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	Pompeii
		The discovery of Pompeii was like going back in time to the day the eruption occurred because everything was as it was the day Vesuvius erupted.
		As mentioned above, Pompeii was an important port, south of Naples it was a major stop on the sea route to Rome from Africa.
		The ruins of Pompeii were discovered in the late 1600's.
	home.comcast.net /~apollophotos/photos/italy/pompeii (487 words)

	Pompei - Wikimedia Commons
		The last day of Pompeii, Computer Generated Image
		Karl Briullov: The last Day of Pompeii, Painting, 1827-1833
		The city of Pompeii, along with Herculaneum and many smaller places around the Bay of Naples, were Roman municipalities destroyed during an eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE.
	commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Pompeii (98 words)

	Pompeii: The Last Day - Trafalgar Square
		In Pompeii: The Last Day, archaeologist Paul Wilkinson uses all the available evidence to piece together exactly what happened on that fateful day and to paint a vivid picture of what 1st-century Roman provincial life would have been like.
		In this lavish and dramatic account, archaeologist Paul Wilkinson pieces together a terrifying picture of what happened in Pompeii on a summer’s day in 79 AD.
		Using the latest scientific evidence and forensic techniques, he recreates that day hour by hour, bringing to life a vivid timetable of destruction.
	www.trafalgarsquarebooks.com /books/spring%2005/0/0563522399.html (98 words)

	Pompei Virtual Tour
		Prior to the eruption of Vesuvius, Pompeii was a thriving city.
		A better understanding of life in Pompeii, a city with both Roman and Greek influence, can help us to better understand many of the writings of the New Testament.
		We are temporarily making available the home video footage I shot in 1985 while giving my sister-in-law and her family a walking tour through the ruins of Pompei.
	www.thecolefamily.com /italy/pompeii (98 words)

	Discovery Channel :: Pompeii: The Last Day
		Pompeii has always been at the center of new excavation work.
		Indeed, a four-year excavation work in the Regio VI quarter, in the northern area of the town, has revealed startling evidence that Pompeii was an important town long before Mount Vesuvius' catastrophic eruption.
		But while for the past 250 years most digs concentrated on the surface, in the effort to uncover new areas of the ancient Roman city buried in ash and stone, recent excavations have changed their focus.
	dsc.discovery.com /convergence/pompeii/history/excavations.html (152 words)

	Random House Books Pompeii by Robert Harris
		“The long-drawn-out death agony of [Pompeii and Herculaneum]—a full day of falling ash, pumice stone, and then, the ﬁnal catastrophe, a cloud of poisonous gas—is brilliantly done.
		Pompeii palpitates with sultry tension....Harris provides an awe-inspiring tour of one of the monumental engineering triumphs on which the Roman empire was based....What makes this novel all but unputdownable...is the bravura ﬁctional flair that crackles through it.
		But Pompeii proves to be a corrupt and violent town, and Attilius soon discovers that there are powerful forces at work—both natural and man-made—threatening to destroy him.
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?0345475674 (558 words)

	Pompeii
		Volcanoes - One of the most fascinating, if tragic, natural disasters of the last two thousand years occurred on August 24, 79 A.D. On this day, Mount Vesuvius (located near Naples, Italy) erupted, engulfing the nearby cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in a tremendous flow of cinder, ashes, and mud.
		Among the most famous are the house of the Vetti, the villa of the Mysteries, and, in the suburbs of Pompeii, the villa of the Boscoreale.
		The habits and manners of life in Roman times have been revealed in great detail at Pompeii by the plan of the streets and footpaths, the statue-decorated public buildings, and the simple shops and homes of the artisans.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/sci/A0839633.html (327 words)

	Tour of Italy - Pompeii, the forgotten city
		So, if you are planning a trip to Pompeii yourself, be advised that you could easily spend a full day exploring the city.
		Their reign ended when the Romans took control of Pompeii around 200 BC.
		Pompeii was first occupied in the 8th century BC.
	touritaly.org /pompeii/pompeii-main.htm (540 words)

	Amazon.com: Pompeii (Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum): Books: Piero Giovanni Guzzo,Antonio d'Ambrosio
		Pompeii is toured via three itineraries: from Porta Marina to the House of Ceii; from Via dell'Abbondanza to Porta Nocera; and from the House of
		Pompeii looks vast, so that organization like this could be important in spending your time at the site wisely before you can't walk anymore.
		Pompeii: Monuments Past and Present (Monuments Past and Present) by A.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/888265026X?v=glance (1090 words)

	EDSITEment - Lesson Plan
		Encourage them to look for resemblances between life in Pompeii and life in a modern-day city or town, using their imaginations to reach back across the centuries and fill in the picture of this vanished society.
		Pompeii Map with Panoramic Images: click "Forum Map" and use the links to access 360-degree views of the Basilica (lower left), the Temple of Apollo (mid-left), the area between the Temple of Jupiter and the Macellum (top), and the Forum itself (center), along with other sites in this area.
		Explain to students that Pompeii was destroyed during an eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 C. that buried the city under more than six feet of ash and pumice.
	edsitement.neh.gov /view_lesson_plan.asp?id=271 (1898 words)

