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Showing posts with label AD 79. Show all posts

Showing posts with label AD 79. Show all posts

16 February 2017

Valentino Rossi - motorcycle world champion

Rider from Urbino among his sport's all-time greats Valentino Rossi is still chasing his 10th world championship title at the age...

25 August 2016

Vesuvius erupts

Terrible toll of Europe's worst volcanic catastrophe A nightmarish vision of the AD 79 eruption is conveyed in this painting by t...

18 March 2016

Mount Vesuvius – the 1944 eruption

The last time the volcano was seen to blow its top A dramatic picture of American B-25 Mitchell bombers circling Vesuvius during the ...

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