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Interesting Facts About Horses History

How much do you know about Calgary, Alberta? A little? A lot? Even if you live here, you might not know some of the interesting facts about this city and it's history.

If you're considering moving to Calgary, you might be confused by the street numbering system, which is done in quadrants. Did you know that until 1904, Calgary had street names instead of numbers? Some people wish the city had kept them and are lobbying for their return. Select neighbourhoods have both number and former name as a nod to the street names of over a century ago.

One of the streets of Calgary has gained notoriety as "The Red Mile". After the 2003-2004 Calgary Flames Playoff run, a short stretch of 17th Avenue became the place for Flames fans to celebrate (or commiserate) after every game the Flames played.

The Calgary Flames didn't begin in Calgary; they started out in Atlanta, Georgia and played there from 1972-1980 before their first game in Calgary on May 21, 1980.

You may have seen lists of weird laws, so it may come as no surprise that Calgary has its fair share. You could be fined if you spit on the ground or stand on a public table or bench. Another law on the books goes directly against Canada's national firearms laws, as any person released from prison is entitled to a handgun, bullets and a horse to get them out of town without being molested. (Don't commit a crime in Calgary hoping for a free gun and horse; it doesn't work that way anymore!) Snowball throwing without the say-so of the mayor or the city council is forbidden by law.

The Calgary Stampede is one of the most famous Calgary institutions. It was formally named the Calgary Stampede in 1912. In 1950, an interesting event happened concerning the First Nations peoples who were to populate the "Indian Village" part of the Stampede. The Stoney tribe was angry about a ruling concerning the Village and boycotted the event. At the same time, torrential downpours made it the wettest Stampede on record and many jokes were told about the Stoneys' "rain dance" (the tribe denied that they had ever put on any such thing.).

In 1988, Calgary was the first Canadian city to host the Winter Olympics. This was the year that the Jamaican bobsled team catapulted to fame and became the inspiration for the 1993 Disney film "Cool Runnings". Canada won no gold medals in the 1988 Winter Olympics.

Frequently Asked Questions

  1. QUESTION:
    Do you have any interesting facts about Gypsy Vanners?
    I love Gypsy Vanners and they're my favourite breed of horse. I know their history - used to pull caravans and used to watch over children, so they are very hardy and stocky, but also very patient and gentle. They are willing to please and naturally very friendly.

    Do you guys have any interesting facts about them that I might not know? :)
    That last poster... Why would you lie like that? They're worth so much because of the way they are. They're gorgeous, hardy so won't easily get hurt meaning less vet bills, they're good for pretty much everything, they're a great all-rounder horse. They're worth a lot here in England too, the only reason they're worth more in the US is because of the currency exchange; nothing more, nothing less. I don't know about the US, but most people only sell their horse if it's an urgent sale and they can't be negotiationg prices and the horse needs to go immediately. Not jsut because of the breed. Maybe you should stop being such an *rsewipe and realise that no one cares about your opinion if it's just going to be stupid and meaningless.

    • ANSWER:
      Well, my family owns two gypsy vanners. They are not aggressive, but they are certainly not gentile. There is a lot of power packed into their little bodies and they don't always realize this, so they will occasionally mow someone over, break the fence scratching an itch or rip their buckets off the wall at feeding time. Ransom is willing to please. Willie is a bit of a sour pus and has moments where he wants nothing to do with anything except his hay pile. He will buck, bite and trample his handler to get out of work sometimes. So try not to rely on generalizations that you read in books or online. They're not always true for every member of the breed.

      I think the funniest thing about gypsy vanners that most people don't know about is that some of them have mustaches. Willie has a handlebar mustache sometimes. He wears it off when he grazes in the summer, but it grows back over the winter and it's the silliest thing.

      Also, while they are a rare breed in the US, they are very common in the UK.

      Ransom: http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y52/kiltsrhott/IMGP1120.jpg
      Willie: http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs45/i/2009/131/b/1/Willie_14_by_Tilt_Stock.jpg

  2. QUESTION:
    General interesting facts?
    No piece of normal-size paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
    # All swans in England are the property of the queen or king
    # The first product to have a bar code scanned was Wrigley's gum.
    #

    Earth is the only planet not named after a pagan God.
    #

    A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
    #

    In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her cheating adulterous husband but she may only do so with her bare hands.
    #

    The new 787 Boeing was revealed on 7/8/07 or July 8th, 07.
    #

    Adding a drop of olive oil and lemon juice to an ice cube then running it over your face gives you better results than some expensive skin care products.
    #

    250 to 300 million cell phones are being used in the U.S
    #

    You will weigh less if you weigh yourself when the moon is full
    #

    Honeybees never sleep
    #

    Carl Sagan was a pot smoker
    #

    5% of the world population lives in the US but 22% of the world's prisons population are held in the US
    #

    80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women
    #

    Horses can't vomit and pigs can't look up in the sky
    #

    San Jose was the original capital of California
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    Most lipstick have fish scales
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    In Arizona it is illegal to have more than two dildos in one house
    #

    Black olives contain on average 10 to 30% more oil than green olives
    #

    Cats are the most popular pets in the United States
    #

    The oldest dog died at the age of 29
    #

    Tamiflu's main natural ingredient is Chinese star anise
    #

    Not only the fur of the tiger is striped but also its skin
    #

    The Germans tried to copy Coca-Cola and came up with the drink Fanta.
    #

    Every day is about 55 billionths of a second longer than the day before it
    #

    Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
    #

    The largest potato was grown in Lebanon by Khalil Semhat near Tyre. The spud was 11.3 kilos (24.9 pounds)
    #

    Footprints of astronauts who landed on the moon should last at least 10 million years since the moon has no atmosphere.
    #

    The national orchestra of Monaco (a nation in Europe) has more individuals than its army.
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    Earthworms have five hearts
    #

    The Himalayan gogi berry contains, weight for weight, more iron than steak, more beta carotene than carrots, more vitamin C than oranges.
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    Paraguay and Moldova are the only countries with national flags with different emblems on the obverse and reverse sides.
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    Fingerprints of koalas are similar (in pattern, shape and size) to the fingerprints of humans
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    Genetically-engineered babies were born first in 2001.
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    If an Amish man has a beard, he is married.
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    If a native Hawaiian woman places the flower on her right ear, she is available. (The bigger the flower, the more desperate)
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    Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
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    Pope Pius II wrote an erotic book "Historia de duobos amantibus" in 1444.
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    SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below
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    Pele has always hated his nickname, which he says sounds like "baby-talk in Portuguese".
    # As of 2006, 200 million blogs were left without updates
    # Two phone books with their pages interlaced require more than 8000 pounds of pressure to separte.
    # Urban birds have developed a short, fast "rap style" of singing, different from their rural counterparts.
    # The lion costume in the film Wizard of Oz was made from real lions.
    # Fathers tend to determine the height of their child, mothers their weight.
    # The Pope's been known to wear red Prada shoes.
    # Donald Rumsfeld was both the youngest and the oldest defense secretary in US history.
    # Coco Chanel started the trend for sun tans in 1923 when she got accidentally burnt on a cruise.
    # Up to 25% of hospital keyboards carry the MRSA infection.
    # In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives.
    # Ghandi didn't allow his wife to take penicillin to save her life from pneumonia but took quinine to save himself from malaria.
    # Sex workers (Prostitutes) in Roman times charged the equivalent price of eight glasses of red wine.
    # As of 2006, more than one in eight people in the United States show signs of addiction to the internet.
    # More than 90% of plane crashes have survivors.
    # The Mona Lisa used to hang on the wall of Napoleon’s bedroom.
    # Barbie's full name is Barbie Millicent Roberts.
    # Eating a packet of crisps a day is equivalent to drinking five liters of cooking oil a year.

    • ANSWER:
      I eat turtles, interesting fact.

  3. QUESTION:
    some highly interesting and useless facts? but are thse true or funny?
    1. The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
    2. Coca-Cola was originally green.

    3. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.

    4. Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.

    5. The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska

    6. The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% (now get this..)

    7. The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%

    8. The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: ,400

    9. The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000 (wonder if this one is still true)

    10. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

    11. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

    12. The youngest pope was 11 years old.

    13. The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.

    14. Those San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.

    15. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
    Spades - King David
    Hearts - Charlemagne
    Clubs -Alexander the Great
    Diamonds - Julius Caesar

    16. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

    17. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

    18. Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

    20. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

    21. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that make them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

    22. Until the St. Louis Rams, no NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Super bowl.

    23. The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-stars Game.

    Q. What occurs more often in December than any other month?
    A. Conception.

    Q. What separates "60 Minutes," on CBS from every other TV show?
    A. No theme song

    Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?
    A. Their birthplace.

    Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested?
    A. Obsession

    Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"?
    A. One thousand

    Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common?
    A. All invented by women.

    Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil?
    A. Honey

    Q. There are more collect calls on this day than any other day of the year?
    A. Father's Day

    Q. What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the most ironic?
    A. He is allergic to carrots

    • ANSWER:
      i saw some of those in an email i got from one of my friends, and some i read in a book. but there were a few i didnt know. love it

      : )

  4. QUESTION:
    Some highly interesting and useless facts? but are thse true or funny?
    1. The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
    2. Coca-Cola was originally green.

    3. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.

    4. Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.

    5. The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska

    6. The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% (now get this..)

    7. The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%

    8. The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: ,400

    9. The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000 (wonder if this one is still true)

    10. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

    11. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

    12. The youngest pope was 11 years old.

    13. The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.

    14. Those San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.

    15. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
    Spades - King David
    Hearts - Charlemagne
    Clubs -Alexander the Great
    Diamonds - Julius Caesar

    16. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

    17. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

    18. Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

    20. I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

    21. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that make them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

    22. Until the St. Louis Rams, no NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Super bowl.

    23. The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-stars Game.

    Q. What occurs more often in December than any other month?
    A. Conception.

    Q. What separates 60 Minutes, on CBS from every other TV show?
    A. No theme song

    Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?
    A. Their birthplace.

    Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested?
    A. Obsession

    Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter A?
    A. One thousand

    Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common?
    A. All invented by women.

    Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil?
    A. Honey

    Q. There are more collect calls on this day than any other day of the year?
    A. Father's Day

    Q. What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the most ironic?
    A. He is allergic to carrots

    • ANSWER:
      Holy cow that is some awesome stuff.

  5. QUESTION:
    HELP ME!!!! RESEARCH PAPER DUE!!!! Percheron Horses?
    What is their history/origin and what are their distinguishing features? What is an interesting fact about them?

    • ANSWER:
      The Percheron Horse originated in the area known as "Le Perche" in the north west of France. Here in 732 A.D. Arabian Horses abandoned by Moors after their defeat in the Battle of Tours were crossed with the massive Flemish stock and from this cross came the Percheron type which has endured for twelve centuries.

      During the Crusades, further infusion of Arab blood was made; Arab sires procured in the Holy Land were bred to the Percheron. In the early 1800's the French Government's Stud at La Pin introduced further Arab blood into the Percheron breed by covering selected mares with two outstanding Arab sires. Now all contemporary Percheron's share this common heritage descending from the foundation stock that originated in Le Perche.

      The Percheron Horse Society of France was founded in 1883, to safeguard the breeding of pure stock and from this small district of Le Perche. Pure-bred breeding stock has been exported all over the world with each nation except U.S.S.R., having an official Breed Association to ensure the preservation of the pure-bred Percheron, and so the Percheron Horse remains genetically pure with registered animals.

      Introduction of the Percheron into England came about at the conclusion of the First World War. Many farmers serving with the British Forces in France became familiar with the Percheron and impressed with its docility, activity and power and ability to work both in mud and on hard surfaces. At the conclusion of activities the Percheron was imported to England as a general workhorse and large numbers were to be seen working through out the arable counties of East Anglia and the Fens in particular and they quickly spread to other parts of the country.

      The formation of the British Percheron Horse Society took place in 1918 and during 1918-1922, 36 stallions and 321 mares were imported from France and the merits of this clean-legged animal were unmistakably recognised, and membership of the society grew steadily. The main aim of the Society was to encourage the breeding of a clean legged draught horse with short legs, short back, ample bone, powerful, active and quick in work with a good temper and easy to handle.

