Posted on 08/12/2024 5:50:08 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Was he "laying" bricks, or what?
The proper word here would be "lying." A man was "lying" near her.
Sheesh!
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Richest people in the graveyard.
Newly found victims? Unbelievable.
A man laying near her, or lying near her? That’s different.
Not too, although in one of the homes in Pompeii or another buried town had a small, somewhat hidden room, that had a pattern of holes on one wall that *could* have been to hold up a cross. There’s no indication that it was a cross, and whatever it was had been removed, probably well before the eruption, no way to date it.
Good catch. They probably tried to flee, and took shelter in the closest possible place, then were asphyxiated, in the space of not very many minutes. If they hadn't been stopped by a Roman centurion trying to bust them about their misuse of grammar, they might have survived.
I wholeheartedly agree.
Pithy humor at its finest. Well done sir.
Perhaps you can post an article about laying (or lying) eggs some time.
“how likely is it that the victims were Christians? Paul had finished his missionary journeys by then.”
Very likely. Because Paul HAD finished his missionary journeys, right?
Plus, I slipped in a Monty Python reference.
Studying Pompeii was the most interesting part of Latin classes in high school.
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I’ve often wondered how much warning time the citizens had regarding a potential eruption; days prior to the event, there must have been some tremors, excessive steam, etc,.
Remember when Mount Saint Helens blew its top in 1980… There was warning for a few weeks that something was imminent.
“… A pyroclastic flow (also known as a pyroclastic density current or a pyroclastic cloud)[1] is a fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter (collectively known as tephra) that flows along the ground away from a volcano at average speeds of 100 km/h (30 m/s; 60 mph) but is capable of reaching speeds up to 700 km/h (190 m/s; 430 mph).[2] The gases and tephra can reach temperatures of about 1,000 °C (1,800 °F)...”
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Yikes… hard to outrun that…
Nah, it’s the usual story. The guy gave good wallet.
Gold coins? See that’s why I’d never make it as an archeologist. Gold, jewels, treasure stuff, if I found them I’d pocket them
“Find anything? Nope just more bones... “
Gold lasts. It’s the only real money.
Well I’ve always heard you can’t take it with you.
Maybe they were newly weds.
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