History - Grunge
History is anything but academic and boring, and we highlight the stories, moments, and people that made it.| Grunge
History is anything but academic and boring, and we highlight the stories, moments, and people that made it.| Grunge
Exploring the worlds of the ancient Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Celts, and other great civilizations.| Grunge
Grunge specializes in informative deep dives - from history and crime to science and everything strange.| Grunge
Historians do have access to one particular eyewitness account of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, and it's the one that Pliny the Younger left behind.| Grunge
Mt. Vesuvius erupted in the year 79 AD, wiping out the towns of Herculaneum and Pompeii as it spilled an estimated 1.5 million tons of volcano bits into the air per second. Apparently, it also turned one man's brain into glass.| Grunge
The author of the Bible's Book of Revelations had some horrific visions kicking around in their head. Here's some of the most terrifying things it contains.| Grunge
One of the world's most noted volcanoes, Vesuvius (Vesuvio) forms a dramatic backdrop to the Bay of Naples. The active cone was constructed within a large caldera of the older Monte Somma edifice, thought to have formed incrementally beginning about 17,000 years ago. The Monte Somma caldera wall has channeled lava flows and pyroclastic flows primarily to the south and west. Eight major explosive eruptions have taken place in the last 17,000 years, often accompanied by large pyroclastic flows ...| Smithsonian Institution | Global Volcanism Program
