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Painting: Rescue during the 1847 Vienna flood
This painting by Leander Russ depicts a rescue operation during a flood in Vienna in 1847.
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Map: The 1974 flooding of Brisbane
A map of the 1974 flood in Brisbane, Australia.
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A Legacy of Brisbane’s Benchmark Floods of 1893: Creating Dam Dependence
Brisbane’s 1893 floods shaped water policy in southeast Queensland, creating a dependency on dams.
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The Australia Day Floods, January 1974
Brisbane’s 1974 floods substantially damaged Brisbane, accelerating the government’s plans for a second flood mitigation dam.
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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.
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The Search for George DeBaptiste’s House: The Crooked Creek Flood of 1846
Could the Crooked Creek Flood of 1846 be the reason we cannot find George DeBaptiste’s house?
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“Rain, Carson, Art, Salt: A Venetian Matrix”
Novelist Catherine Bush walks the streets of Venice, seeking art that engages with Rachel Carson at the Biennale Arte 2024.
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"Population, Land Use and Environmental Impacts in Shucheng County, Anhui Province, China during the Ming and Qing Dynasties"
The authors take Shucheng County as a case study to reconstruct the variations of population and land use in the last 500 years, and to examine their influence on the environmental changes in this region.
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St. Petersburg and Its Backbone: The Neva River as Gateway to Europe and the Sword of Damocles
Since its foundation in 1703, the history of St. Petersburg is closely linked to the Neva River. The Neva is the biggest and the most important river in the Eastern Baltic. The citizens of St. Petersburg constructed complex technologies of river control that enabled them to live cheek by jowl with the mighty and self-willed stream.
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A Killer Air: Delineating Disaster in Mexico City
A noxious air forces Mexico City to confront its unwavering urbanizing and industrializing mission in the late twentieth century.