Day 1,041: yoke

Both countries had thrown off the communist yoke.

Artwork of the day 
The Romans Passing under the Yoke
Charles Gleyre
Original Title: The Battle of Léman
Date: 1858
Style: Academicism
Genre: history painting
Media: canvas, oil
Dimensions: 240 x 192 cm

Word of the day 
yoke: something that connects two things or people, usually in a way that unfairly limits freedom

Quote of the day
“O, here
Will I set up my everlasting rest,
And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!
Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
A dateless bargain to engrossing death!”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet