
Cities
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The Great Tits
In the eighteenth century, the city of paris had a problem. They had too many dead bodies lying around in massed graves in their cemeteries. So they decided to handle this problem by ing those corpses into pits that the romans had dug up long before to mine limestone. The final result is known as the paris catacombs,. A network of tunnels under the city that are filled with the skeletal remains that have been deposited there. And after theyhave presented their facts, i will judge them.
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