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The Ride of A Lifetime.(attractions in Pompeii)(Brief Article)
Visitors to the Mount Vesuvius area will soon be able to see more than indistinguishable ruins surrounding the ancient volcano. A new cultural leisure park in Pompeii--to be partially completed by 2003--will feature simulator rides that take visitors through a gamut of sensations, including the smell of burning lava and the sounds of Vesuvius's fury. A giant IMAX 3-D theater will show volcano films, and in a virtual-reality center visitors will be able to choose how they want to experience the A.D. 79 eruption, perhaps witnessing it as an escaping villager or maybe even a bird would. Then there will be "A Window on Technology," which will likely promote futuristic European ...
- POMPEII: UP AGAINST THE MALL.(architect Ron Pompeii )(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: WWD Feitelberg, Rosemary May 24, 2002 700+ words
...Far from pretentious, architect Ron Pompeii reels off encyclopedic references about...something you can scrub away." According to Pompeii, this all leads up to to the "third...design, sculpture and architecture, Pompeii prefers to focus on why something is built...
- Pompeii: The Living City.(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: History Today Fulford, Michael March 1, 2006 700+ words
Pompeii The Living City Alex Butterworth and Ray...BEEN brought up with so many histories of Pompeii, and from so many perspectives--the...while the very immediate sources from Pompeii itself have been used to give the local...
- Archaeology - Porn from Pompeii.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) April 8, 2000 700+ words
...baths and brothels of the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, where life stopped at...The first myth to be debunked is that Pompeii was a sister city to Sodom and Gommorah...In important provincial cities like Pompeii, sexual promiscuity was normal but...
- Pompeii Awakened: A Story of Rediscovery.(Brief article)(Book review)
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review March 22, 2008 700+ words
Pompeii Awakened: A Story of Rediscovery. Judith...The only thing that excels the history of Pompeii is the history of its rediscovery. As...Lytton's 1834 novel, The Last Days of Pompeii and the sermons of C.H. Spurgeon. She...
- Pompeii's burial not its first disaster.(Archaeology)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Science News November 27, 2004 700+ words
...excavations reveal that the ancient city of Pompeii, famed for its burial by an eruption...volcanic demise. About three-fourths of Pompeii has been excavated, says Jean-Daniel...years, deeper digs in the oldest part of Pompeii--as well as core drilling nearby...
- Mary Pope Osborne: Pompeii: Lost and Found.(Brief Article)(Young Adult...
- Magazine article from: The Horn Book Magazine Carter, Betty January 1, 2006 700+ words
Mary Pope Osborne Pompeii: Lost & Found; illus, by Bonnie...of the destruction and rediscovery of Pompeii. The two-thousand-year- old picture...ash, and toxic gases pelt the city of Pompeii. Next, the text slows, the illustrations...
- Pompeii: The Living City.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review November 1, 2005 700+ words
Pompeii: The Living City. Alex Butterworth and...hitherto not just on the destruction of Pompeii in AD 79 but on 'life as it was lived...troublesome twenty-five years' before that. Pompeii continues to attract because of its sudden...
- Pompeii: Lost and Found.(Brief article)(Book review)(Children's review)
- Magazine article from: Children's Bookwatch April 1, 2006 700+ words
Pompeii: Lost And Found Mary Pope Osborne Knopf...Roman Empire. Pope recreates life in early Pompeii pre-eruption and artist Christensen illustrates...the ancient wall paintings unearthed at Pompeii: together they recreate a bygone era...
