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“Anna Forest the National Trust curator who is overseeing the work, said it was the first time anybody had searched under the floorboard in centuries.” Having
by WalterGR 6y ago
“Anna Forest the National Trust curator who is overseeing the work, said it was the first time anybody had searched under the floorboard in centuries.”
Having lived my whole life in the US, that’s an incredible sentence to read.
- jfengel 6y agoThere's an old joke that in the US they think 100 years is a long time, and in Europe they think 100 years is a long way. It's not at all uncommon to find people living in 300+ year old buildings -- buildings that are older than the country I live in. They're not historic monuments, but just structures built to last. (A combination of survivorship bias and a lack of engineering knowledge: if you don't have the expertise to optimize your structure, you have to over-build it or it will fall down.)