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145 - History's Most Interesting Non-Water Floods

No Dumb Questions

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Pompey Is a Place of Mortality

"I don't think i've ever had a more poignant encounter with the passage of time and my own mortality then my visits to pompey," he says. "You can reestablish in your brain how quick this thing would have hit so it happened that instantaneously yeah people survivedpeople got out" 'It's possible pretty much everybody died save a few' is his verdict on what might have happened at Pompey, which has been buried by ash for 200 years.

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