Aerial view of a white church with a bell tower standing at the water's edge on a wide river. Green islands and shores surround it, with the horizon beyond.

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White church with a bell tower amid water and green shores, aerial view

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This is a church in the village of Krokhino, near Beloye Lake on the River Sheksna

This is a church in the village of Krokhino, near Beloye Lake on the River Sheksna. In 1961 it was flooded during the creation of the Sheksna Reservoir. Funds are now being raised for the restoration and conservation of the remains of the church, which rises above a small islet.

A white-stone building in Russian style with round towers and green conical roofs under a cloudy sky. In front are yellow fences, stacks of paving stones and workers.

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White-stone building with towers and paving repairs in front of it

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Tell me, why does even Van Dyck's Preparation for the Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian remind me of the unbearable Moscow heat?

Benches and tables made of wooden pallets stand on a pavement among trees and dry grass. Beyond are a street with cars and pale multistorey buildings.

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Pallet benches on a city street in front of apartment buildings

Tourists walk across a flooded square past a building with an arcade and a brick wall, their reflections and the façades mirrored in the water.

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Minor flooding in the square in front of the Archaeological Museum in Venice

Venice today. A small deluge in the square in front of the Archaeological Museum

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Pope Francis I blesses the UEFA trophy held by the President of the Union of European Football Associations, Aleksander Čeferin, on 10 June 2021

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After all, the decoration of the premier's residence at 10 Downing Street may well be both festive and, if one may put it so, funereal, should the English lose

After all, the decoration of the premier's residence at 10 Downing Street may well be both festive and, if one may put it so, funereal, should the English lose. So Boris Johnson has chosen a no-lose option

A wooden bridge with a balustrade on heavy oak supports with black iron bands and stone bases. On the left, a stone wall with an arch and a latticed gate.

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Timber bridge on wooden supports beside a stone tower with a pointed arch

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It Won't Get Any Better Than This

In a black-and-white photograph five people stand in a row, with a person in a suit, tie and cane at the centre, flanked by three women and a boy.

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Frida Kahlo, aged 17, in a men's suit in a 1925 family photograph

Do you know who is in the middle of this photograph, flanked by her sisters and brother? Seventeen-year-old Frida Kahlo, in a man's suit. The year was 1925, European fashionable ladies were only just beginning to work trousers into their wardrobes, and Frida already felt perfectly

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