1/2: #Bestof2021: Finding the Hero of Herculaneum two thousand years later. Charles Pellegrino

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1/2: #Bestof2021: Finding the Hero of Herculaneum two thousand years later. Charles Pellegrino (Originally posted June 25, 2021)
https://news.yahoo.com/2-000-old-skeleton-roman-135559332.html

Ghosts of Vesuvius: A New Look at the Last Days of Pompeii, How Towers Fall, and Other Strange Connections Paperback – August 9, 2005 by Charles R Pellegrino

https://www.amazon.com/Ghosts-Vesuvius-Pompeii-Strange-Connections/dp/0060751002

A fascinating look at Pompeii, Herculaneum and the Vesuvius eruption in comparison with other historically significant volcanic eruptions, including the World Trade Center disaster.

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, which obliterated the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum, was a disaster that resounds to this day. Now, the palaeontologist Charles Pellegrino presents a wealth of new knowledge about the doomed towns—and brings to vivid life the people, their last moments, and the aftermath.

The lessons learned from modern scrutiny of that ancient eruption produce disturbing echoes in the present. Dr Pellegrino, who worked at Ground Zero in the aftermath of the 9/11 attack, shares his unique knowledge of the strange physics of volcanic 'downblast' and 'collapse column', drawing a direct link from past to present, and providing readers with a poignant glimpse into the last moments of the 'American Vesuvius'.

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0:34.6	This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Bachelor welcoming Charles Pellegrino, Charlie Pellegrino,
0:40.6	to help me the author and the explorer to help me unpack a new story of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
0:48.6	It is October November 79 AD, maybe. And Vesuvius, Mount Vesuvius of Alcano, begins an eruption
0:57.6	seen from a naval base nearby, plenithe elder commanding this naval base, sees the cloud emerging from the Vesuvius cone.
1:08.6	He then gathers together, were told by his nephew, plenithe younger, gathers together a rescue fleet of the
1:16.6	biggest ship city has, as is the Roman Navy, and pulls toward the shoreline. Already there are reasons
1:23.6	that he can't get very close, but he tries. In the next hours, we'll be series of events,
1:29.6	revealed again and again by excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum. Charlie, a very good evening to you,
1:37.6	because we can't even establish the date. What is the controversy about 79 AD and when this happened?
1:44.6	Good evening, Charlie.
1:46.6	Yeah, it's a matter of also some of the uncertainty is over. We know that the growing season was longer.
1:54.6	The climate and that part of the world was a bit warmer than it is even today. And so in one of the sister cities of the
2:02.6	Vesuvius, so Plentus, we know that the pomegranates were being harvested, but they shouldn't have been harvested until about October. And yet plenty of the elders,
2:13.6	nephew, who was there, he records the eruption as having happened in August. And so that's still to be sorted out.
2:22.6	My tendency is to go along with the person who was there with the eyewitness.
2:27.6	All right. The same thing with the Titanic for years, everyone said, no, the ship went down intact, but there were people like Marjorie,
2:35.6	Newell Robb, who was a child, who was there and said she's sort of breaking half. And people said, oh, no, lady, you're wrong.
2:44.6	She should have just said, hey, don't tell me what I saw.
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