Weight and Willpower

The 5 moments in this challenge

The scenes are shown below — tap a card to reveal its place and year.

1. 

   Round 1 · 2017

   Assembly of the Statue of Unity

   Gujarat, India

   Standing nearly twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty, the monument required a core of reinforced concrete surrounded by thousands of custom-cast bronze panels.

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2. 

   Round 2 · 1862

   Battle of Hampton Roads

   Hampton Roads, Virginia, USA

   The Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia and the Union's USS Monitor engaged in the first-ever naval battle between iron-armored ships, a tactical draw that instantly rendered the world's wooden navies obsolete.

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3. 

   Round 3 · 1904

   Excavation of the Oseberg Ship

   Vestfold, Norway

   Buried in blue clay for over a millennium, the heavily decorated Viking longship was painstakingly excavated from a Norwegian farm mound in near-perfect condition.

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4. 

   Round 4 · 1919

   Alcock and Brown's Transatlantic Landing

   Clifden, County Galway, Ireland

   After flying non-stop from Newfoundland through brutal weather, British aviators John Alcock and Arthur Brown crash-landed their Vickers Vimy biplane in an Irish peat bog, completing the first transatlantic flight.

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   Round 5 · 1981

   Filming Fitzcarraldo

   Pongo de Mainique, Peru

   Werner Herzog famously refused to use special effects, forcing his indigenous crew and engineers to literally drag a 320-ton steamship over a steep Amazonian isthmus.

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