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Tintern 'secret' medieval tunnel system found by accident

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Re: Tintern 'secret' medieval tunnel system found by accident

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Nearby town is Lauderdale-by-the-Sea, a Ft. Lauderdale suburb. Miami . . . and Miami, Ohio. In north Florida there's Howey-in-the-Hills. And in Texas, Cut-n-Shoot.

Howey-in-the-Hills was a notorious speed trap. Don't know if it still is.

In the last few decades, the whole state has gravitated toward misguided enforcement along these lines for more than just drivers.

Like they say "Come on vacation, leave on probation!"

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Once I got lost and ended up in Melbourne. I found it quite amusing.

Despite having been born in Melbourne I’ve never been there!

A residential community enjoyed by early NASA personnel.

There's also Pasadena . . . and Pasadena, Texas.

Re: Tintern 'secret' medieval tunnel system found by accident

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It's funny that this showed up at HN, but I'm personally interested because one of my ancestors, Aoife MacMurrough, was buried at Tintern Abbey. Her daughter and son-in-law, Isabel de Clare and William Marshal, were big time patrons of the abbey. If you're ever in Eastern Wales, the ruins are a pretty spot to visit.

It's extremely rad that you can trace your ancestry back 1000 years. I guess I don't have much else to add besides that, but I'm someone whose knowledge of their ancestry stops 2 generations up so I'm kind of in awe by that fact. 1000 years!

The trick is that we all have thousands of ancestors, and if you luck upon one thread that connects you to the aristocracy, their genealogical records are more complete than common people. That's why, after a few generations, people only know the really fancy people they're descended from.
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