Images Dated 3rd May 2011

Cyrus the Great before the bodies of Abradatus and Pantheus

XJL64978 Cyrus the Great before the bodies of Abradatus and Pantheus by Lopez y Portana, Vicente (1772-1850); Private Collection; (add.info.: Cyrus II (600-530 BC); Persian king; founder of the Achaemenid Empire; conquered Empires of Media and Lydia; Abradatus king of Susa jond the Assyrians against Cyrus; wife Panthea taken captive; Abradatus then joined sides with Cyrus but killed in battle; Panthea killed herself on body of her husband); Spanish, out of copyright

© Bridgeman Images

Bay-breasted Warbler (Dendroica castanea) female foraging in fiddlewood, spring migration

© Larry Ditto / DanitaDelimont.com

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Street lamp and Venetian Gothic architecture at Palazzo Dandolo, Venice, Veneto, Italy

© Russ Bishop / DanitaDelimont.com

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