time2lose@lemmy.world to interestingasfuck@lemmy.world · 16 days agoIn 1920, a year before work began on the Reflecting Pool, the view toward the Lincoln Memorial looked like this.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square12linkfedilinkarrow-up1147arrow-down11
arrow-up1146arrow-down1imageIn 1920, a year before work began on the Reflecting Pool, the view toward the Lincoln Memorial looked like this.lemmy.worldtime2lose@lemmy.world to interestingasfuck@lemmy.world · 16 days agomessage-square12linkfedilink
minus-squaremangaskahn@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up32·16 days agoI built this memorial up from nothing. When I started here, all there was was swamp. Everyone said I was draft to build a memorial in a swamp.
minus-squareceenote@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down1·16 days ago… It turned green from the algae. So, I built a second one!
minus-squareRhaedas@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down1·16 days agoAnd that one sunk. So I built another one!
minus-squareAsetru@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·16 days agoThat burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp.
minus-squaredeus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·15 days agoBut the fourth one stayed up!
I built this memorial up from nothing. When I started here, all there was was swamp. Everyone said I was draft to build a memorial in a swamp.
… It turned green from the algae. So, I built a second one!
And that one sunk. So I built another one!
That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp.
But the fourth one stayed up!