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Jennifer Toth's 1993 book The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City, [4] written while she was an intern at the Los Angeles Times, was promoted as a true account of travels in the tunnels and interviews with tunnel dwellers. The book helped canonize the image of the mole people as an ordered society living literally under ...
Tunnel People (Dutch title: Tunnelmensen) is an anthropological-journalistic account describing an underground homeless community in New York City.It is written by war photographer and anthropologist Teun Voeten and was initially published in his native Dutch in 1996, and a revised English version was published by the Oakland-based independent publishing house PM Press in 2010.
Teun Voeten in April 2021. Teun Voeten is a Dutch photojournalist and cultural anthropologist specializing in war and conflicts. In 1996 he published the book Tunnelmensen about homeless people living in an old railroad tunnel in Manhattan.
He died buying his fellow London Tunnel Dwellers some time to get away from Mr. Clean. Double Helix [90] - A two-headed man. Current whereabouts and status unknown. Harmony [90] - Mother of Hope who has gills. Current whereabouts and status unknown. Hope [91] - Harmony's newborn baby. Current whereabouts and status unknown.
An underground house in the Sassi di Matera, Italy An underground jewellery shop in Coober Pedy An example of an excavated house in Brhlovce, Slovakia. Underground living refers to living below the ground's surface, whether in natural or manmade caves or structures (earth shelters).
The word "tunnel" comes from the Middle English tonnelle, meaning "a net", derived from Old French tonnel, a diminutive of tonne ("cask"). The modern meaning, referring to an underground passageway, evolved in the 16th century as a metaphor for a narrow, confined space like the inside of a cask. [8] [9] [10]
In December 2012, a tunnel 3 feet in diameter and 100 yards long, with electricity and ventilation, was found near the Nogales, Arizona, port of entry. [12] On February 14, 2014, another underground drug tunnel was discovered in Nogales. The tunnel spanned 481 feet (147 m), or longer than 1.5 American football fields.
Underground construction has a number of unique risks and challenges but shares a lot with traditional construction and mining. Underground construction workers often work under reduced light condition, in dangerous spaces, and are at a high risk of exposure to contaminants, fire, and explosions.