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> “We had all these big people around the country thinking our guys were really doing this, and it was starting to make us all look bad,” former rackets investigator Tobias Fennel explains. The class backgrounds of the victims certainly didn’t hurt,[...]

So had they not been rich and influential, they might have not gotten any help. But indeed they ended up helping gay men.

In a way, it's kind of like a reverse theocracy. Instead of the church telling the state what to do, the state is telling the church what to do.

The [David Rumsey Map Collection] (https://www.davidrumsey.com/) is superb for looking up specific maps from specific time periods - hopefully you should be able to find what you're looking for there!

Also - it's a bit more modern, but one map that absolutely fascinates me is the National Library of Scotland's digitalised [Ordnance Survey map of London from the 1890s] (https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=10.0&lat=51.53214&lon=-0.12000&layers=188&b=1). It's incredibly detailed and shows you on a street-to-street level what London looked like 130 years ago. Plus, they also have a similarly detailed OS map of the city from the 1950s/60s, which lets you see how much the city changed over 60-70 years.

Probably not, why makes you think that? Bronze is indeed better than iron, but consider that the differences relate to usage/application. You can't, say, build skyscrapers with bronze, rather you'd need steel alloys for that. Similarly, there is a reason weapons are steel and statues are bronze. So sooner or later you'll hit a bottleneck in terms of usage, making it very unlikely we'd stick around with bronze forever.

I’m reading ‘The Shortest History of India’ now by John Zubrzycki. It covers India’s entire history so only the first half or so takes place before Britain arrives, but I’ve found it to be a good introduction which covers a lot of ground.

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Because it was in the mud. The exposed parts did get obliterated, but a significant portion was actually protected by the silt and mud that encased it.

Fascinating read

Yeah but it was an important case because some Feds and some of the NYPD and the DA's office actually overcame their prejudices to help some gay men rather than victimising them and it happened before Stonewall.

Which is not to say it was an unmitigated success for justice.

Saw it last year. The size of it is astonishing. I knew it was big before going there, but was still surprised at how large it was, especially for the time period it’s from.

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Let me guess, a few scumbags setup prominent men to gather evidence they can use to extort money by threatening to expose them as homosexual?

Done. Thanks.

It's very odd. I grew up speaking Dutch at home, and both my parents speak not just fluent but eloquent Dutch (university professor and literary translator) so my Dutch is very, very good, but has a weird accent and I know next to nothing about the history and political system. Gets me free beers and strange conversations whenever I'm in NL.

Np haha. You can follow my account if you want to learn a bit more about it

Ah. I grew up in the USA, so Dutch history is not my forte despite it being my first language.

I'll admit to not knowing if the condition of this particular wreck is such that it could be raised - it would be pure speculation on my (and I'd imagine your) part.

My point (poorly made) was that saying there's nothing left but dust is untrue. The Mary Rose was raised (and not from the Baltic), though she's in nowhere near the condition of the Vasa, and the article states that much of the hull here is intact as well.

Can and should this vessel be brought back up - I have no idea. Is it within the realm of possibility given what I know and what the article states? Yes.

Gotcha, now I'm going down the rabbit hole on this lol

The war would have happened anyway. This was just the first action and before the official Declaration of war. The English hoped to capture a very valuable merchant convoy while the Dutch were unprepared but it was still unsuccessful

It was a smaller warship (just 44 guns) so I guess it fits. And no, it didn't carry colonists.

That was during the War of the first coalition, more than a century later

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flanders_campaign?wprov=sfla1

The French also contributed a fleet to the war at sea. The Ruyter defeated both fleets at the same time. In the action in which it was taken, the French however didn't participate

Would humanity still be in the bronze age if the tin would be widely available?

Dutch King (or prime minister or whatever they had back then, idk): “It is as though a tiny version of our country has sunk. Sunk beneath the waves.”

I read somewhere that he invented graham crackers to stop kids jerking off.

Well that was perfect! More advanced than I thought. And glad I didn’t live then. Thank you!