A rusty train carriage frame photographed from the front in the desert under a blue sky. Strong sense of perspective.
A rusty train carriage frame photographed from the front in the desert under a blue sky. Strong sense of perspective.

Rusty Skeleton

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The biggest attraction in the ramshackle village of Uyuni is the graveyard of trains (and a bit of other junk and debris). From the late 1800s through the 1940s, these cars were used to transport silver nitrate from the Bolivian highlands to the Pacific coast. The winds sweeping across the salt flats have rusted the iron, and all that remains are hollowed-out frames. They tell stories not only of grand plans but also of adversities that proved insurmountable.

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The biggest attraction in the ramshackle village of Uyuni is the graveyard of trains (and a bit of other junk and debris). From the late 1800s through the 1940s, these cars were used to transport silver nitrate from the Bolivian highlands to the Pacific coast. The winds sweeping across the salt flats have rusted the iron, and all that remains are hollowed-out frames. They tell stories not only of grand plans but also of adversities that proved insurmountable.

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The Science Term Bank defines beauty as an aesthetic quality that is generally considered a type of aesthetic value. According to the philosopher Plato, beauty is a true reality that can be understood by reason, but whose imperfect reflections can also be perceived by the senses. Aristotle, on the other hand, defended the principle of purposefulness. The opposite of these views is that beauty is a purely subjective value, i.e., beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Also ugliness is in the eye of the beholder. Decadent romanticism, the beauty of ugliness, is an ideological movement that emerged in the late 18th century. According to it, an object can be perceived as beautiful simply because looking at it gives pleasure.