Admirers of Peruvian clown William Rojas, known professionally as “Chupetin”, carry his coffin during his funeral procession to the Eternal Hope cemetery in Huancayo, Peru, on July 2, 2020. Rojas, 45, died from COVID-19 after five days of being in intensive care. Peru surpassed 10,000 deaths from the coronavirus on Thursday, the health ministry said, a day after the government began easing a national lockdown in a bid to revive the economy. (Photo by Pedro Tinoco/AFP Photo)

The shadow of a partial eclipse is cast on to the cheek of a student on the roof of the Jana Dlugosza Academy in Czestochowa, Poland March 20, 2015. (Photo by Grzegorz Skowronek/Reuters/Agencja Gazeta)

“Jet Man” Richard Browning demonstrating Gravity, a human jet suit system, at the opening of the Army's Personnel Conference held at Farnborough International Conference Centre, Farnborough, Hampshire on Tuesday, November 2, 2021. (Photo by Steve Parsons/PA Images via Getty Images)

Artem, a 40-year-old Ukrainian commander, shouts a warning before his artillery team fires toward Russian positions near Pokrovsk in early October 2024. (Photo by Serhiy Nuzhnenko/Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)

A reveler and a child street vendor pose for a photo during the Banda de Ipanema Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, January 31, 2015. Rio's over-the-top Carnival is the highlight of the year for many local residents. Hundreds of thousands of merrymakers are beginning to take to the streets in open-air “blocos” parties. (Photo by Silvia Izquierdo/AP Photo)

Dutch actress, dancer and model Lotte Verbeek and the cast of “The Book Of Vision” recreate the pinnacle scene from the movie during the 77th Venice Film Festival at on September 03, 2020 in Venice, Italy. (Photo by Yara Nardi/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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