The Statue of Unity in India is the world’s tallest statue, standing at 182 meters and honoring Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, one of the key figures behind India’s unification. and comparable to a 60-story building, the monument was completed in 2018 at a staggering cost of $430 million.
On April 14, 1967, WMT-TV (Channel 2) in the state of Iowa became one of the first local news stations in the United States to transition from black-and-white broadcasting to full-color broadcasting, doing so live in the middle of an on-air segment.
Long exposure photograph of a crowd near the entrance to the Vasileostrovskaya subway station in Saint Petersburg (1991) by Russian photographer Alexey Titarenko from the book “City of shadows”
People scaring sparrows during China’s Four Pests Campaign (1958–1962), which targeted rats, flies, mosquitoes, and sparrows—and later contributed to ecological imbalance and famine.
