Word: pompeii
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Guatemala City, Pilot Richardson learned more details. Only a few hours of rumbling prefaced the eruption. Three hundred to 400 persons were reported killed. Eight important coffee plantations were destroyed. Red hot lava had buried the village of El Patrocinio deeper than Pompeii...
...Feather-soft ashes, not hard lava buried Pompeii, preserved...
Vesuvius's eruption last week (see p. 27) speeded the translation and reporting of wall signs in Pompeii, which diggers are still clearing of the ashes poured on that pleasure resort by the volcano in A. D. 79. The signs are painted on the walls and are chiefly electioneering vaunts. Examples: ''Mansa Sabinus never gets drunk"; "If you care for good bread and better plays, vote for Cleonius Prisus"; ''Vote for Julius Politius, a man as handsome as the god Apollo...
Zeppelin Tour. Swift and sure the Graf Zeppelin accomplished its long frustrated Mediterranean tour last week? 5,208 miles in 81% hours. Commander Dr. Hugo Eckener guided her through varied weather over the historical sites?from Friedrichshafen, over the Swiss Alps, Corsica, Rome, Pompeii, Crete, Cyprus, Haifa, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Greece, Albania, Jugoslavia, Vienna, and home to Friedrichshafen. April 15 he will begin another Mediterranean cruise, then in May two cruises...
...Forum at Pompeii", Professor Conant, Robinson Hall...