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4,000-year-old community where thousands of residents still live in underground houses
Daily Mail ^
| 24 January 2018
| Gabriel Samuels and Tracy You
Posted on 01/24/2018 10:28:32 AM PST by mairdie
A new aerial video has provided a rare glimpse into a mysterious Chinese village where residents have lived in subterranean 'pit yards' for some four millennia.
The series of underground dwellings in central China's Henan Province used to have nearly 10,000 homes.
Right now, around 3,000 people still live there while the others have moved to modern homes, according to Chinese media.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History
KEYWORDS: architecture; china; godsgravesglyphs; henanprovince; hobbitses; photography; theshire; undergroundcity
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To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
01/24/2018 11:03:34 AM PST
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mairdie
To: mairdie
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posted on
01/24/2018 11:06:53 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: mairdie
Lovely and so unexpected.
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01/24/2018 11:08:33 AM PST
by
JayGalt
(Let Trump Be Trump)
To: JayGalt
And ABANDONED! That’s what gets me.
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01/24/2018 11:10:28 AM PST
by
mairdie
To: mairdie
Lars Moisture Farm Tatooine
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posted on
01/24/2018 11:11:48 AM PST
by
Kartographer
("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
To: mairdie
Looks remarkably like the meerkat village at the Ft. Worth Zoo
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01/24/2018 11:25:46 AM PST
by
Redbob
(W.W.J.B.D. - What Would Jack Bauer Do?)
To: mairdie
I visited the underground cities in Cappadocia while I was a visiting professor in Turkey. Absolutely fascinating. Especially interesting to this engineer was how they were ventilated.
To: JoeFromSidney
Tell more! Sounds interesting.
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01/24/2018 11:43:06 AM PST
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mairdie
To: mairdie
To: mairdie
To: Kartographer
That’s actually the Sidi-Dris Hotel. When a friend went there about fifteen years ago you could stay there for about 25 cents a night.
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01/24/2018 12:06:26 PM PST
by
Ciaphas Cain
(Liberalism, as with all else evil, can never create. It can only corrupt.)
To: mairdie
To: mairdie
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01/24/2018 12:09:58 PM PST
by
Revel
To: rjsimmon
Looks like a desert golf course with a lot of pot bunkers.......
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01/24/2018 12:10:08 PM PST
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Hot Tabasco
(My cat is not fat, she is just big boned........)
To: Hot Tabasco
Looks like a desert golf course with a lot of pot bunkers....... At least there are no water traps. Wonder what the average handicap would be?
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01/24/2018 12:11:58 PM PST
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rjsimmon
(The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
To: mairdie
PFFT! Leaving those of us *without* to fend for ourselves.Something *unequal* about this. :(
"Topsoil Erosion in Kansas"
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01/24/2018 12:16:07 PM PST
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Daffynition
(The New PTSD: PRESIDENT-Trump Stress Disorder - The LSN didnÂ’t make Trump, so they can't break him)
To: mairdie; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
Thanks mairdie. Just bring out the cold chicken and pickles.
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01/24/2018 1:04:20 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
To: captain_dave
Except they’re carved in loess (wind deposited glacial silt) and they suck in an earthquake. I think one of the reasons so few are left is due to 10’s of thousands dying in an earthquake in that region in the 19th or 20th century.
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01/24/2018 1:12:10 PM PST
by
Axenolith
(Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
To: NorthMountain
Why? Because of that pansy balrog? ;-)
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01/24/2018 1:13:25 PM PST
by
Axenolith
(Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
To: mairdie
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01/24/2018 2:03:00 PM PST
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JayGalt
(Let Trump Be Trump)
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