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Old Jan 13th, 2011 | 02:59 PM
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Mt Etna Blowing Its Top...
and two Sicilian airports closed. First major eruption since 1992, when an eruption severed the cable car that ascends to near the crater from the south side and even cut the circumVesuviana train line that circles the huge volcanic piles base.
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Old Jan 14th, 2011 | 12:09 AM
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Wow! thanks for the news!
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Old Jan 14th, 2011 | 12:21 AM
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Some nice video of it here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12185543

Apparently the airports were only briefly closed.
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Old Jan 14th, 2011 | 12:55 AM
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The circumvesuviana round Mt Etna?
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Old Jan 14th, 2011 | 01:43 AM
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Pvoyageuse I thought that too???
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Old Jan 14th, 2011 | 01:45 AM
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I googled it, it's call the Circumetnea.
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Old Jan 14th, 2011 | 04:15 AM
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Wow, beautiful. But still scares me
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...r-fashion.html
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Old Jan 14th, 2011 | 08:43 AM
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Well yes a brain fart about the CircumVesuviana - meant of course Circum-cission railway!
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