Solid Ground and Restless Waters

The 5 moments in this challenge

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

1. 

   Round 1 · 1936

   Pouring the Cantilevers at Fallingwater

   Pennsylvania, USA

   Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece of organic architecture required extensive wooden formwork to boldly cast its daring reinforced concrete balconies directly over an active mountain waterfall, integrating human design with raw nature.

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2. 

   Round 2 · 1804

   Burning of the USS Philadelphia

   Tripoli Harbor, Ottoman Tripolitania

   To prevent their captured frigate from being utilized by Barbary pirates, Stephen Decatur and a small crew sneaked into the harbor at night and set the vessel ablaze.

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3. 

   Round 3 · 1976

   Hōkūleʻa Arrives in Tahiti

   Papeete, French Polynesia

   To prove ancient Polynesians purposefully navigated the Pacific without instruments, the traditional double-hulled voyaging canoe Hōkūleʻa completed a 3,000-mile journey from Hawaii to Tahiti.

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4. 

   Round 4 · 312 BC

   Laying the Basalt Stones of the Appian Way

   Rome, Italy

   Ordered by the censor Appius Claudius Caecus, the first and most crucial Roman road was built to rapidly move troops southward to Capua during the Samnite Wars.

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   Round 5 · 1789

   Mutiny on the HMS Bounty

   Near Tofua, South Pacific

   Fletcher Christian and a faction of mutineers violently seized control of the ship, forcing Captain William Bligh and 18 loyalists into a 23-foot open boat with minimal supplies.

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