http://www.metafilter.com/tags/Tambora Posts tagged with 'Tambora' at MetaFilter. Tue, 28 Feb 2006 08:00:37 -0800 Tue, 28 Feb 2006 08:00:37 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/49585/The%2DYear%2DWithout%2DSummer <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4748902.stm">The Lost Kingdom of Tambora, Pompeii of the East,</a> was recently uncovered by an <a href="http://www.gso.uri.edu/index_net_big.html">oceanographic team from the University of Rhode Island</a> and Indonesian researchers. The kingdom was buried when <a href="http://www.indodigest.com/indonesia-article-print-19.html">Mount Tambora</a> violently erupted in 1815, and set the conditions for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_A_Summer">1816</a>, <a href="http://wedg.millenniumweekend.org/forum/showpost.php?p=10251&postcount=10">the Year</a> <a href="http://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/earth/year_without_summer/intro/index.shtml">Without</a> <a href="http://earthbulletin.amnh.org/D/3/2/">Summer</a>. It was not the first, or last time, that a volcano eruption <a href="http://www.history-magazine.com/volcanoes.html">affected the world</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.49585 Tue, 28 Feb 2006 08:00:37 -0800 Tambora Volcano Yearwithoutsummer Atreides