Inside the Amazing Cave City That Houses Allied Troops

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-534236/Inside-amazing-cave-city-house...

Here, beneath the northern French town of Arras, years of careful excavation have finally unveiled the secret city where 25,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers lived just yards beneath an unsuspecting enemy.

Canteens, chapels, power stations, a light railway and even a fully functioning hospital were all established in this chilly labyrinth where I am standing with freezing water dripping on my head.

Scarred by the devastating losses on the Somme in 1916, British generals came up with a new strategy ahead of their next major offensive at Arras in 1917.

A series of subterranean medieval quarries on the edge of the town would be linked by tunnels to create the most extensive underground network in British military history.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-534236/Inside-amazing-cave-city-housed-25-000-Allied-troops-German-noses-WWI.html#ixzz1C6L6i0wj

A Beginner's Introduction to Perl 5.10

http://www.perl.com/pub/2008/04/23/a-beginners-introduction-to-perl-510.html

Editor’s note: this series is based on Doug Sheppard’s Beginner’s Introduction to Perl. A Beginner’s Introduction to Files and Strings with Perl 5.10 explains how to use files and strings, and A Beginner’s Introduction to Regular Expressions with Perl 5.10 explores regular expressions, matching, and substitutions. A Beginner’s Introduction to Perl Web Programming demonstrates how to write web programs.

library of the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/in-search-of-western-civilisations-...

Scholars today, using multi-spectral imaging technology, are able to decipher the otherwise inscrutable surface of black ink on black fabric of the papyrus scrolls. A multinational team has assembled to transcribe the collection. But work has stalled as they await refinement of a new technique, an application of the CT scan, which will allow some of the untouched texts to be deciphered without exposing them to the risk of further damage.