Since I seem to have a wonky internet connection this a.m., I’ll link to this very interesting blog post based on:

a study just published in PLoS ONE by Giuseppe Mastrolorenzo, Pierpaolo Petrone, Lucia Pappalardo and Fabio Guarino, entitled Lethal Thermal Impact at Periphery of Pyroclastic Surges: Evidences at Pompeii.

• How did the victims of the Plinean Eruption of Vesuvius die? : Greg Laden’s Blog.

ante diem iv kalendas quinctilias

• 4 A.D. –the future emperor Tiberius adopts his nephew Germanicus
• 202 A.D. — martyrdom of Irenaeus at Lugdunum
• c. 202 A.D. — martyrdom of Potamiaena
• 1701 — Death of Thomas Creech (translator of various Latin poets)