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Hartford is an English surname of considerable antiquity. [10] [better source needed] Heorot, Herut, and Hert are Old English spellings of hart; thus Heorot, a royal hall in Beowulf, is named for the hart, as is Hertford and Hertfordshire in England (which in turn lent the name to Hartford, Connecticut).
It depicts a hart (a deer) fording (crossing) a stream. The company's logo was likely inspired by the seal of the city of Hartford, which in turn borrowed from the 17th-century seal of Hertford, England. By 1867, the logo began to echo the majestic stag depicted in Sir Edwin Landseer's 1851 painting, “The Monarch of the Glen.”
Deer can carry up to 1,000 ticks, many of which have Lyme disease. The state allows bowhunting for deers from September 15 to January 31. [ 29 ] ( According to an estimate in Connecticut Wildlife , published in 2004, "Winter density ranges up to about 40 per square mile in southwestern Connecticut, with a statewide mean of 21 per square mile ...
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A member of this family is called a deer or a cervid. They are widespread throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia, and are found in a wide variety of biomes . Cervids range in size from the 60 cm (24 in) long and 32 cm (13 in) tall pudú to the 3.4 m (11.2 ft) long and 3.4 m (11.2 ft) tall moose .
Just when a deer is losing a considerable amount of blood from unwanted ticks, certain birds step in and save the day. Bird species like the oxpecker land on deer, eat the ticks from their fur ...
Colt Park is a city park in the southeast Hartford, Connecticut neighborhood of Sheldon/Charter Oak. The 106-acre (43 ha) park was established from the former Armsmear Estate of Samuel Colt and Elizabeth Jarvis Colt which was gifted to the city upon her death in 1905.
The coat of arms of the Archdiocese of Hartford displays a red background at the top of the shield with blue and white waves across the bottom. The shield has a deer and a Paschal banner. The blue and white waves represent the Connecticut river. The deer, also known as a hart, is crossing the river at a ford; thus hart+ford = Hartford.