** First case reports in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, of the Great Epizootic of 1872 ( equine influenza, or the " horse flu ") which will substantially disrupt life in North America by mid-December.

" Bird flu " is a phrase similar to " swine flu ," " dog flu ," " horse flu ," or " human flu " in that it refers to an illness caused by any of many different strains of influenza viruses that have adapted to a specific host.

Horses with horse flu can run a fever, have a dry hacking cough, have a runny nose, and become depressed and reluctant to eat or drink for several days but usually recover in two to three weeks.

Prior to the current H5N1 epizootic, strains of influenza A virus had been demonstrated to be transmitted from wild fowl to only birds, pigs, horses, seals, whales and humans ; and only between humans and pigs and between humans and domestic fowl ; and not other pathways such as domestic fowl to horse.

African horse sickness is related to Bluetongue and is spread by the same midges ( Culicoides species ).

In the 2nd millennium, ore mining developed in Central Kazakhstan, pastoral animal husbandry appeared and spread, and horse nomadic economy became a developed technology as a viable production method in the Eurasian steppes.

[...] While his horse continued galloping, he was bending his bow in order to spread pestilence abroad.

In 1900, the Tramway de Nice electrified its horse drawn streetcars and spread its network to the entire department from Menton to Cagnes-sur-Mer.

The rapid spread of such nomadic pastoralism was typical of such later developments as of the Yamnaya culture of the horse and cattle nomads of the Eurasian steppe, or of the Mongol spread of the later Middle Ages.

After killing the huge demons, he will cause his trumpet of victory to be sounded and killing thousands and crores of tyrants, he will spread his fame as Kalkii incarnation ; The place where he will manifest Himself, the condition of dharma will begin there and the mass of sins will flee away ; the town of Sambhal will be very fortunate, because the Lord will manifest Himself there. 143. The Lord will get infuriated on seeing the pitiable plight of the talented Brahmins and taking out his sword, he will cause his horse to dance in the battlefield as a persistent warrior ;

The news about the mystery horse has spread, and he is allowed to enter the race.

300 BC – 250 AD ) horse riders from the Korean Peninsula invaded southern Kyūshū, then spread to all the way to northern Honshū.

The Mannaeans, former vassals of the Assyrians, were no longer restricted to the area around Lake Urmia, but had spread into Zamua, where they interrupted the horse trade between Parsuash and Assyria and refused to pay further tribute.

However, the grip position had emerged before bowing on a horse was widely spread.

Eric Halfpenny, writing in the 1988 Encyclopædia Britannica, says " bowing can be traced as far back as the Islamic civilization of the 10th century ... it seems likely that the principle of bowing originated among the nomadic horse riding cultures of Central Asia, whence it spread quickly through Islam and the East, so that by 1000 it had almost simultaneously reached China, Java, North Africa, the Near East and Balkans, and Europe.

Equine influenza ( EI ) was initially discovered in a metropolitan Sydney horse complex in late August 2007, and spread to many areas of New South Wales and southern Queensland.

The fair began as a local horse fair, but representatives of cavalry regiments came from all over Europe came to buy as the reputation of the fair spread.

" He reportedly received a village of over 500 households, and in 669 was given some 142 separate horse farms, spread throughout the kingdom.

Muhammad XII reined in his horse and, surveying for the last time the Alhambra and the green valley that spread below, burst into tears.

As news of the murder spread, three horse slaughterers from a neighbouring knacker's yard in Winthrop Street, who had been working overnight, came to look at the body.

After the battle, rumours spread across Europe that the Germans had only been defeated thanks to the aid of tens of thousands of heathen Tatars, though it is likely there were no more than 1, 000 Tatar horse archers at the battle, the core being the entourage of Jalal ad-Din, son of Khan Tokhtamysh.

Until the AQHA restricted the registration of animals with the condition, the spread of the disease was perpetuated by the favorable placings given to affected horses in halter competition at horse shows, because a secondary characteristic associated with N / H and H / H horses is heavy, bulky muscling that is favored by stock horse judges, a trend that began with Impressive and predates the modern understanding of the disease.

Some of them spread the livestock diseases blue tongue and African horse sickness – other species though, are at least partly nectar feeders and some actually suck insect bodily fluids.