      During World War Two and immediately afterwards, there was a rapid increase in farm mechanisation and a consequent decline in the numbers on heavy horses seen on farms. However, a strong nucleus of Percherons remained on farms in Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Co. Durham, and Hampshire. Enthusiasts have since kept the breed alive and active and now in the 21st century with energy crises and oil shortages, there is a tremendous amount of interest in the breed with many new studs being started in various parts of the country. The demand for the Percheron has been such that export sales have been made to Canada, Australia and many other parts of the world to the extent that the Percheron is now a leading breed in the world of Heavy Horses...

  6. QUESTION:
    A few Lipizzan questions?
    In my Ag class we have recently started our horse unit. Before then I was aware of horses, interested in them, and had slight experience with them. But after spending some time with our teacher's paint mare, and learning more and more about horses, I've taken a bigger interest. One horse in particual, and that horse is the Lipizzan.

    I'm really saddened by the fact that I know very little about this horse, and very little about the Spanish Riding School. I know this question is very generic, but can a few people tell me the history of this great white horse? Current status, use in war, what happened during WWII with them (like why did Nazi Germany take them), current numbers, price, training to ride them.

    Thanks!
    I know this question goes FAR beond my Ag class, that's why I've already spent time looking up these beautiful horses. I was hoping to get some basic info on my questions, and advice on how to learn more on them. And as far as my personal experience goes, I'm taking time put on that too. I'm going to volenteer at a local theropitic ranch to work with the horses (cleaning, grooming, feeding, ect.).
    It's deffinalty not where I want to be, but it's a start. The information I'm looking up (and slight experience with horses) will get me started.

    • ANSWER:
      http://www.amazon.com/White-Stallions-Dancing-Horses-Lipizza/dp/0027590550

      Google, some dressage lessons, The Art of Horsemanship by Xenophon, The Training of Horse and Rider by Alois Podhodjsky, and some shopping around for local-ish farms that feature Lippizzans, and a few years of riding lessons by a qualified instructor (read up on the USDF and Classical haute ecole dressage) should get you where you want to be. Horses require a lot of hands on experience and remember you are dealing with a horse first, a breed type, and his/her individual life experience. The level of this question is much beyond YA! and an ag class. But your interest is fantastic! It is an inspiring topic and I encourage you to learn more, just don't underestimate the time and effort involved.

      Add: Current status: typically a dressage show mount or used specifically for the school in Vienna, entertainment shows (like in Orlando) or for circus riders. Very flexible and compact horses, but can be found with weak joints (some members of this breed make poor jumpers). There are a decent number available for purchase, but rather expensive ,000 (cheapest I have found) and up. I already recommended the books and training to get you pointed to riding the right type/style. But really they are still horses, so you do not have to be a grand prix dressage rider to have or ride a Lippizanner, you just need to not either under or over-mount yourself when finding a horse to suit you... something you will figure out with time. Sounds like you are on a good track :) As for history, just read a breed book or really just read up on it. I'm not into the history, I recall some basic stuff from reading before, but not my breed of interest so not much help there. Books are a great source and there there is a movie about it. Best of luck.

  7. QUESTION:
    History help..... I stink at history and we are allowed to use yahoo for the homework?
    Question 1
    The Tokugawa shogunate took power by adopting what western technology?
    A. stone castles
    B. large sailing ships
    C. improved steel plows
    D. fire arms

    Question 6
    In England, the Stuart monarchs tried to take more power by
    A. abolishing the Anglican Church.
    B. not allowing Catholics in Parliament.
    C. signing the Bill of Rights.
    D. refusing to call Parliament.

    Question 7
    What led to the huge decline in Native American population?
    A. disease
    B. starvation
    C. enslavement
    D. wars

    Question 8
    Which Asian nation earned the nickname the "Hermit Kingdom?"
    A. Philippines
    B. China
    C. Korea
    D. Japan

    Question 9
    In what part of Southeast Asia did Spain have the most influence?
    A. Malaysia
    B. Philippines
    C. Sri Lanka
    D. India

    Question 10
    Which one of the following empires ruled most of India in the 17th century.
    A. British Empire
    B. Mughal Empire
    C. Gupta Empire
    D. Ottoman Empire

    Question 11
    Who established an all-water route to Asia for Portugal?
    A. Luigi da Cadamosto
    B. Vasco da Gama
    C. Pedro Alvares Cabral
    D. Bartholomeu Dias

    Question 12
    What helped Cortez defeat the Aztecs?
    A. Other explorers had tried to conquer the Aztecs, and Cortez was able to learn from their mistakes.
    B. Cortez sent spies to steal the Aztecs' horses before attacking.
    C. Cortez spoke the Aztecs' language.
    D. Rebel native American groups helped the Spanish.

    Question 13
    What country was colonized by the Portuguese?
    A. Dominican Republic
    B. Haiti
    C. Cuba
    D. Brazil

    Question 14
    Who defended Copernicus’ ideas by observation then fought with Church because he would not admit his idea a theory not a fact.
    A. Kepler
    B. Galileo
    C. Bacon
    D. Descartes

    Question 15
    Which two nations were the most interested in converting Native Americans to Christianity?
    A. England and France
    B. England and the Netherlands
    C. Spain and France
    D. Spain and the Netherlands

    Question 16
    Who began a debate with the Catholic Church about the sale of indulgence that sparked the Reformation.
    A. Hernando Cortez
    B. Henry VIII
    C. Martin Luther
    D. John Calvin
    I really stink at history and I have tried to look these up online but I cant really find them its only these questions I found all the rest. ^_^ thanks for the help ^_^
    Its not a loopoll. I really cant find these and they are my last ones please help me

    • ANSWER:
      Nice loophole. I think your teacher was leaning more toward Yahoo search and not answers. I'd help you but it's too much to read. Good Luck!

  8. QUESTION:
    Jews of Iraq? What about them?
    Of course I thought I knew it all back then. I was young, idealistic, and more than willing to put my life at risk for my convictions. It was 1947 and I wasn't quite 18 when the Iraqi authorities caught me for smuggling young Iraqi Jews like myself out of Iraq, into Iran, and then on to the Promised Land of the soon-to-be established Israel.

    I was an Iraqi Jew in the Zionist underground. My Iraqi jailers did everything they could to extract the names of my co-conspirators. Fifty years later, pain still throbs in my right toe-a reminder of the day my captors used pliers to remove my toenails. On another occasion, they hauled me to the flat roof of the prison, stripped me bare on a frigid January day, then threw a bucket of cold water over me. I was left there, chained to the railing, for hours. But I never once considered giving them the information they wanted. I was a true believer.

    My preoccupation during what I refer to as my "two years in hell" was with survival and escape. I had no interest then in the broad sweep of Jewish history in Iraq even though my family had been part of it right from the beginning. We were originally Haroons, a large and important family of the "Babylonian Diaspora." My ancestors had settled in Iraq more than 2,600 years ago-600 years before Christianity, and 1,200 years before Islam. I am descended from Jews who built the tomb of Yehezkel, a Jewish prophet of pre-biblical times. My town, where I was born in 1929, is Hillah, not far from the ancient site of Babylon.

    The original Jews found Babylon, with its nourishing Tigris and Euphrates rivers, to be truly a land of milk, honey, abundance-and opportunity. Although Jews, like other minorities in what became Iraq, experienced periods of oppression and discrimination depending on the rulers of the period, their general trajectory over two and one-half millennia was upward. Under the late Ottoman rule, for example, Jewish social and religious institutions, schools, and medical facilities flourished without outside interference, and Jews were prominent in government and business.

    As I sat there in my cell, unaware that a death sentence soon would be handed down against me, I could not have recounted any personal grievances that my family members would have lodged against the government or the Muslim majority. Our family had been treated well and had prospered, first as farmers with some 50,000 acres devoted to rice, dates and Arab horses. Then, with the Ottomans, we bought and purified gold that was shipped to Istanbul and turned into coinage. The Turks were responsible in fact for changing our name to reflect our occupation-we became Khalaschi, meaning "Makers of Pure."

    I did not volunteer the information to my father that I had joined the Zionist underground. He found out several months before I was arrested when he saw me writing Hebrew and using words and expressions unfamiliar to him. He was even more surprised to learn that, yes, I had decided I would soon move to Israel myself. He was scornful. "You'll come back with your tail between your legs," he predicted.

    About 125,000 Jews left Iraq for Israel in the late 1940s and into 1952, most because they had been lied to and put into a panic by what I came to learn were Zionist bombs. But my mother and father were among the 6,000 who did not go to Israel. Although physically I never did return to Iraq-that bridge had been burned in any event-my heart has made the journey there many, many times. My father had it right.

    I was imprisoned at the military camp of Abu-Greib, about 7 miles from Baghdad. When the military court handed down my sentence of death by hanging, I had nothing to lose by attempting the escape I had been planning for many months.

    It was a strange recipe for an escape: a dab of butter, an orange peel, and some army clothing that I had asked a friend to buy for me at a flea market. I deliberately ate as much bread as I could to put on fat in anticipation of the day I became 18, when they could formally charge me with a crime and attach the 50-pound ball and chain that was standard prisoner issue.

    Later, after my leg had been shackled, I went on a starvation diet that often left me weak-kneed. The pat of butter was to lubricate my leg in preparation for extricating it from the metal band. The orange peel I surreptitiously stuck into the lock on the night of my planned escape, having studied how it could be placed in such a way as to keep the lock from closing.

    As the jailers turned to go after locking up, I put on the old army issue that was indistinguishable from what they were wearing-a long, green coat and a stocking cap that I pulled down over much of my face (it was winter). Then I just quietly opened the door and joined the departing group of soldiers as they strode down the hall and outside, and I offered a "good night" to the shift guard as I left. A friend with a car was waiting to speed me away.

    Later I made my way to the new state of Israel, arriving in May, 1950. My passport had my name in Arabic and English, but the English couldn't capture the "kh" sound, so it was rendered simply as Klaski. At the border, the immigration people applied the English version, which had an Eastern European, Ashkenazi ring to it. In one way, this "mistake" was my key to discovering very soon just how the Israeli caste system worked.

    They asked me where I wanted to go and what I wanted to do. I was the son of a farmer; I knew all the problems of the farm, so I volunteered to go to Dafnah, a farming kibbutz in the high Galilee. I only lasted a few weeks. The new immigrants were given the worst of everything. The food was the same, but that was the only thing that everyone had in common. For the immigrants, bad cigarettes, even bad toothpaste. Everything. I left.

    Then, through the Jewish Agency, I was advised to go to al-Majdal (later renamed Ashkelon), an Arab town about 9 miles from Gaza, very close to the Mediterranean. The Israeli government planned to turn it into a farmers' city, so my farm background would be an asset there.

    When I reported to the Labor Office in al-Majdal, they saw that I could read and write Arabic and Hebrew and they said that I could find a good-paying job with the Military Governor's office. The Arabs were under the authority of these Israeli Military Governors. A clerk handed me a bunch of forms in Arabic and Hebrew. Now it dawned on me. Before Israel could establish its farmers' city, it had to rid al-Majdal of its indigenous Palestinians. The forms were petitions to the United Nations Inspectors asking for transfer out of Israel to Gaza, which was under Egyptian control.

    I read over the petition. In signing, the Palestinian would be saying that he was of sound mind and body and was making the request for transfer free of pressure or duress. Of course, there was no way that they would leave without being pressured to do so. These families had been there hundreds of years, as farmers, primitive artisans, weavers. The Military Governor prohibited them from pursuing their livelihoods, just penned them up until they lost hope of resuming their normal lives. That's when they signed to leave.

    I was there and heard their grief. "Our hearts are in pain when we look at the orange trees that we planted with our own hands. Please let us go, let us give water to those trees. God will not be pleased with us if we leave His trees untended." I asked the Military Governor to give them relief, but he said, "No, we want them to leave."

    I could no longer be part of this oppression and I left. Those Palestinians who didn't sign up for transfers were taken by force-just put in trucks and dumped in Gaza. About four thousand people were driven from al-Majdal in one way or another. The few who remained were collaborators with the Israeli authorities.

    Subsequently, I wrote letters trying to get a government job elsewhere and I got many immediate responses asking me to come for an interview. Then they would discover that my face didn't match my Polish/Ashkenazi name. They would ask if I spoke Yiddish or Polish, and when I said I didn't, they would ask where I came by a Polish name. Desperate for a good job, I would usually say that I thought my great-grandfather was from Poland. I was advised time and again that "we'll give you a call."

