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A watercolor painting of a solitary boat on a misty lake with mountains in the background
"Rain, Bellagio" by George Elbert Burr. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Carolann Smurthwaite in memory of her mother, Caroline Atherton Connell Smurthwaite. Public domain.
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An oval shard of pottery with a wide band of deep purple through the middle and sky blue at both...
Circular shard, China, 960 CE–1279, stoneware with light blue and purple glaze. Lucy Maud Buckingham Collection, Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain.
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Beige and brown smudges against a blue background
Photo by Visax on Unsplash
Water droplets caught in a large spiderweb
Adrian Tync, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Two ants on a tree branch
Photo by Maksim Shutov on Unsplash 
A subtle spiderweb pattern on a greenish-gray background
Sidewall - sample. Gift of Dorwin L. Starr. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Public domain.
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Close-up of a white orchid with a purple and green center.
Photo by Sanx, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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A picture of Sangarius Bridge.
Picture by Carole Raddato from Frankfurt, Germany, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A close-up of the top of an Erhu, a Chinese two-sting musical instrument, carved as a dragon head.
Photo by Andrew Kuo
A picture of the mast of a Hōkūleʻa (a Polynesian double-hulled voyaging canoe.)
Picture by Miliefsk, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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A blurred picture of a person walking in a street at night.
Art by David Hammons. Courtesy of Harvard University Art Museums. Public domain.
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A canoe sits in a bay in French Polynesia.
Nico Smit, via Unsplash
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Sketch of refugee woman and child on wove paper
"Refugees, c. 1914/1919" by Jean-Louis Forain (artist) French, 1852 - 1931 in the Rosenwald Collection in the National Gallery of Art
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Woodcut image of a male prisoner behind bars on wove paper
"The Prisoner (Der Gefangene), 1918" by Christian Rohlfs (artist) German, 1849 - 1938 in the Gift of Jacob Kainen Collection in the National Gallery of Art
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Picture of a bunch of green avocados, viewed from above
Landscape painting of fallen and snapped trees in a forest with dark clouds overhead
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund) in the National Gallery of Art
Illustration of golden crescent moon and stars on a blue but cloudy night
See page for author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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Black-and-white photo of people walking in Beijing
Etching of a bird flying over the countryside with a view of a city in the background
Bird of Paradise by Jacques Callot in the Rosenwald Collection of the National Gallery of Art
A gibbous moon shines over a river with reeds growing out of the shallows
Photo by Tania Malréchauffé on Unsplash
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A close-up of red and pink square sequins
Photo by Fredrik Solli Wandem on Unsplash
Red ants crawling over gray rocks
Photo by Greg Guadagnoli on Unsplash
A close-up of brown window blinds
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Image of a coiled brown boa constrictor
Photo by Jan Kopřiva on Unsplash
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Pedestrians walk on a dirt road in the city of Gaza
Photo by Emad El Byed on Unsplash
Image of dried mud
Photo by Wolfgang Hasselmann on Unsplash
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Shovels leaning against a dirt wall
Photo by Paolo Chiabrando on Unsplash
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An ivory background with water stains
Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash
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A pair of vintage storage trunks sitting on a sandy-colored, tiled floor
Photo by Sam Jotham Sutharson on Unsplash
A nitrate negative of Gaza
"Gaza. (Ghuzze). Section near the mosque" by American Colony in LOC.
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A photograph of tombstones covered in autumn leaves and overgrowth in a forest
Photo by Samuel Š on Unsplash
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Five vultures standing on bare tree branches
Photo by Casey Allen on Unsplash
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An image of a collection of eggs of various sizes.
"Animals of the Past” by Frederic A. Lucas. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
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A clocktower with a bright blue clock featuring the signs of the zodiac and a roman numeral for...
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A close-up of a vinyl record player
Photo by Adrian Korte on Unsplash
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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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Four cloth sheep hang from a child's ceiling mobile
Photo by Charles Deluvio on Unsplash
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Dark coral reefs under aquamarine ocean water
Coral reefs in McBean Lagoon, off the coast of Providencia. Photo by Felviper, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Clasped hands
Photo by Eduardo Barrios on Unsplash
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Family in a tunnel
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Shadows in a dark room
Photo by Parker Coffman on Unsplash
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A flowering wisteria branch
Photo by Owen Yin on Unsplash
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An overhead shot of an empty brick elevator shaft
Paul Sableman, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr
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black and white drawing of a boy with smoke coming up behind him floating over a red mound
Julia Griffin, "Smoke." Copyright Julia Griffin
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A sunset behind a line of trees
Photo by Niels Weiss on Unsplash
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White foam swirling on a river's surface
Photo by kallern, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Illuminated highways in Kyiv at night
Photo by Levi Kyiv on Unsplash
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Rows of headstones in a cemetery
Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A colored floral illustration on paper
Detail of “Leopard Bearing Lion's Order to Fellow Judges", Folio 51 recto from a Kalila wa Dimna. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Alice and Nasli Heeramaneck Collection, Gift of Alice Heeramaneck, 1981
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a barefoot man chained to a post
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A black wire bird against a colorful background
Photo via Khashayar “Kes” Mohammadi
Tree of life carving at the Sidi Saiyyed Mosque
Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A large wave crashes in a stormy ocean
Photo by Todd Turner on Unsplash
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Sunset over a field with melting snow
Photo by Vitali Adutskevich on Unsplash
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Two swallows in flight
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Photo of a man walking alongside his bike on a tree-lined path
Photo by Akshat Vats on Unsplash
A black and white image of a hairbrush with an engraved handle
Photo by Michèle C., licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
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