David Cassidy (1950-2017) and Kay Lenz at their wedding at The Little Church Of The West in Las Vegas, Nevada, 1977. (Photos by Brad Elterman/FilmMagic)

Snakes hang from a wooden cabinet marked with the Chinese characters “poisonous snake”, at a snake soup shop ahead of the Spring Festival in Hong Kong January 29, 2013. (Photo by Bobby Yip/Reuters)

“Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky (August 30 1863 Russian Empire – September 27, 1944 Paris, France) was a Russian chemist and photographer. He is best known for his pioneering work in color photography of early 20th-century Russia”. – Wikipedia

Photo: Dinner during haying. Russian Empire, Novgorod province, county Cherepovets, 1909. (Photos by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky via US Library of Congress and Prokudin-Gorsky.org)

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A view shows a church in front of a high-rise apartment building in Saint Petersburg, Russia on October 30, 2019. (Photo by Anton Vaganov/Reuters)

Carnival revellers carry burning wooden sticks during the traditional Swiss Chienbaese celebration in Liestal near Basel February 22, 2015. (Photo by Ruben Sprich/Reuters)

Men soar through the air on a wooden sledge during a traditional Bavarian horn sledge race, known as “Schnablerrennen”, in Gaissach near Bad Toelz, Germany, January 22, 2017. (Photo by Michael Dalder/Reuters)

A man sits waiting for a train on the London Underground in 1890, when the platform floors were still made from wooden floorboards. (Photo by Hi-Story/Alamy Stock Photo)

The rising sun illuminates the sky above the spires of a church in Vienna, Austria, November 17, 2015. (Photo by Heinz-Peter Bader/Reuters)