The red clay formations called Las Médulas owe their angular character not to the shaping hands of nature but to those of gold miners—and not grizzled "49ers in grubby flannel and overalls, but 1st-century excavators clad in tattered tunics. When gold seams were discovered here in what"s now northern Spain, the Romans who controlled the region created a clever system of tunnels and canals under the hills, through which they channeled water from nearby streams to build pressure that cracked away huge chunks of clay.
There was gold in them there hills…
Today in History
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Shark Awareness Day
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St. Joseph North Pier Inner and Outer Lights, Michigan
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National Garden Week begins today
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St. Patricks Day
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30 years after Exxon Valdez
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1934 Labor Day parade, Gastonia, North Carolina
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Best. Holiday. Ever.
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Bioluminescence at Trwyn Du Lighthouse in Wales
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Camels in the desert, United Arab Emirates
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Barcelona bids farewell to summer
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Merry Christmas!
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In honor of those we ve lost
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A wonder in winter
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Walruses in Svalbard, Norway
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The first ascent
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Porcupine
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Autumn in Alaska
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Looking for peace on the precipice
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Knuthöjdsmossen, a nature reserve in Sweden
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Who s wearing such cute hats?
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Birds of a feather flocking together
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Quebec City for Winter Carnival
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National Napping Day
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Via Krupp, Capri, Italy
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World Children s Day
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Spire Cove in Kenai Fjords National Park, Seward, Alaska
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Defying gravity on a swing ride
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Morocco in bloom
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America s Playground by Derrick Adams
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Big Bend National Park in Texas turns 81
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