Curiosa: The world beneath your feet

[nebroadwe]

Did you know that Scandinavia has some of the prettiest manhole covers in Europe? Are you surprised to learn that Italy's manhole covers are merely functional while Spain's and Germany's burst abound with civic pride? Would you be somewhat disturbed to read that "Netherlands manholes reflect the nature of the country's inhabitants, efficient, tidy but rather dull"? Then this illustrated international survey of manhole covers is for you, my friend. (Brought to the Intarwebs by one of the editors of the Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History, which is how I found it. I'm a rare books cataloger, Jim, not a manhole cover aficionado).

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[artemisrae.livejournal.com]

Oh man, where my friend lives in Japan is in the Akita prefecture, so all the manhole covers features stampings of Akita dogs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akita_Inu), which I loved. I wish I'd taken a picture! Maybe I'll get her to send me one and submit it...

[nebroadwe.livejournal.com]

I'm sure that would interest the editor; his project is Eurocentric at the moment, but merely from convenience, I suspect. He's got some central American and Trinidadian covers, but not much else.