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Image 1: Board game in Chinatown, San Francisco


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Image 2. Big chess in a park in Stuttgart, Germany


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Image 3. Boffers, battling it out with soft weapons in Berkeley.


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Image 4. The photo is from Paris.
Boules, or Pétanque, is the traditional game from the south of France,
and it's a good bet that these players are from the South.


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Image 5. Boules, or Pétanque



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Image 6.


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Image 7. Traces of an informal game, seen in the Sierra Nevada.


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Image 8


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Image 9. In Arles, France



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Image 10. A forest canopy researcher takes a moment to hang out between the trees, about 250 feet off the ground.


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Image 11. Mendocino coast, California


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Image 12


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Image 13



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Image 14


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Image 15. The model train in Tilden Park, Berkeley



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Image 16. At an outdoor market, Forcalquier, France


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Image 17


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Image 18. Play or work?


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Image 19. Humans certainly didn't invent play.


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Image 20

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