Atlas Obscura does a great job providing pictures of 'ghost towns' in different places.
- In Chile, some twenty miles east on route 16, from the coastal city of Iquiqui, lies what's left now of Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works, one of many Nitrate towns left empty after the mining stopped. A 2005 UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- more atlas obscura pictures of the effect of centuries of mining by Romans near Yeres, Spain.
- another set with a few depicting one of Japan's many sulfur mine towns, near Hachimantai also abandoned
- many more ruins maintained in stasis all over the world.
- Ten other notable sites that need help to be preserved.
Helpfully, NPR made a point of showing a bit of what was news in the rest of the world as the US teetered on edge of self-inflicted, unnecessary, economic default.
a post on why Glenn Greenwald's move to new media venture is a big deal, WAPO 17Oct13
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