    Eventually, three to four years after coming to Israel, I changed my name to Giladi, which is close to the code name, Gilad, that I had in the Zionist underground. Klaski wasn't doing me any good anyway, and my Eastern friends were always chiding me about the name they knew didn't go with my origins as an Iraqi Jew.

    I was disillusioned at what I found in the Promised Land, disillusioned personally, disillusioned at the institutionalized racism, disillusioned at what I was beginning to learn about Zionism's cruelties. The principal interest Israel had in Jews from Islamic countries was as a supply of cheap labor, especially for the farm work that was beneath the urbanized Eastern European Jews. Ben Gurion needed the "Oriental" Jews to farm the thousands of acres of land left by Palestinians who were driven out by Israeli forces in 1948.

    And I began to find out about the barbaric methods used to rid the fledgling state of as many Palestinians as possible. The world recoils today at the thought of bacteriological warfare, but Israel was probably the first to actually use it in the Middle East. In the 1948 war, Jewish forces would empty Arab villages of their populations, often by threats, sometimes by just gunning down a half-dozen unarmed Arabs as examples to the rest. To make sure the Arabs couldn't return to make a fresh life for themselves in these villages, the Israelis put typhus and dysentery bacteria into the water wells.

    Uri Mileshtin, an official historian for the Israeli Defense Force, has written and spoken about the use of bacteriological agents. According to Mileshtin, Moshe Dayan, a division commander at the time, gave orders in 1948 to remove Arabs from their villages, bulldoze their homes, and render water wells unusable with typhus and dysentery bacteria.

    Acre was so situated that it could practically defend itself with one big gun, so the Haganah put bacteria into the spring that fed the town. The spring was called Capri and it ran from the north near a kibbutz. The Haganah put typhus bacteria into the water going to Acre, the people got sick, and the Jewish forces occupied Acre. This worked so well that they sent a Haganah division dressed as Arabs into Gaza, where there were Egyptian forces, and the Egyptians caught them putting two cans of bacteria, typhus and dysentery, into the water supply in wanton disregard of the civilian population. "In war, there is no sentiment," one of the captured Haganah men was quoted as saying.

    My activism in Israel began shortly after I received a letter from the Socialist/Zionist Party asking me to help with their Arabic newspaper. When I showed up at their offices at Central House in Tel Aviv, I asked around to see just where I should report. I showed the letter to a couple of people there and, without even looking at it, they would motion me away with the words, "Room No. 8." When I saw that they weren't even reading the letter, I inquired of several others. But the response was the same, "Room No. 8," with not a glance at the paper I put in front of them.

    So I went to Room 8 and saw that it was the Department of Jews from Islamic Countries. I was disgusted and angry. Either I am a member of the party or I'm not. Do I have a different ideology or different politics because I am an Arab Jew? It's segregation, I thought, just like a Negroes' Department. I turned around and walked out. That was the start of my open protests. That same year I organized a demonstration in Ashkelon against Ben Gurion's racist policies and 10,000 people turned out.

    There wasn't much opportunity for those of us who were second class citizens to do much about it when Israel was on a war footing with outside enemies. After the 1967 war, I was in the Army myself and served in the Sinai when there was continued fighting along the Suez Canal. But the cease-fire with Egypt in 1970 gave us our opening. We took to the streets and organized politically to demand equal rights. If it's our country, if we were expected to risk our lives in a border war, then we expected equal treatment.

    We mounted the struggle so tenaciously and received so much publicity that the Israeli government tried to discredit our movement by calling us "Israel's Black Panthers." They were thinking in racist terms, really, in assuming the Israeli public would reject an organization whose ideology was being compared to that of radical blacks in the United States. But we saw that what we were doing was no different than what blacks in the United States were fighting against-segregation, discrimination, unequal treatment. Rather than reject the label, we adopted it proudly. I had posters of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela and other civil rights activists plastered all over my office.

    With the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the Israeli-condoned Sabra and Shatilla massacres, I had had enough of Israel. I became a United States citizen and made certain to revoke my Israeli citizenship. I could never have written and published my book in Israel, not with the censorship they would impose.

    Even in America, I had great difficulty finding a publisher because many are subject to pressures of one kind or another from Israel and its friends. I ended up paying ,000 from my own pocket to publish Ben Gurion's Scandals: How the Haganah & the Mossad Eliminated Jews, virtually the entire proceeds from having sold my house in Israel.

    I still was afraid that the printer would back out or that legal proceedings would be initiated to stop its publication, like the Israeli government did in an attempt to prevent former Mossad case officer Victor Ostrovsky from publishing his first book. Ben Gurion's Scandals had to be translated into English from two languages. I wrote in Hebrew when I was in Israel and hoped to publish the book there, and I wrote in Arabic when I was completing the book after coming to the U.S. But I was so worried that something would stop publication that I told the printer not to wait for the translations to be thoroughly checked and proofread. Now I realize that the publicity of a lawsuit would just have created a controversial interest in the book.

    I am using bank vault storage for the valuable documents that back up what I have written. These documents, including some that I illegally copied from the archives at Yad Vashem, confirm what I saw myself, what I was told by other witnesses, and what reputable historians and others have written concerning the Zionist bombings in Iraq, Arab peace overtures that were rebuffed, and incidents of violence and death inflicted by Jews on Jews in the cause of creating Israel.

    The Riots of 1941

    If, as I have said, my family in Iraq was not persecuted personally and I knew no deprivation as a member of the Jewish minority, what led me to the steps of the gallows as a member of the Zionist underground? To answer that question, it is necessary to establish the context of the massacre that occurred in Baghdad on June 1, 1941, when several hundred Iraqi Jews were killed in riots involving junior officers of the Iraqi army. I was 12 years of age and many of those killed were my friends. I was angry, and very confused.

    What I didn't know at the time was that the riots most likely were stirred up by the British, in collusion with a pro-British Iraqi leadership.

    With the breakup of the Ottoman Empire following WW I, Iraq came under British "tutelage." Amir Faisal, son of Sharif Hussein who had led the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman sultan, was brought in from Mecca by the British to become King of Iraq in 1921. Many Jews were appointed to key administrative posts, including that of economics minister. Britain retained final authority over domestic and external affairs. Britain's pro-Zionist attitude in Palestine, however, triggered a growing anti-Zionist backlash in Iraq, as it did in all Arab countries. Writing at the end of 1934, Sir Francis Humphreys, Britain's Ambassador in Baghdad, noted that, while before WW I Iraqi Jews had enjoyed a more favorable position than any other minority in the country, since then "Zionism has sown dissension between Jews and Arabs, and a bitterness has grown up between the two peoples which did not previously exist."

    King Faisal died in 1933. He was succeeded by his son Ghazi, who died in a motor car accident in 1939. The crown then passed to Ghazi's 4-year-old son, Faisal II, whose uncle, Abd al-Ilah, was named regent. Abd al-Ilah selected Nouri el-Said as prime minister. El-Said supported the British and, as hatred of the British grew, he was forced from office in March 1940 by four senior army officers who advocated Iraq's independence from Britain. Calling themselves the Golden Square, the officers compelled the regent to name as prime minister Rashid Ali al-Kilani, leader of the National Brotherhood party.

    The time was 1940 and Britain was reeling from a strong German offensive. Al-Kilani and the Golden Square saw this as their opportunity to rid themselves of the British once and for all. Cautiously they began to negotiate for German support, which led the pro-British regent Abd al-Ilah to dismiss al-Kilani in January 1941. By April, however, the Golden Square officers had reinstated the prime minister.

    This provoked the British to send a military force into Basra on April 12, 1941. Basra, Iraq's second largest city, had a Jewish population of 30,000. Most of these Jews made their livings from import/export, money changing, retailing, as workers in the airports, railways, and ports, or as senior government employees.

    On the same day, April 12, supporters of the pro-British regent notified the Jewish leaders that the regent wanted to meet with them. As was their custom, the leaders brought flowers for the regent. Contrary to custom, however, the cars that drove them to the meeting place dropped them off at the site where the British soldiers were concentrated.

    Photographs of the Jews appeared in the following day's newspapers with the banner "Basra Jews Receive British Troops with Flowers." That same day, April 13, groups of angry Arab youths set about to take revenge against the Jews. Several Muslim notables in Basra heard of the plan and calmed things down. Later, it was learned that the regent was not in Basra at all and that the matter was a provocation by his pro-British supporters to bring about an ethnic war in order to give the British army a pretext to intervene.

    The British continued to land more forces in and around Basra. On May 7, 1941, their Gurkha unit, composed of Indian soldiers from that ethnic group, occupied Basra's el-Oshar quarter, a neighborhood with a large Jewish population. The soldiers, led by British officers, began looting. Many shops in the commercial district were plundered. Private homes were broken into. Cases of attempted rape were reported. Local residents, Jews and Muslims, responded with pistols and old rifles, but their bullets were no match for the soldiers' Tommy Guns.

    Afterwards, it was learned that the soldiers acted with the acquiescence, if not the blessing, of their British commanders. (It should be remembered that the Indian soldiers, especially those of the Gurkha unit, were known for their discipline, and it is highly unlikely they would have acted so riotously without orders.) The British goal clearly was to create chaos and to blacken the image of the pro-nationalist regime in Baghdad, thereby giving the British forces reason to proceed to the capital and to overthrow the al-Kilani government.

    Baghdad fell on May 30. Al-Kilani fled to Iran, along with the Golden Square officers. Radio stations run by the British reported that Regent Abd al-Ilah would be returning to the city and that thousands of Jews and others were planning to welcome him. What inflamed young Iraqis against the Jews most, however, was the radio announcer Yunas Bahri on the German station "Berlin," who reported in Arabic that Jews from Palestine were fighting alongside the British against Iraqi soldiers near the city of Faluja. The report was false.

    On Sunday, June 1, unarmed fighting broke out in Baghdad between Jews who were still celebrating their Shabuoth holiday and young Iraqis who thought the Jews were celebrating the return of the pro-British regent. That evening, a group of Iraqis stopped a bus, removed the Jewish passengers, murdered one and fatally wounded a second.

    About 8:30 the following morning, some 30 individuals in military and police uniforms opened fire along el-Amin street, a small downtown street whose jewelry, tailor and grocery shops were Jewish-owned. By 11 a.m., mobs of Iraqis with knives, switchblades and clubs were attacking Jewish homes in the area.

    The riots continued throughout Monday, June 2. During this time, many Muslims rose to defend their Jewish neighbors, while some Jews successfully defended themselves. There were 124 killed and 400 injured, according to a report written by a Jewish Agency messenger who was in Iraq at the time. Other estimates, possibly less reliable, put the death toll higher, as many as 500, with from 650 to 2,000 injured. From 500 to 1,300 stores and more than 1,000 homes and apartments were looted.

    Who was behind the rioting in the Jewish quarter?

    Yosef Meir, one of the most prominent activists in the Zionist underground movement in Iraq, known then as Yehoshafat, claims it was the British. Meir, who now works for the Israeli Defense Ministry, argues that, in order to make it appear that the regent was returning as the savior who would reestablish law and order, the British stirred up the riots against the most vulnerable and visible segment in the city, the Jews. And, not surprisingly, the riots ended as soon as the regent's loyal soldiers entered the capital.

    My own investigations as a journalist lead me to believe Meir is correct. Furthermore, I think his claims should be seen as based on documents in the archives of the Israeli Defense Ministry, the agency that published his book. Yet, even before his book came out, I had independent confirmation from a man I met in Iran in the late Forties.

    His name was Michael Timosian, an Iraqi Armenian. When I met him he was working as a male nurse at the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in Abadan in the south of Iran. On June 2, 1941, however, he was working at the Baghdad hospital where many of the riot victims were brought. Most of these victims were Jews.

    Timosian said he was particularly interested in two patients whose conduct did not follow local custom. One had been hit by a bullet in his shoulder, the other by a bullet in his right knee. After the doctor removed the bullets, the staff tried to change their blood-soaked cloths. But the two men fought off their efforts, pretending to be speechless, although tests showed they could hear. To pacify them, the doctor injected them with anesthetics and, as they were sleeping, Timosian changed their cloths. He discovered that one of them had around his neck an identification tag of the type used by British troops, while the other had tattoos with Indian script on his right arm along with the familiar sword of the Gurkha.

