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	Pompeii Part one

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color:#ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/1a970d65-6d31-4b8c-ab2d-4ef24cd7108e/DBEC80BD-69F0-4026-9690-592568549615/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Pompeii&oldid=1057149" href="http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Pompeii&oldid=1057149" style="font-size: 11px;">wikitravel.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Pompeii&oldid=1057149"><H1 class="firstHeading">Pompeii</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Pompeii&oldid=1057149"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/wikitravel.org/img/0897E607-A310-43FC-AB87-55CB9251931D" alt="A typical street in Pompeii" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Pompeii&oldid=1057149"><DIV class="thumbcaption"><DIV class="magnify"><A title="Enlarge" class="internal" href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Image:PompeiStreet.jpg"><IMG height="11" width="15" alt="" src="http://files.wikitravel.org/mw/skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png" /></A></DIV>A typical street in Pompeii</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Pompeii&oldid=1057149"><SPAN class="mw-headline">Understand</SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Pompeii&oldid=1057149"><P>Where is Pompeii? Pompeii is in the Italian region of Campania, near Naples.  Pompeii is close to the Bay of Naples.  Other places in the area to visit are Capri and Sorrento.
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://wikitravel.org/wiki/en/index.php?title=Pompeii&oldid=1057149"><P>Romans took control of Pompeii around 200 BC.  On August 24, 79 AD, the volcano <A title="Vesuvius" href="http://wikitravel.org/en/Vesuvius">Vesuvius</A> erupted, buried the nearby town Pompeii in ash and soot, killing 2000 people, and preserving the city in its state from that fateful day. <B>Pompeii</B> is an excavation site and outdoor museum of the ancient Roman settlement. This site is considered to be one of the few sites where an ancient city has been preserved in detail - everything from jars and tables to paintings and people were frozen in time, yielding an unprecedented opportunity to see how the people lived two thousand years ago.
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