Haning Judge & Famous Sewers

Dec 30, 2006 13:04

Hanging JudgeWikipedia seems to entirely lack entries both for the partially apacraphyl judge Lynch, who's surname became synonmous with the method of execution where the executee is hoisted into the air by a noose around the neck. Also lacking is an entry for James Barry, the british executioner who popularized the drop method as a more humane ( Read more... )

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4_letters December 29 2006, 22:19:34 UTC
Well, the following will be kinda unrelated and probably known to you, but there's also the cities underneath the cities, created via those cases of widespread destruction in which it seemed to make the most sense to rebuild a new layer right over top. My only example is Portland, Oregon though; its "Shanghai tunnels" are apparently still lined with decrepid old-timey storefronts beneath the earth. But I haven't been. These tunnel-types differ from intentional underground cities of both the ancient and new cold climate variety because they're supposedly shut off and good for nothin....besides tours and Satanist parties o course.

I also like that San Francisco's South of Market area is built overtop a ship graveyard, when the city was brimming and desperate for fill. If only there was a way into THOSE.

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TMNT hjasper December 30 2006, 00:10:55 UTC
Yes, New York.

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s2658179 December 30 2006, 04:20:40 UTC
i beleive the book "it" by stephen king may have featured a clown in a sewer, involved in some way in menacingly luring children into it

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