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Pompeii: New find shows man crushed trying to flee eruption
https://www.yahoo.com/ ^
| 5/29/18
Posted on 05/29/2018 9:30:03 AM PDT by BBell
MILAN (AP) Officials at the Pompeii archaeological site have announced a dramatic new discovery, the skeleton of a man crushed by an enormous stone while trying to flee the explosion of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 A.D.
Pompeii officials on Tuesday released a photograph showing the skeleton protruding from beneath a large block of stone that may have been a door jamb that had been "violently thrown by the volcanic cloud."
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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: 79ad; ad79; ancientautopsies; eruption; godsgravesglyphs; italy; pompeii; vesuvius
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
If that were true, one would expect infamous sex tourism places like Olongapo and Saint Pierre to be ravaged by volcanoes.
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posted on
05/29/2018 10:00:52 AM PDT
by
MrEdd
(Caveat Emptor)
To: BBell
He probably forgot to pay homage to the household gods...
To: treetopsandroofs
Thanks. I was always told that the lava turned the people to stone. It was plaster. I was taught that syphilis was introduced to Europe by Columbus's men. Guess not.
And people wonder why I'm so cynical. I always told my kids not to believe everything they are taught in school and their teachers are really not that smart.
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posted on
05/29/2018 10:10:07 AM PDT
by
BBell
(calm down and eat your sandwiches)
To: canuck_conservative
The people most likely believed the idols they worshipped would protect them.
To: canuck_conservative
From the link at post 7.
In reality, everyone had ample time to escape. Mount Vesuvius had slowly been building up steam and giving signals of an imminent eruption. Unfortunately, it was also the festival of Volcanalia the god of volcanoes. The Pompeians took the smoking and spurting mountain as a good omen, instead of a warning. They celebrated instead of evacuating.
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posted on
05/29/2018 10:15:17 AM PDT
by
BBell
(calm down and eat your sandwiches)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
05/29/2018 10:17:05 AM PDT
by
BBell
(calm down and eat your sandwiches)
To: BBell
Posh. I saw JUNGLE JIM pick up a rock that size and throw it at some bad guys on TV!
To: DannyTN
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posted on
05/29/2018 10:23:32 AM PDT
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
To: BBell
he didn’t see that coming...
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posted on
05/29/2018 10:25:54 AM PDT
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
To: MrEdd
Mt Pel’ee, Martinique comes to mind. The perversion of that town was well known before the explosion.
To: BBell
Thanks. I was always told that the lava turned the people to stone.
Had thought the same until finding something like this about ten years ago.
Today, just realized that the "disintegrated" part was wrong.
To: treetopsandroofs
Maybe fifty years ago in National Geographic it showed lots of uncovered bones at Pompeii. None of these had been filled with plaster.
To: BBell
I've visited Pompeii once.It was in July...temp about 99...humidity about 99%...that visit having caused of the worst sunburn I've ever had.
I'd love to go back there on a cloudy,cool day in January...and I'd love to hit Herculaneum as well.
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posted on
05/29/2018 10:31:10 AM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
To: canuck_conservative
Doesnt Nature / God usually give some kind of warning of big events? Whether people want to heed that warning is their own choice Let's ask the residents on the Big Island of Hawaii what they think.
-PJ
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posted on
05/29/2018 10:36:56 AM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
(The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
May 1984
To: BBell
That will buff right out.
To: BBell
Actually up until that time no one had ever seen a volcanic eruption. The Pompeians had no idea what was about to happen to them. Their tragedy was one of ignorance, not arrogant pride.
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posted on
05/29/2018 11:00:04 AM PDT
by
jmacusa
("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
To: BBell
i wonder how they died? Asphyxiation? Being crushed to death? Burned alive?
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posted on
05/29/2018 11:04:50 AM PDT
by
Bob434
To: Fido969
Please Lord, let there be a red wave. Amen.
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posted on
05/29/2018 11:07:04 AM PDT
by
353FMG
To: BBell; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
Thanks BBell. I've wondered sometimes if most fled to the waterside looking for an escape by sea, then died from the gases (that's what happened to Pliny the Elder), and perchance washed off by turbulent waters.
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posted on
05/29/2018 11:52:36 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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