White Horse
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Mythology and symbolism
- White horse (mythology)White horse (mythology)White horses have a special significance in the mythologies of cultures around the world. They are often associated with the sun chariot, with warrior-heroes, with fertility , or with an end-of-time saviour, but other interpretations exist as well...
- White horse of KentWhite horse of KentThe White horse of Kent, or the White Horse Rampant, is a symbol of Kent, a county in South East England.The figure of the prancing white horse can also be referred to as Invicta, which is the motto of Kent.-Origin:...
, a heraldic symbol
Coat colors
- Gray (horse)Gray (horse)Gray or grey is a coat color of horses characterized by progressive silvering of the colored hairs of the coat. Most gray horses have black skin and dark eyes; unlike many depigmentation genes, gray does not affect skin or eye color Their adult hair coat is white, dappled, or white intermingled...
, most common white horse coat only becoming white at maturity - White (horse)White (horse)White horses are born white and stay white throughout their life. White horses may have brown, blue, or hazel eyes. "True white" horses, especially those that carry one of the dominant white genes, are rare...
, horse coat/skin mostly lacking in pigmentation - Dominant whiteDominant whiteDominant white is a group of genetically related coat color conditions in the horse, best known for producing an all-white coat, but also for producing some forms of white spotting and white markings. Dominant white horses are born with unpigmented pink skin and white hair with dark eyes, although...
, a genetic mechanism that produces true white horse - Sabino horseSabino horseSabino is a group of white spotting patterns in horses that affect the skin and hair. A wide variety of irregular color patterns are accepted as sabino. In the strictest sense, "sabino" refers to the white patterns produced by the Sabino 1 gene, for which there is a DNA test...
(SB-1), a genetic mechanism that sometimes produces a completely white horse
Cities, villages, towns
- City of WhitehorseCity of WhitehorseThe City of Whitehorse is a Local Government Area in Victoria, Australia. It is located in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. It has an area of and has a estimated population of 155,725 people....
, Victoria, Australia - Whitehorse, YukonWhitehorse, YukonWhitehorse is Yukon's capital and largest city . It was incorporated in 1950 and is located at kilometre 1476 on the Alaska Highway in southern Yukon. Whitehorse's downtown and Riverdale areas occupy both shores of the Yukon River, which originates in British Columbia and meets the Bering Sea in...
, capital city of Yukon, Canada- Whitehorse (electoral district)Whitehorse (electoral district)Whitehorse electoral district was a territorial electoral district in the Yukon Territory Canada. The electoral district was created in 1903.-1903 general election:-1920 general election:-1922 general election:...
, former electoral district
- Whitehorse (electoral district)
- White Horse, CaliforniaWhite Horse, CaliforniaWhite Horse is an unincorporated community in Modoc County, California. It is located on the former Great Northern Railway Bieber Line west-northwest of Adin, 0.7 miles east of Whitehorse Flat Reservoir and west-southwest of Alturas, at an elevation of 4423 feet .The White Horse post office...
, unincorporated community in California, USA
Administrative areas
- White Horse, New JerseyWhite Horse, New JerseyWhite Horse is a census-designated place and unincorporated area located within Hamilton Township, in Mercer County, New Jersey. As of the United States 2000 Census, the CDP population was 9,373.-Geography:White Horse is located at ....
, census-designated area, New Jersey, USA - White Horse, South DakotaWhite Horse, South DakotaWhite Horse is a census-designated place in Todd County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 276 at the 2010 census.-Geography:...
, census-designated area, Todd County, South Dakota, USA - Whitehorse, South DakotaWhitehorse, South DakotaWhitehorse is a census-designated place in Dewey County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 141 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Whitehorse is located at ....
, census-designated area, Dewey County, South Dakota, USA - Manderson-White Horse Creek, South DakotaManderson-White Horse Creek, South DakotaManderson-White Horse Creek is a census-designated place in Shannon County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 626 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Manderson-White Horse Creek is located at ....
, census-designated area, Shannon County, South Dakota, USA - Vale of White HorseVale of White HorseThe Vale of White Horse is a local government district of Oxfordshire in England. The main town is Abingdon, other places include Faringdon and Wantage. There are 68 parishes within the district...
, local government district, Oxfordshire, England
Geography, landscape and architecture
- White Horse Bluff (Whitehorse Bluffs), volcano in British Columbia, Canada
- White Horse BridgeWhite Horse BridgeThe White Horse Bridge is the name of the new footbridge that crosses Wembley Stadium railway station leading up to Wembley Stadium in England...
, Wembley, England - White Horse StoneWhite Horse StoneThe Upper and Lower White Horse Stones are names given to two sarsen megaliths on Blue Bell Hill near Aylesford in the English county of Kent. They are generally considered to be fragmentary examples of the Neolithic chamber tomb group known as the Medway megaliths...