It could originally have referred to a wild equid, a possibility that would " undermine the mainstay of Gimbutas's arguments that the Kurgan culture first domesticated the horse and used this new technology to spread to surrounding areas ,"

The jennet was an ideal light riding horse, and as such spread across Europe and provided some of the foundation bloodstock for several horse breeds in the Americas.

The horse walked, the reins were slack, the huckster rode with bowed shoulders, his forearms across his knees.

Thus we have the story of his riding across a stick ( horse made of stick ) with his children and upon being discovered by a friend desiring that he not mention till he himself were the father of children ; and because of the affection of his son Archidamus ' for Cleonymus, he saved Sphodrias, Cleonymus ' father, from execution for his incursion into the Piraeus, and dishonorable retreat, in 378 BC.

During the exercise of his duties he enhanced his reputation for humility by refusing to ride a horse — in accord with the dictates of the Dominican order — instead walking back and forth across his huge diocese.

The U. S. Army's last horse cavalry actions were fought during World War II: a ) by the 26th Cavalry Regiment ( PS ) in World War II — a small mounted regiment of Philippine Scouts which fought the Japanese during the retreat down the Bataan peninsula, until it was effectively destroyed by January 1942 ; and b ) on captured German horses by the mounted reconnaissance section of the U. S. 10th Mountain Division in a spearhead pursuit of the German Army across the Po Valley in Italy in April 1945.

Caligula, a man who could not swim, then proceeded to ride his favorite horse, Incitatus, across, wearing the breastplate of Alexander the Great.

This act was in defiance of a prediction by Tiberius's soothsayer Thrasyllus of Mendes that Caligula had " no more chance of becoming emperor than of riding a horse across the Bay of Baiae ".

The design credo Mazda has used across the three generations of the MX5's development was the phrase, which translates loosely into English as " rider ( jin ) horse ( ba ) as one body ( ittai )".

There is some limited data from woodcuts and textual fragments that Mongol light horse archers and some Chinese soldiers wore a slung baldric over the shoulder, allowing longer blades to be strapped across the back.

alt = Painting of white horse and blue rider galloping across a green meadow from right to left

Kaleb sent a fleet across the Red Sea and was able to defeat Dhu Nuwas, who was killed in battle according to an inscription from Husn al-Ghurab, while later Arab tradition has him riding his horse into the sea.

In the early horse shows held in France, there was a parade of competitors who then took off across country for the jumping.

The titular ebony horse can fly the distance of one year in a single day, and is used as a vehicle by the Prince of Persia, Qamar al-Aqmar, in his adventures across Persia, Arabia and Byzantium.

The tail should be " banged ", or cut straight across ( usually above the fetlocks but below the hocks when held at the point where the horse naturally carries it ).

Eventing ( also known as horse trials ) is an equestrian event where a single horse and rider combination compete against other combinations across the three disciplines of dressage, cross-country, and show jumping.

Cross-country began as a test of stamina, courage, and bravery over difficult terrain, important for a charger on long marches or if the horse was asked to carry a dispatch across country.

When the towpath changed sides, it was necessary to take the towing horse and its driver across the river.

Maxentius was among the dead, having drowned in the river while trying to swim across it in a desperate bid to escape or, alternatively, he is described as having been thrown by his horse into the river.

Along the way, they come across the Ringo Kid, whose horse became lame and left him afoot.

For example, in his Tunnel in the Sky settlers set out to the planet " New Canaan ", via an interstellar teleporter portal across the galaxy, in Conestoga wagons, their captain sporting mustaches and a little goatee and riding a Palomino horse — with Heinlein explaining that the colonists would need to survive on their own for some years, so horses are more practical than machines.

The rough equivalent in North America is an " across the board " bet, where equal bets on a horse are set to win, place and show.

A loose horse named Popham Down, who had unseated his rider at the first jump, suddenly veered across the leading group at the 23rd, causing them to either stop, refuse or unseat their riders.

Well armed bands of horse and cattle rustlers were said to roam across various portions of Wyoming and Montana, with Montana cattle interests declaring " War on the Rustlers " in 1889 and Wyoming interests doing so a year later.

The town has erected a bronze life-sized statue of the horse and Ian Millar, in John A. Stewart Park, across from the Code's Mill building.

Instead, a two-tiered towpath was constructed along the south side of the bridge to transport boats across the river using horse and mule teams.