Female dog names?
im getting a yorkie puppy for my birthday and im trying to think of a great yet orginal name for HER. yes shes a girl. NO CUTESY lil girly names like princess or precious plz.
What is Bastille's song "Pompeii" about?
I love how deep it is too. That's not very common in a song that's had so much success (even without the album being released in the States yet).I love it.In a nutshell, this song is about how mankind is so willing (and finds comfort in) ignoring the problems all around us and how it is so much easier to just love in their past and live inside their own egos. It's so perfect too- in the chorus you can tell that he wants to give in (and in the music video) have his eyes turn black and corrupted just like the rest of them.That's what so deceptive about this song: the chorus is so catchy and would deceive the casual listener into thinking that closing their eyes is a good thing instead of something with questionable optimism? In the beginning of the song, the speaker is so innocent and as we see in the mv his eyes are his natural blue as he looks down upon the city from a window, physically disconnected from the real-ness of everything. But we follow him down as he descends (instead of, say, ascends) down into the streets and see all of the corruption (the people with black eyes). And he is frightened to find it in so many common places. And the little optimist starts to question everything.It seems that he's the only one that seems to notice how everyone's just gone and lost "themselves in their vices". But here's the terrible irony- he got lost in his own vice too. He failed to do anything about it. He ran away in fear, ultimately leading up to him being corrupted too as he couldn't get out of his head long enough. It's such a sad truth. So many people are caught up in their own tiny little worlds that they learn that they can't do anything about anything. They become their own prisoners, trapped and corrupted. Such a somber message/ warning from Bastille. But terribly beautiful in its own way. I suppose everyone can relate to being the only clear-seeing person at one point or another.tl;dr Bastille makes an astute point about the pitfalls in humanity's self-centered-ness.Agree, disagree, What do you guy think of the meaning? Do y'all like the song?
Why is Pompeii important to historians?
Because this ancient city was quickly covered by volanic ash, rather than being continuously used by successive generations, it serves as a time capsule of life at the time the volcanic eruption occurred. Here's what an article had to say about it: The discovery of Pompeii is of huge importance for our modern-day understanding of the ancient Roman-Italic world - partly because the more public and monumental ruins left behind by Imperial Rome have often been misleading. 'The excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum ... offer an intact vision of daily life in a Roman society in all its aspects.' Their ruination and destruction left crucial questions unanswered, and made it impossible in many ways to gather a satisfactory understanding of the Roman world from them. Ancient Greek and Roman texts are also often obscure and enigmatic, because the ancient writers naturally took for granted, and did not explain, things that the modern reader cannot begin to guess at. The excavations at Pompeii and Herculaneum, by contrast, offer an intact vision of daily life in a Roman society in all its aspects. They have produced not only many treasures, but also many objects that are less precious but extremely useful for the understanding of everyday life during the years of the Roman empire. In the buildings of these towns - from the monumental to the most simple - the ancient world appears in all its complexity, with great clarity.
Are there any living relatives from Pompeii and do they have stories about how Pompeii was before its destruction?
Hi there,I am sure no, for 2 main reasonsPompeii was covered by volcano ashes 2100 years ago and it remained buried until mid 19th century. The ones that fled the city went to live elsewhere.2. 2000 years is a too long time frame for a human being. For sure there is no one still alive. As per reason #1 until mid 19th century no one knew about Pompeii, even people living there.The good news is that Pompeii itself will tell you how she was before that tragic event.The ruins are amazing, walls still standing like 2000 years ago, graffiti telling you about the life there, bodies of people who couldn't escape.Everyone and everything is still there… as in its last last day.Body of a dogPropaganda -bodies of citizens caught by the volcano
Was there any known survivors from the Pompeii eruption?
It’s believed that about 80% of the residents survived, many carried to safety in Misenum by the Roman navy. The estimated 2,000 people in Pompeii who stayed in the city and survived the first day were almost certainly killed by the pyroclastic flows (superheated gas) that enveloped the town the second day.
Are there any accounts of Romans visiting the site of Pompeii after 79AD?
Well in short, there haven't been modern evidence of Romans revisiting the site. In my opinion though, the Romans most likely didn't.Romans were a superstitious lot (they even thought that an enlarged penis of Priapus, the ancient god of sex and fertility, could ward off evil omens.. go figure). In the aftermath of such a catastrophic event where NOT JUST the city got annihilated, the surrounding countryside also saw significant damage. Reportedly, people as far away as Misenum fled for their lives. No sane roman would even attempt to visit, to loot or even check for survivors as only those that escaped by ship were already rescued.The air would also mostly be filled with ash from the eruption and the thick smoke would have lent an ominous atmosphere to any visitor. An observer, Pliny the Younger wrote an account of the eruption:Broad sheets of flame were lighting up many parts of Vesuvius; their light and brightness were the more vivid for the darkness of the night... it was daylight now elsewhere in the world, but there the darkness was darker and thicker than any night.Who in the right mind could even come as close to Pompeii just to choke on ashes and see this being formed?!
Why did the people in the pictures of the city of pompei not melt?
The people of Pompeii were not covered by lava, they were encased in ash and pyroclastic debris. Pyroclastic flows are flows of superheated rock, ash and gas that can travel very quickly. The people of Pompeii were killed by the gasses, ash and heat of the flows and encased in hot welded ash. Then more ash from the eruption buried them and the rest of the town. The ash quickly hardened and the bodies slowly decayed inside the ash. There are actually records of some human remains that were found inside the holes in the ash, that's how early archaeologists knew that these molds were of people, one of them, Guiseppe Fiorelli, developed the technique of pouring plaster into the voids and then removing the ash, perfectly preserving the mold of the bodies. On some of them you can even see their expressions. There are also dogs, horses and other animals that they found.
Did anyone survive Pompeii? If so, what happened to that person?
It is estimated that from 1,500 to 2,000 people died in Pompeii during the 79 AD eruption; most scholars believe that the number of inhabitants of the city was somewhere between 6,000 to 20,000; therefore most Pompeians survived the pyroclastic clouds, possibly because, alerted from the early signs of the eruption, they escaped by foot, probably heading south (the Vesuvius in north of Pompeii). Pliny the younger reports that someone tried to escape by boat but this proved to be impossible “My uncle decided to go down to the shore and investigate on the spot the possibility of any escape by sea, but he found the waves still wild and dangerous”. I report a (rather long) excerpt from the letter by Pliny the Younger to Tacitus which vividly describes how the inhabitants on Pompeii died; if you’d like, you can see it here: Pompeii - archaeological site .