Posted on 03/01/2006 2:16:48 PM PST by uglybiker
Feb. 28, 2006 A Pompeii of the East has emerged from 10 feet of pumice and ash on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa, according to a U.S. volcanologist who has discovered what appear to be the remnants of the lost kingdom of Tambora.
Wiped out in 1815 by the largest volcanic eruption in human history, the tiny kingdom is known only from a few reports from the Dutch and British colonial governments that ruled the East Indies in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
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Like Pompeii, frozen in time by Mount Vesuvius's eruption in Italy in 79 A.D., the kingdom of Tambora has been lying undisturbed under volcanic debris and ash for centuries.
"All the people, their houses and culture are still encapsulated there as they were in 1815," Sigurdsson said.
(Excerpt) Read more at dsc.discovery.com ...
And why does it have to be a human? What are you, prejudiced?
Amoebas don't have blood. Probably very few blood relatives, also.
They all like to sit around the bonfire and sing like William Shatner.
There were no trees, for two billion of those years, to make the paper of a book, and no hand to write upon the paper.
Now, many people are impressed with the power of a Creator who could produce everything there is, but don't wish to accord Him the power and the foresight to be able to set things in motion so that His plan would be fulfilled even eons after He thought of it.
Behold the power of compound Interest.
Isn't this odd. I just got an e-mail from the Prince of Tambora, and he said he would transfer $20 million to me if I just give him my account number.
ah, here it is:
"Lost Kingdom" Discovered on Volcanic Island in Indonesia
National Geographic | February 27, 2006 | John Roach
Posted on 02/27/2006 9:48:58 PM EST by annie laurie
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I suppose there is always some new study to be done, but if he dug up a copy of "The Volcanoes Deadly Work" he'd find at least a rudimentary explanation, that of the victims on Martinique of the St Pierre Eruption: they were flash cooked. (The only survivor was a fellow who was in prison, iirc, convicted of murder: he was pardoned (he alone had been spared by the hand of God).
Maybe largest volcanic eruption in recorded human history. The eruption of Toba about 75,000 years ago wiped out all human beings on earth with the exception of 5,000 - 10,000 individuals. This blast was much larger than Tambora in 1815.
A member of the Great Race of Yith would liek to have a word with you.
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