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| Author: | Wozniak [ Thu Jul 15, 2010 12:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | ship found at WTC site |
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100715/ap_ ... uried_ship Quote: 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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| Author: | Van_Da_Man [ Thu Jul 15, 2010 12:17 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: ship found at WTC site |
That's freaking cool |
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| Author: | Crosscheck [ Thu Jul 15, 2010 12:28 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: ship found at WTC site |
very cool....amazing it wasn't destroyed or completely rotten. |
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| Author: | acrossthelines [ Thu Jul 15, 2010 1:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: ship found at WTC site |
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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| Author: | Stuuuuuuu [ Thu Jul 15, 2010 1:20 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: ship found at WTC site |
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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| Author: | Crosscheck [ Thu Jul 15, 2010 1:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: ship found at WTC site |
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? 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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| Author: | mechaphil [ Thu Jul 15, 2010 1:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: ship found at WTC site |
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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| Author: | YankeeInRaleigh [ Thu Jul 15, 2010 5:46 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: ship found at WTC site |
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' ? 
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| Author: | mechaphil [ Thu Jul 15, 2010 5:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: ship found at WTC site |
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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| Author: | Skyline_BNR34 [ Fri Jul 16, 2010 5:21 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: ship found at WTC site |
That is pretty cool. Most of Manhattan was reclaimed land anyways. |
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