It might not be quite the epic feat of public endurance taking place a few blocks north at the Museum of Modern Art, where Marina Abramovic has been sitting daily in the museum's atrium, unspeaking and mostly unmoving, since mid-March, and will continue to do so through May.
Freedom Conservation, an organisation that campaigns to raise awareness of threatened species, organised the epic feat.
In the end, this epic feat of hiding in plain sight was brought crashing down by a slip by Karadžić's businessman brother, Luka.
Her epic feat of will six weeks later, in Melbourne, when she again became world champion despite crashing and against all expectations, grips hardest.
One epic feat of ancient military engineering was the pontoon bridge built by the engineers of the Persian king Xerxes across the Hellespont (modern Dardanelles), which, according to Herodotus, was accomplished by a mile-long chain of boats, 676 in all, arranged in two parallel rows.
A Belgrade newspaper claimed that on at least one occasion Mr. Karadzic, undercover as a New Age charlatan, recited an epic poem in which he himself featured as the main hero, performing epic feats of extermination.
