The source of said lava, the La Brea Tar Pits (one of LA's more dubious tourist attractions: a primordial swamp that contains dinosaur bones and smells of eggy farts), also opens and closes Steve De Jarnatt's pocket-apocalypse cult thriller Miracle Mile, set on the same stretch of Wilshire Boulevard on the night nuclear war commences.
The film's next surprise is that even when the Civil War commences, the tone remains as fast and frivolous as ever.
[The Franco-Prussian war commenced on 19 July 1870].
When the First World War commenced, in 1914, he volunteered for the German Army, and acquitted himself well as a soldier.
But as the war commenced, this hope receded, and the contacts and connections Mackintosh had in Europe were, by necessity, severed.
"Just write an article about what a mean mommy you are, get a lot of sexy media attention and hate mail for it, and watch the bidding war commence!" It was bad enough, the thinking went, to write about your daughter and her weight problems in Vogue, possibly the spiritual home of the eating disorder.
When the Cold War commenced in the mid-1940s, the NAACP distanced itself from Communists, lest its funding or reputation suffer.
He describes himself as "just a shit-kicker" who became interested in Islam's ills when the Syrian Civil War commenced.
When the Korean War commenced on 25 June 1950, the 36th looked to recruit experienced veterans to help it gain federal recognition.
German involvement in the Spanish Civil War commenced with the outbreak of war in July 1936, with Adolf Hitler immediately sending in powerful air and armored units to assist General Francisco Franco and his Nationalist forces.
The Taliban were potentially only weeks from victory until the events of 9/11 allowed the CIA the justification it needed to expand its support of the Northern Alliance and America's longest war commenced.
