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Neck and horse
Neck reining a horse to the right by putting pressure on the left side of the neck.
In the Triads of the Horses, his horse is named as Gwyneu gwddf hir ( Gwyneu of the Long Neck ) According to tradition, Cai is intimately associated with the old Roman fort of Caer Gai.
After Whitney's steeplechase horse won the 1911 Greentree Cup race at Great Neck, New York, it was decided to use the Greentree name for several of their properties.

Neck and by
In Parmigianino's Madonna with the Long Neck ( 1534-40 ), Mannerism makes itself known by elongated proportions, highly stylized poses, and lack of clear perspective.
* Bergen Point and Constable Hook are two peninsulas in Bayonne, which itself lies on peninsula surrounded by Upper New York Bay, Newark Bay, and the Kill van Kull, formerly known as Bergen Neck
" The Albatross about my Neck was Hung ," etching by William Strang.
Neck amphorae were commonly used in the early history of ancient Greece but were gradually replaced by the one-piece type from around the 7th century BC onwards.
The neck pinch itself ( referred to in scripts as ' FSNP ', or ' Famous Spock Neck Pinch ') was created by Leonard Nimoy, who objected to a scene in one early episode that required Spock to knock a guard unconscious by hitting him over the head.
Other places were introduced one by one: Linhir ( first placed at the confluence of Ringló and Morthond ), Tarnost, Tarlang's Neck, and Calembel ( originally Caerost ).
* The Whaling Church run by the Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust * Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary run by the Massachusetts Audubon Society
Darias theme song is " You're Standing on My Neck ", written and performed by Splendora.
Later, the channel attempted a Gong Show remake called Extreme Gong ( hosted by George Gray, in which the viewers could phone in their votes as to whether to " gong " acts off the air ) and Throut And Neck ( hosted by Rebecca Grant ) ( where viewers controlled video game characters with their phones ).
The carotid sheath, a layer of connective tissue, was called the " Lincoln Highway of the Neck " by Harris B. Mosher in his 1929 address to the American Academy of Otology, because of its role in the spread of infections.
The freeway routing was then modified to head north of Interstate 195 to the Route 18 freeway in Colts Neck Township but was ultimately canceled by the late 1970s due to environmental and financial concerns.
The county is part of the Northern Neck George Washington Birthplace wine-growing region recognized by the United States as an American Viticultural Area.
King George County is located on the Northern Neck peninsula and is bounded on the north by the Potomac River, which lies in Charles County, Maryland.
The Big Neck War: In July 1829, a large party of Iowa ( or Ioway ) Native Americans, led by Chief Big Neck, returned to their former hunting grounds in violation of treaty.
Soon, several escaped from jail and fled to the current state of Iowa ; however, Big Neck himself and the remainder were put on trial by a grand jury of Randolph County.
" Whereas, there is a certaine parcel of land situated on the West side of Delaware Bay the which hath been certified by the Court at the Horekill and laide out for William Burton the saide Land being called the Long Neck lying on the South side of Rehoboth Bay and on the North side of the Greate River beginning at a point of woods and running West up the Greate River one thousand perches to a White Oak at the head of a small creek called Indian Cabin Creek and from thence North three hundred and fifty perches to a White Oak standing by a creek side called Middle Creek with a line of marked trees and from thence bounder upon the aforesaid Bay to the first bounded point Southeast one thousand perches containing One Thousand Acres of Land.
Located in Sebago Lake, the island is accessed via a public car ferry from Raymond Neck, or by private boat.
It was first occupied by the French at Newbury Neck.
In 1807, President Thomas Jefferson's embargo crippled local mercantile trade, and by the Civil War, Stage Neck had deteriorated into a ramshackle slum.
The Marshall House was sold in 1957 and demolished in 1972, to be replaced with condominiums and The Stage Neck Inn ( designed by Sasaki, Dawson, DeMay Associates ).

Neck and white
Wing's Neck Light is a Cape-Cod style lighthouse built in 1849, with a white, wooden hexagonal tower and lantern room on top of a stone house where the keeper lived.
This was followed up in early 2009 when Fender released the Eric Johnson Signature Stratocaster Rosewood model, featuring the same specifications as the Eric Johnson Maple Neck guitar, with the addition of an unusual 3-ply, 8-hole white pick guard, hotter treble pickup and a bound rosewood laminate fingerboard with pearloid dot position markers.
In addition to Redlegs the term underwent extensive progression in Barbados and the following terms were also used: " Redshanks ", " Poor whites ", " Poor Backra ", " Backra Johnny ", " Ecky-Becky ", " Poor whites from below the hill ", " Edey white mice " or " Beck-e Neck " ( Baked-neck ).

brook and horse
" The Nix as a brook horse " by Theodor Kittelsen: folklore transformed into a fantasy world
It also appears in Scandinavian folklore, where it is known by the name Bäckahästen, the brook horse.
Since the Scandinavian version can transform himself into a horse-like kelpie, he is also called Bäckahästen ( the " brook horse ").
He could show himself as a man playing the violin in brooks and waterfalls ( though often imagined as fair and naked today, in actual folklore he was more frequently wearing more or less elegant clothing ) but also could appear to be treasure or various floating objects or as an animal — most commonly in the form of a " brook horse " ( see below ).
" Thus, likely the brook horse preceded the personification of the nix as the " man in the rapids ".
Bäckahästen or bækhesten ( translated as the brook horse ) is a mythological horse in Scandinavian folklore.
The brook horse could also be harnessed and made to plough, either because it was trying to trick a person or because the person had tricked the horse into it.
The following tale is a good illustration of the brook horse:
The girl, however, knew that it was the brook horse and ignored it.
Then the brook horse came closer and closer and finally he was so close that he could bite the farm horse in the mane.
The girl hit the brook horse with the bridle and cried: " Disappear you scoundrel, or you'll have to plough so you'll never forget it.
" As soon as she had said this, the brook horse had changed places with the farm horse, and the brook horse started ploughing the field with such speed that soil and stones whirled in its wake, and the girl hung like a mitten from the plough.
Faster than the cock crows seven times, the ploughing was finished and the brook horse headed for the lake, dragging both the plough and the girl.
Immediately she fell down on the ground, and she saw the brook horse disappear into the lake with the plough.
She heard a frustrated neighing when the brook horse understood that his trick had failed.

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