Mount McKinley (AGC 7) - Naval Cruise Book

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TING POM EII IS LIKE VISITING NEW YORK AND N VISITING NAPLES AND NOT VISI A , ING ALONG BROADNAY. THE RUINS OF THIS CITY ARE POSSIBLY THE MOST FAMOUS IN THE HVORIJD OT WALK- - l EXCAVATION BEGAN IN I7h8.... AND STILL CONTINUES I 4, l WI COUHTYARD IN VETTI BROTHERS' HOUSE i A ? 2iK f5 6 M P '? 'AI 'tW f1fi'1!'4 '1fWW'1W'A'1 hsf!?'f9lxifNvwvfr-:fH--J'f'm1-Qww4fw--W --msumawm um., ,,,,-,,,,,,,,,,m' A K , ,, .. , , ,. . ,, I , I .-.., ,.,Y ,,.,.., , . LW ,W , 3 mm. , ,WV '

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65 -if UBELLA NAPOLIn....THAT IS THE PHRASE YOU WILL BE GREETED WITH AS YOU MEET THE NEOPOLITAN FOR THE FIRST TIME FOR THE RESIDENT OF NAPLES IS EAUTIFUL BAY PROUD OF EXTREMELY PROUD OF HIS CITY, PROUD OF THE B , MOUNT VESUVIUS HOVERING IN THE DISTANCE AS A MOTHER HEN WOULD HOVER OVER HER CHICKS, AND PROUD OF THE ECCENTRICITIES THAT MAKE NAPLES WHAT IT IS. 11,11-f, ACCORDING TO SOME HISTORIANS, NAPLES WAS FOUNDED IN THE 6TH CENTURY I RANTS WHO SETTLED AT CUMAE BUT THIS HAS NEVER BEEN B.C. BY GREEK IMMIG TRULY PROVEN. HOWEVER, IT IS CERTAIN THAT IT'WAS CONQUERED BY THE ROMANS IN 328 B.C. DURING THE ROMAN OCCUPATION IT WAS THE FAVORITE RESIDENCE THERE.... AFTER THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, NAPLES CONTINUED TO INFLUENCE OF MANY SUCCESSIVE RULERS SUCH AS THE BYZANTINES, GOTHICS, THE GARIBALDIANS. IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR NAPLES AUSTRIANS, FRENCH, AND WAS DAMAGED BY BOMBINGS AND BY THE GERMANS DURING THE SALERNO CAMPAIGN. IT WAS CAPTURED BY THE ALLIES IN OCTOBER, 19g3, OF MANY EMPERORS, NERO BEING ONE OF THOSE WHO USED TO LIVE GROW UNDER THE

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THE ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS NAS THE CAUSE OF THE RUIN OF POMPEII...IT MUST BE REMEMBERED THAT IT WAS NOT THE HOT LAVA THAT KILLED THE POPULOUS.......... BUT THE SUFFOCATING GASES. VESUVIUS IN THE BACKGROUND Dl lOClOOOlllOlOIl I GRAIN BEING GROUND CHARIOTS BEING DRIVEN.. .