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Compare old and new photos and feel the power of time

The passage of time is always so casual, inadvertent that it is easy to ignore

and forgetting. If it weren't for the recording of images, it would be difficult for you to feel the power of time so intuitively.

Figure 1: Leifeng Pagoda of Hangzhou's West Lake in the past and today.

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Figure 2: Dubai in 2001 and 2021, just 20 years, turned the world upside down.

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Figure 3: New York's Central Park in 1930 and 2021;

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Figure 4: Statue of Liberty in New York, 1886 and 2021.

In fact, it is bronze, which has gradually oxidized into today's green with the passage of time;

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Figure 5: Manhattan, New York, 1971 and 2021. The biggest change is that the once iconic Petronas Twin Towers have disappeared.

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Figure 6: Shakespeare's House in 1880 and 2021;

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Figure VII: Laguna de Aculeo in Chile in 2011 versus 2021

Lakes, with climate change, the escalation of El Niño, and the impact of excessive human water use, are now gone;

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Figure 8: Xi'an Drum Tower in 1960 and 2021;

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Figure 9: Broken Bridge of Hangzhou's West Lake in the past and today;

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