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Monday, June 7, 2010
Pompeii: The Story of the Disaster
Many people in Pompeii and the towns near it did not know that Vesuvius (the volcano that buried Pompeii) was a volcano. They assumed that it was just a hill. In the eighth century BC the volcano was active but it had remained dormant for eight-hundred years. By the first-century AD however pressure had grown considerably inside Vesuvius because of a plug of hardened lava. Because of this pressure on February Fifth, sixty-two AD earthquakes shook Southern Italy.
Seventeen years after the earthquakes earth tremors started again. Streams around Vesuvius dried up. On the 24th of August,79 AD pressure inside the volcano blew out the lava-hard plug and turned Vesuvius into a full-scale erupting volcano. Tons of volcanic lava, pumice and ashes were rocketed into the sky. This was called fall-out.
The cloud was blown Southward over Pompeii and killed thousands. The cloud dumped millions of tons down on Pompeii burying it completely. People died not just from suffocation, but also from rooves collapsing. Pompeiians' roofs were only built for rain and other light elements and the people that were still in the houses after the pumice rained down for hours were killed in this way.
After the eruption the center of Vesuvius was reveealed to have been blown out and the sides fell-in to form a vast crater more than eleven kilometers in circumference. Since 79 AD a new cone has formed on the Southside of Vesuvius but, the north-east wall of the old crater lives on under the name Monte Somma.
It is estimated that more than two-thousand people died within the town of Pompeii while many bodies were found strewn across the countryside from poisonous gases and other things.
To have you understand exactly how much ash fell on top of Pompeii, there are twelve layers of sand spanning four meters. If you would understand, a full grown human would be just under two meters tall. The twelve layers are.
Seventeen years after the earthquakes earth tremors started again. Streams around Vesuvius dried up. On the 24th of August,79 AD pressure inside the volcano blew out the lava-hard plug and turned Vesuvius into a full-scale erupting volcano. Tons of volcanic lava, pumice and ashes were rocketed into the sky. This was called fall-out.
The cloud was blown Southward over Pompeii and killed thousands. The cloud dumped millions of tons down on Pompeii burying it completely. People died not just from suffocation, but also from rooves collapsing. Pompeiians' roofs were only built for rain and other light elements and the people that were still in the houses after the pumice rained down for hours were killed in this way.
After the eruption the center of Vesuvius was reveealed to have been blown out and the sides fell-in to form a vast crater more than eleven kilometers in circumference. Since 79 AD a new cone has formed on the Southside of Vesuvius but, the north-east wall of the old crater lives on under the name Monte Somma.
It is estimated that more than two-thousand people died within the town of Pompeii while many bodies were found strewn across the countryside from poisonous gases and other things.
To have you understand exactly how much ash fell on top of Pompeii, there are twelve layers of sand spanning four meters. If you would understand, a full grown human would be just under two meters tall. The twelve layers are.
- lava pebbles
- light white pumice
- heavier grey pumice
- greenish gray pumice
- hardened volcanic sand
- Lapilli
- sandy ash with carbonized wood
- ash
- lapilli (again)
- ash (again)
- lapilli (again)
- top soil
This horrible disaster is a fascinating subject for many because of the enormity of it.
Interested? Check out the movie
- Pompeii: The Last Days
and where this information came from
- Pompeii, by Peter Connolly
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Spin around the street lamp
Sit down on the couch
And watch the day go by
Stay together for hours
Create a garage sale
Fall down and cry
Me myself and I
Who knows what I said
Who knows what I'm talking about
But I'll tell you instead
On my street I'll
Make a ghost
That ranges from the end
In the back yard
We'll do back flips
While mommy lays sick in bed
We'll play Wii for hours
With our best friends
Cross the street
I miss when things were simpler
Than this
We'll pack our bags
And be glad
Cause we're going on a field trip
Riding in
A different car
And watching things go by
Might feel like days
Might feel like hours
But you know we'll get there soon
Sit down on the couch
And watch the day go by
Stay together for hours
Create a garage sale
Fall down and cry
Me myself and I
Who knows what I said
Who knows what I'm talking about
But I'll tell you instead
On my street I'll
Make a ghost
That ranges from the end
In the back yard
We'll do back flips
While mommy lays sick in bed
We'll play Wii for hours
With our best friends
Cross the street
I miss when things were simpler
Than this
We'll pack our bags
And be glad
Cause we're going on a field trip
Riding in
A different car
And watching things go by
Might feel like days
Might feel like hours
But you know we'll get there soon
Twice Upon a Marigold, Jean Ferris
Today I just finished reading Twice Upon a Marigold by Jean Ferris. I really loved this book. After the first novel which is much more of a romantic love story than this one, this book was an action thriller. After Queen Olympia fell into a river and knocked her head on a rock, she forgot she was a Queen and renamed herself Angie while living in a small town of Granolah downriver from Beaurivage, the town in which she fell in the river. This Queen Olympia was a horrible tyrant and when she regains her memory it's back to her old ways and it's up to the newlyweds Christian and Marigold to stop it. The problem is they're having a lot of fights whether it's over knock-knock jokes or something even weirder. However, it's still up to them to stage a rebellion before the King, Magnus, and Christian's father Edric are hung in the town square on market day. However, even after Olympia is defeated a battle rages inside the Queen's head. Will the tyrant Olympia win in all her evil ways or the sweet and lovable Angie? It's yours to find out.
TIP: It's better to read the first book in this series "Once Upon a Marigold" than start in this book so you have the background knowledge, but if you can't find that book or aren't interested this book can be started here.
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