Horses were, in the Celtic world, closely linked to the sun.

On account of their supreme position in horse ( Ashva ) culture, they were also popularly known as Ashvakas, i. e. the " horsemen " and their land was known as " Home of Horses ".

Horses were also extremely important, and each knight often owned several horses for distinct purposes.

Horses ( and other large mammals as reindeers ) were hunted during the Late Paleolithic in western Europe.

Horses were domesticated 1000 years later.

Horses were occasionally fitted with a coat of mail as well.

Horses such as the Trakehner were used in World War II which, at the end, nearly destroyed the breed as Soviet troops advanced from the East, causing flight and expulsion of Germans during and after WWII.

Horses, Western society's basic form of personal transportation for thousands of years, were replaced by automobiles and buses within the span of a few decades.

* 2000 BC: Horses were tamed and used for transport.

Horses and animal products were traded mainly for agricultural tools, such as the harrow and the plough, and clothing of which silk was most popular.

Horses were corralled on Potrero Hill, and the milking sheds for the cows were located along Dolores Creek at what is today Mission High School.

It made some moneymaking films like Bob Fosse's Cabaret, Woody Allen's Take the Money and Run, and Sydney Pollack's They Shoot Horses, Don't They ?, while other films like Song of Norway and Candy, were critical and box-office disasters upon release despite them both being heavily promoted while still in production.

Horses were brought back to North America by European explorers, beginning with the second voyage of Columbus in 1493.

The control of the Mississippi River by the Union prevented the sugar crop from going to market, Horses and mules were seized by the Union forces, and crops were left unharvested in the fields, so the sugar industry was bankrupt at the end of the Civil War.

Horses and mules were bought, sold and traded just as automobiles are today.

Like the grounds and buildings of the Campground ( so designated in April 2005 ), the Flying Horses were designated a National Historic Landmark by the Secretary of the Interior.

* The Hi-Lo Country and All the Pretty Horses, released in 1998 and 2000 respectively, were almost entirely shot here.

Horses were forced to drink from the few stagnant creek pools that could be located.

The song " You Can't Always Get What You Want " on the Let It Bleed album ( 1969 ) was supposedly written about Faithfull ; the songs " Wild Horses " and " I Got the Blues " on the 1971 album Sticky Fingers were also allegedly influenced by Faithfull, and she co-wrote " Sister Morphine ".

Although bandmembers would work with each other again on various individual projects ( including Sylvian and Jansen's Nine Horses project ), no further full Japan reunions were planned in any form.

Horses were generally used as universal standards of barter.

Animals — the embodiment of romantic passion — were incorporated into paintings such as Arab Horses Fighting in a Stable ( 1860 ), The Lion Hunt ( of which there exist many versions, painted between 1856 and 1861 ), and Arab Saddling his Horse ( 1855 ).

Horses are used for ceremonial purposes only, most often when the dragoons take part in the changing of the guards at The Royal Castle in Stockholm.

Horses are sometimes used as pack animals to carry goods, but this is relatively uncommon.

It has also been used as a common motif in popular music, including Hank Thompson's " Humpty Dumpty Heart " ( 1948 ), The Monkees ' " All the King's Horses " ( 1966 ), Aretha Franklin's " All the King's Horses " ( 1972 ).

Its letters around the outside edge, starting from the point of entry and moving clockwise, are A-K-E-H-C-M-B-F. A number of mnemonic devices are used to remember this sequence, such as the phrase " All King Edward's Horses Can Make Big Fences.

Horses and mules in agriculture used a breastplate type harness or a yoke more suitable for oxen, which was not as efficient at utilizing the full strength of the animals as the later-invented padded horse collar that arose several millennia later in western Europe.

* 3100 BC – Horses are tamed and used for transport Botai Egypt

Horses ( and other equids such as mules and donkeys ) are used for non-competitive recreational riding such as fox hunting, trail riding or hacking.

Horses are also used for therapeutic purposes, both in specialized paraequestrian competition as well as non-competitive riding to improve human health and emotional development.

Horses continue to be used in public service: in traditional ceremonies ( parades, funerals ), police and volunteer mounted patrols, and for mounted search and rescue.

Motorists have to share the roads with Horses and Buggies used by the county's large Amish population.

The Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971 prevents the capture of mustangs from the wild for commercial use, and though the law has been weakened in recent years, " wild " mustangs and other completely untamed horses are still no longer used on the rodeo circuit, as bigger, more powerful animals that are sufficiently domesticated to be handled from the ground for veterinary care, travel, and stabling in small pens are more desirable as rodeo stock.

* In a feature-length episode of the British sitcom, Only Fools and Horses, entitled " Miami Twice ," Derek is mistaken for a Mafia don who is his spitting image, and he is used by the Mafia in an attempt to fake the don's assassination ( though several tries fail ).

The phrase was popularised by Derek Trotter in Only Fools and Horses, who used the phrase a number of times when referring to his long-term partner, Raquel Turner.

Horses were introduced by the Hyksos in the Second Intermediate Period, and the camel, although known from the New Kingdom, was not used as a beast of burden until the Late Period.

Among his novels were The Horses, Ballantyne's Folly, Jericho Road, and Beat the Devil ( originally under the pseudonym James Helvick ), which was made into a film directed by John Huston with script credit to Truman Capote ( the title was later used by Cockburn's son Alexander for his regular column in The Nation ).

Horses and carts are a very common sight in Paraty and are frequently used all around the city.

A short excerpt of " 3 Inch Horses, Two Faced Monsters " was used as a sample at the end of The Moon & Antarctica's " A Different City ".

*" Pulstar " was used as the theme music for a children's BBC television programme, Horses Galore.

The BBC Television series Only Fools and Horses, which was filmed in and around Bristol, used the allotments for the episode ' Mother Nature's Son ', and BBC wildlife and gardening programmes and the Casualty have been filmed in the area.

Periodically, since the release of the 2005 edition, minor rules changes have been added into the rulebook, such as a new automatic fire system and a chapter about Horses ( which is used as a general term to describe any steed or vehicle which only carries one person ).