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To: SunkenCiv
What are you talking about? Sex wasn't invented till the 1960s. ;-)

Seriously, though, it just seems a little crude to say that they're digging to uncover 'saucy secrets'. They're going to have to go through lot of corpses to find them.

5 posted on 07/12/2006 11:03:30 PM PDT by LongElegantLegs (You can do that, and be a whack-job pedophile on meth.)
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To: LongElegantLegs

Or maybe not. The fact that the site has been generally avoided may mean some stunning finds (from an archaeological perspective), but Stabiae (if memory serves, I was pretty young in 79 AD) was farther away from the eruption. Pliny the Elder died on the shore (poison gas from the eruption?) after landing to round up survivors for evacuation. Others in the rescue party survived.


6 posted on 07/12/2006 11:16:03 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (updated my FR profile on Wednesday, June 21, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: LongElegantLegs

LOL!


7 posted on 07/12/2006 11:29:52 PM PDT by sully777 (You have flies in your eyes--Catch-22)
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