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Pompeii: everything you wanted to know

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Are There Any Warnings of a Pending Eruption?

No, we don't think they knew straboa. Had kind of wandered about it and was quite curious about it, but i don't think it was transmitted soof amongst the general public. The fertility of the soils is a huge fact in instead of keeping the populace well fed. So i think that kind of supersedes any sort of danger, certainly nowadays. And er, and in ancient times, they er, they had some earthquakes, but, you know, it wasn't enough to actually scare them off.

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