April 15, 2010
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They don’t seem to take into account spinoff damage to tourism that would no doubt follow another destruction of Pompeii and the like … A major eruption of Italy’s Mount Vesuvius could result in 8,000 fatalities, 13,000 serious injuries and total economic losses of more than $24 billion, according to a new study supported by…
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A recent poll found that young travellers often do not distinguish between real and fictional places or simply have geographical locations all mixed up. The poll, conducted by the sunshine.co.uk website, surveyed 2,865 people between the ages of 18 and 30, to somewhat disparaging results. […] >The opposite trend – considering fictitious places as real,…
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ante diem xvii kalendas maias ludi Cereri continue (day 4)– games in honour of the grain goddess Ceres, instituted by/before 202 B.C. Fordicidia — an obvious fertility ritual in which a pregnant cow would be sacrificed to the earth goddess Tellus 421 B.C. — Peace of Nikias brings the first phase of the Peloponnesian war (a.k.a.…
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