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They find in Pompeii the perfectly preserved remains of two men who died in the eruption of Vesuvius, almost 2,000 years ago

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The director of the archaeological park, Massimo Osanna, said this find is "truly exceptional." The perfectly preserved remains of two people were recently found during excavations about 700 meters northwest of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii. The researchers believe that the bodies belonged to a man of high status and his slave, who tried to flee the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79.

USS Chase (DD-323) in somebody's wake

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12 May 1940

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Egyptian Hieroglyphs: The Language of the Gods

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Cycladic Kernos

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The Black Stone Sarcophagus is Open and Investigators Found More Than They Bargained For!

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Chief -AM-315 - History

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ChiefThe head or leader of a group.On 23 May 1941 Chief (AMC-67) was renamed Bold(q.V.):(AM-315: dp. 890; 1. 221& 39;2& 34;; b. 32& 39;2& 34;; d. 10& 39;9i& 39;; s. 18 k.;cpl. 105; a. 1 3& 34;; cl. Auk)Originally intended for Grent Britain, HMS Alice (BAM-2) was launched 5 January 1943 by General Engineering and Dry Dock Co.

Battle of Tarawa

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The islet group of Tarawa, about 2,400 miles southwest of Hawaii, was held by the Japanese from 1941 to 1943 during World War II, and it fell to U.S. Marines of the Second Division after a bloody 76-hour battle. push through the central Pacific to the Philippine Islands.The Battle of Tarawa was partly a product of poor U.

Climate change would have caused the decline of the Indus Valley civilization more than 3,000 years ago

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During the research in which a new mathematical model was applied, paleoclimatic data from the last 5,700 years were analyzed to relate the variations of monsoon rains with the collapse of civilization. , which flourished in the Bronze Age (more than 3.