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Vesuvius_in_Eruption,_newsreel_(1944).ogv (Ogg multiplexed audio/video file, Theora/Vorbis, length 6 min 14 s, 768 × 576 pixels, 923 kbps overall, file size: 41.16 MB) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons .
Spectators viewing the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Gulf of Naples, Italy. 1944. ... The church is still under construction today. Image ... Babcock died in 1994 at the age of 77. Photo taken by: E ...
Lava flows from Vesuvius in 1760 The eruption of Vesuvius in 1794. Since 1750, seven of the eruptions of Vesuvius have had durations of more than five years; only Mount Etna has had as many long-duration eruptions in the last 270 years. [26] The two most recent eruptions of Vesuvius (1875–1906 and 1913–1944) each lasted more than 30 years. [26]
Mount Vesuvius: an active volcano that last erupted in 1944. Phlegraean Fields : a huge, ancient caldera containing the western area of Naples. The area is a collection of numerous extinct craters that are evidence of ancient eruptions; however, also included in this area is Solfatara , a shallow volcanic crater still emitting jets of sulfur ...
When Mount Vesuvius erupted in March 1944, the B-25s were covered with hot ash that burned the fabric control surfaces, glazed, melted, or cracked the Plexiglas, and even tipped some B-25s onto their tails from the weight of the ash and tephra. The eruption destroyed the base and nearly all of the 340th's planes.
ROME — Buried in ash after Mount Vesuvius’ cataclysmic eruption in A.D. 79, hundreds of papyrus scrolls have kept their secrets hidden for centuries. But archeologists have now been able to ...
An archaeologist works on the recently discovered remains of a victim in the archaeological site of the ancient city of Pompeii, which was destroyed in AD 79 by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, in ...
Mount Vesuvius: 5 Italy: 1631 1631 eruption of Mount Vesuvius: 3,000 Ritter Island: 2 Papua New Guinea: 1888 1888 Ritter Island eruption and tsunami: 2,957 Mount Papandayan: 3 Indonesia: 1772 [5] 2,942 Mount Lamington: 4 Papua New Guinea: 1951 1951 eruption of Mount Lamington: 2,806 Mount Awu: 3 Indonesia: 1856 [6] 2,033 Oshima Oshima: 4 Japan ...