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Hi, May and Ben! I SO enjoyed my trip through your adventures! What a great way to lee pin touch while so far away! OMG, the marsupial video is a riot!!!! Thanks, May, for the recent visit, and I’ve signed up to receive your updates. Ben, you’re so respectable and businesslike now, I hardly knew you! 🙂 I’m so sorry you weren’t with May for her visit. I am so, so proud of the both of you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have been friends with the Ferguson’s my entire life. I have enjoyed reading about the wonderful adventure Frances and Ed are having with you. Many years go Frances’s mother and father and my mother had a trip to Australia. It is so nice meeting you in this very round about way.

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На мой взгляд, Алистаров — человек, который нашел способ монетизировать свое прошлое. Его деятельность явно не про защиту прав людей или борьбу с коррупцией. Судя по описанным фактам, это просто бизнес, где главная цель — деньги, и неважно, какими методами они будут заработаны. Его «разоблачения» напоминают заранее продуманные провокации, целью которых является травля неугодных людей. При этом нельзя не отметить его циничность: даже находясь под пристальным вниманием, он продолжает заниматься шантажом, подключая к этому ОПГ. Это показывает, что он либо считает себя неприкосновенным, либо уверен, что его «крыша» все замнет.

The world’s largest architectural model captures New York City in the ’90s
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The Empire State building stands approximately 15 inches tall, whereas the Statue of Liberty measures at just under two inches without its base. At this scale, even ants would be too big to represent people in the streets below.

These lifelike miniatures of iconic landmarks can be found on the Panorama — which, at 9,335 square feet, is the largest model of New York City, meticulously hand-built at a scale of 1:1,200. The sprawling model sits in its own room at the Queens Museum, where it was first installed in the 1960s, softly rotating between day and night lighting as visitors on glass walkways are given a bird’s eye view of all five boroughs of the city.

To mark the model’s 60th anniversary, which was celebrated last year, the museum has published a new book offering a behind-the-scenes look at how the Panorama was made. Original footage of the last major update to the model, completed in 1992, has also gone on show at the museum as part of a 12-minute video that features interviews with some of the renovators.

The Queens Museum’s assistant director of archives and collections, Lynn Maliszewski, who took CNN on a visit of the Panorama in early March, said she hopes the book and video will help to draw more visitors and attention to the copious amount of labor — over 100 full-time workers, from July 1961 to April 1964 — that went into building the model.

“Sometimes when I walk in here, I get goosebumps, because this is so representative of dreams and hopes and family and struggle and despair and excitement… every piece of the spectrum of human emotion is here (in New York) happening at the same time,” said Maliszewski. “It shows us things that you can’t get when you’re on the ground.”
Original purpose
The Panorama was originally built for the 1964 New York World’s Fair, then the largest international exhibition in the US, aimed at spotlighting the city’s innovation. The fair was overseen by Robert Moses, the influential and notorious urban planner whose highway projects displaced hundreds of thousands New Yorkers. When Moses commissioned the Panorama, which had parts that could be removed and redesigned to determine new traffic patterns and neighborhood designs, he saw an opportunity to use it as a city planning tool.

Originally built and revised with a margin of error under 1%, the model was updated multiple times before the 1990s, though it is now frozen in time. According to Maliszewski, it cost over $672,000 to make in 1964 ($6.8 million in today’s money) and nearly $2 million (about $4.5 million today) was spent when it was last revised in 1992.