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The band has been nominated for several music awards throughout their career, with "Above the Clouds of Pompeii" earning them a nomination for the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically, in 2015. They received two nominations at the UK Americana Awards in 2016, as Artist of the Year and Song of the Year, for "Agape".
Dermot O'Leary Presents The Saturday Sessions 2015 is a 2-disc compilation album, a collection from BBC Radio 2's new music programme, which takes place every Saturday afternoon on BBC Radio 2, released in the United Kingdom in June 2015.
Above the Clouds at Sunrise: 1849: Oil on canvas: 69.2 × 102.2 cm: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York [5] Abandoned Skiff: 1850: Oil on cardboard: 28 × 43.2 cm: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Spain [6] Twilight, "Short Arbiter 'Twixt Day and Night" (Sunset) 1850: Oil on canvas: 32.25 in × 48 in (819 mm × 1,219 mm) Newark Museum, Newark, New ...
A cosmopolitan center. The genetic data collected during the research revealed that Pompeii was a cosmopolitan city full of people with diverse backgrounds, the study authors said.
Greek myth has it that Nephele is the cloud whom Zeus created in the image of Hera to trick Ixion to test his integrity after he displayed his lust for Hera during a feast as a guest of Zeus.
Pompeii in Latin is a second declension masculine nominative plural noun (Pompeiī, -ōrum).According to Theodor Kraus, "The root of the word Pompeii would appear to be the Oscan word for the number five, pompe, which suggests that either the community consisted of five hamlets or perhaps it was settled by a family group (gens Pompeia)."
After a dream about "Gradiva" and the destruction of Pompeii, Hanold 'leaves for Pompeii, where he meets a young woman, very much alive, whom he takes for Gradiva. In the course of the meetings that follow, he organizes his mania, stalking and interpreting signs (Gradiva appears at noon, the ghost hour, and the like).
The House of the Small Fountain (Casa della Fontana Piccola, VI.8.23), aka House of the Second Fountain or House of the Landscapes, [1] is located in the Roman city of Pompeii and, with the rest of Pompeii, was preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in or after October 79 CE. It is located on the Via di Mercurio, a street running north ...