    The next day when Timosian showed up for work, he was told that a British officer, his sergeant and two Indian Gurkha soldiers had come to the hospital early that morning. Staff members overheard the Gurkha soldiers talking with the wounded patients, who were not as dumb as they had pretended. The patients saluted the visitors, covered themselves with sheets and, without signing the required release forms, left the hospital with their visitors.

    Today there is no doubt in my mind that the anti-Jewish riots of 1941 were orchestrated by the British for geopolitical ends. David Kimche is certainly a man who was in a position to know the truth, and he has spoken publicly about British culpability. Kimche had been with British Intelligence during WW II and with the Mossad after the war. Later he became Director General of Israel's Foreign Ministry, the position he held in 1982 when he addressed a forum at the British Institute for International Affairs in London.

    In responding to hostile questions about Israel's invasion of Lebanon and the refugee camp massacres in Beirut, Kimche went on the attack, reminding the audience that there was scant concern in the British Foreign Office when British Gurkha units participated in the murder of 500 Jews in the streets of Baghdad in 1941.

    The Bombings of 1950-1951

    The anti-Jewish riots of 1941 did more than create a pretext for the British to enter Baghdad to reinstate the pro-British regent and his pro-British prime minister, Nouri el-Said. They also gave the Zionists in Palestine a pretext to set up a Zionist underground in Iraq, first in Baghdad, then in other cities such as Basra, Amara, Hillah, Diwaneia, Abril and Karkouk.

    Following WW II, a succession of governments held brief power in Iraq. Zionist conquests in Palestine, particularly the massacre of Palestinians in the village of Deir Yassin, emboldened the anti-British movement in Iraq. When the Iraqi government signed a new treaty of friendship with London in January 1948, riots broke out all over the country. The treaty was quickly abandoned and Baghdad demanded removal of the British military mission that had run Iraq's army for 27 years.

    Later in 1948, Baghdad sent an army detachment to Palestine to fight the Zionists, and when Israel declared independence in May, Iraq closed the pipeline that fed its oil to Haifa's refinery. Abd al-Ilah, however, was still regent and the British quisling, Nouri el-Said, was back as prime minister. I was in the Abu-Greib prison in 1948, where I would remain until my escape to Iran in September 1949.

    Six months later-the exact date was March 19, 1950-a bomb went off at the American Cultural Center and Library in Baghdad, causing property damage and injuring a number of people. The center was a favorite meeting place for young Jews.

    The first bomb thrown directly at Jews occurred on April 8, 1950, at 9:15 p.m. A car with three young passengers hurled the grenade at Baghdad's El-Dar El-Bida Café, where Jews were celebrating Passover. Four people were seriously injured. That night leaflets were distributed calling on Jews to leave Iraq immediately.

    The next day, many Jews, most of them poor with nothing to lose, jammed emigration offices to renounce their citizenship and to apply for permission to leave for Israel. So many applied, in fact, that the police had to open registration offices in Jewish schools and synagogues.

    On May 10, at 3 a.m., a grenade was tossed in the direction of the display window of the Jewish-owned Beit-Lawi Automobile Company, destroying part of the building. No casualties were reported.

    On June 3, 1950, another grenade was tossed from a speeding car in the El-Batawin area of Baghdad where most rich Jews and middle class Iraqis lived. No one was hurt, but following the explosion Zionist activists sent telegrams to Israel requesting that the quota for immigration from Iraq be increased.

    On June 5, at 2:30 a.m., a bomb exploded next to the Jewish-owned Stanley Shashua building on El-Rashid street, resulting in property damage but no casualties.

    On January 14, 1951, at 7 p.m., a grenade was thrown at a group of Jews outside the Masouda Shem-Tov Synagogue. The explosive struck a high-voltage cable, electrocuting three Jews, one a young boy, Itzhak Elmacher, and wounding over 30 others. Following the attack, the exodus of Jews jumped to between 600-700 per day.

    Zionist propagandists still maintain that the bombs in Iraq were set off by anti-Jewish Iraqis who wanted Jews out of their country. The terrible truth is that the grenades that killed and maimed Iraqi Jews and damaged their property were thrown by Zionist Jews.

    Among the most important documents in my book, I believe, are copies of two leaflets published by the Zionist underground calling on Jews to leave Iraq. One is dated March 16, 1950, the other April 8, 1950.

    The difference between these two is critical. Both indicate the date of publication, but only the April 8th leaflet notes the time of day: 4 p.m. Why the time of day? Such a specification was unprecedented. Even the investigating judge, Salaman El-Beit, found it suspicious. Did the 4 p.m. writers want an alibi for a bombing they knew would occur five hours later? If so, how did they know about the bombing? The judge concluded they knew because a connection existed between the Zionist underground and the bomb throwers.

    This, too, was the conclusion of Wilbur Crane Eveland, a former senior officer in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), whom I had the opportunity to meet in New York in 1988. In his book, Ropes of Sand, whose publication the CIA opposed, Eveland writes:

    In attempts to portray the Iraqis as anti-American and to terrorize the Jews, the Zionists planted bombs in the U.S. Information Service library and in synagogues. Soon leaflets began to appear urging Jews to flee to Israel. . . . Although the Iraqi police later provided our embassy with evidence to show that the synagogue and library bombings, as well as the anti-Jewish and anti-American leaflet campaigns, had been the work of an underground Zionist organization, most of the world believed reports that Arab terrorism had motivated the flight of the Iraqi Jews whom the Zionists had "rescued" really just in order to increase Israel's Jewish population."

    Eveland doesn't detail the evidence linking the Zionists to the attacks, but in my book I do. In 1955, for example, I organized in Israel a panel of Jewish attorneys of Iraqi origin to handle claims of Iraqi Jews who still had property in Iraq. One well known attorney, who asked that I not give his name, confided in me that the laboratory tests in Iraq had confirmed that the anti-American leaflets found at the American Cultural Center bombing were typed on the same typewriter and duplicated on the same stenciling machine as the leaflets distributed by the Zionist movement just before the April 8th bombing.

    Tests also showed that the type of explosive used in the Beit-Lawi attack matched traces of explosives found in the suitcase of an Iraqi Jew by the name of Yosef Basri. Basri, a lawyer, together with Shalom Salih, a shoemaker, would be put on trial for the attacks in December 1951 and executed the following month. Both men were members of Hashura, the military arm of the Zionist underground. Salih ultimately confessed that he, Basri and a third man, Yosef Habaza, carried out the attacks.

    By the time of the executions in January 1952, all but 6,000 of an estimated 125,000 Iraqi Jews had fled to Israel. Moreover, the pro-British, pro-Zionist puppet el-Said saw to it that all of their possessions were frozen, including their cash assets. (There were ways of getting Iraqi dinars out, but when the immigrants went to exchange them in Israel they found that the Israeli government kept 50 percent of the value.) Even those Iraqi Jews who had not registered to emigrate, but who happened to be abroad, faced loss of their nationality if they didn't return within a specified time. An ancient, cultured, prosperous community had been uprooted and its people transplanted to a land dominated by East European Jews, whose culture was not only foreign but entirely hateful to them.

    The Ultimate Criminals

    Zionist Leaders.

    From the start they knew that in order to establish a Jewish state they had to expel the indigenous Palestinian population to the neighboring Islamic states and import Jews from these same states.

    * Theodor Herzl, the architect of Zionism, thought it could be done by social engineering. In his diary entry for 12 June 1885, he wrote that Zionist settlers would have to "spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it any employment in our own country."

    * Vladimir Jabotinsky, Prime Minister Netanyahu's ideological progenitor, frankly admitted that such a transfer of populations could only be brought about by force.

    * David Ben Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, told a Zionist Conference in 1937 that any proposed Jewish state would have to "transfer Arab populations out of the area, if possible of their own free will, if not by coercion." After 750,000 Palestinians were uprooted and their lands confiscated in 1948-49, Ben Gurion had to look to the Islamic countries for Jews who could fill the resultant cheap labor market. "Emissaries" were smuggled into these countries to "convince" Jews to leave either by trickery or fear.

    In the case of Iraq, both methods were used: uneducated Jews were told of a Messianic Israel in which the blind see, the lame walk, and onions grow as big as melons; educated Jews had bombs thrown at them.

    A few years after the bombings, in the early 1950s, a book was published in Iraq, in Arabic, titled Venom of the Zionist Viper. The author was one of the Iraqi investigators of the 1950-51 bombings and, in his book, he implicates the Israelis, specifically one of the emissaries sent by Israel, Mordechai Ben-Porat. As soon as the book came out, all copies just disappeared, even from libraries. The word was that agents of the Israeli Mossad, working through the U.S. Embassy, bought up all the books and destroyed them. I tried on three different occasions to have one sent to me in Israel, but each time Israeli censors in the post office intercepted it.

    British Leaders.

    Britain always acted in its best colonial interests. For that reason Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour sent his famous 1917 letter to Lord Rothschild in exchange for Zionist support in WW I. During WW II the British were primarily concerned with keeping their client states in the Western camp, while Zionists were most concerned with the immigration of European Jews to Palestine, even if this meant cooperating with the Nazis. (In my book I document numerous instances of such dealings by Ben Gurion and the Zionist leadership.)

    After WW II the international chessboard pitted communists against capitalists. In many countries, including the United States and Iraq, Jews represented a large part of the Communist party. In Iraq, hundreds of Jews of the working intelligentsia occupied key positions in the hierarchy of the Communist and Socialist parties. To keep their client countries in the capitalist camp, Britain had to make sure these governments had pro-British leaders. And if, as in Iraq, these leaders were overthrown, then an anti-Jewish riot or two could prove a useful pretext to invade the capital and reinstate the "right" leaders.

    Moreover, if the possibility existed of removing the communist influence from Iraq by transferring the whole Jewish community to Israel, well then, why not? Particularly if the leaders of Israel and Iraq conspired in the deed.

    The Iraqi Leaders.

    Both the regent Abd al-Ilah and his prime minister Nouri el- Said took directions from London. Toward the end of 1948, el-Said, who had already met with Israel's Prime Minister Ben Gurion in Vienna, began discussing with his Iraqi and British associates the need for an exchange of populations. Iraq would send the Jews in military trucks to Israel via Jordan, and Iraq would take in some of the Palestinians Israel had been evicting. His proposal included mutual confiscation of property. London nixed the idea as too radical.

    El-Said then went to his back-up plan and began to create the conditions that would make the lives of Iraqi Jews so miserable they would leave for Israel. Jewish government employees were fired from their jobs; Jewish merchants were denied import/export licenses; police began to arrest Jews for trivial reasons. Still the Jews did not leave in any great numbers.

    In September 1949, Israel sent the spy Mordechai Ben-Porat, the one mentioned in Venom of the Zionist Viper, to Iraq. One of the first things Ben-Porat did was to approach el-Said and promise him financial incentives to have a law enacted that would lift the citizenship of Iraqi Jews.

    Soon after, Zionist and Iraqi representatives began formulating a rough draft of the bill, according to the model dictated by Israel through its agents in Baghdad. The bill was passed by the Iraqi parliament in March 1950. It empowered the government to issue one-time exit visas to Jews wishing to leave the country. In March, the bombings began.

    Sixteen years later, the Israeli magazine Haolam Hazeh, published by Uri Avnery, then a Knesset member, accused Ben-Porat of the Baghdad bombings. Ben-Porat, who would become a Knesset member himself, denied the charge, but never sued the magazine for libel. And Iraqi Jews in Israel still call him Morad Abu al-Knabel, Mordechai of the Bombs.

    As I said, all this went well beyond the comprehension of a teenager. I knew Jews were being killed and an organization existed that could lead us to the Promised Land. So I helped in the exodus to Israel. Later, on occasions, I would bump into some of these Iraqi Jews in Israel. Not infrequently they'd express the sentiment that they could kill me for what I had done.

    Opportunities for Peace

    After the Israeli attack on the Jordanian village of Qibya in October, 1953, Ben Gurion went into voluntary exile at the Sedeh Boker kibbutz in the Negev. The Labor party then used to organize many buses for people to go visit him there, where they would see the former prime minister working with sheep. But that was only for show. Really he was writing his diary and continuing to be active behind the scenes. I went on such a tour.