	Pompeii: The Last Day (2003) (TV)
		This television documentary showcases a few examples of stories of the people of Pompeii during its last hours and follows these people through to their deaths, combining past and present.
		It follows the story of gladiators, a tradesman (who owns the equal of today's laundrette), that tradesman's wife, and a politician and his family (including his slaves).
		I have always thought that a full-length movie about Pompeii would be nice.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0369838 (251 words)

	Pompeii Tourism - Pompeii Vacation Reviews - Pompeii Vacations - TripAdvisor
		Pompeii day trip (no replies, 7:08 am, Feb 25, 2006)
		Taxis from Civitavecchia to Pompeii, and from Pompeii to Rome (1 replies, 10:48 am, Apr 26, 2006)
		Pompeii from Rome or Postiano - what is easier?
	www.tripadvisor.com /Tourism-g187786-Pompeii_Campania-Vacations.html (371 words)

	Up Pompeii - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The film ended with the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and had a brief epilogue in which Howerd played a modern-day museum guide showing off the petrified remains of the Pompeiian characters.
		In the case of Up Pompeii (et al), copies were sold internationally, where, once their broadcasts had occurred were contractually obliged to be returned to the BBC or destroyed...
		Up Pompeii was a British television comedy series of the 1970s.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Up_Pompeii (666 words)

	EDSITEment - Lesson Plan
		Encourage them to look for resemblances between life in Pompeii and life in a modern-day city or town, using their imaginations to reach back across the centuries and fill in the picture of this vanished society.
		Pompeii Map with Panoramic Images: click "Forum Map" and use the links to access 360-degree views of the Basilica (lower left), the Temple of Apollo (mid-left), the area between the Temple of Jupiter and the Macellum (top), and the Forum itself (center), along with other sites in this area.
		Pompeii and Herculaneum: Professor Cynthia Damon's website for Classics 36 at Amherst College is accessible through the Pompeii Forum Project.
	edsitement.neh.gov /view_lesson_plan.asp?ID=271 (1898 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Pompeii
		As is the case with James Cameron's cinematic opus Robert Harris' Fiction-written-around-fact novel about Pompeii is none the less entertaining for the reader being furnished with the knowledge that Vesuvius is doomed to erupt and claim thousands of lives in the Bay of Naples area.
		As an example, Pliny, the Roman scholar is known to have died at Pompeii but rather than from ash inhalation like virtually all other citizens he died as the result of a heart attack.
		Certain thriller writers burst upon the scene with considerable impact: Forsyth with The Day of the Jackal, Cruz Smith with Gorky Park and Robert Harris with the masterly Fatherland.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0091779251 (1619 words)

	Tour of Italy - Pompeii, the forgotten city
		So, if you are planning a trip to Pompeii yourself, be advised that you could easily spend a full day exploring the city.
		Pompeii was first occupied in the 8th century BC.
		The Etruscans soon dominated the region and Pompeii was no exception.
	touritaly.org /pompeii/pompeii-main.htm (540 words)

	The History of Plumbing - Pompeii & Herculaneum
		Wa ter closets were in vogue in Pompeii, and archaeologists have found ancient closets in the back of one palace, including a cistern to flush water to the different seats.
		In Pompeii, this is how the plumber formed pipe: He poured molten lead into various sheets of thickness and dimension, and allowed them to cool.
		A bathroom of the wealthy literally was a room with a pool of water filling up the entire floor, in essence a small swimming pool in present-day terms.
	www.theplumber.com /pom.html (1212 words)

	eTrav Pathways - Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius
		A strong wind blew much of the debris southeasterly onto Pompeii, dusting the city with a layer of soot and ash approximately 17 inches high within minutes.
		Residents of Pompeii arose to find their city covered in hot ash and soot.
		Pompeii, Herculaneum, and the entire countryside was buried.
	www.etrav.com /pathways/html/pompeii.asp (628 words)

	Pompeii
		Pompeii: the last day: one August afternoon, a mountain's rumblings caught the people of Pompeii by surprise.
		Pompeii, ancient city of S Italy, a port near Naples and at the foot of Mt. Vesuvius.
		Among the most famous are the house of the Vetti, the villa of the Mysteries, and, in the suburbs of Pompeii, the villa of the Boscoreale.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/sci/A0839633.html (465 words)

