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Pompeii: The Last Day
Pompeii's Eyewitness: A Web Documentary
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An Eyewitness to History

Pliny the Younger's letters to his friend Tacitus, a Roman historian, recount the events of that terrifying day more than 2,000 years ago when Mount Vesuvius erupted.

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Picture Credits: DCI (3) | Christel Gerstenberg/Corbis | National Geographic Society (3) |
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Picture Credits: DCI (3) | Christel Gerstenberg/Corbis | National Geographic Society (3) |

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