    Ben Gurion's Scandals

    by N.Giladi
    How the Haganah and Mossad eliminated Jews.
    Available in our BookstoreWe were told not to try to speak to Ben Gurion, but when I saw him, I asked why, since Israel is a democracy with a parliament, does it not have a constitution? Ben Gurion said, "Look, boy"-I was 24 at the time-"if we have a constitution, we have to write in it the border of our country. And this is not our border, my dear." I asked, "Then where is the border?" He said, "Wherever the Sahal will come, this is the border." Sahal is the Israeli army.

    Ben Gurion told the world that Israel accepted the partition and the Arabs rejected it. Then Israel took half of the land that was promised to the Arab state. And still he was saying it was not enough. Israel needed more land. How can a country make peace with its neighbors if it wants to take their land? How can a country demand to be secure if it won't say what borders it will be satisfied with? For such a country, peace would be an inconvenience.

    I know now that from the beginning many Arab leaders wanted to make peace with Israel, but Israel always refused. Ben Gurion covered this up with propaganda. He said that the Arabs wanted to drive Israel into the sea and he called Gamal Abdel Nasser the Hitler of the Middle East whose foremost intent was to destroy Israel. He wanted America and Great Britain to treat Nasser like a pariah.

    In 1954, it seemed that America was getting less critical of Nasser. Then during a three-week period in July, several terrorist bombs were set off: at the United States Information Agency offices in Cairo and Alexandria, a British-owned theater, and the central post office in Cairo. An attempt to firebomb a cinema in Alexandria failed when the bomb went off in the pocket of one of the perpetrators. That led to the discovery that the terrorists were not anti-Western Egyptians, but were instead Israeli spies bent on souring the warming relationship between Egypt and the United States in what came to be known as the Lavon Affair.

    Ben Gurion was still living on his kibbutz. Moshe Sharett as prime minister was in contact with Abdel Nasser through the offices of Lord Maurice Orbach of Great Britain. Sharett asked Nasser to be lenient with the captured spies, and Nasser did all that was in his power to prevent a deterioration of the situation between the two countries.

    Then Ben Gurion returned as Defense Minister in February, 1955. Later that month Israeli troops attacked Egyptian military camps and Palestinian refugees in Gaza, killing 54 and injuring many more. The very night of the attack, Lord Orbach was on his way to deliver a message to Nasser, but was unable to get through because of the military action. When Orbach telephoned, Nasser's secretary told him that the attack proved that Israel did not want peace and that he was wasting his time as a mediator.

    In November, Ben Gurion announced in the Knesset that he was willing to meet with Abdel Nasser anywhere and at any time for the sake of peace and understanding. The next morning the Israeli military attacked an Egyptian military camp in the Sabaha region.

    Although Nasser felt pessimistic about achieving peace with Israel, he continued to send other mediators to try. One was through the American Friends Service Committee; another via the Prime Minister of Malta, Dom Minthoff; and still another through Marshall Tito of Yugoslavia.

    One that looked particularly promising was through Dennis Hamilton, editor of The London Times. Nasser told Hamilton that if only he could sit and talk with Ben Gurion for two or three hours, they would be able to settle the conflict and end the state of war between the two countries. When word of this reached Ben Gurion, he arranged to meet with Hamilton. They decided to pursue the matter with the Israeli ambassador in London, Arthur Luria, as liaison. On Hamilton's third trip to Egypt, Nasser met him with the text of a Ben Gurion speech stating that Israel would not give up an inch of land and would not take back a single refugee. Hamilton knew that Ben Gurion with his mouth had undermined a peace mission and missed an opportunity to settle the Israeli-Arab conflict.

    Nasser even sent his friend Ibrahim Izat of the Ruz El Yusuf weekly paper to meet with Israeli leaders in order to explore the political atmosphere and find out why the attacks were taking place if Israel really wanted peace. One of the men Izat met with was Yigal Yadin, a former Chief of Staff of the army who wrote this letter to me on 14 January 1982:

    Dear Mr. Giladi:

    Your letter reminded me of an event which I nearly forgot and of which I remember only a few details.

    Ibrahim Izat came to me if I am not mistaken under the request of the Foreign Ministry or one of its branches; he stayed in my house and we spoke for many hours. I do not remember him saying that he came on a mission from Nasser, but I have no doubt that he let it be understood that this was with his knowledge or acquiescence....

    When Nasser decided to nationalize the Suez Canal in spite of opposition from the British and the French, Radio Cairo announced in Hebrew:

    If the Israeli government is not influenced by the British and the French imperialists, it will eventually result in greater understanding between the two states, and Egypt will reconsider Israel's request to have access to the Suez Canal.

    Israel responded that it had no designs on Egypt, but at that very moment Israeli representatives were in France planning the three-way attack that was to take place in October, 1956.

    All the while, Ben Gurion continued to talk about the Hitler of the Middle East. This brainwashing went on until late September, 1970, when Gamal Abdel Nasser passed away. Then, miracle of miracles, David Ben Gurion told the press:

    A week before he died I received an envoy from Abdel Nasser who asked to meet with me urgently in order to solve the problems between Israel and the Arab world.

    The public was surprised because they didn't know that Abdel Nasser had wanted this all along, but Israel sabotaged it.

    Nasser was not the only Arab leader who wanted to make peace with Israel. There were many others. Brigadier General Abdel Karim Qasem, before he seized power in Iraq in July, 1958, headed an underground organization that sent a delegation to Israel to make a secret agreement. Ben Gurion refused even to see him. I learned about this when I was a journalist in Israel. But whenever I tried to publish even a small part of it, the censor would stamp it "Not Allowed."

    Now, in Netanyahu, we are witnessing another attempt by an Israeli prime minister to fake an interest in making peace. Netanyahu and the Likud are setting Arafat up by demanding that he institute more and more repressive measures in the interest of Israeli "security." Sooner or later I suspect the Palestinians will have had enough of Arafat's strong-arm methods as Israel's quisling-and he'll be killed. Then the Israeli government will say, "See, we were ready to give him everything. You can't trust those Arabs-they kill each other. Now there's no one to even talk to about peace."

    Conclusion

    Alexis de Tocqueville once observed that it is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth. Certainly it has been easier for the world to accept the Zionist lie that Jews were evicted from Muslim lands because of anti-Semitism, and that Israelis, never the Arabs, were the pursuers of peace. The truth is far more discerning: bigger players on the world stage were pulling the strings.

    These players, I believe, should be held accountable for their crimes, particularly when they willfully terrorized, dispossessed and killed innocent people on the altar of some ideological imperative.

    I believe, too, that the descendants of these leaders have a moral responsibility to compensate the victims and their descendants, and to do so not just with reparations, but by setting the historical record straight.

    That is why I established a panel of inquiry in Israel to seek reparations for Iraqi Jews who had been forced to leave behind their property and possessions in Iraq. That is why I joined the Black Panthers in confronting the Israeli government with the grievances of the Jews in Israel who came from Islamic lands. And that is why I have written my book and this article: to set the historical record straight.

    We Jews from Islamic lands did not leave our ancestral homes because of any natural enmity between Jews and Muslims. And we Arabs-I say Arab because that is the language my wife and I still speak at home-we Arabs on numerous occasions have sought peace with the State of the Jews. And finally, as a U.S. citizen and taxpayer, let me say that we Americans need to stop supporting racial discrimination in Israel and the cruel expropriation of lands in the West Bank, Gaza, South Lebanon and the Golan Heights.

    • ANSWER:
      No matter if in Iraq or other places. All people need respect.

      Remeber Lennon sing: IMAGINE.

      Imagine there's no heaven
      It's easy if you try
      No hell below us
      Above us only sky

      Imagine all the people
      Living for today

      Imagine there's no countries
      It isn't hard to do
      Nothing to kill or die for
      And no religion too

      Imagine all the people
      Living life in peace
      You may say,
      I'm a dreamer
      But I'm not the only one
      I hope some day
      You'll join us
      And the world will be as one

      Imagine no possessions
      I wonder if you can
      No need for greed or hunger
      A brotherhood of man

      Imagine all the people
      Sharing all the world

      You may say,
      I'm a dreamer
      But I'm not the only one
      I hope some day
      You'll join us
      And the world will be as one.

  9. QUESTION:
    Christians a critical analysis of the 7 'seals' in Revelation....?
    Christians a critical look at the ‘seals’ in Revelation

    Now I know many people think hat the 7 seals are limited to events prior to the tribulation. However looking at them squarely I realize they are a summary of God’s plan throughout human history. A kind of glimpse of what was to follow the fall.It is a summary of human history

    1 Seal 1 is Satan’s spiritual conquest of man. This has gone on since the fall as we are vulnerable to his wiles and power. To various degrees explicitly and overtly. The fact that he is a white rider is true to his form that belies his intent.

    2. Seal 2 Civil discord and war have all been characteristic of humanity, precipitated by racial prejudice, sectarianism, civil unrest, revolution leading to conflict and war in general

    3 Seal 3 economic hardship, this is obvious because there is famine, there are food and basic necessity shortages. There have been since time immemorial. What’s most interesting is that man never gets his work’s worth or fair share “a quart of wheat for a days wages” kind of sums it up

    4 Seal 4 Death, this is also evident because it is the ultimate finality of physical existence, for all men after the fall are destined to die. The colour of the horse pale suggests mortality through disease and frailty of our physical body. What is very interesting is that Hades following close behind the fourth rider death. This is God telling people that after death there is an afterlife. Many people take Hades to mean hell or some malign metaphor .However it is simply a reference to an afterlife or nether realm for souls. In Christianity this does not mean hell, in Christianity hell is the ‘lake of fire’

    5. Seal 5 The persecution of God believers, this is also true. Throughout history from Abel to Noah to Jacob to Christ , all people for God were persecuted in one way or another. It could take forms of ante-deluvian struggle to remain monotheistic. Later this manifested in anti Semitism and still later persecution of all Christians .This seal speaks most about the persecution of the church since Christ’s crucifixion and also attests to the existence of some heavenly reward despite earthly hardship

    6 Seal 6.I take this to mean the calamities the earth would go through as a whole. It is full of metaphors. The stars falling like figs could mean real cosmic events but could also mean spiritual fall of many people, the fall of the angels. The dark sky could be spiritual darkness. The earthquakes mountains moving from their places could be volcanic eruptions, floods, hurricanes any natural disaster you can think of.

    Seal 7 Most likely with the silence means the real start of the tribulation.

    I am trying to say that all the seals don’t have to happen in any order for the tribulation to take place. I think unlike the trumpets and bowls(though this format can speak for all three metaphorically) the seals have been happening simultaneously throughout human history. So probably only the trumpets and bowls and the rest speak of the 2nd advent

    What do you think?

    • ANSWER:
      I think thats a fascinating view of the seals. Personally, I'm okay with not struggling over Revelations and pondering each and every word. I'm okay with just letting what will happen, happen.

      Perhaps you'll be very dissapointed with your analysis. Or perhaps you'll be right. After all, the only being that knows God is God, and our human reasoning is kinda null and void to his.

      But very good analytical thinking.

  10. QUESTION:
    Suggestions for a high school schedule?
    Next year I will be a sophomore and there is an overwhelming number of choices to make as I fill out my enrollment forms. I am at a large high school so there are many class options. I am most interested in science and hope to become a veterinarian with a focus on biochemistry or immunology. So far this year I have maintained a 4.0 and am currently enrolled in a few advanced classes (not AP, they are not offered to freshmen, just advanced). So far I am planning on my schedule being something like this:
    1) Adv. Algebra II ------------------I am in geometry now, I am a grade level ahead in math
    2) Adv. English 10-----------------I am currently in adv. english 9
    3) AP European history---------will be my first AP class
    4a) Genetics (Semester class)--------highly recommended teacher
    4b) Anatomy and Physiology (semester)---same teacher as genetics
    5) Mind and Body Fitness (Jogging/Yoga)-----------------Last P.E. credit I need for high school :D !
    6) French 2---------------------------currently in french 1
    7) physics--------------this is really the only class I'm not sure of. I'm more into biology and chemistry, not so much physics...however, it is a requirement for state awarded scholarships in Kansas.

