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On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 06:48:20 -0700, rja.carnegie wrote:

> On Friday, 14 August 2015 13:53:47 UTC+1, Jeanne Douglas  wrote:
>> [_Epic Engineering_]
>> Now, tonight I found another episode called "Inside the Underground
>> City". This time the proposal was building an underground Chicago
>> because there's just nowhere else to build.
> 
> Did you recently mention the Harry Dresden novels,
> or was that someone or somewhere else?  Because apparently there's a lot
> underneath Chicago already.
> 
> Really.  <http://chicago.straightdope.com/sdc20090319.php> ...article
> kind'a has spoilers for Harry Dresden books.
> 
> ...although Jim Butcher hadn't been to Chicago when he wrote most of
> this stuff.  And, being books about magic, he says there's more there
> than is officially recorded but it's invisible.
> 
> I don't know how big a spoiler this will be, but he also places a
> significant invisible island in Lake Michigan.
> 
> Knowing this much about /that/ subject, maybe it's hypocritical to say
> that I prefer less fantasy in my television shows about major civil
> engineering projects.
> 
> Other cities with a lot of construction underground which wasn't
> underground when it was constructed are Anhk-Morpork and Edinburgh. 

Also Yorvik (York) and Londinium (City of London).

> Come to think,
> Harry Dresden also goes to Edinburgh a time or two.





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cool interesting stuff Jeanne Douglas <hlwdjsd2@NOSPAMgmail.com> - 2015-08-14 05:53 -0700
  Re: cool interesting stuff Tom McDonald <tmcdonald2672@charter.net> - 2015-08-14 08:38 -0500
    Re: cool interesting stuff Jeanne Douglas <hlwdjsd2@NOSPAMgmail.com> - 2015-08-14 06:59 -0700
  Re: cool interesting stuff Paul <papa_fox@cybertown.com> - 2015-08-14 17:08 -0700
  Re: cool interesting stuff rja.carnegie@gmail.com - 2015-08-15 06:48 -0700
    Re: cool interesting stuff Smiler <smiler@jo.king> - 2015-08-15 22:55 +0000
    Re: cool interesting stuff Jeanne Douglas <hlwdjsd2@NOSPAMgmail.com> - 2015-08-15 16:16 -0700
      Re: cool interesting stuff Paul <papa_fox@cybertown.com> - 2015-08-16 07:22 -0700
        Re: cool interesting stuff "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-08-16 15:32 +0100
          Re: cool interesting stuff Paul <papa_fox@cybertown.com> - 2015-08-16 07:33 -0700
            Re: cool interesting stuff "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-08-16 15:53 +0100
            Re: cool interesting stuff talishi <talishi@example.net> - 2015-08-16 08:18 -0700
              Re: cool interesting stuff Christopher A. Lee <c.lee@fairpoint.net> - 2015-08-16 10:30 -0500
                Re: cool interesting stuff "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-08-16 19:04 +0100
              Re: cool interesting stuff Jeanne Douglas <hlwdjsd2@NOSPAMgmail.com> - 2015-08-16 15:57 -0700
                Re: cool interesting stuff hypatiab7 <hypatiab7@comcast.net> - 2015-08-16 16:47 -0700
                Re: cool interesting stuff "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-08-17 11:01 +0100
                Re: cool interesting stuff Paul <papa_fox@cybertown.com> - 2015-08-17 10:30 -0700
        Re: cool interesting stuff Jeanne Douglas <hlwdjsd2@NOSPAMgmail.com> - 2015-08-16 15:56 -0700
        Re: cool interesting stuff David Harmon <source@netcom.com> - 2015-08-18 08:39 -0700
          Re: cool interesting stuff Paul <papa_fox@cybertown.com> - 2015-08-18 09:49 -0700
            Re: cool interesting stuff "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-08-19 10:08 +0100
              Re: cool interesting stuff Paul <papa_fox@cybertown.com> - 2015-08-19 10:17 -0700
    Re: cool interesting stuff hypatiab7 <hypatiab7@comcast.net> - 2015-08-15 17:27 -0700
      Re: cool interesting stuff rja.carnegie@gmail.com - 2015-08-16 07:28 -0700
    Re: cool interesting stuff David Harmon <source@netcom.com> - 2015-08-20 10:26 -0700

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