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Painting: “The St. Petersburg Flood of 1824”
Fedor Yakovlevich Alekseev’s painting of Karuselnaya square (now Teatralnaya square) during the 1824 flood.
Fedor Yakovlevich Alekseev’s painting of Karuselnaya square (now Teatralnaya square) during the 1824 flood.
A map of the 1974 flood in Brisbane, Australia.
This 1988 photograph by Richard Misrach portrays the influential activist group Princesses Against Plutonium.
This painting by Leander Russ depicts a rescue operation during a flood in Vienna in 1847.
Covering the crater of a 1977 nuclear test, the “Cactus Dome” contains 84,000 cubic meters of radioactive soil.