    I have some issues to work out regarding the slight fact that there are more classes I want to take then there are times to take them. Still, I feel pretty confident with this schedule for next year. I am considering taking a few courses over the summers so that I have the chance to take them.

    I am wondering what you think in terms of time. I'm not one of those students who are obsessed with school, though I think I also manage to find a bit more enjoyment in it than most people. I do my homework and study a decent amount. I also ride horses-- a lot. On Mon. and Tue., I leave school and go straight to the barn. I get home at about 5:30. On Wed., Thurs., and Fri. (yes, even Friday) I also work at the barn, so I don't get home until 6:30 or so. I also spend a considerable amount of time riding on the weekends.

    Aside from riding, I am active in 4H and a member of Stu Co. I will be able to join more clubs next year and hope to join French club if nothing else. (we have a separate campus for the 9th grade, so while we're in high school, it's hard to be active in extra curricular activities with the rest of the school)

    My friends and I are thinking about a weekly study group because many of us are taking the same classes or classes that others have already taken.

    Is this too much? Will I be able to continue at this level of success with these harder classes?

    • ANSWER:
      Take AP Human Geography instead of AP Euro. It looks good, you learn a bunch of neat things, and it's an easy AP class. Most of it is actually common sense, it's just that you have to take a bunch of notes and study a crapton. AP Euro is HORRIBLY SADISTIC.

  11. QUESTION:
    Information about emancipation in Mississippi.?
    Before I start, I would like to state that I am a sixteen year old female who, in some of your opinions, might be on a "high horse", living in a fantasy world, or trying to grow up too fast. But I would like to state that in fact, I do know the difference between reality and fantasy, I was forced to grow up early since the death of my father two years ago, and I am aware of being with the same person for years at a time when you're young might cause you to miss out on valuable experiences. But, I am content with who I am, what I am doing, and I am also quite intellegent. I would also like to remind you that there is no age requirement for knowing what love is. For almost three years now nonstop (meaning no break-ups or separations), I have been with my boyfriend. We have the highest level of compatibility possible, share the same relationship goal, and care for each other immensely. We are also best friends and are each other's therapists. But sadly, his family does not approve of our relationship. Especially his Mother, who has had a history of drug and alcohol problems. She continually verbally abuses him and I, and often threatens him with physical punishment, even though he is almost 17. My Mother, him, and I feel like it would be in our (and his) best interest to have him legally emancipated, and to have him live with us. He has stayed with us for long periods of time before, and we have gotten along quite well. He has a job, and is a very responsible young man with a good head on his shoulders. However, I have a strong feeling his Mother will not approve of it, so we will most likely have to battle in court. We have many viable reasons that would allow us to win this case, such as the fact that his Mother verbally abuses him, they often have their electricity, water and cable cut off for failure to pay the bills, there are 7 people living in a small 3 bedroom house with two of the children not having rooms (which is illegal, as I learned from my Mom's friend who is a cop), they rarely have enough food to support the family, sometimes they can't provide the proper medical care for my boyfriend (he had a serious case of staph infection on his leg, and his Mom did not take him to the hospital or doctor), I often have to buy him some of the things he needs, such as body wash, shampoo, after-shave, deoderant and sometimes food, I often witness his 19 year old brother beat him up in front of his Mom, and her not do anything. They also have no respect for him. His Mother makes him raise and watch her own children almost 24/7, and his bedroom is used as a storage room despite the fact they have room in their hall closet, attic and large shed. I also have noticed that they possess alcohol in their house, even though his Mother cannot legally have alcohol in the house, due to the fact that she goes to drug court. She also knows that her 19 year old son who is soon to be a father with his girlfriend that lives in the house too smokes marijuana and who knows what else. I would like to have more information about the requirements of emancipation in Mississippi, and how long the process would take. I would also like to know if by chance she does agree to emancipating him, can she just sign a legal paper and get it over with that day? And where can I obtain the legal paper? Also, I need some tips on how to approach her about the situation. Also, is it legal for him to come stay with me for the rest of the summer until we can get him emancipated, even if his Mother says no, because he feels unsafe in his environment? Please only answer if you know for a fact what you are saying is true, and please don't answer to lecture me. I've been there, done that, and I am obviously happy with what I want to pursue in the future.
    Actually, if you knew what you were talking about, the legal age of automatic emancipation in Mississippi is 21. And if you read the question right, or even if you read it at all, I do not wish to be emancipated. I was asking the question about someone else. And obviously, it is real that you may become emancipated in Mississippi, because I have read Mississippi has emancipation laws, and you may be eligible when you turn 16. Thank you, and have a nice day.

    • ANSWER:
      Your question belies your assertion that you know the difference between reality and fantasy.

      Your friend will be emancipated on her 21st birthday, just like all the other Mississippi children.

      You sound like a real piece of work. In my view, you lack credibility.

  12. QUESTION:
    NEED HELP on English poetry question please...Eavan Boland - poet?
    Can you please help me on this question its higher level leaving cert in Ireland question....question: ''The appeal of Eavan bolands poetry'' using the title write an essay what you consider to be the appeal of bolands poetry...support your answer by reference of bolands poetry.....please please i need help on this.....here are poems you can refer to:

    The War Horse by Eavan Boland :

    This dry night, nothing unusual
    About the clip, clop, casual

    Iron of his shoes as he stamps death
    Like a mint on the innocent coinage of earth.

    I lift the window, watch the ambling feather
    Of hock and fetlock, loosed from its daily tether

    In the tinker camp on the Enniskerry Road,
    Pass, his breath hissing, his snuffling head

    Down. He is gone. No great harm is done.
    Only a leaf of our laurel hedge is torn—

    Of distant interest like a maimed limb,
    Only a rose which now will never climb

    The stone of our house, expendable, a mere
    Line of defence against him, a volunteer

    You might say, only a crocus, its bulbous head
    Blown from growth, one of the screamless dead.

    But we, we are safe, our unformed fear
    Of fierce commitment gone; why should we care

    If a rose, a hedge, a crocus are uprooted
    Like corpses, remote, crushed, mutilated?

    He stumbles on like a rumour of war, huge
    Threatening. Neighbours use the subterfuge

    Of curtains. He stumbles down our short street
    Thankfully passing us. I pause, wait,

    Then to breathe relief lean on the sill
    And for a second only my blood is still

    With atavism. That rose he smashed frays
    Ribboned across our hedge, recalling days

    Of burned countryside, illicit braid:
    A cause ruined before, a world betrayed.

    CHILD OF OUR TIME:

    Yesterday I knew no lullaby
    But you have taught me overnight to order
    This song, which takes from your final cry
    Its tune, from your unreasoned end its reason;
    Its rhythm from the discord of your murder,
    Its motive from the fact you cannot listen.

    We who should have known how to instruct
    With rhymes for your waking, rhythms for your sleep
    Names for the animals you took to bed,
    Tales to distract, legends to protect,
    Later an idiom for you to keep
    And living, learn, must learn from you, dead.

    To make our broken images rebuild
    Themselves around your limbs, your broken
    Image, find for your sake whose life our idle
    Talk has cost, a new language. Child
    Of our time, our times have robbed your cradle.
    Sleep in a world your final sleep has woken.

    OUTSIDE HISTORY:

    These are outsiders, always. These stars—
    these iron inklings of an Irish January,
    whose light happened
    thousands of years before
    our pain did; they are, they have always been
    outside history.
    They keep their distance. Under them remains
    a place where you found
    you were human, and
    a landscape in which you know you are mortal.
    And a time to choose between them.
    I have chosen:
    out of myth in history I move to be
    part of that ordeal
    who darkness is
    only now reaching me from those fields,
    those rivers, those roads clotted as
    firmaments with the dead.
    How slowly they die
    as we kneel beside them, whisper in their ear.
    And we are too late. We are always too late.

    THIS MOMENT:

    A neighbourhood.
    At dusk.

    Things are getting ready
    to happen
    out of sight.

    Stars and moths.
    And rinds slanting around fruit.

    But not yet.

    One tree is black.
    One window is yellow as butter.

    A woman leans down to catch a child
    who has run into her arms
    this moment.

    Stars rise.
    Moths flutter.
    Apples sweeten in the dark.

    thanks...
    but i dont really know hat the poet means in these poems?? can someone help?? i think a full answer would help me because it would give me a goo example for the nexy question i get??

    • ANSWER:
      well I'm not going to answer it for you .. How will that help you in the long run like!

      Basically split the question up.. Have an opening topic such as ''Eavan Bolands poetry appeals to me because I find it interesting to read, I can relate to his poetry, etc.
      Then move onto your first paragraph.. mention a point and make sure the paragraph revolves around it eg. Bolands Imagery could be the first paragraph, His Language the second paragraph, and his various themes in the last paragraph. Make sure to Quote and give your personal reponse... the examiners dont want a run down on the poetry THEY ALREADY KNOW WHAT THE POEMS ARE ABOUT they are looking for YOUR thoughts and YOUR opinions!
      The last paragraph is basically a rewording of the first paragraph.. eg. All the above reasons is why Eaven Bolands appeals to me and without doubt I find him the most interesting poet to learn about!

      THE END=]

  13. QUESTION:
    why is COLLINGWOOD so greatly admired?
    Deep down EVERY AFL football supporter, world wide supports Collingwood, its a simple fact of life . Unfortunately many people who "pretend"to hate COLLINGWOOD have had under priveledged and misguided childhoods and were TOLD to follow other teams because of family traditions. History and human nature over hundreds of years has shown that nobody gives much thought or credence to anything "UNIMPORTANT". I really feel for the so called Collingwood haters, just unfortunate, individuals, unable or never allowed, to show their "true" colours, but in their own right,such ' wonderful people' , as Collingwood's greatest "marketers and promoters", it really is just a beautiful thing, because nobody ever talks about anything they are not interested in . Have you ever noticed at the Melbourne Cup, nobody ever crowds around the horse that ran second . You could bet your last dollar though, if it was named COLLINGWOOD, it would be a totally different, and such a beautiful story. Again I say it, Collingwood, a beautiful thing, and a marvelous part of life in Australia !
    Yes cossy i have 3 to be exact.

    • ANSWER:
      What a revalation Deeds!! Now that you put it that way, i can see that you are totally right ;)

      ahhh COLLINGWOOD....brings a smile to my face everytime i hear it!

  14. QUESTION:
    What is wrong with this essay?
    Alexander the Great had a bottomless and extensive influence that lasted for centuries. He used a phalanx, his father’s Macedonian army, to draw the attention of his enemies while preparing the key charge that brought victory. Marching for eleven years and covering twenty-two thousand miles without losing a battle over the strongest foes of his time indicates that he was a legend and a fearless conqueror. What he truthfully wanted in his life was glory and heroism, rather than easy living and wealth. Alexander was a great man rather than a lucky man of his time.
    In 356 B.C, Alexander was born in Pella, an ancient capital of Macedonia, to King Phillip and Olympia, princess of Epirus. At the age of thirteen, his parents hired a personal tutor, Aristotle, a Greek philosopher, logician and scientist, who thought him rhetoric and literature. The young boy had an interest in science, medicine and philosophy. Aristotle’s teaching soon came in play against other philosophers in India. When his father left to Byzantium to battle against rebels, he was left to rule Macedonia as a regent, someone who rules during the absence of a monarch. This position shows that he was already accomplished in battle at the age of sixteen.
    Alexander the Great was a true visionary and leader who fought for larger pieces of territory around Asia, the Middle East and Africa. He was also a military genius of his time who attacked an army of Persians, (under King Darius III) and Greek hoplites, profoundly armed foot soldiers of ancient Greece who were on the Persian’s side and against Macedonians. Alexander’s forces killed 40,000 men and only 110 of his men were killed. When he was in Egypt, he was voluntarily made pharaoh because the Egyptian despised living under the Persian rule. He also conquered the land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers and found a Persian army of one million men. On October 1st, 331 B.C, his Macedonian men slaughtered them. They burned the royal palace and soon, the ancient Persian Empire fell. Of all the battles he had fought in, the greatest battle was against Porus of India, one of the greatest leaders. The Indians were defeated in a brutal battle even though they fought with elephants, animals the Macedonians haven’t seen before. Aristotle’s teaching helped when Alexander debated against Bhramin philosophers, who were famous for their wisdom. He was known as a legendary in India for his philosophy and fearless conquerors.
    With his large, loyal and combative army, he united an area over twenty two million square miles. He setup a common system of currency for his entire realm, established many new cities and colonies, many of them that were named after him. An example of a city that was named after him was Alexandria in Egypt and Alexadropolis in Greece. A foundered city was even named after his dead horse, Bucephalus. Though the Greek culture was already expanding, he continued to expand from the polis to the unknown world of his time. He established many training programs to teach Persians about Greek and Macedonian culture.
    Alexander the Great died in 323 B.C at the age of thirty three years due to a heavy drinking bout and swimming in a river from which he caught a fever. Despite the fact that he was an alcoholic, heavy drinking was a cherished tradition at the Macedonian court. Alexander was “great” in a sense because he had so much influence in history. Greece ruled the near east politically for three hundred years and culturally for one thousand years because of his actions. If he had lived longer, it was possible that he would have politically united the world. Alexander the Great deserved his title as he was very young who conquered most of the world. It was only lost when he died. He was the first king ever to the called “the Great”.

