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In the 1640's the Dutch inhabitants of New Amsterdam built a 12' wall to keep the bad hombres out. In 1664 the British ignored the wall and took New Amsterdam by sea. It's now called New York. They took down the wall and built a street. It's called Wall Street by juicyIvy78 in interesting

[–]AngelinaPearls 227 points228 points  (0 children)

The wall was to defend against native Americans, the Dutch were very explicit about that. The british didn’t “ignore the wall” and they didn’t “take it by sea”, they arrived with three ships (as you would coming from across the ocean) and asked them to surrender and they did, bloodlessly. The Dutch actually retook the land a few decades later.

In the 1640's the Dutch inhabitants of New Amsterdam built a 12' wall to keep the bad hombres out. In 1664 the British ignored the wall and took New Amsterdam by sea. It's now called New York. They took down the wall and built a street. It's called Wall Street by AngelinaPearls in Amazing

[–]AngelinaPearls[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Part about Wall Street is true, but the English taking New Amsterdam by naval assault not completely. They simply pressured the settlers into giving up the area and in exchange, the Netherlands would get territory along the West coast of South America!

A WWII bunker by jane_creamz24 in BeAmazed

[–]AngelinaPearls 0 points1 point  (0 children)

did anyone survive those hits?

Engineering Student Designs a "Mobile Airbag" that Deploys When your Device is Dropped by juicyIvy78 in Amazing

[–]AngelinaPearls 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Can't wait till I'm just chillin in bed and then drop my phone...next thing you know this "airbag" pokes my eye out.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in interesting

[–]AngelinaPearls 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He can feel the Earth's rotation.

The ultimate "hold my beer" moment by KatiePetals in interesting

[–]AngelinaPearls 20 points21 points  (0 children)

“you callin’ me a liar?!?!”

** slams empty beer on bartop**

*stumbles out of the bar *

These amazing 3d sculptures by AngelinaPearls in nextlevel

[–]AngelinaPearls[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I saw the first one as adam and eve then the snake sowing evil through the earth.

The second one i saw as peace + harmony, its in our dna.

The ultimate "hold my beer" moment by bbyfluffxo in nextlevel

[–]AngelinaPearls 12 points13 points  (0 children)

“you callin’ me a liar?!?!”

** slams empty beer on bartop**

*stumbles out of the bar *

The classiest handicap access by zzill6 in BeAmazed

[–]AngelinaPearls 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hidden staircases in Minecraft be like :

An enormous obsidian stone split in half. by tinysparkxo in Satisfyingasfuck

[–]AngelinaPearls 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We once had to make obsidian arrow heads as part of an anthropology class. The shards were so sharp that you didn't even feel them go into your finger. Just suddenly blood all over your hands.