Mt. Vesuvius

And I mean it with all the passion and dedication of a card-carrying liberal who wishes to see your political fortunes erupt like Mt. Vesuvius.

Andy Ostroy: An Open Letter to Newt Gingrich 2010

Bill Clinton has often -- you know, he has a temper and he goes off like Mt. Vesuvius.

CNN Transcript Jun 2, 2008 2008

This was essentially the Mt. Vesuvius of campaign leaks: there's tons more stuff than could ever fit into a single magazine piece, and we fully expect that readers and bloggers will find all kinds of stuff buried in these memos and emails and help advance the story.

Amanda Michel: Read and Report On Leaked Clinton Campaign Docs 2008

While Americans look to the devastation of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, it was Mt. Vesuvius that also erupted that marked the political demise of Big Business monopolies that have returned to rule the One-world government of today.

The Sign of the Son of Man 2008

An eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, on the Bay of Naples, buried the cities Pompeii and Herculaneum.

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There are several allusions to the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in A.D.

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

Near the city of Naples, Italy, is situated the volcano Mt. Vesuvius.

New National Fourth Reader J. Marshall Hawkes

Mt. Vesuvius, another by way of Mt. Rigi, and, another, by way of

Reveries of a Schoolmaster Francis B. Pearson

Though desirous then to hear more, he was conveyed into another direction by the violent motion of the moon, as if he had been in the eddies of a whirlpool, so that he heard very little more, only a prophecy about Mt. Vesuvius and that Dicæarchia [872] would be destroyed by fire, and a short piece about the Emperor then reigning, [873] that "though he was good he would lose his empire through sickness."

Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

Likewise also it is related that in ancient times the tides of heat, swelling and overflowing from under Mt. Vesuvius, vomited forth fire from the mountain upon the neighbouring country.

The Ten Books on Architecture Vitruvius Pollio