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March 01, 2011

Under Paris

A National Geographic slideshow about what's under Paris.

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Behind the neat stacks of skulls, tibias, and femurs in the Paris catacombs lies a chaos of bones. In the 18th and 19th centuries the city dug up millions of skeletons from over-flowing cemeteries and poured them at night into old quarries.

Posted by joke du jour at March 1, 2011 06:03 PM

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