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The Horses of Neptune, illustration by Walter Crane, 1893.. Horse symbolism is the study of the representation of the horse in mythology, religion, folklore, art, literature and psychoanalysis as a symbol, in its capacity to designate, to signify an abstract concept, beyond the physical reality of the quadruped animal.
A PDF file is organized using ASCII characters, except for certain elements that may have binary content. The file starts with a header containing a magic number (as a readable string) and the version of the format, for example %PDF-1.7. The format is a subset of a COS ("Carousel" Object Structure) format. [24]
A video file format is a type of file format for storing digital video data on a computer system. Video is almost always stored using lossy compression to reduce the file size. A video file normally consists of a container (e.g. in the Matroska format) containing visual (video without audio) data in a video coding format (e.g. VP9 ) alongside ...
The word "ipotane" appears to be derived from the Greek ιππότης (hippotes), "a knight", which itself is derived from ίππος (hippos), "a horse". [5] Mandeville's description is not clearly distinguishable from that of a centaur, and some depictions use the term synonymously. [2]
A horse show vehicle used in roadster classes is also called a sulky. The drivers dress in racing silks and show their horses at a fast trot around the showring. [4] Other uses of the term sulky include: the single metal seat found on many horse-drawn agricultural implements such as ploughs, mowers and rakes. [1]
The 1913 Kentucky Derby has long been remembered for its improbable winner, Donerail, still the longest priced horse to ever win the Run for the Roses—paying $184.90 on a $2 dollar ticket.What ...
The white handle of this tantō (left) is covered with shagreen in its natural form. Two small decorative elephants made of silver and shagreen. Shagreen has an unusually rough and granular surface, and is sometimes used as a fancy leather for book bindings, pocketbooks and small cases, as well as its more utilitarian uses in the hilts and scabbards of swords and daggers, where slipperiness is ...
What I was made for. What was I made for? Takin’ a drive, I was an ideal. Looked so alive, turns out I’m not real. Just somethin’ you paid for. What was I made for? ‘Cause I, I. I don’t ...