In the province of Salerno in southern Italy, the Grotte dell’Angelo is a karst system featuring a unique network of caverns and impressive stalactites hanging from the vaults and stalagmites rising from the floor.
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Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Nov. 2025
Burial vaults are typically made of concrete and act as protective containers for caskets and coffins, according to The Dallas Morning News.
Slowly, cautiously, a few more appeared, their chests tattooed with black numbers and letters.
—
Ava Kofman,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
Penelope Travers, from Mandurah, south of Perth, underwent surgery and had to have skin grafts to her face, neck, chests and arms after someone attempted to throw a firebomb through the window of her car, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
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