Horse Power Day

Tomorrow, from 11am to 4pm, the British Museum in London offers a free one-day drop-in event to celebrate everything horsey: Horse Power Day. CLICK for a pdf of the day's activities, talks and performances, including a parade of horses in the Forecourt. The museum graphic shows a fragment of a carved relief featuring three horses drawing a chariot, from the north-west palace, Nimrud, Assyria (today's Iraq) 9th century BC.