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The only volcano to have erupted on Europe's mainland in the last 100 years; its slopes once gave refuge to Spartacus |
Vesuvius
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$800 |
J |
VOLCANOES |
2017-10-31 |
#7622 |
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In 1944 Allied forces in Italy had to evacuate an airfield when ash from this volcano damaged planes |
Vesuvius
DD
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$2,200 |
DJ |
VOLCANOES |
2012-02-10 |
#6310 |
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About its eruption in 79 A.D., an observer wrote that "broad sheets of fire and leaping flames blazed at several points" |
Vesuvius
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$200 |
J |
VOLCANOES |
2011-10-24 |
#6231 |
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Formed in lava, leucite is common on the slopes of this mount above the Bay of Naples |
Vesuvius
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$1,600 |
DJ |
MINERALS |
2010-01-05 |
#5827 |
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Eruptions in 512 were so violent that Theodoric the Goth of Italy suspended taxes for those living on its slopes |
Vesuvius
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$200 |
J |
VOLCANOES |
2006-05-03 |
#4993 |
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In 1944 the ruins of Pompeii were temporarily reburied after another eruption of this volcano |
Vesuvius
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$400 |
DJ |
VOLCANOES |
1994-01-03 |
#2151 |
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The Book of Knowledge says the oldest volcanic observatory is at this volcano that killed Pliny |
Vesuvius
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$500 |
J |
VOLCANOES |
1991-11-19 |
#1662 |
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Pliny the Elder, Roman geologist, died while observing this volcano erupting |
Vesuvius
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$600 |
DJ |
GEOLOGY |
1984-12-06 |
#64 |