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Map: The 1974 flooding of Brisbane
A map of the 1974 flood in Brisbane, Australia.
A map of the 1974 flood in Brisbane, Australia.
Fedor Yakovlevich Alekseev’s painting of Karuselnaya square (now Teatralnaya square) during the 1824 flood.
This painting by Leander Russ depicts a rescue operation during a flood in Vienna in 1847.
A photograph of Theodore Roosevelt visiting the Nahuel Huapi National Park in Argentina, 1913.
An unexpected group of activists, consisting of mostly farmers and vintners, occupied the construction site of a nuclear reactor near the German town of Wyhl in 1975.
An early color photograph of the Suna River by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863–1944), who is also featured in the picture.