1862 AD – 2017 ADThese historical moments capture humanity wrestling with monumental scale, as heavy materials and grand ambitions collide against the unrelenting forces of gravity, weather, and time.
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Round 1 · 2017 AD
NoviceAssembly of the Statue of Unity
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.
Round 2 · 1862 AD
CasualBattle of Hampton Roads
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.
Round 3 · 1904 AD
TrickyExcavation of the Oseberg Ship
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.
Round 4 · 1919 AD
TrickyAlcock and Brown's Transatlantic Landing
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.
Round 5 · 1981 AD
ExpertFilming Fitzcarraldo
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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