On certain dates the past feels like a stereo, two speakers broadcasting radically different songs that somehow harmonize. August 24 is one of those days. In AD 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted and erased Pompeii and Herculaneum in a convulsion of ash, pumice, and poisonous wind, turning everyday gestures into eternal artifacts. In 1891, Thomas Edison …
On a late summer day that sits like a hinge in the calendar, August 23 offers a startling diptych: a mountain that devoured cities and a machine that taught us to see our own. In AD 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted with a ferocity that turned Pompeii and Herculaneum into time capsules of terror and tenderness, …
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