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Michelangelo's statue of David encased in bricks to prevent bomb damage, WWII (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year ago (2 children)

Uh
So they turned it into an inverse frag grenade?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Sparhawk87@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 1 year ago

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

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 1 year ago

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