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Three strong oxen were living in the bush. one red, white and black. One day a lion came upon them and wondered how he might eat the three oxen. The lion realized that he could not attack all the three oxen at the same time . He made a plan to divide them and eat them one by one.
The lion came to the red & black oxen and told them that the white ox was spoiling the bush where they lived. He suggested that the white ox should be killed in order to save the environment. Unknowingly the two oxen thought that the lion was right and allowed him to kill and eat the white ox.
After few days, the lion again came to the red ox and told him that the black ox was arrogant and was intending to kill him (the red ox). The lion suggested that he should protect the life of the red ox by killing the black ox. The red ox agreed the lion’s plan and killed the black ox.
After few days the lion came to the red ox and said, “It is now your time to die.”
The red ox now understood the planned trick of the lion, but was powerless .
The red ox said to the lion,
“You killed me when you killed the white ox.”
Syrian woodpecker (Dendrocopos syriacus) male foraging on a branch.
Samiec dzięcioła białoszyjego (Dendrocopos syriacus) żerujący na gałęzi.
The Syrian horse sculpture can be found standing on the cliffs over looking the entrance to Uddevalla's harbour. Standing at 5 meters tall and weighing just over 500kg it's quite an impressive statue. And one that is photographed quite often (though not by me)!
Syria in 2010.
Krak des Chevaliers is a Crusader castle in Syria and one of the most important medieval castles in the world.
Palmyra is a set of spectacular ruins in Syria (which none of us have visited recently), but which I was fortunate to have seen in 2001. ISIS dynamited several of the monuments here, murdered the chief historian, etc. and tried to remove any evidence of any pre-Islam religion. The Brits set up a model of this arch in London (Trafalgar Sq), which was on the news yesterday.
Preservationists/archaeologists who have visited the site (since its recent re-capture by the Syrian govt) are cautiously optimistic that some of these monuments (including this arch) can be reconstructed...
Syrian woodpecker, oder auch Dendrocopos syriacus, der Blutspecht. Fotografiert in Ungarn, Hortobágyi. Futtertragend, am Nest.
Syrian woodpecker (Dendrocopos syriacus) male perched on a tree trunk.
Samiec dzięcioła białoszyjego (Dendrocopos syriacus) siedzący na pniu drzewa.
Syrian woodpecker (Dendrocopos syriacus) on a tree trunk.
Dzięcioł białoszyi (Dendrocopos syriacus) na pniu drzewa.
Muslim in the Great Mosque of Aleppo.
The Great Mosque of Aleppo or the Ummayad Mosque of Aleppo (Masjid al-Umayya bi Halab) is the largest and oldest mosque in the city of Aleppo in northern Syria. The present mosque dates form the 13th century Mamluk period, only the Seljuk minaret of 1090 is older. It is located in its Old City. The mosque is said to entomb the remains of Zechariah, father of John the Baptist.
Syrian woodpecker (Dendrocopos syriacus) female foraging on a branch.
Samica dzięcioła białoszyjego (Dendrocopos syriacus) żerująca na gałęzi.
I'm still playing catch-up here, as this shot was taken in the Summer of last year. Very similar to our own native Great-spotted Woodpecker, this Syrian woody was photographed in Hungary, back in June.
Procavia capensis syriaca, Syrian Rock Hyrax, Капский даман, שפן הסלעים
Montfort Castle, Galilee
2019 P52 - 49. Wide Open
The good shepherd seemed anxious that the unusual occurrence of a steam hauled train, albeit a ramshackle one, might spook the flock. He need not have worried - they all took it in their stride.
Somewhere between Deraa and Bosra in Syria.
October 2007. © David Hill
It's been awhile since I've posted, but I still have been lurking the past couple months.
Enjoy this Syrian rebel outpost I finished a couple of weeks ago.
I have a Russian SU-34 Medium Bomber in the works and an artillery piece I will be posting soon.
Comments are appreciated!
A Syrian child refugee carries food home to his family in Atmeh camp for internally displaced refugees in Idlib province, northwest Syria.
A Russian military police armoured personnel carrier (APC) drives along a road in the countryside near the northeastern Syrian town of Amuda in Hasakeh province on October 24, 2019, as part of a joint patrol between Russian forces and Syrian Kurdish Asayish internal security forces near the border with Turkey. - Russian forces have started patrols along the flashpoint frontier, filling the vacuum left by a US troop withdrawal that effectively returned a third of the country to the Moscow-backed regime of President Bashar al-Assad. (Photo by Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)