Day 1,782: hawk

Some are used to hawk products or simply to glorify China.

Why young Russian women appear so eager to marry Chinese men

Artwork of the day 
wo hawks (Bashi-bazouk)
Vasily Vereshchagin
Original Title: Два ястреба (Башибузуки)
Date: 1878 - 1879
Style: Realism, Orientalism
Genre: genre painting
Media: oil, canvas
Location: Museum of Russian Art (Tereshchenko Museum), Kyiv, Ukraine

Word of the day 
hawk: to sell goods in the street or a public place:

Quote of the day
“And there's nothing wrong with being a lizard either. Unless you were born to be a hawk.”

― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone