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Atlantic
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Atlantic
The People Who Clean the Ears of Lincoln (And Other Statues)
A collection of images of the varied workers and techniques used to maintain some of the world's largest and most prominent statues and monuments. May 28, 2025, 12:20 PM ET National Parks Service worker James Hudson uses a cloth-wrapped pole to clean the ear of the statue at the Lincoln Memorial in 1987. Maintenance workers clean a statue in Central Park, in New York City, in 2016. A municipal worker scrubs a statue of the Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 2023. A crew carries out the annual cleaning of the 120-meter-tall Ushiku Daibutsu Great Buddha statue in Ushiku, Japan, in 2022. Nelson's Column, in London's Trafalgar Square, gets a spring cleaning in 1987. Brian Lawless / PA Images / Reuters A statue of the late musician Luke Kelly in Dublin's city center is cleaned after it had been defaced overnight in 2020. The model maker Helga Mueller works to restore a model of the Statue of Liberty, seen behind a model of the U.S. Capitol Building, at Miniwelt (Miniworld) in Lichtenstein, Germany, in 2015. Tiziana Fabi / AFP / Getty The restorer Eleonora Pucci cleans Michelangelo's David using a backpack vacuum and a synthetic-fiber brush at the Galleria dell'Accademia, in Florence, Italy, in 2024. A worker cleans the statue of the spaceflight pioneer Yuri Gagarin before Cosmonauts Day in Moscow in 2023. Harry Todd / Fox Photos / Getty Workmen clean the immense statue of two horses pulling a quadriga atop Wellington Arch, at London's Hyde Park Corner, in 1939. Cleaners spray the 37-meter-tall Merlion statue on the resort island of Sentosa, in Singapore, in 2015. A worker cleans a Buddha statue in preparation for Lunar New Year celebrations at Satya Buddha Temple in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, in 2023. Alan Taylor is a senior editor at The Atlantic.
BBC News
10-04-2025
- Health
- BBC News
Cambridge's Hudson on rowing with atrial fibrillation
Three years ago, James Hudson was rowing with a Great Britain team-mate when he looked down at his watch and saw his heart rate was very had a strange feeling in his chest and knew something was not there were doctors back at base who diagnosed Hudson with suspected atrial fibrillation - when sufferers experience an irregular and often rapid heart rhythm - a problem that was then confirmed at hospital."It was quite disconcerting; I struggled quite a lot with it to begin with. For the first year I had an episode once every three months," said the Cambridge University rower, who is from Suffolk."But over time I have learned to deal with it much better and it doesn't affect me at all."Symptoms include a heartbeat over 100 beats per minute, feeling chest pain or tightness and a shortage of elite athletes at this year's Boat Races are screened for underlying cardiac conditions and have an ECG – a test that records the heart's electrical activity - prior to extreme training. 'Not dangerous' "James's condition is different to atrial fibrillation you see in the normal population," said Dr Rob Howlett, GP and medical support for Cambridge University Boat Club."As an elite athlete he pushes his body to places most people don't go to."You see changes in the heart, adaptive changes for the exercise they are doing. You sometimes see odd things appear like atrial fibrillation."It's not dangerous, it doesn't cause collapse or sudden death. He's very safe. In fact, he gets it more at rest than when he is pushing himself."If they train less it will go away, but that obviously isn't an option."The 31-year-old wears a heart rate monitor for every session on the also does daily meditation to bring his stress levels down and has reduced his caffeine intake."If I have an episode, we have a pill in the pocket method," he said."I stop training and take a medication called Flecainide which slows the nerve impulses in the heart and reduces the heart to a normal level."I then try and relax as much as I can. I have a great medical team around me."Hudson is used to the demands of elite is on a break from training with GB Rowing and was a reserve in the men's eight at the Paris is studying for an MBA at Cambridge and is preparing for his first Boat Race against Oxford on Sunday."What I've realised is that atrial fibrillation is indiscriminate," he added."But it's great to be bringing awareness to the condition and understand I am not the only one out there dealing with it."It's good to show people that anything is possible – that you can prove you can go out there and achieve your dreams."
