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Belated Birthday!
Aug. 24th, 2007 11:04 amI found out that yesterday was ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kleenexwoman's birthday. Belated Happy Birthday, luv! August 23 is the date established as the day Rome was sacked by the Visigoths in 410.
On this day last year, I set up the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
pluto_heresy community. 12 months on, and the fight continues, with the universe growing more bewildering, not less, every day with each new discovery uncovered.
Also, this day in 79AD was the last day for Pompeii when Vesuvius erupted, sending a pyroclastic flow through the town to bury everything and every living thing in a layer of ash up to 80 metres deep; a layer of ash which went undisturbed for 1,200 years.
Pliny the Elder, the famous Roman statesman and archetypal journalist, died on this day, right on the shore, seemingly not a mark on him, though some now speculate he might've died from an invisible cloud of CO or even CO2: and Pliny the Younger's observations of Vesuvius led to eruptions of this kind becoming known as "Plinian" eruptions among Vulcanologists.
kleenexwoman's birthday. Belated Happy Birthday, luv! August 23 is the date established as the day Rome was sacked by the Visigoths in 410.On this day last year, I set up the
pluto_heresy community. 12 months on, and the fight continues, with the universe growing more bewildering, not less, every day with each new discovery uncovered.Also, this day in 79AD was the last day for Pompeii when Vesuvius erupted, sending a pyroclastic flow through the town to bury everything and every living thing in a layer of ash up to 80 metres deep; a layer of ash which went undisturbed for 1,200 years.
Pliny the Elder, the famous Roman statesman and archetypal journalist, died on this day, right on the shore, seemingly not a mark on him, though some now speculate he might've died from an invisible cloud of CO or even CO2: and Pliny the Younger's observations of Vesuvius led to eruptions of this kind becoming known as "Plinian" eruptions among Vulcanologists.
