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  • Rain maker preparing his medicine, Kxatla, South Africa
  • Rain charms- DOIOM from Expeditions to the Torres Straits
  • Prehistoric rock painting representing rain ceremony.
  • Shindinu rain shrine, Bari, South Africa
  • Chinese Materia Dietetica, Ming: Plum rain water
  • An African shaman and rain-maker in his/her ritual costume. Wood engraving.
  • Geography: monsoons at sea, with rain. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.
  • Seifriedsberg, Bavaria: landscape in a rain storm. Etching by H. Thoma, 1917.
  • Geography: water spouts at sea, with rain. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.
  • A hot-air balloon leaves the ground in driving rain. Coloured wood engraving.
  • The Culebra Cut after heavy rain: Panama Canal construction work in progress. Photograph, 1910.
  • Singapore: Chinese junks in the rain at Tanjong Katong. Watercolour by J. Taylor, 1879.
  • Actors in a confrontation before a gate in the rain. Colour woodcut by Yoshitaki, early 1860s.
  • A woman standing at the wet roadside holding an umbrella against the rain. Colour lithograph after L. Cusden.
  • A man holding an umbrella is walking up a road in the rain. Lithograph by G. Gorra, 18--.
  • A man influenced by the fashion for hydropathy stands in the rain and encounters a friend. Lithograph, c. 1845.
  • A thunderstorm, with rain beating down on travellers in a mountain pass. Engraving by H. C. Shenton after L. Clennell.
  • A cockaded Frenchman and his female companion are struggling with their umbrellas through a rain shower; representing the month April. Chromolithograph.
  • A family group out in heavy rain, the woman is under an umbrella, the disgruntled husband is following with two children. Lithograph.
  • A depressive man standing by a country pond in the pouring rain - not helping his state of mind. Wood engraving, 1869.
  • A dutiful volunteer soldier at his post in the rain even though he has a bad cold. Wood engraving after J. Leech, 1846.
  • Bucaramanga, Colombia: a mule is pulled through a stream flooded by heavy rain; International Sanitary Commission staff watch from the bank. Photograph, ca. 1916.
  • A woman walking in the rain as a figure in the clouds pours a bucket; representing Aquarius in the astrological year. Lithograph after S. Tresca after L. Lafitte.
  • Rabbi Dr. Philipp and Reverend Lipschitz addressing a group of spectators, in the rain, adjacent to a memorial in Israel to Thomas Guy, founder of Guy's Hospital. Photograph.
  • A French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: 8.30 am, nurses arrive for work in the rain, then change into their uniforms. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • A storm of thunder and lightning, rain, wind and floods threaten an ancient town on the sea-coast; representing conflict. Engraving by S. à Bolswert after Sir P.P. Rubens.
  • Green & Black's Maya Gold organic dark chocolate : 70% cocoa solids with the authentic Maya taste of rain forest spices and oranges : 100g, 3.5 oz / Green & Black.
  • Green & Black's Maya Gold organic dark chocolate : 70% cocoa solids with the authentic Maya taste of rain forest spices and oranges : 100g, 3.5 oz / Green & Black.
  • Green & Black's Maya Gold organic dark chocolate : 70% cocoa solids with the authentic Maya taste of rain forest spices and oranges : 100g, 3.5 oz / Green & Black.
  • People stand under a freestanding green umbrella which protects them from the rain; representing the protection conferred by the Infectious Diseases Prevention and Cure Law (Revised) in China in 2004. Colour lithograph, 2004.