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  2. Mount Vesuvius - Wikipedia

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    The eruption of 5 April 1906 [68] [69] killed more than 100 people and ejected the most lava ever recorded from a Vesuvian eruption. Italian authorities were preparing to hold the 1908 Summer Olympics when Mount Vesuvius violently erupted, devastating the city of Naples and surrounding comunes. Funds were diverted to reconstructing Naples, and ...

  3. Battle of Mount Vesuvius - Wikipedia

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    A Roman praetor, Gaius Claudius Glaber, gathered a force of 3,000 men, not as legions, but as a militia "picked up in haste and at random, for the Romans did not consider this a war yet, but a raid, something like an attack of robbery." [10] Glaber's forces besieged the slaves on Mount Vesuvius, blocking the only known way down the mountain ...

  4. Battle of Vesuvius - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Vesuvius (also known as the Battle of the Veseris) was the first recorded battle of the Latin War. The battle was fought near Mount Vesuvius in 340 BC between the Romans , with their allies the Samnites , against a coalition of several peoples: Latins , Campanians , Volsci , Sidicini , and Aurunci .

  5. Mount Vesuvius Didn't Kill Everyone in Pompeii. Where Did the ...

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    When Mount Vesuvius erupted in A.D. 79, the volcano's molten rock, scorching debris and poisonous gases killed nearly 2,000 people in the nearby ancient Italian cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum ...

  6. List of volcanic eruptions by death toll - Wikipedia

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    Mount Vesuvius: 5 Italy: 79 Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD: 10,000+ Laki and Grímsvötn: 4 Iceland: 1783 Laki 1783 eruption [1] 10,000 Kelud: 5 Indonesia: 1586 [2] 6,000 Santa María: 6 Guatemala: 1902 1902 eruption of Santa María [3] 5,160 Kelud: 4 Indonesia: 1919 [2] 4,011 Mount Galunggung: 5 Indonesia: 1822 [4] 3,360 Mount Vesuvius: 5 ...

  7. Pompeii: The Last Day - Wikipedia

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    Pompeii: The Last Day is a 2003 dramatized documentary that tells of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius towards the end of August 79 CE. [1] [2] This eruption covered the ancient Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in ash and pumice, killing a large number of people trapped between the volcano and the sea.

  8. The 79 A.D. eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried hundreds of scrolls that researchers now think they can read with artificial intelligence.

  9. Antonius Felix - Wikipedia

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    The couple had a son, Marcus Antonius Agrippa, who died, along with many of the inhabitants of Pompeii and Herculaneum, in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius on 24 August 79. Antonia Agrippina (whose name was found in graffiti in a Royal Tomb in Egypt) may have been a granddaughter from Agrippa. His third wife's name is not attested.