wow, there are two metafilters, aren't there?

there's the front page.... and then... there are the catacombs.

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One entry found for catacomb.

Main Entry: cat·a·comb
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle French catacombe, probably from Old Italian catacomba, from Late Latin catacumbae, plural
Date: 15th century
1 : a subterranean cemetery of galleries with recesses for tombs -- usually used in plural
2 : something resembling a catacomb: as a : an underground passageway or group of passageways b : a complex set of interrelated things
posted by gohlkus at 11:26 AM PST on April 9

--his 1959 version of "Mack the Knife" and an Americanized reinterpretation of a French ballad called "Le Mer" that, translated, gives this film its title--

"All that, which strikes us at first as excess of unreason, is really the working of the human mind at its most delicately fine and most broadly encompassing, and the method of finding out truths till then unperceived."
--Voltaire