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Subj : Mammoth Cave - the Star Trek Connection
To   : alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From : jsavard
Date : Mon Sep 12 2005 03:44:01

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos

Mammoth Cave is an extensive system of underground caverns in Kentucky.
A National Park was created around it, and it is a popular tourist
attraction.

One portion of the Mammoth Cave system is known as Colossal Cave. There
is also a Colossal Cave near Tucson, Arizona, but that is not the one
which became famous as a result of the computer game "Adventure". The
part of the Mammoth Cave system that Adventure was actually based upon,
however, is not the Colossal Cave portion per se, but instead the
portion accessible from the Bedquilt entrance.

This fame has led to me performing some Internet searches related to
Mammoth Cave, and I have turned up some interesting tidbits.

Before he became a world-famous author, H. P. Lovecraft wrote a very
short story in his youth about someone who became lost in Mammoth Cave.

On a map of Mammoth Cave I saw on a German site, among many of the areas
that were given names, was one area called...

Tribble's Trouble

and this map dates from long before the year Star Trek came to the small
screen.

John Savard
http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/index.html
http://www.quadibloc.com/index.html
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