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		<title>Week 23 – Snow in Rome, and the Choice of Stones for their Durability at Ercolano</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dispelling the urban myth that everyone in Rome descends on the Pantheon when it snows.  The prudent choice of stones of different durabilities for different uses (walls, curbs and steps, and street paving) at Ercolano (Herculaneum).<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=vitruviusfootsteps.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8756464&#038;post=884&#038;subd=vitruviusfootsteps&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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