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A mare is an adult female horse or other equine. [1] In most cases, a mare is a female horse over the age of three, and a filly is a female horse three and younger. In Thoroughbred horse racing , a mare is defined as a female horse more than four years old.
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The Boot Monument is an American Revolutionary War memorial located in Saratoga National Historical Park in the state of New York.Sculpted by George Edwin Bissell and erected during 1887 by John Watts de Peyster, it commemorates Major General Benedict Arnold's service at the Battles of Saratoga while in the Continental Army, but does not mention him on the monument as Arnold later defected ...
Mare (surname) Walter de la Mare (1873–1956), English poet and writer; Given name. Mare Kandre (1962–2005), Swedish writer of Estonian origin; Mare Mikoff (born 1941), Estonian sculptor; Mare Tommingas (born 1959), Estonian ballet dancer and choreographer; Mare Teichmann (born 1954), Estonian psychologist and academic
The word mare comes (through Middle English mare) from the Old English feminine noun mære (which had numerous variant forms, including mare, mere, and mær). [2] Likewise are the forms in Old Norse/Icelandic mara [3] as well as the Old High German mara [5] (glossed in Latin as "incuba " [6]), [7] while the Middle High German forms are mar, mare, [8] [10]
The symbol of the Roman goddess Venus is used to represent the female sex in biology. [1] An organism's sex is female (symbol: ♀) if it produces the ovum (egg cell), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the male gamete (sperm cell) during sexual reproduction. [2] [3] [4] A female has larger gametes than a male.
The Mare is a 2015 novel by American author Mary Gaitskill. The story focuses on a young Dominican girl, Velvet Vargas, who moves to upstate New York to live with a white couple for a few weeks and her encounters with a horse, Fugly Girl, at a neighboring stable.
Mary Florence "Molly" Mare (10 July 1914 – 27 August 1997), [1] married name Spooner, was a British marine biologist who introduced the term meiobenthos in 1942. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She was also an internationally recognized expert on oil spills .