Thursday 30 January 2014

The Year of the Horse


    Happy Chinese New Year, the year of the horse. The year of the wooden horse to be exact. To honor this wonderful creature, here are a list of some well-known horses and how we got to hear about them.

The Trojan horse      - Greek mythology
Silver                       - The Lone Ranger
Black Beauty           - Anna Sewell books
Meg                         - Robert Burns (Tam o'Shanter)

Bess                        - Dick Turpin (Famous
                                    English Highwayman)

Tornado                    - McCulley's (Zorro)

Rocinante                 - Cervantes's (Don Quixote)

Black Nell                - Wild Bill Hickok

The Black (Stallion)  - Walter Farley books

The Kelpie               - Celtic folklore


       HAPPY NEW YEAR! 

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