Images Dated 18th July 2012

The farmer prepares the scythe for haymaking (fresco)

XOT361868 The farmer prepares the scythe for haymaking (fresco) by Italian School, (15th century); Castello del Buonconsilio, Torre dell'Aquila, Italy; (add.info.: contadino prepara la falce per la fienagione; faux; affutage; affuter; lame;)

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A herd of endangered Przewalski horses gallop across the Takhin Us National Park

A herd of endangered Przewalski horses gallop across the Takhin Us National Park, in south-west part of Mongolia, July 16, 2012. The Prague Zoo transported four Przewalski horses to Mongolia as part of its efforts to reintroduce the endangered species into its native environment. Picture taken on July 16, 2012. REUTERS/Petr Josek (MONGOLIA - Tags: ANIMALS ENVIRONMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Greek Cavalry Men Resting in Forest, 1858 (oil on fabric)

490780 Greek Cavalry Men Resting in Forest, 1858 (oil on fabric) by Delacroix, Ferdinand Victor Eugene (1798-1863); 50.4x61.5 cm; Cleveland Museum of Art, OH, USA; (add.info.: The Greek struggle for independence from the Ottoman Empire in the 1820s caught the imagination of numerous French artists, who identified the Greek cause with their own revolution thirty years earlier. Like British Romantic poets, French artists regarded the Greek war of independence as a struggle for the survival of Western democracy and Christian civilization); Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade; French, out of copyright

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