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PHOTO OF THE DAY July 16, 2003  

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Where Naples, Italy
When 1996
Photographer David Alan Harvey

"[Mount Vesuvius rises above Naples Harbor.] Famous for burying nearby Pompeii in A.D. 79, Vesuvius last exploded in 1944. Some three million people live within an eight-mile [13-kilometer] radius of the temperamental crater."

—Text from "Naples Unabashed," March 1998, National Geographic magazine

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Naples Unabashed," March 1998, National Geographic magazine)

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