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Dad used to say as they move it around. Theyre building with very simple machines, ramps, pulleys, ramps. All the way back to the late 16th century 1580s or so they were talking about a way to defend all their Caribbean Holdings because piracy was a big problem. The treasure fleets were being preyed on and the king of spain sent over one of his best engineers, one of his best generals to figure out a way to defend against the piracy. They came up with an idea. Fortifying ten of spains ports. The plan was, puerto rico, havana, all these were going to be fortified. Number ten at the very bottom ...

Technology to find out. One man explained to officials that things just didnt seem right. He said with the rain, body hurts, hail and win pick up and they got to the basement quick which was a very pro ago i have thing to do. He may have saved their lives. Reporter shelleys got a text leather attending an almost all amish auction. I sat back down and told my neighbor because i was only english person there, that we needed to get out of there now. As soon as we went to stand up the whole thing shook. Reporter room of 110 people made it to a nearby basement and once there they began to think. A ...

Drums beating music narrator the thousand yearsgo in souern mexico, an unprecedented culture flounearhe gulf coast. Le rivers meandering through the hot, tropical lowlands were the regions lifeblood. Theswaterways for transporon and tra enuraged agriculture. Annual floods left deposits of fertile soil, ideal for growing maize, squash and beans. More than two thousand years later, the aztecs called this region olman, or rubber country, the name of the peoples. Who dwelled there in antiquity is lost, but they have become known as olmec. To express their political and religious beliefs, the ancie...

Music narrator the thousand yearsgo in souern mexico an urecedent culture flourished in the jungle nearhe gulf coast. Rivers meandering through the hot, tropical lowlands were the regions lifeblood. Theswaterwayfor transportion and tra encouraged agriculture. Annual floods left deposits of fertile soil ideal for growing maize, squash and beans. More than two thousand years later, the aztecs called this region olman, or rubber country, for its many rubber trs. The name of the people who dwelled there in antiquity is lost but they have become known as olmec. To express their political and religi...

Saint augustine. It was built for a very particular reason. Spain decided they had to build the stone fortification in Saint Augustine to ensure their foothold on the florida territory. They were concerned about england encroaching and pushing them out of the area and they saw florida as important in helping to defend their hold on the caribbean and central south america. They started construction in 1672 so you have 23 years worth of construction and the biggest reason for all that time is only about 175 people were working on the project at any one time. All the stone had to be quarried from...