TO EVERYONE SEEING THIS IN 2024+ I WAS GIVEN AN ASSIGNMENT IN 2023 ON POMPEII AND MT. VESUVIUS, AND ONE OF THE PARTS WAS WHERE WE HAD TO DO SOME MATH ON ERUPTIONS OF MT. VESUVIUS AND THAT YEAR. THE FIRST ONE WAS 2023 MINUS 79 (THE YEAR OF THE FIRST ERUPTION OF THE VOLCANO IN THE MILLENNIUM) AND THE ANSWER WAS 1944, NOW HERE'S WHERE IT GETS GOOD: THAT'S THE SAME YEAR THAT VESUVIUS ERUPTED FOR ITS THIRD TIME BECAUSE THE ALLIED POWERS DECIDED TO BOMB IT.