    my teacher said it was awkward it didn't analyze my thesis. help, can you please help me analyze this better with details? thanks

    • ANSWER:
      One important mistake you are making, is you need to define paragraphs, with indentation.
      Thesis should be Alexander was....lucky man ...of his time...
      NEW paragraph.
      That is/should be your thesis.
      Next separate main/most important ideas, make them paragraph.
      Indent new paragraphs.
      Otherwise it's not bad


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Interesting Facts About Horses

Depending on breed, management and environment, the domestic foal today has a life expectancy of 25 to 30 being. It is uncommon, but a few cattle live into their 40s, and, occasionally, afar. The oldest verifiable single was "Old Billy," a steed that lived in the 19th century to the age of 62. The series of sheep varies by breed, but can also be influenced by food. The broad lead for cutoff in height between what is considered a mount and a charger at wisdom is 14.2 hands(h or hh) (147 cm, 58 inches) as specific at the withers. An animal 14.2h or over is typically considered a foal and one minus than 14.2h is a pony.

However, there are exceptions to the general decide. Some slighter mounted breeds who typically engender individual livestock both under and over 14.2h are considered "cattle" regardless of height. Likewise, some pony breeds, such as the Pony of the Americas or the Welsh cob, segment some skin of cattle and individual animals may occasionally mature at over 14.2h, but are still considered ponies. The difference between a stallion and pony is not modestly a height difference, but also a difference in phenotype or appearance. There are noticeable differences in conformation and temperament. Ponies regularly exhibit thicker manes, tails and total coat. They also have proportionally shorter legs, wider barrels, heavy bone, thick necks, and concise heads with broad foreheads.

Light pigs such as Arabians, Morgans, Quarter Horses, Paints and Thoroughbreds commonly range in height from 14.0 (142 cm) to 16.0 hands (163 cm) and can weigh from 386 kg (850 lbs) to about 680 kg (1500 lbs). Heavy or breeze sheep such as the Clydesdale, Belgian, Percheron, and Shire are mostly at least 16.0 (163 cm) to 18.0 hands (183 cm) high and can weigh from about 682 kg (1500 lb) up to about 900 kg (2000 lb). Ponies are less than 14.2h, but can be much slighter, down to the Shetland pony at around 10 hands, and the Falabella which can be the mass of a mode-sized dog. The small mount is as small as, or smaller than, both of these ponies but are classified as very small cattle very than ponies despite their extent. The largest mount in greatest was a Shire mare named Sampson, later renamed Mammoth, foaled in Bedfordshire, England. He stood 21.2 hands high (i.e. 7 ft 2 in or 2.20 m ), and his acme authority was estimated at over 3,300 lb (approx 1.5 tonnes). The current recorded holder for the world's least steed is Thumbelina, a copious mature small stallion precious by dwarfism. She is 17 inches tall and weighs 60 pounds.

Frequently Asked Questions

  1. QUESTION:
    I need interesting facts about horses!?
    Does anyone have any interesting facts about horses that other people may not know about? Apropriate please!

    • ANSWER:
      Don't know if these will be totally useful, just found some quick sites for you:

      http://petcaretips.net/horse-fact.html

      http://www.angelfire.com/tx2/horsecorral/facts.html

      http://www.limebrook.com/horseyfacts.html

  2. QUESTION:
    Does anyone have any unusual facts about horses?
    like i know the thoroughbred is the fastest, and the arabian has the most stamina, but something really unusual?
    whoever has the most interesting facts about horses gets the 10 points.

    • ANSWER:
      Aside from all other animals, horses are unusually difficult to anaesthetize due to their chest wall structure. The don't breathe well lying down so they should be anaesthetized in a harness in an upright position.

      (Cows are easy by comparison)

  3. QUESTION:
    Any Basic, cool, interesting, horse facts?
    I am a massive fan of horses and if you have any facts about them it would be great to know. Thankyou! :D

    • ANSWER:

  4. QUESTION:
    Interesting Horse Facts?
    I am just wondering, what some interesting, lesser known things about horses you know. I just found this and found it kind of interesting!

    "The Horse belongs to the Equus Family. Equus comes from the ancient Greek word meaning "QUICKNESS." Cool, eh?

    So, what do you know that is interesting about horses?

    • ANSWER:
      1.horses had toes before they evolved into hoves
      2.they were once as tall as a fox
      3.camargue horses are whie as adaults but pitch black when babies
      4.you can tell how old a horse is by its teeth( all in by 5yrs old)
      5.horses see yellow beter than any other color
      6. a horses heart is 10 lbs when full grown
      7.the arabian horse has 17 ribs instead of 18 like other horses
      8.a newborn foals legs are 80% of the length of what they will be
      9.light coated horses can get sunburned
      10.a horse eats 7 times his own weight each year
      11.the oldest horse was 62yrs old
      12.if a female horse and male donkey mate the ofspring is known as a mule if a male horse and female donky mate the offspring is known as a hinnie
      13.a horse statue represents how a rider died- two legs raised died in batle 1 leg raised died from battle wounds no legs raised died of natural causes
      14.horses love sweets
      15.horses r awsome! :)

  5. QUESTION:
    Name a really unusual or interesting fact about horses that most people don't know?
    Just for fun :D Most interesting one gets best answer<3

    • ANSWER:
      Horses don't know they can breathe through their mouths...they'll only do this when they're totally distressed.

      Horses don't have a vomit reflex.

      Horses have 'ramped' retinas, so move their head up and down to focus on near and distant objects.

      Horses can't see where they're putting their front feet (so it's your fault when you get your toes trodden on!).

      Horses will turn an ear in the direction they're looking.

      Before birth, foals legs are joined together by the chestnuts.

  6. QUESTION:
    Facts about horses.?
    I need some useful,interesting facts about horses! Please help.

    • ANSWER:
      I would really love to be able to help you more but there is just sooo many topics to cover and I don't know what level of information you need. But here are some "Interesting" facts off the top of my head.
      1)horses can't throw up
      2) collic is the number 1 killer of equines
      3)The chestnuts, located on the inside of the legs, and ergots, located under the fetlock, used to be toes
      4)The average horse lives to around his upper 20's
      5) under 14.2 hands is considered a pony
      These are vert basic facts, let me know if you want something less basic.
      Best wishes!

  7. QUESTION:
    Any Interesting Or Uncommon Facts?
    Hey...I looooovvveee to learn new things about horses. Especially interesting little facts that not a lot of people know. So do you have any interesting facts that you would like to share?

    Mine:
    **Did you know that prehistoric horses had THREE toes? and were the size of medium sized dogs? lol. **cool zoology project informed me of this**

    Not uncommon, but could educate someone:
    **Normal body temperature is 99 - 101 F. A healthy horse's temperature can vary by 3 degrees depending on environmental factors.
    **The pulse rate of an adult horse at rest averages 30-40 beats per minute (bpm). The average pulse rates for young horses are as follows:
    Foals (70-120 bpm), Yearlings (45-60 bpm), 2yr. olds (40-50 bpm).
    **The average respiration rate of an adult horse at rest is 8-15 breaths per minute.
    **Adult female horses (mares) usually have 36 teeth. A mare may have up to 40 teeth if she happens to have any canine teeth, which is possible but less common. Adult males have between 40 and 44 teeth. (These don't include wolf teeth)
    **A horse's upper jaw is wider than its lower jaw.
    **The average horse's heart weighs approximately 9 or 10 pounds. The great American racehorse Secretariat had a heart estimated during his autopsy to weigh 21 pounds.
    **Horses produce approximately 10 gallons of saliva a day.
    **The tallest horse on record was a Shire. He was 21.2 hands (7 feet, 2 inches) tall.
    **The oldest horse on record is "Old Billy," an English barge horse. He was 62 years old when he died, living from 1760 to 1822.
    **The record for the longest jump over water is held by a horse named Something who jumped 27 feet, 6 and 3/4 inches on April 25, 1975 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
    **Horses cannot breathe through their mouths.
    **A horse's splint bones are thought to be remnants of toes from prehistoric horses.

    I really like learning about equine health. =D So....what's your facts?
    mz_ haha. that made me laugh.

    • ANSWER:
      The average horse's head weighs 11.84 pounds.

      A horse's heart weighs about 10 pounds.

      Horses expend more energy lying down than they do when they are standing up.

      Rabbits are more closely related to horses than they are to rats or mice

      Jumping is not a natural activity for horses and left to their own devices most will go around obstructions.

      China not only has the most people in the world, but also has the most Horses with 10,000,000

      EQUINOPHOBIA - Fear of horses.

      HIPPOPHOBIA - Fear of horses.

      If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds re ceived in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

      Horses cannot breathe through their mouths.

      The only horse to defeat the great race horse Man'O War was named 'Upset'

      Showjumping was first televised in Great Britain in 1948 during the Olympic Games in Wembley, London.

      Horses hooves grow approx. 0.25 inches a month and take nearly a year to grow from coronet band to the ground.

      St. George, St. Steven and St. Anthony are patron saints pf the horse

      The Romans are thought to have invented the first horseshoe. Called a hipposandal, it was not nailed on but tied with leather strings and therefore, removable.

      The word 'Dressage' comes from the French verb "dresser" meaning to train.

      The small intestine of the horse is about 75.5 ft. long.

  8. QUESTION:
    what are some horse fun facts?!?
    anything about horses! give me some interesting facts about horses! thank you!!(: ahah

    • ANSWER:
      here's just one:
      ancestors of the horse had 3 toes, and they gradually lost them as they evolved, but one of these toes moved up the leg over time and became the chestnut, or the little pad of skin on the inside of each of their four legs.

  9. QUESTION:
    What are five interesting facts about you?
    Mines would be

    1.I've rode a camel, & a horse
    2.Im allergic to chocolate
    3.I have had a dog, cat, rabbit, frog, bird, fish, & a crab as a pet at sometime
    4.I have been to a NBA game as well as a WWE match
    5. I like black licorice (found out that many ppl hate it)

    • ANSWER:
      1. Dated both guys and girls through highschool.
      2. Love to drink pickle juice out of the jar.
      3. Was great at pick pocketing when I was a kid.
      4. Don't know how to balance my check book.
      5. Like to benge eat on chocolate cake to make myself sick so I won't crave it for several months.

  10. QUESTION:
    what is an interesting fact about great white sharks and sea horses?
    cause i have an ecosystem project and i need help plz

    • ANSWER:
      GREAT WHITE SHARK:

      *Great whites can detect one drop of blood in 25 gallons (100 liters) of water and can sense even tiny amounts of blood in the water up to 3 miles (5 kilometers) away.

      *Highly adapted predators, their mouths are lined with up to 300 serrated, triangular teeth arranged in several rows, and they have an exceptional sense of smell to detect prey. They even have organs that can sense the tiny electromagnetic fields generated by animals. Their main prey items include sea lions, seals, small toothed whales, and even sea turtles, and carrion.

      *They have slate-gray upper bodies to blend in with the rocky coastal sea floor, but get their name from their universally white underbellies. They are streamlined, torpedo-shaped swimmers with powerful tails that can propel them through the water at speeds of up to 15 miles (24 kilometers) per hour. They can even leave the water completely, breaching like whales when attacking prey from underneath.

