Since 2017 there is a “life size” Ark in Kentucky, USA: https://arkencounter.com/
USA; 21. Century; Christian; Sculpture, Theme Park
Tag: USA
Launched in 2005, the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank uses electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the stories and digital record of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. George Mason University’s Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media and the University of New Orleans, in partnership with the Smithsonian Institutions National Museum of American History and other partners, organized this project.
https://hurricanearchive.org/collections/show/179
Louisiana, USA; 21. Cenury; Various; Oral History Data Base; City: New Orleans and surroundings
Photography by Cynthia Scott of the X-code left by rescue searchers as they systematically covered the city of New Orleans after Hurrica Katrina.
Online Exhibition and detailed info:
https://southernspaces.org/2010/katrina-5-x-code-exhibition/
Thanks to Craig Colton for the lead!
Apparently an anglo-american invention, this story about the boy who rescues a Dutch city by sticking his finger in a hole in the dyke, has been republished in various versions since the mid 1800s . This is the earliest published version of the story and it starts with the words, ” A long way off, across the ocean, there is a little country where the ground is lower than the level of the sea…”
