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The Legend of the White Horse

Legend of the White Horse (original title: Biały smok) is a 1986 Polish-American adventure children's film directed by Jerzy Domaradzki and Janusz Morgenstern, based on the magic realism novel White Horse, Dark Dragon by Robert C. Fleet, who also wrote the screenplay.


Cameron Bridge

Now GNS for white spirits and ‘sweetened products’ such as Archers, Pimm's, Smirnoff, Tanqueray and Gordon's Gin are also produced alongside grain spirit used in the Johnnie Walker, J&B, Bell's, Black & White, Vat 69, Haig and White Horse blended whisky brands owned by Diageo.

Hambleton Hills

In 1857 a Giant white horse hill figure was carved in the limestone above the village of Kilburn by the village schoolmaster John Hodgson.

Kermit Schaefer

Other similar famous finds of Schafer's include ABC correspondent Joel Daly intoning, "The rumor that the President would veto the bill is reported to have come from a high White Horse souse," and veteran radio host Paul Harvey breaking into uncontrollable laughter at a story about a pet poodle.

Kicking Bird

Kicking Bird was clearly the foremost advocate for an accommodation with the United States, but was opposed by Satanta, Lone Wolf, Big Tree, Maman-ti, and White Horse.

Responding to claims that he was a coward and had become effeminate, Kicking Bird assembled a war party and invited some of his chief critics and worst tormentors to participate - Lone Wolf, White Horse, and Satank.


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Austrian wine

Made from the indigenous Blauer Wildbacher grape, genuine Schilcher carries a mark with a white horse, after the Lipizzaners bred in Piber for the Spanish Riding School in Vienna.

Coat of arms of Lithuania

Gintaras Beresnevičius also points out that a white horse had a sacral meaning to Balts.

Coat of arms of Lower Saxony

The white horse is similar to the one used in the coat of arms for the county of Kent in England which is likely to have originated from the Rhineland area.

Conle

When the Irish hero, Oisin, is taken to the Land of Youth, he sees himself mounted on a white horse, pursuing a beautiful girl on a dark horse who bears in her hand a golden apple.

Dinar of Hereti

Today, on the north wall of the Throne Hall in the Moscow Kremlin, there hangs an image of Holy Queen Dinar mounted on a white horse, victorious over the enemy.

Elizabeth Goudge

J. K. Rowling, the creator of Harry Potter, has recalled that The Little White Horse was her favourite book as a child.

Formartine and Buchan Way

Places of interest along the way include Drinnes Wood Observatory, Strichen Stone Circle, Aden Country Park, Deer Abbey and The White Horse at Strichen.

Ian McGregor

The road, rail and river travel was presented on the breakfast show by Karen Redmond Smith who also worked for White Horse Ferries which ran the Gravesend-Tilbury ferry service, and on drive time by Claire Holley and Helen Downs.

Jiangyan District

The Baima Temple (Chinese: 白马庙, meaning white horse temple) in Jiangyan (now in Taizhou) is the birthplace of the Navy of the People's Liberation Army.

Kanthaka

Kanthaka (in Pali and Sanskrit) (6th century BC, in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India) was a favourite white horse of length eighteen cubits that was a royal servant of Prince Siddhartha, who later became Gautama Buddha.

Kilburn White Horse

A tablet erected at the car park below it reads, "The Kilburn 'White Horse' -- This figure was cut in 1857 on the initiative of Thomas Taylor, a native of Kilburn. In 1925 a restoration fund was subscribed by the readers of the Yorkshire Evening Post and the residue of £100 was invested to provide for the triennial grooming of the figure."

La hostería del caballito blanco

La hostería del caballito blanco (English: The inn of the little white horse) is a 1948 Argentine musical comedy film directed by Benito Perojo and written by Juan Carlos Muello based upon the homonymous opera of Ralph Benatzky and Robert Stolz.

Lyonesse

The Trevelyan family of Cornwall takes its coat of arms from a local legend, in which a man named Trevelyan escaped the inundation by riding a white horse.

Owen Suffolk

In August 1868 Owen Suffolk, 'a journalist', appeared before Lord Chief Justice Sir Alexander Cockburn at Ipswich charged with stealing a black mare and carriage belonging to the landlady of the Great White Horse Hotel and obtaining ten pounds by false pretences.

Rebels and Traitors

Davis has said that her interest in this period goes back to when a print of the Laughing Cavalier by Frans Hals hung in her primary school classroom, and was further developed when she read Rosemary Sutcliff's novels Simon and The Rider of the White Horse.

Regraga

One must dress at every shrine a holy tent made of fan palm fibres and dyed with henna, the other one arrives in procession with a muqaddim (religious leader) riding a white horse.

Ride a White Horse

In March 2007, "Ride a White Horse" was featured on an episode of the American television program The L Word.

Saint James Matamoros

According to the legend, Saint James appeared as a warrior on his white horse with a white banner to help Christian armies of king Ramiro I of Asturias in battle against the Moors.

Saxon Steed

The white horse is similar to the one used in the coat of arms for the county of Kent in England, which is likely to have originated in the Rhineland area.

Tanjay

It is based on the legend that St. James miraculously aided the Christians by riding on white horse from the heavens and slew hundreds of Moors.

The Ballad of the White Horse

He says that he has chosen to place the site of the Battle of Ethandune in the Vale of the White Horse, despite the lack of concrete evidence for this placement (many scholars now believe it was probably fought at Edington, Wiltshire).

The Rider on the White Horse

It has been translated into English under titles The Dykemaster, The Dikegrave, and the most literal, The Rider on the White Horse ("Schimmel" being the German word for a gray or white horse).

Truman Washington Dailey

When Walt Disney hired him, he allowed Dailey to use one of his own Indian names in the show, simply changing it to "Chief White Horse".

White Horse at Ebbsfleet

After a design 'competition', Wallinger's vision of a white horse was selected by a panel of self-appointed representatives from each of the three founding patrons / developers of the Ebbsfleet Landmark Project Ltd (ELP Ltd) - London and Continental Railways, Land Securities and Eurostar -.

White Horse Prophecy

In 2009, Idaho gubernatorial candidate Rex Rammell announced plans to hold a series of meetings with believing Mormon men, which were to include discussion of the White Horse Prophecy.

Wiltshire Publications

The White Horse News is one of the papers printed by Wiltshire Publications, which covers Westbury and the surrounding villages.

Wiltshire Publications Ltd, publishes and prints three local newspapers in the West Country: Melksham Independent News (covering Melksham and the surrounding villages), White Horse News (covering Westbury and the surrounding villages) and Frome Times (covering Frome).