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  2. Trundholm sun chariot - Wikipedia

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    It is a representation of the sun chariot, a bronze statue of a horse and a large bronze disk, which are placed on a device with spoked wheels. The sculpture was discovered with no accompanying objects in 1902 in a peat bog on the Trundholm moor in Odsherred in the northwestern part of Zealand , (approximately 55°55′N 11°37′E  /  55 ...

  3. Nathan Bedford Forrest Monument (Memphis, Tennessee)

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    The Nathan Bedford Forrest Monument is a bronze sculpture by Charles Henry Niehaus, Niehaus, one of the most preeminent sculptors in U.S. history was paid $25,000 in 1901 to create it, the equivalent of $676,000 in today’s money and all of it raised from private donations, [1] depicts Confederate States of America Lt. General and first-era Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest ...

  4. Nathan Bedford Forrest Statue - Wikipedia

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    The monument was designed by Jack Kershaw, a Vanderbilt University alumnus, co-founder of the League of the South (a white nationalist and white supremacist organization). ). Kershaw was a member of The General Joseph E. Johnston Camp 28 Sons of Confederate Veterans, and a former attorney who represented James Earl Ray, the assassin of Martin Luther King Jr. [2] In the face of public criticism ...

  5. Sun Chariot (horse) - Wikipedia

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    Sun Chariot (foaled 1939 in Ireland, died 1963) was a Thoroughbred racehorse who achieved the English Fillies Triple Crown by winning the 1,000 Guineas, the Oaks and the St. Leger in 1942. She was bred by the National Stud and raced for King George VI. Sun Chariot was a filly of great talent but very

  6. Biga (chariot) - Wikipedia

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    The chariot for a two-horse racing team is not thought to differ otherwise from that drawn by a four-horse team, and so the horses of a biga pulled 50 kg each, while those of the quadriga pulled 25 kg each. [20] The models or statuettes of bigae were art objects, toys, or collector's items.

  7. The horse in Nordic mythology - Wikipedia

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    Trundholm's sun chariot. Proof of the ancient association of the horse and the Sun among Germanic-Scandinavian peoples is provided by the discovery in Denmark of an ancient bronze, known as the "Trundholm solar chariot", representing the Sun pulled by a horse and dating from around 1,400 BC.

  8. Equestrian statue - Wikipedia

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    An equestrian statue is a statue of a rider mounted on a horse, from the Latin eques, meaning 'knight', deriving from equus, meaning 'horse'. [1] A statue of a riderless horse is strictly an equine statue. A full-sized equestrian statue is a difficult and expensive object for any culture to produce, and figures have typically been portraits of ...

  9. Equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson (Washington, D.C.)

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    The Jackson Monument and White House in the 1890s. The statue was dedicated on January 8, 1853, the 38th anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans, with procession from Judiciary Square followed by an address delivered by Senator Stephen A. Douglas to a crowd of 20,000 people, including President Fillmore, Major General Winfield Scott, members of his cabinet and of Congress, the monument ...

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