Giant Lion Carved From Single Tree By 20 People In 3 Years Becomes The World’s Largest Redwood Sculpture A single tree trunk has been transformed into a giant lion called the Oriental Lion, which carries 20 people for over three years. It is now located in Fortune Plaza Times Square in Wuhan, the capital of the Hubei Province of China. […]
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In the early 20th century, 33 striking portraits of native American culture Photographer Edward Curtis embarked on a journey in 1900 that would inspire the work of his life: he decided to accompany anthropologist George Bird Grinnell on a trip to Montana to photograph the Sun Dance, a practice of the Blackfoot Indians. He travelled to Arizona from there, photographing the […]
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The Herero Genocide: Germany’s First Mass Murder While the horrors of the Holocaust are now universally known, there is far less awareness exists of the previous genocide that took place under German auspices, in what was then the German colony of South-West Africa. According to scholars, the first genocide in the 20th century, The German forces killed thousands of Nama’s […]
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Harry Volkman – the first weatherman to broadcast a tornado He has reported for almost every newscast in the city for over forty-five years as a Chicago television meteorologist. He was a top meteorologist in Oklahoma for ten years before that. Harry Volkman wrote some of the many stories in a new autobiography about his life and career, The new […]
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