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Pompeii

Describes the destruction of the city of Pompeii during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, and how its rediscovery nearly 1700 years later provided information about life in the Roman Empire.

Crash of 1929

1989
An account of the stock market crash of 1929.

Pompeii

Describes the destruction of the city of Pompeii during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, and how its rediscovery nearly 1700 years later provided information about life in the Roman Empire.

Pompeii

Describes the destruction of the city of Pompeii during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, and how its rediscovery nearly 1700 years later provided information about life in the Roman Empire.

Fire

1990
Discusses the causes of various types of fires, how they spread, and some of the major fire disasters.

The Children's Crusade

1991
Describes the Crusade in 1212 in which hundreds of children traveling from France and Germany to the Holy Land met an unfortunate fate.

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