On 24 August 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the surrounding cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum under metres of ash and lava ; the following year, a fire broke out in Rome which lasted three days and which destroyed a number of important public buildings.

Essentially, he believed the value of pleasure to be its intensity multiplied by its duration-so it was not just the number of pleasures, but their intensity and how long they lasted that must be taken into account.

This expansion lasted into the 20th century and can be seen by a number of Jugendstil buildings for which the city is known, including the Malmö synagogue.

Conversely, there have been a number of popes whose reign lasted less than a month.

Ferenczi tried to distinguish between several different types of homosexuality, basing his distinctions on an unspecified number of patients whose analyses had sometimes lasted for a short period and sometimes “ a whole year and even longer .” Ferenczi hoped to cure some kinds of homosexuality completely, but was content in practice with reducing what he considered gay men's hostility to women, along with the urgency of their homosexual desires, and with helping them to become attracted to and potent with women.

Distributed control meant there was no common point of failure, but also meant that the setup stage lasted for the ten seconds or so the caller took to dial the required number.

At about this time the entire region began to fragment into a number of feudal secular and ecclesiastical lordships, a situation which lasted into the 17th century and was a common process in the Empire.

" Charlie Hustle " finished with an incredible number of Major League and National League records that have lasted for many years.

* provides a detailed history of a number of orogens, including the Caledonian Oregeny, which lasted from the late Cambrian to the Devonian, with the main collisional events occurring during Ordovician and Silurian times.

In 870 an army led by the Viking chiefs known in Irish as Amlaíb Conung and Ímar laid siege to Alt Clut, a siege which lasted some four months and led to the destruction of the citadel and the taking of a very large number of captives.

Love, who later went on to form the successful band Hole, only lasted a number of weeks before being kicked out by Bjelland.

Although Keegan's Southampton career only lasted two years, Saints fielded an attractive side also containing Alan Ball, prolific scorer of goals Ted MacDougall, ( who still holds the record for the largest number of goals in an FA Cup game – 9 – for Bournemouth against Margate in an 11 – 0 win ), MacDougall's strike partner at Bournemouth and Norwich Phil Boyer, club stalwart Mick Channon and Charlie George and in 1980 – 81 they scored 76 goals, finishing in sixth place, then their highest league finish.

The phase of the purge trials ended with a series of amnesty laws passed between 1951 and 1953 which reduced the number of imprisoned collaborators from 40, 000 to 62, and was ensued by a period of official " repression " that lasted between 1954 and 1971.

A significant number of the French progenitors of the Afrikaner people were Huguenots, who first began to arrive between 1687 and 1691 in flight from the persecution that lasted for one hundred years after the Edict of Nantes was revoked.

A large number of Central Texas Germans purchased county lands, thus beginning a small-scale migration of Germans into the county that lasted into the 1950s.

According to authors David Kirby and Merja-Liisa Hinkkanen, " the journey ( along the Stecknitz ) often lasted up to fourteen days, due to the number of locks and the inadequacy of the towpath.

On May 30, 1924 the Senators played a double header at home against the Pittsfield Hillies, the first game lasted 9 innings but the second game went for 20, it is still one of the longest double headers by number of innings in professional baseball.

The town name lasted for nearly 200 years, until in 1856 the name was changed to Locust Valley based on the number of locust trees located in the area.

This lasted until 2003, when the number of 15 was re-instated.

The 1600F cameras did show a couple of problems ( especially the first series ) so a number of changes were introduced during the production period that lasted from 1949 – 1953.

There have been a number of organizations with this name, including one formed in 1897, which lasted ten years, and another formed in 1930, which lasted eleven.

Many of these lasted into the 1970s with a small number remaining in service into the late 2000s ( most of these came down when the overhead 600V DC feeders were replaced with a new system of underground feeders, the rest coming out of service as aging crossarms supporting the remaining overhead feeders were replaced ).

These carnivals generally lasted 3 days, and sometimes five, seven, or nine days ( using odd numbers due so that the number of days could correspond with beliefs in the cosmos ).

Launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12: 54 PM EST on 16 April 1972, the mission lasted eleven days, one hour, and fifty-one minutes, and concluded at 2: 45 PM EST on 27 April.

The shooting for Army of Darkness began in mid-1991, and it lasted for about 100 days.

Fighting lasted for only 14 days, from 14 to 28 November.

The siege lasted for 39 days and nine militants and the church's bellringer were killed.

The second study lasted 411 days in 2000 – 2001, in Ahmedabad, India, under the direction of a 21 member team of medical doctors and scientists led by doctors Sudhir Shah and K. K. Shah, a past President of the Indian Medical Association and current Chairman of the Jainist Doctors ' Federation ( the latter group aims to " Promote scientific research and medical education based on principles of Jainism ").

A third study allegedly lasted for 130 days in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at Thomas Jefferson University and the University of Pennsylvania under the direction of Dr. Andrew Newberg and Dr. George C. Brainard.

While en route to Chongqing, the Nationalist army intentionally started the " fire of Changsha ", which lasted for three days, destroyed two thirds of the city, killed twenty thousand civilians, and left hundreds of thousands of people homeless.

The 1971 CHOGM lasted for nine days, and the 1977 and 1991 CHOGMs for seven days each.

However, Harare's epochal CHOGM was the last to last a week ; the 1993 CHOGM lasted for five days, and the contentious 1995 CHOGM for only three-and-a-half, setting a precedent that has lasted since.

The Tief government, though, lasted for only 5 days, as Estonia was again occupied by the Soviet Union.

Louis's tenure as Count of Poitou and Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony lasted only few days.

Reyes ' rebellion lasted only eleven days before Reyes surrendered at Linares, Nuevo León, and was sent to the Santiago Tlatelolco prison in Mexico City.

" He was sentenced to a fine of £ 40, 000 and committed to the Tower of London during the king's pleasure ; the imprisonment lasted only a few days and the fine was remitted by the king.

Sporadic fighting lasted until the evening, and snipers continued their activities for several days.

The strike lasted for 44 days, until an accord was reached on 5 March 2009.

In 1952 this culminated in the disastrous Great Smog of 1952 which lasted for five days and killed over 4, 000 people.

In January 1958 all scattered building ruins from both the nineteenth century guano diggings and the 1935-1942 colonization attempt were swept away without a trace by a severe storm which lasted several days and was witnessed by the scientists.

Elizabeth brought an entourage of thirty-one barons and four hundred staff for the royal visit that lasted an exceptional nineteen days ; twenty horsemen a day arrived at the castle to communicate royal messages.

Harris ' attempt to put together an administration lasted for only a few days of parliamentary maneuvering.

Though his recovery was reasonably quick, his future career was marred with frequent cancellations due to various health problems, from the common cold to depression, which lasted from days to months.

Ancient celebrations lasted for eleven days.