, two megaliths near Aylesford, Kent, England - White Horse TempleWhite Horse TempleWhite Horse Temple is, according to tradition, the first Buddhist temple in China, established in 68 AD under the patronage of Emperor Ming in the Eastern Han capital Luoyang. Today the site is located just outside the walls of the ancient Eastern Han capital, some east of Luoyang in Henan...
, the first Buddhist temple in China - White Horse Tavern (disambiguation)
Hill figures
A hill figureHill figure
A hill figure is a large visual representation created by cutting into a steep hillside and revealing the underlying geology. It is a type of geoglyph usually designed to be seen from afar rather than above. In some cases trenches are dug and rubble made from material brighter than the natural...
is a large visual representation created by cutting into a steep hillside and revealing the underlying geology.
- Cherhill White HorseCherhill White HorseThe Cherhill White Horse is a hill figure on Cherhill Down, 3.5 miles east of Calne in Wiltshire, England. Dating from the late 18th century, it is the third oldest of several such white horses in Great Britain, with only the Uffington White Horse and the Westbury White Horse being older...
, at Cherhill Down near Calne, Wiltshire, England - Devizes White Horse, at RoundwayRoundwayRoundway is a Parish near to Devizes in English county of Wiltshire.Roundway is still a parish independent from Devizes, but housing development has continued over northwards from Devizes over the parish boundary. In the census of 2001, the village had a population of 2,267. It is located in the...
Down near Devizes, Wiltshire, England - Folkestone White HorseFolkestone White HorseThe Folkestone White Horse is a white horse hill figure, carved into Cheriton Hill, Folkestone, Kent, South East England. It overlooks the English terminal of the Channel Tunnel and was completed in June 2003....
, Folkestone, Kent - Kilburn White HorseKilburn White HorseThe Kilburn white horse, , is a hill figure formed in the hillside near the village of Kilburn, in North Yorkshire, England. The horse is long by high and covers about and is said to be the largest and most northerly in England....
near Kilburn, North Yorkshire, England - Osmington White HorseOsmington White HorseThe Osmington White Horse is a hill figure sculpted in 1808 into the limestone Osmington hill just north of Weymouth called the South Dorset Downs, within the parish of Osmington....
near Osmington, Dorset, England - Uffington White HorseUffington White HorseThe Uffington White Horse is a highly stylised prehistoric hill figure, 110 m long , formed from deep trenches filled with crushed white chalk...
, Oxfordshire, England - Westbury White HorseWestbury White HorseThe Westbury or Bratton White Horse is a hill figure on the escarpment of Salisbury Plain, approximately east of Westbury in England. Located on the edge of Bratton Downs and lying just below an Iron Age hill fort, it is the oldest of several white horses carved in Wiltshire...
, Wiltshire, England - Waimate White Horse, WaimateWaimateWaimateUrban AreaPopulation:2,835 Extent:Territorial AuthorityName:Waimate District CouncilPopulation:7,206 Land area:3,582.19 km² Mayor:John ColesWebsite:...
, New Zealand
Theatre and screen
- The White HorsesThe White HorsesThe White Horses is a 1965 television series co-produced by RTV Ljubljana of Yugoslavia and German TV .-Plotline:...
, a 1960s television series, which had a theme tune of the same name sung by Jacky - The White Horse (series), a 1993 Russian television series
- White Horse (film)White Horse (film)White Horse is a short documentary by filmmakers Maryann DeLeo and Christophe Bisson that features a man returning to his Ukraine home for the first time in twenty years. Evacuated from the city of Pripyat, Ukraine in 1986 due to the Chernobyl disaster, he has not returned since then...
, a 2008 documentary film by Maryann DeLeo - The White Horse InnThe White Horse InnIm weißen Rößl is an operetta or musical comedy set in the picturesque Salzkammergut region of Upper Austria. It is about the head waiter of the White Horse Inn in St. Wolfgang who is desperately in love with the owner of the inn, a resolute young woman who at first only has eyes for one of her...
(Weißes Rössl) an 1897 musical comedy and derivative works, set in Alpine Austria
Literature
- White Horse DialogueWhite Horse DialogueWhen a white horse is not a horse , also known as the White Horse Dialogue , is a famous paradox in Chinese philosophy. Gongsun Long wrote this circa 300 BCE dialectic analysis of the question Can it be that a white horse is not a horse?....
, a philosophical dialogue by Gongsun Longzi - The Ballad of the White HorseThe Ballad of the White HorseThe Ballad of the White Horse is a poem by G. K. Chesterton about the idealized exploits of the Saxon King Alfred the Great, published in 1911. Written in ballad form, the work is usually considered the last great traditional epic poems ever written in the English language...
, a poem by G.K. Chesterton - The White Horse in the Apocalypse (1758), a book by Emanuel SwedenborgEmanuel Swedenborgwas a Swedish scientist, philosopher, and theologian. He has been termed a Christian mystic by some sources, including the Encyclopædia Britannica online version, and the Encyclopedia of Religion , which starts its article with the description that he was a "Swedish scientist and mystic." Others...
