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Aug 24 2012 ∞
On the anniversary of Vesuvius’ 79 CE eruption, more Pompeiana from the Getty. My favorite is memorabilia from a late 19th-century traveling “pyrodrama” adapted from The Last Days. The cover of the program from its 1891 stop in Cincinnati, complete with U.S. flag and protective eagle, suggests a particularly American confidence: It could never happen here.

On the anniversary of Vesuvius’ 79 CE eruption, more Pompeiana from the Getty.

My favorite is memorabilia from a late 19th-century traveling “pyrodrama” adapted from The Last Days. The cover of the program from its 1891 stop in Cincinnati, complete with U.S. flag and protective eagle, suggests a particularly American confidence: It could never happen here.

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    alternately, it suggests that the freedom eagle did it
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