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A striking variation on the word 'captive'. Possible uses: A security firm. A multimedia company. An app. A consultant.

Recent events have reignited controversies surrounding captive orcas.

One from the display last year

The Asian elephant population in the world is dwindling, and it has come down to an estimated 40 000 at maximum. A considerable amount of them are being

Meet Zoe, the only Golden Zebra known to be in captivity. Many people refer to Zoe as an albino or white zebra. Zoe is not an albino; she has a condition called amelanism, which is a rare pigmentation abnormality. Read more about Zoe and what makes her so special.

African civets have some unusual features and interesting behavior. Unfortunately, they are kept in captivity on civet farms so that their musk can be collected.

In 1826, Joseph Nicephore Niepce, a French inventor, came up with what forever changed the way we see, experience, and remember the world and its history. It was the birth of a camera that took the first photograph on a piece of paper coated with tar of the view from his window at Le Gras. Of course, it looked nothing even remotely similar to what we think of as a camera.

Captive from a 2009. _N0J1911c

A man says the world biggest crocodile is lurking in Northern Queensland. The crocodile is said to be over 9 metres long. But a female crocodile hunter says she think there would be proof of its existance

Why are we asking this now?

Theodoros Rallis (1852-1909) The Captive (Turkish Plunder), 1885 Oil on canvas 60 by 81.5cm., 23½ by 32in. Private collection Rallis painted this less than ten years after a Bulgarian uprising against the Turkish Ottoman Empire. The Turks' bashi-bazouk irregular soldiers were accused of many massacres and other atrocities, including seizing Bulgarian girls to be sold into harems. In this painting a young woman stands with her hands bound next to a pile of stolen valuables in a ruined Orthodox Christian church. Rallis painted a similar painting, Booty, about twenty years later (below). Theodoros Rallis (1852-1909) The Booty, circa 1905 Oil on canvas Height: 133 cm (52.3 in); Width: 100 cm (39.3 in) National Gallery - Alexandros Soutsos Museum, Greece Théodore Jacques Ralli or Theodorus Rallis (Constantinople, 16 February 1852 – 2 October 1909, Lausanne) was a Greek painter, watercolourist and draughtsman, who spent most of his working life in France and Egypt. He painted genre works, portraits, local figures, architectural subjects, interiors with figures and animals. But he is best known for his orientalist paintings. He was sent to Paris under the patronage of King Otto of Greece and studied under Jean-Léon Gérôme, and under Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouy, both known for their orientalist paintings. Ralli then travelled widely in North Africa and the Middle East, settling for a while in Cairo, Egypt. Here he found his inspiration for the romantic mysticism and suggestive sensuality of his many orientalistic paintings. His paintings were elaborated with great attention to detail, with great attention to costumes and facial expressions. Rallis first exhibition was at the Salon in 1875. From 1879 he regularly exhibited at the Royal Academy in London. He was a member of the Société des Artistes Français, where he received an honourable mention in 1885, and a silver medal in 1889 for his whole work He exhibited his paintings in the Salon de Rouen (1897, 1903, 1906 and 1909) and also in Athens during the Olympic Games of 1896. He also served as a member of the competition jury in 1900 at the Exposition Universelle.In 1901 he became a Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur. More on Theodoros Rallis Please visit my other blogs: Art Collector, Mythology, Marine Art, Portrait of a Lady, The Orientalist, Art of the Nude and The Canals of Venice, And visit my Boards on Pinterest Images are copyright of their respective owners, assignees or others. Some Images may be subject to copyright I don't own any of these images - credit is always given when due unless it is unknown to me. if I post your images without your permission, please tell me. I do not sell art, art prints, framed posters or reproductions. Ads are shown only to compensate the hosting expenses. If you enjoyed this post, please share with friends and family. Thank you for visiting my blog and also for liking its posts and pages.

Pdf cross stitch pattern – Captives (by Arthur Trevithin Nowell) Last photo shows how it looks like the finished piece With your purchase you will receive: A Pdf pattern with black and white symbols A Pdf pattern with colored symbols A JPG picture of the painting A Symbol Key page in DMC floss code Stitches: 500 x 399 Size (on 14 count Aida fabric): 35.71 x 28.50 inches 90.71 x 72.39 cm THERE ARE OTHER SIZES AVAILABLE IF YOU WANT A DIFFERENT SIZE, PLEASE CONTACT ME I will send your pattern by email within 24 hours after the payment Any question or comment, do not hesitate to contact me Happy stitching!!! Thanks for your visit :)

Top eco-visitor attraction in Cornwall, UK. The Eden Project, an educational charity, connects us with each other and the living world, exploring how we can work towards a better future.

Saint of the Day – 30 May – St Joan of Arc (1412-1431) – Virgin (6 January 1412 at Greux-Domremy, Lorraine, France – burned alive on 30 May 1431 at Rouen, France) – Be…

Since our school days, we were taught that god is in the details and that everything depends on the perspective. This is especially true if we look at the study of the ancient human past through material remains.

The image shows a man who had become trapped in Hugo’s pool being helped out by a couple of trainers, including Scott Amsel (the man on the right).

A new BBC documentary tells how a trove of documents lays bare the names of Britain’s 46,000 slave owners, including relatives of Gladstone and Orwell

Captives and Kin in the Ohio Country is a follow-up to the author’s previous historical work, The White Indians, released in 2016. The White Indians brought to light the previously untold story of hundreds of white colonial settlers who were taken captive by the Native-American tribes during forty years of unrelenting warfare during the mid to late 1700s in the Ohio River Valley and beyond, as Native peoples fought to preserve their land from invasion. It picks up the story of the captives once they were brought back to the Native villages deep in the Ohio Country. It explores what happened to captives psychologically from the Native side of the story. Where The White Indians dealt with the when, where, and why captives were taken alive rather than killed during wilderness warfare, Captives and Kin delves into the many shades of assimilation into Native culture and the changing identity of captives who developed kinship relationships with Native people during their lifetime.There exists no documentation in colonial American archives that tells thestory of what happened to people taken captive by Natives and why they nevercame back. Consequently, Captives and Kin in the Ohio Country draws onextensive interviews with Native historians today who shed light on thethe phenomenon of captive assimilation drawn from authentic tribal oral history.Collectively, this history of what happened to captives has been told in a storyform to give it both heart and faces. The voices are fictional; the narrative is true to life and tightly woven to the historical record. Alan Fitzpatrick 2020. ISBN: 9780977614738 161-F1473

[Photo] Jewish resistance fighters Rachela Wyszogrodzka or Rukhele Lauschvits (at left edge of photo), Bluma Wyszogrodzka, and Malka Zdrojewicz Horenstein in captivity in Warsaw, Poland, Apr-May 1943

A series of illustrated posters that advocate against Animal Cruelty specifically in the Circus World, where animals are terribly mistreated. The concept was to present these animals in the recognizable circus attire and setting that the audience have become accustomed to, however with an alarming accessory: the chains which we do not see during the glitzy performance.

In April 2008, the world was shocked to hear the story of a woman who had been held as a prisoner for over two decades in her father’s basement, where he report