This maybe

Amazing.

The Saint Lawrence Hall Clown riot of 1855. www.heritagetoronto.org/explore/crea...

maybe a contest like this is what inspired the Lizzie Borden diorama I once saw at an antiques store (it was $400 and very gruesome!)

Oh 100% I would make a diorama of the contractor building Pier 21, a major Cdn immigration facility, by dredging the harbour defences during the First World War. It's a bit niche, but if you throw in the POW labour and some of the angry nuns who kept up a 13-year lawsuit over the construction...

Not very exciting but growing up i built a miniature diorama of the Battle of Borodino.

This.

I would make a diorama of Oregon physician Dr. Marie Equi, one of the first openly lesbian doctors in the early 20th century, horsewhipping a man in the streets of Portland after he refused to pay her girlfriend’s wages.

Glad you're interested in Marie Equi, I'm the full-book biographer of "Marie Equi: Radical Politics and Outlaw Passions,"2015 OR State Univ Press. The horsewhipping even was remarkable but occurred in the small town of The Dalles, OR on the Columbia River, not in Portland.

Oh hey, Michael! Awesome to see you on here! Very familiar with your book and it’s cited extensively in my book that I’m finishing up!

Thanks for your mentions and congratulations for nearly complete book, keep the momentum, its worth it.

And yes, you’re right! Not Portland. Oversight on my part!

And you can include a handbill for an upcoming lecture by Margaret Sanger (or a copy of Family Limitation) [although the chronology doesn't work, sigh] IYKYK

That could be part 3. It'll be her in the jail cell after she is arrested for distributing the pamphlets.

and pt. 4--supporting Elizabeth Gurley Fynn. honestly, her life would outdo REDS or ZELIG for cameo appearances of historical folks/women!

Or maybe when Dr. Equi threatened to stick a policeman with a hatpin she claimed was infected with the 1918 flu if he tried to arrest her for protesting the war. Yeah, that's the one.

Nice! What an admirable woman!

have you written/can you recommend a biography of dr. equi? i want more of her escapades!

Yes! osupress.oregonstate.edu/book/marie-e...

Urban renewal demolition, maybe in Oakland as well

The plague of grasshoppers that hit Kansas in 1874. Or Carrie Nation smashing up a saloon.

Yessssss

A diorama of some of my favourite stories from my research into alpine history: So an alp strewn with small pink ballons (representing exploded pigs), cows eating nails, while one man dissects a cow and another shily offers a bundle of hay adorned with a rose to a confused bull

...someone's gonna make me make a diorama of the burning of the Charlestown convent I just know it

Yes, please!