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A black-and-white photo of a small wooden railway station with large trees in the background. A...
Lelydorp Station, 1947. Willem van de Poll, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Two unlit lantern holders sit on a lake in blue dusk light.
An autumn evening at West Lake in Hangzhou, China. Photo credit: Jeff Chenqinyi, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons.
A gibbous moon shines over a river with reeds growing out of the shallows
Photo by Tania Malréchauffé on Unsplash
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Mountain peaks on Reunion Island covered by a thin mist
Photo by Sergey Zhesterev on Unsplash
An image of three elevator doors in a white lobby
Photo by Edwin Chen on Unsplash
A bowl of plump raisins
Photo by Andreas Haslinger on Unsplash
A painting of a street scene in sixteenth-century Lisbon
Chafariz d’el Rey, c. 1570-80, Anonymous Flemish painting, in the Berardo collection, Lisbon, Portugal
A photograph of tombstones covered in autumn leaves and overgrowth in a forest
Photo by Samuel Š on Unsplash
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An empty train tunnel curves into the distance
Photo by Emile Guillemot on Unsplash
A woman's hand is reflected in a mirror in this black-and-white photo
Photo by Михаил Секацкий on Unsplash
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Portable radio
Photo by Thach Nguyen on Unsplash
Vines on a beige wall
Photo by Belle Hunt on Unsplash
Rivière Péribonka
Johny-le-cowboy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Person in front of a blue city
Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash
An incomplete drawing of an elephant. Only the head and trunk are fully filled in.
"Elephant and Rider," attributed to Hashim, circa 1640. Public domain. The Met Museum, Purchase, Friends of Islamic Art Gifts, 2010.
A yak stands on a snowy hill
Alexandr Frolov, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A dark window at twilight
Photo by Vidar Nordli-Mathisen on Unsplash
an image of an old TV that is turned off
Photo by PJ Gal-Szabo on Unsplash
White foam swirling on a river's surface
Photo by kallern, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A 1960s black and white photograph of a street in Rostock, East Germany
FORTEPAN / Nagy Gyula, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Two distant snowmobiles driving across a snowy field while the sun sets behind snowy mountains
Photo by Vidar Nordli-Mathisen on Unsplash
Two snowy mountain peaks
Mt. Huandoy, Ancash, Peru. Inti Runa Viajero, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A bookshelf filled with old books
Photo by Iñaki del Olmo on Unsplash
A hospital waiting room with green seats next to bright windows
Photo by Greg Rosenke on Unsplash
Sunset over a field with melting snow
Photo by Vitali Adutskevich on Unsplash
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A dark room where only a small sliver of window lets in any light
Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash
Several rows of colorful patterned pagnes
Photo by Eva Blue on Unsplash
Berriozabaleta Fountain, Elorrio, Spain
Joxe Aranzabal, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
fishermen sitting on a pier with boats behind them
Dmitry Makeev, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
two rows of people playing pachinko
Tischbeinahe, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Map of German East Africa
Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
A cobblestone street in Rwanda at sunset with a few pedestrians and motorcycle riders
Photo by Michael Muli on Unsplash
Late evening view on a bridge leading to Dutch countryside houses
Photo by Daria Nepriakhina on Unsplash
Palm trees along the shoreline in Huahine, Tahiti
Matthew Dillon from Hollywood, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Tarot cards from the Rider Waite Tarot deck
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Tropical forest in Guadeloupe
Photo by Tim Oun on Unsplash.
A sprig of berries in shadow
Photo by Dmitry Bukhantsov
An aerial view of wooded green islands in a large river
Aerial view of the Congo River near Kisangani. Photo by MONUSCO/Myriam Asmani, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons