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Vesuvius

Mount Vesuvius
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About Vesuvius

Mount Vesuvius is a somma–stratovolcano located on the Gulf of Naples in Campania, Italy, about 9 km (5.6 mi) east of Naples and a short distance from the shore. It is one of several volcanoes forming the Campanian volcanic arc. Vesuvius consists of a large cone partially encircled by the steep rim of a summit caldera, resulting from the collapse of an earlier, much higher structure.

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He went down Vesuvius, one of the most famous volcanoes of all.

from 313: No Such Thing As A Dangerous Coconut, 2020-03-20 at 00:03:09 · read transcript

Other times Vesuvius came up

  1. Also the reason there's nothing there is that people returned, as soon as it was all over, dug down, you know, into the ruins and nicked what they could. Some of them fell in and died. Some of the bodies are those of looters whose tunnels collapsed. Wow. There's a German prince who made a replica of Vesuvius. This is in the 18th century. It was in 1794, and there was this guy called Prince Leopold, the third Friedrich Franz. He took...

    175: No Such Thing As A Rice Krispie With Feelings, 2017-07-28 · listen

  2. If there's an active volcano, the fumes from a volcano are enough to kill you. Anyone trying to throw someone into a volcano would die immediately, purely just off the back of a tree. No, no, you could do it at a certain point. There was one more source, which from 1878, which was just before Vesuvius had an eruption, I think, and it was like Vesuvius was getting ready. Is this in the Helliga that? The West Lothian Butte.

    37: No Such Thing As The Kevin Olympics, 2014-11-28 · listen

  3. Starting with you, Andy. My fact is that Pompeii's new drain system is 2,300 years old. So this is in Pompeii. They have a set of storm drains underneath the city that were several meters down, so they weren't really affected when Vesuvius hit. I don't think any storm drain would have been able to drain away the larva from Vesuvius. That's a good point. Yeah, so there's the system which are 450 metres long.

    No Such Thing As Quentin Tarantino's Bambi, 2020-03-13 · listen

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