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Michelangelo's statue of David encased in bricks to prevent bomb damage, WWII (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/historyporn@lemmy.world
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Edit: Someone sent this to me, but I found a source discussing it.

https://greg.org/archive/2018/02/22/brickelangelo.html

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[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago

Uh
So they turned it into an inverse frag grenade?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

The statue still exists, so I guess it worked out.

[-] Sparhawk87@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 2 years ago

I have a rock that keeps away sharks and bears if your interested in buying it, I've always had it and have never been attacked by either thus proving it works. /s

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

I didn't say it worked, I said it worked out.

[-] dustyData@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Would you care to read the article? They weren't thin walled capsules, they were cairns. It made it so the statues were a solid block of material. There would be no or little fragmentation or spalling effect towards the statue.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

To be fair, I believe they posted that before my edit.

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