Valorizzazione e promozione del patrimonio culturale nazionale ed estero.
09/01/2025
HISTORY'S FIRST AND ONLY EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT
“The cloud was rising from the mountain…I can best describe its shape by likening it to a pine tree. It rose into the sky on a very long “trunk” from which spread some “branches.” I imagine it had been raised by a sudden blast, which then weakened, leaving the cloud unsupported so that its own weight caused it to spread sideways. Some of the cloud was white in other parts there were dark patches of dirt and ash. The sight of it made the scientist in my uncle determined to see it closer at hand.”
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