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The UK theme song - written by Michael Carr and Ben Nisbet and later back dubbed onto all versions, was simply titled "White Horses", and credited to "Jacky" - was sung by Irish-born Jackie Lee. It became a top 10 hit in the UK charts in April 1968. The book The Penguin Television Companion claimed it to be the best television theme in history. [3]
Rottingdean is a village in the city of Brighton and Hove, on the south coast of England. It borders the villages of Saltdean , Ovingdean and Woodingdean , and has a historic centre, often the subject of picture postcards.
Miracle of the White Stallions is a 1963 American adventure war film released by Walt Disney starring Robert Taylor (playing Alois Podhajsky), Lilli Palmer, and Eddie Albert. It is based on the story of Operation Cowboy which was the evacuation of 70 Lipizzaner horses from the Spanish Riding School in Vienna and retrieval of 300 Lipizzaner ...
The 3,000-year-old Uffington White Horse hill figure in England.. White horses have a special significance in the mythologies of cultures around the world. They are often associated with the sun chariot, [1] with warrior-heroes, with fertility (in both mare and stallion manifestations), or with an end-of-time saviour, but other interpretations exist as well.
An anonymous review of The Edge of the Abyss in the American magazine Free World was more critical. The review focuses on Noyes' claim that literary Modernism is a symptom of the problems of the world, and concluded: "The point is debatable, the argument high-pitched and inconclusive, and the remedies proposed vague and unsatisfactory." [11]
According to Bernard Coussée, the blanque mare's elongated spine, found in many other fairy-horse legends, is a later addition, influenced by other legends, since stories about white horses drowning the unwary had been circulating in the Pas-de-Calais for a long time, and their function was to frighten children away from dangerous areas. [2]
4/5 Gary Oldman is impeccable, as ever, but the ensemble cast – from Kristin Scott Thomas to Jack Lowden and James Callis – make this one of the best series on TV
The combination of tobiano with other white-spotting patterns can produce white or nearly white horses, which may have blue eyes. [35] Sabino horses that are homozygous for the sabino-1 (Sb-1) gene are often called "sabino-white", and are all- or nearly all-white. Not all sabino horses carry Sb-1. [24]