Wikipedia Lists for the Year of the Horse
By jia.tolentino January 31, 2014
Today is the Chinese New Year (look at the celebrations!), and here’s some Wikipedia stuff ready to be checked out in honor of the Year of the Horse, an animal with a fascinating (“historically, the flying, blood-sweating, dragon-boned, celestial horses are connected with the emperor Han Wudi”) place in Chinese mythology as well as an appreciably great Wikipedia presence.
• List of historical horses, including:
- Seldom Seen, a pony who successfully competed in dressage despite being unusually small.
- Muhamed, the German horse allegedly capable of solving cubic roots
• List of horse accidents, including:
- Bonnie Blue Butler, daughter of Scarlett O’Hara and Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind
- William III of England died in 1702 from injuries received after his horse tripped on a molehill.
• List of U.S. state horses, including the South Carolina “Marsh Tacky”/”Swamp Fox”
• List of My Little Pony characters, including:
- Sun Shower is a playful baby seapony. Sun Shower cares about her appearance highly and is very vain sometimes.
- Zipzee has Allergic rhinitis; she usually sneezes a lot when she is near flowers, despite being born in Breezy Blossom.
• List of fictional horses, including:
- The Horse with No Name, the horse in the eponymous song by America
- The Golden Ass, 2nd century AD Roman novel in Latin
Also, there are horse-drawn boats?