Good news, too, for those who want to spend their holiday under canvas: French Polynesia has a smattering of camping options around.

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And the jackets were stored under a canvas canopy, which may have hindered the passengers' desperate efforts to escape.

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In Jacob van Ruisdael's captivating "View of Haarlem" (c. 1670-75), a totally flat, almost totally dark landscape lies under a canvas that is two-thirds billowing, sky-broken clouds.

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Taking refuge from enormous waves, hurricane winds and sub-zero temperatures under a thin canvas flap, the crew of James Caird miraculously arrived at their destination 16 days later.

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The month went by slowly, like a painting as it takes shape under the hand of a painter with only one canvas and 1, 000 ideas, each day layered with new colours and textures.

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During the first two years that the dome was under construction, Lanier and his father lived in an unheated canvas Army tent that was stiflingly hot in summer and frigid in winter.

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Geary is on the right side of the painting under the White Star flag, amid his troops, who stretch from the bottom of the canvas and up the right side.

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Under their direction nuns kept diaries of ecstasies and prayer, or sometimes painted their visions directly onto canvas.

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