Mount Everest

War, ashes, and devastation and the city of hopeless reconstruction. Pompeii illustrates destruction in order to show nobody is safe from danger at any time. The purpose of the telling of Pompeii is to present the world with history from a former city that was once prosperous. The thought of people having to look death in the face is a thought that would be found terrifying. People were suffocated by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius and ¨For eighteen hours the ash and rock kept falling¨ (O'Connor…

The map is almost uncannily similar to today's: a spray of black dots showing the recorded sightings of a foul grey haze spreading across Europe, from Helsinki to Naples, from Heligoland to Mallorca, and reaching eventually to Aleppo and Damascus – and all of it caused by clouds of ash from an immense volcano erupting far across the sea in Iceland. But this was a map made from data collected in 1783. The volcano was called Laki, it erupted for eight dismal months without cease, ruined crops,…

So my volcano caused the deaths of 2,000 lives of men and women. The name of my volcano is Mount Vesuvius and back in august 79 AD it caused the city of Pompeii to be destroyed. Volcanos can go off at anytime and anywhere. Earlier before the volcano erupted it was a hot sunny day and the sun was beating down on all the citizens of Pompeii and made them all move to the middle where the water fountain was. As most people went to the middle the volcano started to erupt and put a cloud of ash that…

after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79. The eruption discharged lava to a height of 33 kilometers. The volcano spewed out hot ash and molten rock at a rate of 1.5 million tons per second. The overall deaths that occurred are unknown but they have discovered over 1500 body remains at Pompeii and Herculaneum. The screams from all those who were in shock and who were injured crying out to love ones who had lost their life. Misery occurred on the town after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Caesar…

Jerusalem is one of the holiest cities in the entire world. Home to holy places, synagogues, mosques, and churches, millions of people visit the city of Jerusalem. It is also a place of conflict as the three major world religions view Jerusalem as one of the sacred places for their religion. In addition, history has shown that each of these religions wanted to take control of Jerusalem, and destroyed the holy sites belonging to the others. Finally, none of the religions want others to control…

Definition Lahars also called mudflows contain fusion of water and consolidated particles of gravel, ice, wood, and other fragments that flow from volcanoes are distinct, prompt, and gravity-induced outflows of drenched, high-consolidation mixtures.(Vallance, 2000) Types Primary lahars These are generated amidst outbursts by numerous eruption-related activities. Such lahars wiped out almost 37,451 people all over the world between AD 1600 and 2010. The Nevado del Ruiz disaster in 1985 caused…

The search for the legendary lost island known as Atlantis has been grabbing the attention of explorers, historians and philosophers for over 2,000 years. People to this day still argue about its location. Plato, the Greek philosopher, wrote about this ancient civilization in two of his dialogues. Although some argue that this place is fictional, there are scientific and geographical explanations as to why the city would have sunken. Also, there have been relics that were found that suggest they…

their societal feats. A typical household enslaved as many as four to five per household, and they had daily roles such as washing clothes, carrying the wealthy elite on litters, and many other jobs that archaeologists believe they had done. When Mount Vesuvius erupted in the year 79 CE in Pompeii Italy, it completely decimated the city and everything else in its path. The collapse of the volcano triggered a hundred mile an hour pyroclastic avalanche that roared through the city and killed an…

In a modern global history class taught today, students learn all about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD. They know the basic facts, such as how the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were covered with ash, how many, many people died because of the volcano eruption, and how the description we have of the eruption is from a letter written by Pliny the Younger (61AD-113AD). However, many students are not taught about what Roman life was like in Pompeii before the eruption of the volcano. The…

Mount Vesuvius is known as one of the most famous volcanos on the planet. It is in the Eastern Hemisphere, and does not lie on the ring of fire, which is somewhat rare. Mount Vesuvius in located on the continent of Europe and in the country of Italy. Its geographical coordinates are North 40 degrees and East 14 degrees. The tectonic plates below Mount Vesuvius are the Eurasian and African Plates. The plates that have interacted to form this volcano are convergent. It is still an active…