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Daily Goodness

Daily Goodness

Quote of the Day:
“Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.” -George Will

Fact of the Day:
The first football helmet was constructed by an Annapolis shoemaker at the request of cadet Joseph Mason Reeves, who’d been told that one more blow to the head would end his naval career. –Source

Today’s Holiday:
Newspaper Carrier Day -not so fun unless you’re a carrier.

Link of the Day:
Beautiful images of Meteora, Greece.

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Interesting

Grave Discovered in Planned Subway Line

A subway system in an ancient city like Greece and Rome is always strange. When you ride them as an American, it seems like the strangest thing in the world to exit a subway and suddenly see something like the Coliseum facing you right out the exit.
Building them is even more mind boggling, as evidenced by the discovery of an ancient grave found while digging for a Greek subway. Imagine how many other random graves that old are still lying underground in these cities.