Image of a man silhouetted by the dawn sky

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Astronomical photograph of hundreds of galaxies in space

A portion of the Ultra Deep Field • NASA/ESA (Public Domain)

Image of a tanker ship sailing towards a fog bank

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Image of a teenager cutting a board with a jigsaw on a basement workbench

Chet at his father's workbench, 1951 • © Raymo Family Archive

The workbench

Our fam­i­ly home in Chat­tanooga was built in 1941, and like most oth­er homes in the city was heat­ed by coal. It had a coal bin in the base­ment, and a big gal­va­nized fur­nace with cast iron doors and grates and air ducts sprout­ing from the top like the hair of Medusa.

Aerial view of an intricate crop circle cut into a grain field

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Image of a stone formation rising from the outback under the stars

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Image of a woman pushing an elderly woman in a wheelchair toward a sunset

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Image of a butterfly resting on a fern frond

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Image of a child reading a book by Dr. Seuss

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Image of a museum gallery displaying abstract paintings

Photo by Paul Brady (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)