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Mount Etna nearly destroyed the town three times, in 1651, in 1832, and finally in 1843.
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Mount Etna ( or Ætna ) is an active volcano on the east coast of Sicily.
* 1693 – Mount Etna erupts in Sicily, Italy.
Catania, Sicily, with mount Mount Etna | Etna in the background.
Its most prominent landmark is Mount Etna, which is at the tallest active volcano in Europe and one of the most active in the world.
Mount Etna, the largest active volcano in Europe.
The cone of Mount Etna dominates over the eastern coast.
Mount Etna, located in the east of mainland Sicily with a height of, is the tallest active volcano in Europe and one of the most active in the world.
Typical examples for this kind of volcano are Mount Etna and the volcanoes in the Pacific Ring of Fire.
** Mount Etna erupts in Sicily.
* June 18 – Mount Etna erupts in Italy, making 60, 000 homeless.
* Mount Etna, a stratovolcano in Sicily.
* March 11 – Mount Etna erupts, destroying the town of Nicolosi and killing 20, 000 people.
January 11: Mount Etna | Etna erupts.
* January 11 – Mount Etna erupts, causing a devastating earthquake that affects parts of Sicily and Malta.
Meanwhile, the Eighth Army stalled south of Mount Etna in the face of strong German defenses.
The soil and the climate in Sicily are ideal for growing grapes, mainly due to Mount Etna, and a wine-making tradition on the island has operated since the Greeks set up their first colonies on the island.
Weather satellite images helped in monitoring the volcanic ash cloud from Mount St. Helens and activity from other volcanoes such as Mount Etna.
The chestnut forests on Mount Etna contain many trees that are said to be even larger.
Trees can be found at altitudes between 200 and 1000 meters above sea level ; some mention between 300 and 750 m altitude, while the famous Chestnut Tree of One Hundred Horses on Mount Etna stands at 1200 meters .).
* Chestnut Tree of One Hundred Horses on Mount Etna, 57. 9 m ( 190 ft ) circumference in 1780, ( 64-meter circumference in 1883 )
View from modern Rhegium ( Reggio Calabria ) over the Strait of Messina, with Mount Etna in the distance.
* Enceladus: Killed by his grandniece, Athena, and buried underneath Mount Etna, like Typhon, on Sicily.
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Between 1978 and 1988, Port Moresby grew nearly 8 % per year, Lae 6 %, Mount Hagen 6. 5 %, Goroka 4 %, and Madang 3 %.
As of 2006, the ice had an average thickness of and a maximum of, nearly as deep as the much older and larger Carbon Glacier of Mount Rainier.
However, in October 1767, at Dunkard Creek near Mount Morris, Pennsylvania, nearly west of the Delaware, their Iroquois guides refused to go any further, having reached the border of their lands with the Lenape, with whom they were engaged in hostilities.
With walls nearly half a mile long on each side, Angkor Wat grandly portrays the Hindu cosmology, with the central towers representing Mount Meru, home of the gods ; the outer walls, the mountains enclosing the world ; and the moat, the oceans beyond.
at The Mount stadium and nearly merged with.
Both Shepherdsville and Mount Washington have stretched their boundaries such that they are nearly touching each other.
Egan bought out the former Mount Lebanon Female Academy and nearly a hundred acres of land to turn out turpentine and medicinal whisky.
Grass trees on Mount Kiangarow grow nearly 5 m tall and some are least several hundred years old.
While most of the mills " above the hill " were constructed from native Fall River granite, nearly all of their counterparts along the Taunton River and Mount Hope Bay were made of red brick.
The Mount Olive Township School District serves nearly 5, 000 public school students in prekindergarten through twelfth grade.
While nearly the whole mountain is in the White Mountain National Forest, an area of surrounding and including the summit is occupied by Mount Washington State Park.
For nearly a century, Mount Allison functioned as three distinct, mutually enriching parts: the College proper, the Boys ' Academy and the Ladies College.
Mount Nebo reaches an altitude of, and Mount Timpanogos reaches an altitude of, nearly above the valley floor.
At, Mount Monadnock is nearly 1, 000 feet ( 300 m ) higher than any mountain peak within and rises 2, 000 feet ( 600 m ) above the surrounding landscape.
The impressive average depth of this volcanic lake is due to the nearly symmetrical deep caldera formed 7, 700 years ago during the violent climactic eruptions and subsequent collapse of Mount Mazama and the relatively moist climate that is typical of the crest of the Cascade Range.
Fronts of some pyroclastic density currents are fully dilute ; for example, during the eruption of Mount Pelée in 1902 a fully dilute current overwhelmed the city of Saint-Pierre and killed nearly 30, 000 people.
Sayre had a reputation for problematic trips as a result of his unauthorized, unsuccessful, and nearly fatal attempt to climb Mount Everest from the North in 1962.
As the advancing Shu army captured regions including Zigui, Wu County, Mount Ba and Mount Xing, Wu forces that set out from their fortifications to engage the enemy were nearly all annihilated.
The oldest glacial moraines recognized on Mount Bachelor are approximately 12, 000 years old so the cone had nearly attained its present size by then.
Encompassing a vertical relief of nearly, the park contains among its natural resources the highest point in the contiguous 48 United States, Mount Whitney, at above sea level.
It was nearly captured by the Communist Democratic Army of Greece in 1948, and the final battles of the civil war took place on the nearby Mount Gramos in 1949.
Mount Diablo appears from many angles to be a double pyramid and includes many subsidiary peaks, the largest and closest of which is the other half of the double pyramid, North Peak, nearly as high in elevation at and about one mile northeast of the main summit.
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