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Mount Vesuvius is a significant historical icon particularly for
those who were born in the region surrounding the volcano in southern
Italy that is referred to as Mezzogiorno or "the land that time forgot."
Those who live in the shadow of Vesuvius were colonized by a long succession
of invaders and are "ever aware that they might at any moment be flung
into obscurity by a calamitous convolution."
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