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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

Lessons of Vesuvius, Part 1

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Science, Life Sciences

4.36K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In the year 79 CE, the Italian volcano Mount Vesuvius erupted with with the thermal energy of 100,000 atomic bombs. Ashen destruction rained down on Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis and Stabiae. In this Stuff to Blow Your Mind two-parter, Robert and Joe explore this terrifying episode in history and what we can learn from it.

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1:46.4

Soon afterwards, the cloud began to descend and cover the scene.

1:50.8

It had already surrounded and concealed the island of Capri and the promontory of my senum.

1:56.4

My mother begged me to leave her and escape as best I could, but I absolutely refused,

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