Poles

Amsterdam is a city built on wooden poles.

Lots and lots and lots of wooden poles.

Due to the thick layer of fen and clay present in the soil of the city, all the city's buildings were erected on wooden poles that are fixed into a sandy layer of the ground over 35 feet deep!

Normally, a house rests on about 10 wooden poles, but the bigger buildings sit on thousands of them.

Did you know that the Royal Palace sits on 13,659 wooden poles and the Amsterdam Central Station sits on over 9,000 poles?!

Penjor are tall decorative poles that can be seen outside Balinese homes during certain religious holidays.

Saturn is an oblate spheroid, meaning that it is flattened at the poles, and it swells out around its equator.

Homes were built on wooden poles, and the canals served as a pretty effective primitive sewer.