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- fallingdamage, on 06/13/2009, -1/+14"Schoolchildren use candles to tour an ancient Roman cistern, part of a Neapolitan underworld that also includes 1940s bomb shelters and, elsewhere, early Christian catacombs."
in the US, teachers would never give a student a lighted candle to walk around with anymore.
stupid politicians and overbearing parents trying to protect us from ourselves. - mrfuzz, on 06/13/2009, -3/+13Great Story Archive Digger !
- mirunit, on 06/13/2009, -0/+8Who would have guessed there is stuff under a city more than 2500 years old? Amazing.
- uc1digger, on 06/13/2009, -3/+11Wow, Amazing
- wannaBdug, on 06/13/2009, -1/+6I so want to go now.
- Pandalume, on 06/13/2009, -0/+5You'll find today's city down there when Vesuvius erupts again.
- choopie911, on 06/13/2009, -0/+5Naples is a sketchy ass city. Pickpocketing is rampant there, and they don't really seem to follow any rules while driving. I saw a streetbike with 2 people on it go through a PACKED street market (all selling bootleg misc. stuff)
Totally worth it though - illied, on 06/13/2009, -0/+5Interesting. A few more underground cities in Montana, Oregon and Turkey: http://hubpages.com/hub/Secret-Underground-Cities
The entire landscape of Cappadocia is unreal. - PopcornDave, on 06/13/2009, -0/+4They probably wouldn't even give them a flashlight since they might shine it in someone's eyes and temproarily blind them thereby possibly causing them to injure themselves or another student which would have to result in their immediate expulsion from the school.
Oh what a wonderful world. - adderley, on 06/13/2009, -0/+4Paris, Rome, Brussels, some Scandinavian cities, etc. have it as well.
Been to the Parisian tunnels but was advised to gtfo of there because you can easily get lost (it's riddled with skeletons) or you get stabbed by french junkies who govern themselves down there. - PopcornDave, on 06/13/2009, -0/+4You'd be surprised how much of this kind of stuff exists all over the world.
- ImyK, on 06/13/2009, -1/+4That's very, very cool.
- fallingdamage, on 06/14/2009, -0/+3"alright you guys, we need to get this trench dug before tomorrow so the crew can get the pipes buried"
"how do you do that?"
"...use a shovel....."
"oh. hey.. uhm...whats a shovel?" - mirunit, on 06/13/2009, -0/+3I was sort of joking, implying that the age of the city itself makes it obvious there would be such things as outlined in the article under it. But regardless, it is interesting how human civilization seems to leave behind traces of its culture and civilization - even more interesting how we can still examine it.
- ethanator1088, on 06/13/2009, -4/+6That's amazing.
- thepicklebot, on 06/14/2009, -0/+2Another reason to visit Italy!
- fuzzybeard, on 06/13/2009, -0/+1I concur with the above statements. [SARCASM] Thank yous need to go out to the school boards, teachers unions, helicopter parents, and most especially to the *lawyers* [PTUI!] for making the current state of affairs possible in our schools! [/SARCASM]
I'm actually rather a bit frightened of what may (or may not) happen when today's publicly-educated children finish their schooling and enter the workforce. - fuzzybeard, on 06/13/2009, -0/+1In the future, our descendants will be saying the same thing except for the fact that some of the stuff we're leaving behind won't be oo-ed and ahh-ed over; it'll be a case of "RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!"
April Fools, future! - MayorMcCheapo, on 06/15/2009, -0/+1I bet that's where I left my checkbook.
- zagatbuzz, on 06/15/2009, -1/+1Pretty awesome. Great story!
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