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Thera, which erupted in 1500 B.C., blew the top off the Greek isle of that name and destroyed a civilization. Vesuvius, which came to life in A.D. 79, buried the town of Pompeii and its inhabitants under tons of lava and ash in hours. When Indonesia's Krakatoa exploded in 1883, it killed 35,000 people and released with a single blast the energy equivalent of 20,000 Hiroshima bombs...
...miles. To make it in the alloted time, Superman would have to travel at a cool 1 million m.p.h. This may be within his capacity, but Miss Lane could never survive. The air friction at that speed would reduce her to a pile of red-hot carbon ash and cruelly terminate her affair with our red-caped hero. Finally, it is unlikely that Superman and his lady love would even stay in earth orbit at the speed required for their 90-sec. trip round the world. After all, spacecraft orbit the earth at 24,000 m.p.h. Heaven only knows where...
...Christ each Communion service: "Very God of very God ... of one substance with the Father ... who for our salvation came down from heaven and was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, and was made man." These tenets of the Nicene Creed should be relegated to the ash heap, according to a new book by seven British theologians. Their attack on the ancient tradition has caused the country's biggest theological row in years...
...1930s--right down to the bizarre styles of architecture and where you could find them. They were his life blood. If a guy came from the area, Marlowe could size him up and put him in his place in the time it took the man to flick the ash from his cigarette. Most of all, he liked the company of grifters--it never seemed to matter which side they were on. These types even had their own special language, and Marlowe was a professor of it. He never stopped being a loner, but it always helped to know that next...
Glashow synthesized nitrogen tetra-iodide, an extremely unstable compound which explodes when anything is dropped on it, and took to soaking dollar bills in nitric acid. This turns the dollar bill into flashpaper, which burns very rapidly and leaves no ash. Glashow gave this up when it became too expensive...