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  • younger siblings, preferring to live a more wild and unsettled life. "Calamity ... in command, was shot and thrown from his horse. Jane immediately upon seeing ...
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  • Przewalski's horse is a rare, wild horse of Asia, Equus ferus przewalskii, characterized by a stocky built, a dark brown mane and tail, ...
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  • domestic horse or as the last remaining wild horse (E. ferus), as the subspecies ... ***** Wild Horse, Equus ferus ****** †Tarpan, Equus ferus ferus ...
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  • The Horsemen each ride on a colored horse—white, red, black, and pale ... The first horse is described as follows: "I watched as the Lamb ...
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  • of odd-toed ungulate mammals of horses and horse-like animals. There are three ... Zebras are wild members of the genus Equus, native to eastern and ...
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  • creatures that are half human and half horse. In early Attic vase-paintings ... for its depiction of a man riding a horse, the significance of which ...
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  • diverse and rich wildlife, and its herds of wild horses known as the "Chincoteague ... The "Chincoteague Pony" is a hardy breed of horse that developed ...
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  • the water; a water demon, kelpie or river horse." Ibid. The differences ... "Creatures in the Mist: Little People, Wild Men and Spirit Beings around ...
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  • by eating raw or undercooked pork and wild game products infected with ... been tied to dog meat, and in Europe to wild boar and horse meat, and in ...
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  • genus also includes a number of weeds, both wild taxa and escapees from cultivation ... The genus is native in the wild in western Europe, the Mediterranean ...
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  • trained the animal for a return to the wild, and the subsequent book about ... such seemingly dangerous circumstances with wild animals; that their deaths ...
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  • Zebra is the common name for various wild, horse-like odd-toed ungulates (Order Perissodactyla) of the family Equidae and the genus Equus, native ...
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  • The horse or domestic horse (Equus caballus) is a sizable ungulate ... In the wild, horse societies are matriarchal. At the center of the ...
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  • Cut marks found on wild deer, elephants, rhinos, and horses demonstrate that they were butchered, some of the animals weighed as much as 1,500lbs ...
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  • and instead are limited to capture in their wild state. Creatures such as the ... produce fertile hybrids with native, wild animals which leads to genetic ...
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  • such as fellow Little Bighorn veteran Crazy Horse and Apache freedom fighter ... reservation to join Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West show. He was rumored ...
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  • animals, semi-domestic animals, or captive wild animals. Semi-domesticated ... undergrowth. For example, in areas prone to wild fires, goats and sheep are ...
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  • usually depicted with the body of a horse, but with a single—usually ... The unicorn usually has the body of a horse, with a single (usually ...
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  • permission from Kamehameha to capture the wild cattle and develop a beef ... It was not until the advent of the Wild West shows that cowgirls came ...
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  • In 1883, Belle and Sam were charged with horse theft and tried before ... whom she had allegedly beaten for mistreating her horse and for disobeying ...
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  • additional flower colors not found in wild plants having been selected ... as 100 grams is enough to kill an adult horse (Knight 1999). Plant clippings ...
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  • which was an ancient animal similar to the horse, is pseudoextinct, rather ... of the conservation status extinct in the wild. Species listed under this ...
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  • drawings and polychrome rock paintings of wild mammals and human hands. It ... ago) periods. The cave was occupied only by wild animals in the long period ...
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  • a male donkey (Equus asinus) and a female horse (Equus caballus), and a hinny ... For example, while different species of the horse family can interbreed, offspring ...
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  • and their hindquarters were those of a horse or donkey. This human-animal ... significance, such as the all-important horse sacrifice in the Mahabharata ...
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  • following paydays, one of which was a horse, Babe, on which Rogers learned ... *Wild Horse Rodeo (1937) (as Dick Weston) .... Singer *The Old Barn ...
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  • in size by the massive Asian gaur and wild water buffalo, both of which ... Wisents have lived as long as 28 years in captivity, although in the ...
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  • treasures, and to be the enemy of the horse. Griffins were consecrated ... in Maurice Sendak's classic Where the Wild Things Are. Many pop culture ...
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  • bull. Three large aurochs, an extinct type of wild ox, can be found on the opposite side of the chamber. Most drawings in the Hall of the Bulls consist ...
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  • sale, and are occasionally collected in the wild, a practice now rare in most ... Image:Wild Rhododendrons in Kashmir.jpg|Wild rhododendrons in Kashmir ...
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  • effect on wildlife, most notably on wild salmon migrations. Since the ... of this section is designated a National Wild and Scenic River. The purpose ...
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  • Hay is any grass, legume, or other herbaceous plant, cultivated or ... The horse digestive system is somewhat between that of ruminants and ...
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  • along the Burney, Hat, and Dixie Valley or Horse Creeks. They were closely ... Hat Creek, the Burney Creek, and Horse Creek (Dixie Valley)—that ...
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  • to follow the animals, collecting the wild beans (garmut) which sprung ... was was eventually extended to all animals of the wild. ...
