http://www.metafilter.com/tags/saltmine/rss tag posts with saltmine Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:23:00 -0800 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:23:00 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/64226/Her-Skull-has-Roses-His-Have-Ivy <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallstatt">Hallstatt</a>, Austria, besides being idylic, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and is historically fascinating: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallstatt_culture">A Bronze Age cultural center</a>, with a 2,500-year-old <a href="http://www.austria-hiking.eu/regenbogenprogramm/salzwelten/">salt mine</a> (the world's first); beautiful <a href="http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.goldenerochs.at/images/ausflug/dachstein_hoehlen02.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.goldenerochs.at/en-ausflug_dachsteinhoehlen.shtml&h=104&w=157&sz=7&hl=en&start=5&um=1&tbnid=wjFvGWcxPSz0NM:&tbnh=64&tbnw=97&prev=/images%3Fq%3DDachstein%2Bice%2Bcaves%26imgsz%3Dsmall%257Cmedium%257Clarge%257Cxlarge%26ndsp%3D18%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DN">ice caves</a>; and a Catholic cemetery so small that the dead were regularly disinterred after a time, their skulls painstakingly identified and decorated and stacked in an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bonehouse1.jpg">ossuary</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.64226 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:23:00 -0800 Ossuary cremation cemetery Austria icecaves saltmine bigskyguy http://www.metafilter.com/63881/Down-down-in-the-salt-mine-underneath-the-ground <a href="http://www.kopalnia.pl/home.php?action=&id_language=2">Wieliczka Salt Mine</a> in Poland <a href="http://www.kopalnia.pl/site.php?action=site&id_site=26&id_language=2&site_location=&deparment_change=true&">has been in operation for 800-odd years.</a> Needless to say, this has given the miners plenty of time to carve some <a href="http://www.photo-exhibits.com/europe/poland/wieliczka_salt_mine_photos/color_photographs/wieliczka_light.html">pretty</a> <a href="http://www.photo-exhibits.com/europe/poland/wieliczka_salt_mine_photos/color_photographs/wieliczka_statues.html">amazing</a> <a href="http://www.photo-exhibits.com/europe/poland/wieliczka_salt_mine_photos/color_photographs/wieliczka_chapel_2.html">things.</a> More photos <a href="http://www.wieliczka.nu/lang_eng/gallery1.htm">here</a> and <a href="http://www.photo-exhibits.com/europe/poland/wieliczka_salt_mine_photos/wieliczka_color_photographs.html">here</a>. Videos <a href="http://homepage.mac.com/kevision/video/iMovieTheater22.html">here</a> and <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=LnhjKD4pezw">here.</a> Virtual tour <a href="http://www.kopalnia.pl/site.php?action=site&id_site=164&id_language=2&site_location=2&deparment_change=true&">here.</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wieliczka_Salt_Mine">Wikipedia.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.63881 Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:20:00 -0800 Wieliczka Salt Mine saltmine underground art carving cave Poland cathedral dersins