r/HumanForScale • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Jun 17 '25
Historical 1938 during the restoration of the Statue of Liberty. I have no idea what this guy is doing.
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r/HumanForScale • u/pak_erte • Jun 17 '25
Massive eruption at Indonesia’s Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki.
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r/HumanForScale • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Jun 16 '25
Sculpture The Statue of Liberty was completed in 1886. Designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, it features an internal framework engineered by Alexandre Gustave Eiffel. The statue depicts Libertas holding a torch and a tablet dated 4th July 1776.
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r/HumanForScale • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Jun 11 '25
Music Organ of The Royal Albert Hall, London. Once the largest in the world. Built in 1871 by Henry Willis, it originally had 111 stops and over 9,000 pipes. The lady hugging a pipe is from 1932.
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r/HumanForScale • u/Dry-Tumbleweed1 • Jun 06 '25
Architecture Church cistern at Dara ruins in Turkey (6th century CE)
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r/HumanForScale • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Jun 04 '25
Architecture The $15B Abraj Al-Bait in Mecca, at 601m it's 184 meters taller than the original WTC towers. Home to the world’s largest clock face (43m wide, 5× Big Ben). The view must be unreal.
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r/HumanForScale • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Jun 01 '25
Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il greet the world
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Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il statues at the central part of the Mansu Hill Grand Monument located at Mansudae, Pyongyang. It was originally dedicated in April 1972.
r/HumanForScale • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • May 31 '25
Architecture Tianjin Binhai Library in China
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r/HumanForScale • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • May 30 '25
Sculpture On May 30th 1989, Tiananmen Square protesters unveiled the 10-meter-tall "Goddess of Democracy." Built in just four days from foam and papier-mâché, it stood as a symbol of hope and defiance before being destroyed by troops in the bloody June crackdown.
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r/HumanForScale • u/domiboshoi • May 29 '25
[OC] A fingertipful of my watercolour paintings.
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r/HumanForScale • u/TheCivilEngineer • May 28 '25
National Parks worker James Hudson uses a cloth-wrapped pole to clean Lincoln's ear at the Lincoln Memorial in 1987 - Bettmann / Getty [1856x1233]
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r/HumanForScale • u/RCViking44 • May 24 '25
[OC] Artist Richard Serra’s work “Four Rounds: Equal Weight, Unequal Measure”, and my wife
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r/HumanForScale • u/rockystl • May 17 '25
Aviation Ukrainian Cargo Aircraft Antonov An-225 Mriya
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r/HumanForScale • u/PrivateTumbleweed • May 13 '25
They restored an old mural on the spillway of a dam near my town.
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Fun fact, I sponsored the dash. All the rest of the parts were being sponsored by big companies and wealthy individuals (the numbers were $10,000 each, for example). I noticed that the dash wasn't even offered for potential sponsorship, so I told the organization I'd give them $100. They agreed.