	Ø Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine Book of Days August 24 Vesuvius eruption Pompeii Pliny Elder St Saint Bartholomew Fair day proverbs massacre folklore death Chatterton
		It is a big day for socialising with family and friends and to remember the goodness of the harvest.
		This was the first day for opening the Mundus Cereris, ‘ritual pit of Ceres.’ This pit was vaulted and divided into two parts.
		Today, or a near day at the end of August, begins the Umhlanga week at the royal city of Lobamba, Swaziland.
	www.wilsonsalmanac.com /book/aug24.html (465 words)

	Love Among the Ruins
		Pompeii is prefaced with two quotes from Pliny the Elder and the novelist Tom Wolfe describing the greatness of the Roman superpower, and its apparent latter-day successor, twenty first-century America.
		Pompeii 's obligatory Roman banquet scene pays homage to this, with the nauseating addition of man-eating eels fed on the flesh of one of Ampliatus' own slaves.
		Pliny's account also describes the exploits of his famous uncle, Pliny the Elder (we initially meet him at the beginning of the novel when he sends Attilius to Pompeii to fix the aqueduct).
	www.archaeology.org /online/reviews/pompeii (465 words)

	Sheila: October 3, 2000
		"Water crept in a foot a day over the past three months, slowly submerging the ancient city of Zeugma, a key transit point across the Euphrates River believed to have been more than three times the size of the Roman city of Pompeii.
		Andrea covers Reunification Day in Germany, and shares her memories of the German reunification 10 years ago.
		The reunification of East and West Germany and the removal of the Berlin Wall was certainly a very real event for the people of Germany, and a very symbolic event for those of us in other parts of the world.
	sheila.inessential.com /2000/10/03 (706 words)

	Direct TV Pompeii Michigan Directtv Pompeii - Free Multi-Room Direct TV Offer Pompeii Michigan (MI)
		Direct TV Pompeii Michigan combines America's favorite network channels, other popular networks not available from many cable services, a pay per view movie service with up to 55 choices of movies and special events a day, local channels in many markets, and an unprecedented sports subscription lineup.
		Pompeii MI offers an incredible selection of entertainment for every member of the family -- all in the 100% digital-quality picture and sound that
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	www.infocenter-crm.com /mi-pompeii-direct-tv.html (706 words)

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	www.wesleyberryflowers.com /flowers_pompeii_MI.html (706 words)

	Pompeii, Michigan Travel Journals
		Traveling to and from Pompeii was the best part of the day.
		The size of the old city is the most impressive thing about it.
		TravelPosters who have been to Pompeii, Michigan but not posted travel experiences
	www.travelpost.com /NA/USA/Michigan/Pompeii/logs/3718461 (706 words)

	Holocaust Remembrance days -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Unaware of approaching disaster, the inhabitants of Pompeii were going on with life as usual the day Vesuvius erupted.
		The commemoration, observed on different days in different countries, often marks the victims' efforts at resistance and concentrates on contemporary efforts to battle hatred and anti-Semitism.
		Today the Holocaust is viewed as the emblematic manifestation of absolute evil.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9344515&query=holocaust&ct= (706 words)

	153 Squadron
		The third day required an early call (03.30am) and a hazardous ride in the back of a 3-ton lorry, narrowly avoiding horse-draw, un-lighted, market-bound, farm wagons, traversing very bad roads, all in pitch darkness.
		The following day was a rest day, which allowed for sight-seeing around Naples (including Pompeii) and souvenir hunting.
		Thus was born "Operation Dodge" (a sly and cruel reference to the unjustified label of "D-Day Dodgers" coined by those involed in the Normandy D-Day landings)
	freespace.virgin.net /onefivethree.squadron/book1/97.html (706 words)

	Pompeii - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the visual arts, The Last Day of Pompeii is a famous painting by the Russian-born Carlo Brullo.
		Geologists have used the magnetic characteristics of rocks and debris found in Pompeii to estimate the temperature of the pyroclastic flow that buried the city.
		Pompeii took part in the war that the towns of Campania initiated against Rome, but in 89 BC it was besieged by Sulla.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pompeii (1907 words)

	Robert Fulford's column about Pompeii's erotic art
		In the 19th century, it was said to prove that Pompeii was particularly sinful and that the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius (which brought life to an abrupt end in that city one summer day in AD 79) was the furious message of an outraged deity, in the Sodom and Gomorrah tradition.
		This is the new repository for the erotic art that has created both scandal and delight ever since archeologists of Pompeii began uncovering it in the 18th century.
		She told us that the function of erotic images in the Roman world was to "celebrate reproduction" and that phalluses symbolized abundance.
	www.robertfulford.com /PompeiiEroticArt.html (970 words)

	Tour of Italy - Pompeii, the forgotten city
		So, if you are planning a trip to Pompeii yourself, be advised that you could easily spend a full day exploring the city.
		Their reign ended when the Romans took control of Pompeii around 200 BC.
		Pompeii was first occupied in the 8th century BC.
	touritaly.org /pompeii/pompeii-main.htm (540 words)

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