In Pictures; The eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull.

To those of us with a standard, American tongue, the idea of pronouncing a word like "Eyjafjallajökull" is enough to cause towels to be thrown in defeat. However, that pile of consonants is the name of the recently erupted Icelandic volcano.
Eyjafjallajökul is actually the name of the vast glacier which covers the crater – but the mountain ridge containing the volcano itself is simply called Eyjafyoll.

Urdur Gunnarsdottir, of the Icelandic Foreign Office, said the confusion had caused a good deal of “black humor” among her countrymen.

“We have been very amused to watch your newsreaders making various interesting attempts to pronounce Eyjafjallajökull,” she said.
“We have not been at all amused by the travel chaos and all the distress and worry the volcano has caused, we have been very sad about that, but there has been a lot of black humour about the pronunciation.”
Although Icelanders colloquially refer to the volcano as Eyjafjallajökull, Miss Gunnarsdottir explained that this is not in fact its real name.

“Eyja means island, fyalla or fyjoll means mountain, and jökull means glacier, so the name actually means the island mountain glacier,” she said.

“The mountains under the south part of the glacier, which is where the volcano is, are actually called the island mountains, or Eyjafyoll. Which I suppose would be much easier for you to say.”

Lee Trevino once said that "if you are caught on a golf course during a storm, and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron." Did I mention he's also famous for having been struck by lightning?

Perhaps the most interesting part about this eruption is the lightning, which looks as if it originates and ends within the ash itself.

Take a look at these pictures. They're nothing short of amazing.