad 62 caused serious damage, while the eruption of Vesuvius on 24 August ad 79 overwhelmed the whole town. |
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He flew over smoking Mt. Vesuvius and brought his wife and mother cameos carved from its lava. |
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Vesuvius is a stratovolcano that grew within the breached crater of Monte Somma volcano. |
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More than 80 Vesuvius eruptions were listed in a recent worldwide directory of volcanic activity. |
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Naples itself is best left to the Neapolitans, to the stray dogs that haunt its blighted squares and to the pent-up wrath of Vesuvius. |
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Consequently, its territory includes a certain number of active volcanoes including Vesuvius, Etna, Vulcano and Stromboli. |
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The discovery in Pompeii of a pre-Roman temple is being hailed as evidence that the city was sophisticated and thriving 300 years before Vesuvius erupted. |
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Once, while making a travelog atop Mount Vesuvius, Mr. Cardiff wasn't content with the oozing flow of dull red lava. |
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There's the type of construction, the shock of Vesuvius, the fact that it was buried for centuries in acidy terrain that ate away at the mortar. |
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The secret of Roman success in making cement was traced to the mixing of slaked lime with pozzolana, a volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius. |
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The view is splendid, one can see Capri, Ischia, Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples. |
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The slag heap of Bold Colliery that lumped into the sky beyond the railway line, I assumed that was Vesuvius. |
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I refer to the events of some 2000 years ago when Mount Vesuvius erupted and engulfed the city of Pompeii. |
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Take the volcanoes of Italy for example, like dangerous Vesuvius near Naples. |
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Since every Italian's favourite mountain is Vesuvius, it was natural that they applied their skills to making a DEM from ERS data. |
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On her right, Matteo Rinaldi, director, Vesuvius National Park and chairman of the RECOFORME steering committee. |
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Paco was born in Naples on the Chiaja overlooking Mount Vesuvius and Capri. |
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The Romans invented concrete, mixed from pozzolana, a volcanic ash mined on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius, which forms a natural cement when combined with lime. |
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Pliny the Elder lost his life while visiting Vesuvius during an eruption. |
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So he turned to craftsmen living at the foot of Mt. Vesuvius who had pioneered a technique for working with lava stone. |
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At the other extreme, Plinian-type eruptions, named for Pliny the Younger who first described them while watching the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, are characterized by very large, violent, and dangerous explosions. |
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In ITALY, the ERDF is part financing 7.5 km of road in the Naples area, to link the district of Vesuvius with the Caserta-Salerno motorway, which should mean a considerable reduction in traffic on the Naples-Salerno motorway. |
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You can also discover the surrounding areas, Pompeii and Herculaneum, Sorrento, Ischia, Capri, Positano and Amalfi, and then Vesuvius, the royal palace of Caserta, and the Campi Flegrei. |
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Just when it was at the height of its expansion, on 29th August 79 A. D. Vesuvius woke up suddenly and its terrible eruption buried Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabia. |
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Standing in the burned-out wreck of the renowned Mackintosh library, where the symphony of cabinetry has been reduced to blackened brick walls and a few charcoal stumps, it looks as if Vesuvius could easily have erupted. |
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I remember lying in the sun on my grandparents' terrace overlooking the bay and Vesuvius and reading David Malouf's Johnno when I was 20 years old. |
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Growing region: The volcanic terrain on the slopes of Vesuvius. |
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The southern Apennines are also tectonically unstable, with several active volcanoes, including Vesuvius, which from time to time belches ash and steam into the air above Naples and its island-strewn bay. |
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Subsequently, the company which existed during the original investigation was purchased by the Vesuvius Group and it resulted in changes in the company's corporate structure. |
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In 1894, another sample of Eozoon was found in altered limestone that had been brought to the surface by flowing lava from Mount Vesuvius, a volcano in southern Italy. |
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The violent eruption of Mount Vesuvius over two days in the year AD79 has inspired numerous novels, paintings, poems and dramas on stage and screen, not least an especially firey episode of Doctor Who. |
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He also visited Naples and Mount Vesuvius, where he collected samples of crystals. |
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At first, you'll help Alabama search for the artifact, and then you'll step into the role of Anastasia as she races to save her new friend from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. |
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Seen from afar, with its gentle slopes and placid form, Vesuvius seems to bave been created on purpose to make Naples the most harmonious city inn the world, but seen from above, there is na doubt of its terribleness. |
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Nowadays, the principal area at risk is Vesuvius, above Naples. |
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Compelling evidence came from an unlikely source in 1894 when two geologists reported Eozoon in limestone blocks ejected from the volcano Mount Vesuvius. |
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Italian authorities were preparing to hold the games when Mount Vesuvius erupted on 7 April 1906, devastating the city of Naples. |
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Not entirely unlike Antin, Pliny was a stoic in an age of bread and circuses, writing, seemingly undaunted, at the foot of Mount Vesuvius. |
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Classic examples include Mount Fuji in Japan, Mayon Volcano in the Philippines, and Mount Vesuvius and Stromboli in Italy. |
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On AD August 24, 79, he was stationed at Misenum, at the time of the great eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which overwhelmed Pompeii and Herculaneum. |
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He suggested that despite his rescue attempt, Pliny never came within miles of Vesuvius and there is no evidence he died from breathing in fumes. |
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They may be of considerable size like the grey, rounded leucite crystals found on the sides of Vesuvius. |
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Good crystals of augite and olivine are also to be obtained in the ash beds of Vesuvius and of many other volcanoes, ancient and modern. |
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Krakatoa, Nevado del Ruiz, and Mount Vesuvius are all examples of arc volcanoes. |
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Vesuvius has regularly showered the area with ash, minerals and lapilli, which have enriched the soil with nutrients and created a natural and efficient drainage system. |
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The students climbed to the top of Vesuvius and were able to get close to Solfatara, a volcanic crater which still emits jets of steam and sulphurous fumes. |
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This makes it by far the largest of the three active volcanoes in Italy, being about two and a half times the height of the next largest, Mount Vesuvius. |
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Mount Vesuvius is the only active volcano on the European mainland, while others as Mount Etna and Stromboli are to be found on neighbouring islands. |
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It is the only work by Pliny to have survived, and the last that he published, lacking a final revision at his sudden and unexpected death in the AD 79 eruption of Vesuvius. |
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Dahl, 1826, Eruption of Vesuvius, by Friedrich's closest follower. |
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Rome defeated the Latins in the Battle of Vesuvius and again in the Battle of Trifanum, after which the Latin cities were obliged to submit to Roman rule. |
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Vesuvius was described by Roman writers as having been covered with gardens and vineyards before its eruption of 79 CE, which destroyed the towns of Herculaneum and Pompeii. |
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