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 Post subject: ship found at WTC site
PostPosted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 12:14 pm 
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100715/ap_ ... uried_ship

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Workers at the World Trade Center site are excavating a 32-foot-long ship hull that apparently was used in the 18th century as part of the fill that extended lower Manhattan into the Hudson River.

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PostPosted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 12:17 pm 
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That's freaking cool

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very cool....amazing it wasn't destroyed or completely rotten.

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PostPosted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 1:11 pm 
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That's neat. Pretty random.

On a side note, ground zero looks very different now from what it did four years ago.

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PostPosted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 1:20 pm 
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Also pretty fucking cool that people were able to reclaim land from the sea in the 1700's. Pretty impressive technological feat for the 18th century. How did I not know that had happened until now?
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Also pretty fucking cool that people were able to reclaim land from the sea in the 1700's. Pretty impressive technological feat for the 18th century. How did I not know that had happened until now?


Don't forget who those people were at the time...*my* people...the Dutch. (New York was New Amsterdam)

They had plenty of experience reclaiming land from water by the 18th century ;)

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Stuuuuuuu wrote:
Also pretty fucking cool that people were able to reclaim land from the sea in the 1700's. Pretty impressive technological feat for the 18th century. How did I not know that had happened until now?

I'm mobile so I can't pull up what century it was, but during Alexander the Great's conquests he turned an island into a peninsula by having his engineers build a land bridge. It remains a peninsula to this day.

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mechaphil wrote:
Stuuuuuuu wrote:
Also pretty fucking cool that people were able to reclaim land from the sea in the 1700's. Pretty impressive technological feat for the 18th century. How did I not know that had happened until now?

I'm mobile so I can't pull up what century it was, but during Alexander the Great's conquests he turned an island into a peninsula by having his engineers build a land bridge. It remains a peninsula to this day.


lol...so you can navigate to a forum, open a specific topic, even reply to the topic...but you cant google 'alexander the great land bridge' ? :P
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 5:54 pm 
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Heh busted ;)

http://www.cracked.com/article_18476_5-ancient-acts-war-that-changed-face-earth.html

Granted, Cracked.com is a humor site, but 99% of their batshit crazy material is true. #5 on that list happens to be one of the 99%.

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That is pretty cool. Most of Manhattan was reclaimed land anyways.

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