Music
- White Horse (album)White Horse (album)-Reception:White Horse is the title of the first solo album by Michael Omartian, released originally in 1974, on Dunhill Records and subsequently re-released on Myrrh Records as both a single album and as a compilation of White Horse and Adam Again...
, a 1974 album by Michael Omartian - Whitehorse (album)Whitehorse (album)Whitehorse is the self-titled album from Whitehorse, a band consisting of Melissa McClelland and Luke Doucet. The album was released on August 30, 2011 in Canada by Six Shooter Records...
, a 2011 album by Whitehorse (Luke DoucetLuke DoucetLuke Doucet is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist. He writes and performs both as a solo artist and as a member of the indie rock band Veal....
and Melissa McLelland) - "White Horse" (Laid Back song)White Horse (Laid Back song)"White Horse" is a 1983 crossover post-disco single written by Tim Stahl and John Guldberg of the Danish synth-pop duo Laid Back. In the U.S., the single was most successful on the dance chart where it spent three weeks at number one. The single also made the top five on the R&B singles chart and...
, a 1983 song by Laid Back - "Ride a White HorseRide a White Horse"Ride a White Horse" is an electronic–dance song performed by British group Goldfrapp. The song was written by Alison Goldfrapp, Will Gregory and Nick Batt for Goldfrapp's third album Supernature . The song was inspired by the disco era nightclub Studio 54.The song was released as the album's...
", song by Goldfrapp - "White Horse" (song)White Horse (song)"White Horse" is a country music song performed by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. The song was written by Swift and Liz Rose and produced by Nathan Chapman, with Swift's aid. The song was released on December 8, 2008 by Big Machine Records, as the second single from Swift's second studio...
, song by Taylor Swift - "White Horse" (Sarah McLeod song), a 2008 song by Sarah McLeodSarah McLeodSarah McLeod is a New Zealand movie and television series actress. Her most notable role was in the Peter Jackson movies The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King as Rosie Cotton, a female hobbit who married Samwise Gamgee. Her daughter...
- "White Horse"(Kilo Ali song), a 1993 song by Kilo AliKilo AliKilo Ali , formerly Kilo, is an American rap music Artist from Atlanta, Georgia. Kilo Ali recorded mainly bass music , but also hip hop tracks with a less distinctive southern flavor...
- "White Horse" (Jessica 6 song)White Horse (Jessica 6 song)"White Horse" is a song performed by the Brooklyn-based trio Jessica 6, taken from their debut album See the Light. It was released in January 2011, as the album's second single by Peacefrog Records...
, a 2011 song by Jessica 6
Transportation
, a ship of the Canadian Forces- White Horse, one of the GWR 3031 ClassGWR 3031 ClassThe Dean Single, 3031 Class, or Achilles Class was a type of steam locomotive built by the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1899. They were designed by William Dean for passenger work...
locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915
People
- White Horse (chief)White Horse (chief)White Horse White Horse White Horse (Kiowa: Tsen-tainte (? - 1892), was a chief of the Kiowa. White Horse attended the council between southern plains tribes and the United States at Medicine Lodge in southern Kansas which resulted in the Medicine Lodge Treaty...
, died 1892, a chief of the Kiowa nation - Logan FontenelleLogan FontenelleLogan Fontenelle , also known as Shon-ga-ska , was a trader of French and Omaha ancestry, who served for years as an interpreter to the US Indian agent at the Bellevue Agency in Nebraska...
, 1825-1855, a.k.a. Chief White Horse, a chief of the Omaha nation
Other
- White Horse (whisky)White Horse (whisky)White Horse Scotch Whisky is a blended Scotch Whisky from Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. It was first produced by James Logan Mackie in 1861. In 2006, White Horse won blended whisky of the year in Murray's 2007 Whisky Bible.-Composition:...
, blended in Scotland, UK - 1923 FA Cup Final1923 FA Cup FinalThe 1923 FA Cup Final was a football match between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United on 28 April 1923 at the original Wembley Stadium in London. The showpiece match of English football's primary cup competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup , it was the first football match to be...
, known as the White Horse Final, a football match - Knight (chess)Knight (chess)The knight is a piece in the game of chess, representing a knight . It is normally represented by a horse's head and neck. Each player starts with two knights, which begin on the row closest to the player, one square from the corner...
, sometimes called white horse, a piece in the game of chess - White Horse of Hanover, a military cap badge, first granted by King George in 1715 to the 101st Grenadiers101st Grenadiers-The beginning:The Regiment was first formed in 1778 after 6 grenadier companies were combined to form a composite battalion. The Regiment took part in the First Mahratta War against the Mahratta Empire and fought in a number of engagements against them, including the Battle of Talegoan where they...
- White Horse (military), nickname for the South Korean army's 9th Infantry Division
See also
- White knight (disambiguation)
- When a white horse is not a horse, a paradox in Chinese philosophy