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  • publicity. He became world famous for his Wild West show. ... (age 12), was killed by a fall from a horse. His death so affected Mary ...
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  • usually depict hunting, dancing, music, horse and elephant riders, animal ... walls. The presence of the figure of a horse, which some suppose to have ...
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  • eat, elephants pushing, a wild horse taking a roll, a tireless ... a tree, the immovable critic twitching his skin like a horse ...
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  • g. emmer and durum wheat) are derived from wild emmer, T. dicoccoides. Wild ... or durum wheat hybridized with yet another wild diploid grass (Aegilops tauschii ...
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  • believed to have been dragged to death by wild horses, it is more likely ... tradition that he was dragged to death by wild horses is apparently legendary ...
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  • "cimarrón" which means "wild" (in their case, "wild ... and Black Seminoles Abraham and John Horse continued the Seminole resistance ...
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  • approximately 25 to 30 years, both in the wild and in zoos. Little is known ... In the wild, the tapir’s diet consists of fruit, berries, and leaves ...
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  • in rags rushed up to the king's horse and grabbed his bridle. ... me to the enemy!" The king spurred his horse and began swinging his sword ...
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  • in red (Yari), and bent into the shape of a horse-collar with an elongated ... out the household chores of gathering both wild and kitchen garden vegetables ...
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  • an elongated head and snout suggestive of a horse, and brood organ on the tail ... profile, with a long snout and head reflective of a horse. ...
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  • Horseradish (horse radish) is the common name for a perennial herb ... its medicinal qualities, and possibly the wild radish, or raphanos agrios ...
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  • ropes at once—one around the neck of a horse, another around the horse ... as a trick roper in Texas Jack's Wild West Circus: ...
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  • son of Lone Horn, he was cousin to Crazy Horse and half brother of Sitting ... During the 1870s, he allied himself with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse ...
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  • painstakingly searching for the perfect horse model, renting a large stable ... zoo featuring monkeys, bears, wolves, and wild boars for use in continued ...
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  • Insanity, and the Race to Discover Australia's Wild Frontier. New York: Broadway Books, 2002. ISBN 9780767908283 ==External links== ...
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  • Vicia faba, known as the broad bean, fava bean, faba bean, horse bean ... brown, with a densely downy surface. In the wild species, the pods are 5-10 ...
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  • Mexico. Apaches had stolen McCarty's horse, which forced him to walk ... Charlie Bowdre stepped outside to feed his horse. Mistaken for McCarty, he ...
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  • continent), and festivals celebrating wild things have brought together ... *Horse Before the introduction of horses, the Blackfoot had a "Pedestrian ...
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  • environments and moist soils. Mint grows wild throughout the world (Herbst ... *Mentha arvensis – Corn Mint, Wild Mint, Japanese Peppermint, Field Mint ...
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  • | Horse || 64 |- | Dog || 78 | Chicken || 78 |- | Carp || 104 ... seen in some cultivarsm as well as the wild progenitors. The more common ...
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  • of community gatherings, market festivals, horse races, and reunions with ... the beginning of the three-day festival, a wild goat is brought into the town ...
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  • By 2000, more than 10,000 white rhinos existed in the wild. However ... * Parry-Jones, R., and A. Vincent. 1998. Can we tame wild medicine ...
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  • Tower National Monument, and the Crazy Horse Memorial (the largest sculpture ... Historic figures related to the area include Crazy Horse, Red Cloud ...
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  • against the using, selling, or buying of wild animals. Subsequently, Tibetans ... Tigers are the heaviest species of cat found in the wild. The liger ...
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  • Royal Bengal Tiger, Fishing Cats, Macaques, Wild Boar, Common Grey Mongoose ... Turtle, Hawks Bill Turtle and King Crabs (Horse shoe) number among the endangered ...
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  • red-wing blackbirds, chickadees, and wild turkeys. The golden eagles ... its boundaries and protects one of the last wild trout habitats in the eastern ...
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  • traveling on foot or by some combination of horse, wagon, and boat, a distance ... * Osborn, William M. The Wild Frontier: Atrocities During the American ...
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  • gave them considerable advantages over the wild animals such as lions and ... In that respect, elephants prove more tractable than horses: A horse ...
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  • for a long-legged, fast-running New World wild cat (family Felidae), characterized ... Cheetahs remain at risk with only around 12,400 remaining wild in ...
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  • coincided with their acquisition of the horse, which allowed them greater ... |right|250px|The horse was a key element in the emergence of a distinctive ...
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  • describe Odin as riding an eight-legged horse named Sleipnir that could ... near the chimney for Odin's flying horse to eat. Odin would then reward ...
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  • :I rode a white horse like the wind! :Chased hares and loosed falcons- ... :To learn where the wild ducks fly :follow the white-hare banner! ...
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  • of Jurchens: the Yeren (野人, "wild people") of northernmost ... clan system. The Ming dynasty had set up a horse market at a Nuzhen dwelling ...
