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- erupted. Before this historic eruption, toxic fumes covered Pompeii. The citizens of Pompeii had no idea what was happening. Ashfalls forced buildings to...12 KB (1,320 words) - 00:51, 31 March 2021
- Athens becomes Athenis = in/at Athens and Cumae becomes Cumis. Pompeii becomes Pompeiis. Nouns of declensions 3-5 also use the same ending as the ablative...9 KB (596 words) - 14:48, 24 August 2024
- Volcanic activity includes an explosive Plinian eruption that destroyed Pompeii and killed thousands of people in 79 AD. 11 Which geological phenomena...7 KB (590 words) - 00:47, 30 April 2020
- Volcanic activity includes an explosive Plinian eruption that destroyed Pompeii and killed thousands of people in 79 AD. 11 Which geological phenomena...8 KB (605 words) - 00:53, 8 May 2023
- 1930) to the explosive Plinian eruptions, including the one that destroyed Pompeii and killed thousands of people in 79 AD." File:Mount Somma schema.gif In...6 KB (687 words) - 00:46, 30 April 2020
- c) churches d) football stadiums 3)When was Pompeii covered? 4)What can you learn from the city of Pompeii? a) How to milk a cow b) What life was like...2 KB (384 words) - 22:12, 29 April 2020
- is shown by the annexed engraving (Immissarium/1.1), from a specimen at Pompeii. The high vaulted building is the reservoir, from which the water flowed...2 KB (149 words) - 15:40, 13 November 2024
- afterthoughts. The illustration (Ansa/1.1) is taken from a bronze jug found at Pompeii, with a single handle, of a very beautiful, though simple character; but...6 KB (672 words) - 14:13, 10 November 2024
- vi. 23.) The illustration (Acus/1.1) represents a box of pins found at Pompeii, and a sewing needle an inch and a half long, from the same city. 2. Acus...4 KB (423 words) - 13:55, 10 November 2024
- earthenware cruet-stand with two glass bottles in it, from an original found in Pompeii, very similar to those still in use; but another kind very generally adopted...2 KB (172 words) - 15:43, 13 November 2024
- window, as shown by the annexed example (Valvae/1.1), from a painting of Pompeii, in which the door is formed of four pieces, two for each leaf. (Varro...2 KB (181 words) - 14:33, 16 November 2024
- Wisconsin-Madison UC Berkeley press release: "Precise dating of the destruction of Pompeii proves argon-argon method can reliably date rocks as young as 2,000 years"...2 KB (251 words) - 05:40, 2 April 2022
- elsewhere; but some few houses, of a respectable class, have been discovered at Pompeii, in which the shop has an entrance from its back, into the habitable parts...4 KB (505 words) - 13:49, 16 November 2024
- illustration (Culina/1.1) represents a kitchen stove in the house of Pansa at Pompeii, with some cooking utensils upon it, as discovered when first excavated;...2 KB (207 words) - 16:45, 11 November 2024
- specimen (Authepsa/1.1) here introduced, from a bronze original found at Pompeii. The sides, which are of considerable thickness, and hollow, contained...2 KB (220 words) - 14:35, 10 November 2024
- illustration (Pessulus/1.1) affords a specimen, from a bronze original found at Pompeii. The doors of the ancients being generally bivalve had two, and sometimes...2 KB (232 words) - 15:49, 14 November 2024
- in the annexed figures (Statera/1.1), both from originals discovered at Pompeii. 2. Sometimes used without discrimination for libra, a balance. Pet. Sat...3 KB (241 words) - 13:32, 16 November 2024
- kind as it now stands at one end of the thermal chamber in the baths of Pompeii. 2. An ornamental basin of the same form, intended to receive the water...5 KB (541 words) - 15:54, 13 November 2024
- example (Superficies/1.1), from a painting representing a tragic scene at Pompeii, in which both the penthouse form of the superficies, and the protuberance...3 KB (281 words) - 13:45, 16 November 2024
- represents the top courses of the external wall of the great theatre at Pompeii, which is furnished with large stone rings to receive the masts in the...4 KB (307 words) - 16:29, 13 November 2024