About 130 results for ‘Flood’
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Flood
A flood is an overflow of an expanse of water that submerges land. The European Union (EU) Floods Directive defines a flood as a covering by water of land not normally covered by water. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide. Flooding may result from the volume of water within a body of water, such as a river or lake, which overflows or breaks levees, with the result that some of the water escapes its usual boundaries. While the size of a lake or other body of water will vary with seasonal changes in precipitation and snow melt, it is not a significant flood unless such escapes of water endanger land areas used by man like a village, city or other inhabited area. Floods can also occur in rivers, when flow exceeds the capacity of the river channel, particularly at bends or meanders. Floods often cause damage to homes and businesses if they are placed in natural flood plains of rivers. While flood damage can be virtually eliminated by moving away from rivers and other bodies of water, since time out of mind, people have lived and worked by the water to seek sustenance and capitalize on the gains of cheap and easy travel and commerce by being near water. That humans continue to inhabit areas threatened by flood damage is evidence that the perceived value of living near the water exceeds the cost of repeated periodic flooding. The word "flood" comes from the Old English flod, a word common to Germanic languages (compare German Flut, Dutch vloed from the same root as is seen in flow, float; also compare with Latin fluctus, flumen). Deluge myths are mythical stories of a great flood sent by a deity or deities to destroy civilization as an act of divine retribution, and are featured in the mythology of many cultures.
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LES FURIES...L'HIRONDELLE DE MER (titre inscrit)
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- Portrayed subject:
- Allegory
- Ancient history
- Anger
- Artist
- Astronomy
- Athletics (sport)
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- Date:
- 19th century
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Le Déluge universel. (titre inscrit)
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- Field(s):
- Ethnology
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- Portrayed subject:
- Child
- Flood
- Man
- Noah's Ark
- Woman
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Raphael
L'ARCHE DE NOE (titre inscrit)
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- Field(s):
- Ethnology
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- Date:
- 18th century
- 19th century
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Les inondations à St André des Eaux [titre attribué]
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Flood
- Landscape
- Meadow
- Saint-André-des-Eaux, Côtes-d'Armor
- Village
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- Date:
- 20th century
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- Artist(s):
- Paul Huet
INONDATION A SAINT CLOUD (PARC DE SAINT CLOUD)
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Cart
- Flood
- Park
- Saint-Cloud
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Nicolas Poussin
L'HIVER ou LE DELUGE
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Flood
- Lightning
- Man
- Shipwreck (accident)
- Thunderstorm
- Toddler
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- Date:
- 17th century
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- Artist(s):
- Girolamo da Ponte
L'ENTREE DES ANIMAUX DANS L'ARCHE
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Date:
- 16th century
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S.M. l'Empereur distribuant des secours aux inondés de Ly...
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- Portrayed subject:
- Crowd
- Flood
- Hill
- Lyon
- Napoleon III
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Sarreguemines
Inondations de Lyon en 1856
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- Field(s):
- Ceramic
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- Portrayed subject:
- Flood
- Lyon
- Man
- Serviceman
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- Date:
- 19th century
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Pyrrhus échappant à ses poursuivants
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Ancient Greece
- Child
- Combat
- Flood
- Landscape
- Neoptolemus
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- Date:
- 18th century
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