Jamal Khashoggi

In 2004, Lawrence Wright wrote in the 'New Yorker' about 'The Kingdom of Silence,' where a massive sewer project in Jeddah was really a series of manhole covers across the city with no actual pipes underneath. I, as the editor of a major paper at the time, can say that we all knew - and we never reported on it.

Saudi Arabian Author

Steve Rushin

As good as NFL Films is at making players human, it's even better at making players superhuman. No Hollywood studio has made movies that are more grand or gorgeous. Every meticulous shot of 'Hard Knocks' is a vision: every slow-motion spiral, every shaved head steaming like a Manhattan manhole cover.

American Journalist

Rashida Tlaib

Stolen scrap like manhole covers, railroad weights, stop signs, guard rails, and public lighting put our residents in grave danger. Not only that, but the theft is tearing apart communities with stolen church and cemetery ornaments.

American Politician

Ali MacGraw

If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.

American Actress

When talking about manholes, mention precautions due to their potential danger if left uncovered.

Safety Warning

Manholes are part of city planning, often discussed when issues of urban maintenance arise.

City Infrastructure

Manholes are usually accessed by utility workers, indicating their association with certain professions.

Utility Workers

 Some patterns are real and some are not. Was JFK assassinated by a conspiracy or by a lone assassin? Well, if you go there -- there's people there on any given day -- like when I went there, here -- showing me where the different shooters were. My favorite one was he was in the manhole. And he popped out at the last second, took that shot.

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 lone assassin well if you go there there's people there on any given day like when I went there here showing me where the different shooters were my favorite one was he was in the manhole and he popped out at the last second took that shot but of course Lincoln was assassinated by a conspiracy so we can't just uniformly dismiss all

 miserably the spanish are happy as can be right they go off in search of paititi looking for a lost city of gold the few that return come back with these horrible stories of you know spiders as big as your hands that eat birds you know giant anacondas that could swallow a manhole poison arrows that could kill

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 is really the main way that we talk about that experience. I don't know about you, but when I conceptualize this metaphor, what I picture is straight out of a cartoon -- like there's a man, he's walking down the sidewalk, without realizing it, he crosses over an open manhole,

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 eight fibers in a cable for going in each direction and they're tiny they're the thickness of the hair and then they connect to the continents somewhere they connected a manhole like this literally this is where the five thousand mile cable plugs in this is in Halifax a

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 and then, when it's done, they put the manhole cover back on top, and they push the sand over that, and we all forget about it. And it seems to me that we talk a lot about the cloud, but every time we put something on the cloud, we give up some responsibility for it.

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 DC's rodent control receives a couple of complaints each year have a retino toilet how does this ultimate rat invasion actually occur first it could easily sneak into grates or manhole covers open to the street

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 dark tunnels it became sort of a fad on a weekend night to pop open a manhole and climb down to the sewer system and sort of walk in the footsteps of nadar and he's described as this sort of mythological

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 is just not good for a human being. Toilet very bad. I mean, you had to queue to get proper toilets to attend -- and that's what I call proper, when four of us are on a manhole.

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 Why are most manhole covers round? Sure, it makes them easy to roll and slide into place in any alignment