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  • great horsemen. Typically, a gaucho's horse constituted most of what ... private owners had acquired the half-wild livestock on the pampas and ...
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  • of his epic poem The Ballad of the White Horse he famously states: ... * The Ballad of the White Horse (1911), poetry * Father Brown short ...
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  • Ocean. Smallpox and measles but also the horse and the gun traveled West. ... difficult to determine. In his book, The Wild Frontier: Atrocities During ...
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  • mainland Europe such as antelopes, brown bears, and wild horses have been found alongside a human skeleton, "Cheddar Man," dated to about 7150 B.C.E. ...
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  • Cougar (Puma concolor) is a very large, New World wild cat (family ... Life expectancy in the wild is reported at between 8 to 13 years, ...
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  • for robes and hides … and then followed a wild rush of hunters … eager ... leaders, such as Red Cloud and Crazy Horse, the Sioux were skilled at ...
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  • up to breed in their second season. In the wild, emus live between 10 to 20 years ... be given protected status (Gould 1865). Wild emus are formally protected ...
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  • There is much earlier evidence for use of wild cereals: anthropological and ... and other foods were gathered in the wild. Although localized climate ...
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  • always either boiling or roasting it, using wild herbs for flavor. Intermarriage ... the flesh of bear, fox, wolf, badger, ox or horse, as well as fish, fowl, millet ...
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  • during colonization. Mammals such as wild donkeys, wild boars, and horses ... #039; native predators, especially the wild cats of the Abaco forests. ...
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  • By far, the largest wild scallop fishery is for the Atlantic sea scallop ... transported to Spain from Jerusalem, the horse of a knight fell into the ...
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  • dragon prince who acts as Xuánzàng's horse mount. These four characters ... he appears in the transformed shape of a horse that Xuánzàng rides on. ...
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  • in a sprawl, with her arm hanging down. A horse, the "night mare" ... #039;s painting Invisible Sleeping Woman, Horse, Lion (1930). His work can ...
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  • 1 to over 100 kg (2.2 to 220 lbs). Dingos, wild dogs of Australia which are ... with more natural ear shapes, like those of wild canids, generally hear better ...
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  • the fields, drawn to the varieties of wild plants. He became so knowledgeable ... into the community," Carver designed a horse drawn vehicle that students ...
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  • that looked for more romantic visions of wild landscapes and ruins, though ... sold his first important canvas, The White Horse, which led to a series of ...
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  • an apt phrase of what was left behind after wild climate abnormalities and ... * [http://www.northdakotahorsepark.org/ North Dakota Horse Park - Fargo] ...
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  • critically endangered. An estimated 15,000 wild horses share the huemul habitat of Valle Mascarello, but more study must be done before deciding ...
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  • stupid, and cruel people, most of them from Wild West shows. ... Toward the end of his career, on films such as The Horse Soldiers ...
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  • , hippos, "horse", and ποταμός , potamos, "river", meaning "horse of the river". ...
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  • While encounters with the brown bear in the wild can be dangerous ... about 680 kilograms (1,500 lb). The largest wild Kodiak bear on record weighed ...
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  • rock formations. Ancient cypresses and wild olive trees grow at the higher ... Sahara, about 1000 B.C.E., were by oxen and horse, but such travel was rare ...
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  • King Lear, as well as the Kentish totemic horse-gods Hengest and Horsa, being ... to a tradition of Arthur as leader of the Wild Hunt, first mentioned in the ...
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  • Trail" in Washington state's Iron Horse State Park. ... *Reap the Wild Wind (1942) *The Spoilers (1942) *In Old California (1942) ...
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  • *The Wild Old Wicked Man and Other Poems (1968) *The Human Season, ... *The Trojan Horse (1952) *This Music Crept By Me on the Waters (1953) ...
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  • than the same speed increase in, say, a horse, dog, or human). For kangaroos ... the introduction of the dingo (a type of wild dog in Australia) about 5 ...
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  • While they were friends, they embarked on a wild life, frequenting gambling ... When Caesar became dictator, Antony was made Master of the Horse, ...
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  • animals such as the yak, dzo, sheep, horse, and dog inhabit the region. The marmot, bear, wolf, snow leopard, kiang, bharal, alpine Ibex, ...
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  • horses, 11 head of cattle, and one stud horse. The following year the family ... He also battled with an array of other ferocious, wild animals including ...
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  • is also is known for thoroughbred horses, horse racing, bourbon distilleries ... was the legality of pari-mutuel wagering on horse racing. In 2008, legal forms ...
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  • by oak species, but all compare well with other wild foods and with other nuts. Acorns also contain bitter tannins, the amount varying with the ...
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  • a fractured skull after falling from his horse. His mother remarried soon ... :What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? During 1819, Keats partially ...
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  • were cereal, which set humans apart from wild animals, and the mysteries ... In Arcadia, Demeter was worshiped as a horse-headed deity into historical ...
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