Pompeii, as everybody knows, was a glam little Roman town destroyed by the very rude and uncalled for eruption of its neighbor, Mount Vesuvius. (“He was so quiet, kept to himself, never bothered anyone.”) This occurred in 79 AD, either on August 24 or October 24, historians are unsure. When I was a boy they were sure, and they said it was August; now th…
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