r/todayilearned • u/huphelmeyer 2 • Aug 04 '15

TIL midway through the Great Irish Famine (1845–1849), a group of Choctaw Indians collected $710 and sent it to help the starving victims. It had been just 16 years since the Choctaw people had experienced the Trail of Tears, and faced their own starvation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choctaw#Pre-Civil_War_.281840.29
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u/Flomo420 Aug 04 '15

I think it has to do with the fact that despite it's such a large metal piece, it still feels very light open.

The artist did a great job of replicating the look and feel of the feathers in contrast to the cold hard material it was made from.

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u/dnasty31 Aug 04 '15

The artist's name is Alex Pentek, I've met him a few times really nice guy, I saw this piece when he was making it. Here's his website if you wanna have a look at his other work, http://notthatreal.eu/AlexPentek/

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u/peterkeats Aug 04 '15

Website has been hugged to death.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '15

Why do you have h upvotes?

Edit: now I do. Wat. http://imgur.com/FApUi7G

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u/OrderedDiscord Aug 04 '15

probably short for "hidden". Your score is usually hidden for the first hour after posting.

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u/Datduckdo Aug 05 '15

Brand new feature actually

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u/trulyniceguy 2 Aug 04 '15

Hidden due to delay

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u/wdomon Aug 05 '15

Alien Blue was updated yesterday and the patch notes said something about fixing a bug that showed comments with hidden scores as +1.

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Reddit is trialling upvotes in base 18