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360° scene from Pouring the Cantilevers at Fallingwater312 BC – 1976 AD

This collection juxtaposes the deliberate engineering of enduring structures and pathways with volatile maritime conflicts and momentous navigation upon the open ocean.

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  1. Round 1 · 1936 AD

    Casual

    Pouring the Cantilevers at Fallingwater

    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.

  2. Round 2 · 1804 AD

    Expert

    Burning of the USS Philadelphia

    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.

  3. Round 3 · 1976 AD

    Expert

    Hōkūleʻa Arrives in Tahiti

    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.

  4. Round 4 · 312 BC

    Expert

    Laying the Basalt Stones of the Appian Way

    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.

  5. Round 5 · 1789 AD

    Expert

    Mutiny on the HMS Bounty

    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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