      *Great whites are the largest predatory fish on Earth. They grow to an average of 15 feet (4.6 meters) in length, though specimens exceeding 20 feet (6 meters) and weighing up to 5,000 pounds (2,268 kilograms) have been recorded.
      http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/great-white-shark.html

      It was usually believed that the white sharks are not very social. However, recent researches have proven that this species is rather social. The sharks of South Africa apparently follow what is known as a dominance hierarchy based on size, genders and the rights of the squatters. The smaller sharks are dominated by the larger ones. The Newcomers are dominated by the resident sharks. They tend to resolve all their problems through the rituals they follow.
      http://www.indianchild.com/great_white_shark.htm

      - The biggest great white shark on record was 23 feet (7 m) long.

      - The great white shark has 3,000 teeth at any one time. A white shark may grow and use over 20,000 teeth in its lifetime.

      - Most great white attacks are not fatal.

      - White sharks cannot swim backwards but they can jump out of the water.

      - No one knows the life span of the great white shark.

      - Great whites do not chew their food.

      - Although it is not the largest shark, the great white is the largest predatory shark.

      - White sharks must swim constantly or they will sink. They have no gas filled swim bladder to keep them afloat like all bony fish do.

      - The white shark can poke its head up out of the water.
      http://www.greatwhitesharklearningzone.com/facts.php

      SEA HORSES:

      - A seahorse is a true fish. It uses its fins to move, just like other fish, and is related to the pipefish.

      - There are about 35 species of seahorse. They all live in warm or tropical water.

      - Seahorses like to live near the shore, often in beds of seaweed, seagrass or coral.

      - Seahorses use their tails to attach themselves to grass, coral or seagrass so they won't float away.

      - Seahorses swim upright.

      - Seahorses have no teeth! They use their snouts to suck up plankton, brine shrimp and fish larva, and swallow them whole.

      - The smallest seahorse is only 2 inches in length; the largest is 14 inches long.

      - The male has a pouch like a kangaroo where the baby seahorses grow until it is time for them to be born. It is the male, not the female seahorse who gives birth and cares for the young seahorses!
      http://www.iseahorses.com/didyouknow.htm

      Seahorses have no teeth and no stomach. Food passes through their digestive systems so quickly, they must eat almost constantly to stay alive.

      Group name: Herd

      http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/fish/sea-horse.html

  11. QUESTION:
    Paraguay vs Japan - 5 interesting facts about both countries you probably DIDN'T know ?
    Paraguay:

    1. Paraguay sounds similar in name to Uraguay yet does not share a border with it. It shares its borders with just 3 south american countries. Bolivia to the NW, Brazil to the North and Argentina to the south namely.

    2. Paraguay's independence occurred in May of 1811 from Spanish rule and occupation.

    3. The term Guarani holds three important aspects in Paraguay. First, Guarani is the name of the tribe that lived in the region before the Europeans came to the land. Second, Guarani is the name of Paraguay's currency. Third, Guarani is one of the two official languages spoken in Paraguay: Spanish is the other.

    4. Paraguay's first railroad was created and built in three years starting in 1858 by British engineers.

    5. The capital of Paraguay is Asuncion and was built and founded in 1537.

    5 Interesting facts of Japan:

    1. Raw horse meat is a popular food in Japan.

    2. Coffee is very popular and Japan imports approximately 85% of Jamaica's annual coffee production.

    3. There are four different writing systems in Japan, romaji, katakana, hiragana, and kanji.

    4. Noodles, especially soba (buckwheat), are slurped very loudly when eaten. It is often said slurping symbolizes the food is delicious, but the slurping also serves to cool down the hot noodles for eating.

    5. Some women in Japan cut their hair after breaking up with a boyfriend / Some men in Japan shave their heads to apologize. (so should the Japanese national side get trounced 6-0 today...)

    and there u have it ! ^_^

    10 facts smarter than you were prior to me telling u them !

    do please share your thoughts and opinions on these facts. We won it 5 times and that too is a fact ! : ))

    p.s - what do u predict the score will be between Paraguay and Japan ?

    all the best

    MR ANFIELD ACES

    ~ " the peoples choice " ~

    ~ " 民族選択 " ~

    • ANSWER:
      I saw two Geisha girls walking across London bridge the other day..!

      Never seen one in real life..!!

  12. QUESTION:
    Ramadan; in the quran are arabian horses mentioned? and what is the significance?
    I'm watching Hidalgo, they were talking about the arabian horses in the quran and something I forgot what they said. But I find this interesting. Any interesting facts or storys id like to hear

    Also if you mention verses from quran please explain them to me. I take things way to literally .
    Heavy-this is Y!Answers not a study group. I don't know what your talking about. Stop smoking crack.

    • ANSWER:
      Chapter No,3 "AL-E-IMRAN (THE FAMILY OF 'IMRAN, THE HOUSE OF 'IMRAN) "
      Verse No, 14
      The love of desires, of women and sons and hoarded treasures of gold and silver and well bred horses and cattle and tilth, is made to seem fair to men; this is the provision of the life of this world; and Allah is He with Whom is the good goal (of life).

      Chapter No, 100 "AL-ADIYAT (THE COURSER, THE CHARGERS) "
      Verses from (1 - 5)
      1- I swear by the runners breathing pantingly,
      2- Then those that produce fire striking,
      3- Then those that make raids at morn,
      4- Then thereby raise dust
      5- Then rush thereby upon an assembly

      Chapter No,8 "AL-ANFAL (SPOILS OF WAR, BOOTY) "
      Verse No,60
      And prepare against them what force you can and horses tied at the frontier, to frighten thereby the enemy of Allah and your enemy and others besides them, whom you do not know (but) Allah knows them; and whatever thing you will spend in Allah's way, it will be paid back to you fully and you shall not be dealt with unjustly.

      Chapter No,16 "AN-NAHL (THE BEE) "
      Verse No, 8
      And (He has created) horses, mules, and donkeys, for you to ride and use for show; and He has created (other) things of which ye have no knowledge.

      wow thanks for teaching me something.

  13. QUESTION:
    Whats an interesting fact about Horseshoes, stirrups, and horse harnesses from along time ago?
    Ok so im doing this essay in my la ss class and i have to write about Horseshoes, stirrups, and horse harnesses.

    thanks, sindy
    so if you can help me then that would be awesome!!

    • ANSWER:
      Among the things I find interesting about horseshoes: among the early attempts at protecting horse's feet were the Roman "hipposandals," which were attached by laces and ties. This is an example in the British Museum: http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pe_prb/i/iron_hipposandal.aspx

      The first stirrups of which historians are aware of were "toe stirrups," mere loops of rope that the rider, who presumably was either barefoot or wore sandals, stuck his big toe through to steady himself: http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi476.htm

      The development of horse harness took some time: early harnesses that were used were around the horse's neck, rather than resting on the shoulders, and the result was that if a horse pulled hard enough, the harness could actually interfere with his breathing-- kind of counter-productive to getting work done. Horse brasses, the decorative ornaments that used to be commonplace as a part of fine coach or draft harnesses, are something of an outgrowth of the use of amulets on horses in pagan times to ward off evil influences: http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/livestock/horses/facts/info_brasses.htm

  14. QUESTION:
    Some interesting facts about Glenn Beck?
    ...turns out he's Black--and Jewish. Now I know this may come as a terrible surprise to our White Supremacist friends, but it's a well known fact that Glenn is the lovechild of Robert "Iceberg Slim" Beck and an unknown Israeli woman. He actually works for the DNC and is a well-known "Trojan horse."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceberg_Slim

    • ANSWER:
      He's also a stoner.

  15. QUESTION:
    General interesting facts?
    No piece of normal-size paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
    # All swans in England are the property of the queen or king
    # The first product to have a bar code scanned was Wrigley's gum.
    #

    Earth is the only planet not named after a pagan God.
    #

    A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
    #

    In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her cheating adulterous husband but she may only do so with her bare hands.
    #

    The new 787 Boeing was revealed on 7/8/07 or July 8th, 07.
    #

    Adding a drop of olive oil and lemon juice to an ice cube then running it over your face gives you better results than some expensive skin care products.
    #

    250 to 300 million cell phones are being used in the U.S
    #

    You will weigh less if you weigh yourself when the moon is full
    #

    Honeybees never sleep
    #

    Carl Sagan was a pot smoker
    #

    5% of the world population lives in the US but 22% of the world's prisons population are held in the US
    #

    80% of all pictures on the internet are of naked women
    #

    Horses can't vomit and pigs can't look up in the sky
    #

    San Jose was the original capital of California
    #

    Most lipstick have fish scales
    #

    In Arizona it is illegal to have more than two dildos in one house
    #

    Black olives contain on average 10 to 30% more oil than green olives
    #

    Cats are the most popular pets in the United States
    #

    The oldest dog died at the age of 29
    #

    Tamiflu's main natural ingredient is Chinese star anise
    #

    Not only the fur of the tiger is striped but also its skin
    #

    The Germans tried to copy Coca-Cola and came up with the drink Fanta.
    #

    Every day is about 55 billionths of a second longer than the day before it
    #

    Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
    #

    The largest potato was grown in Lebanon by Khalil Semhat near Tyre. The spud was 11.3 kilos (24.9 pounds)
    #

    Footprints of astronauts who landed on the moon should last at least 10 million years since the moon has no atmosphere.
    #

    The national orchestra of Monaco (a nation in Europe) has more individuals than its army.
    #

    Earthworms have five hearts
    #

    The Himalayan gogi berry contains, weight for weight, more iron than steak, more beta carotene than carrots, more vitamin C than oranges.
    #

    Paraguay and Moldova are the only countries with national flags with different emblems on the obverse and reverse sides.
    #

    Fingerprints of koalas are similar (in pattern, shape and size) to the fingerprints of humans
    #

    Genetically-engineered babies were born first in 2001.
    #

    If an Amish man has a beard, he is married.
    #

    If a native Hawaiian woman places the flower on her right ear, she is available. (The bigger the flower, the more desperate)
    #

    Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
    #

    Pope Pius II wrote an erotic book "Historia de duobos amantibus" in 1444.
    #

    SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below
    #

    Pele has always hated his nickname, which he says sounds like "baby-talk in Portuguese".
    # As of 2006, 200 million blogs were left without updates
    # Two phone books with their pages interlaced require more than 8000 pounds of pressure to separte.
    # Urban birds have developed a short, fast "rap style" of singing, different from their rural counterparts.
    # The lion costume in the film Wizard of Oz was made from real lions.
    # Fathers tend to determine the height of their child, mothers their weight.
    # The Pope's been known to wear red Prada shoes.
    # Donald Rumsfeld was both the youngest and the oldest defense secretary in US history.
    # Coco Chanel started the trend for sun tans in 1923 when she got accidentally burnt on a cruise.
    # Up to 25% of hospital keyboards carry the MRSA infection.
    # In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives.
    # Ghandi didn't allow his wife to take penicillin to save her life from pneumonia but took quinine to save himself from malaria.
    # Sex workers (Prostitutes) in Roman times charged the equivalent price of eight glasses of red wine.
    # As of 2006, more than one in eight people in the United States show signs of addiction to the internet.
    # More than 90% of plane crashes have survivors.
    # The Mona Lisa used to hang on the wall of Napoleon’s bedroom.
    # Barbie's full name is Barbie Millicent Roberts.
    # Eating a packet of crisps a day is equivalent to drinking five liters of cooking oil a year.

    • ANSWER:
      I eat turtles, interesting fact.

  16. QUESTION:
    Do you have any interesting facts about Gypsy Vanners?
    I love Gypsy Vanners and they're my favourite breed of horse. I know their history - used to pull caravans and used to watch over children, so they are very hardy and stocky, but also very patient and gentle. They are willing to please and naturally very friendly.

    Do you guys have any interesting facts about them that I might not know? :)
    That last poster... Why would you lie like that? They're worth so much because of the way they are. They're gorgeous, hardy so won't easily get hurt meaning less vet bills, they're good for pretty much everything, they're a great all-rounder horse. They're worth a lot here in England too, the only reason they're worth more in the US is because of the currency exchange; nothing more, nothing less. I don't know about the US, but most people only sell their horse if it's an urgent sale and they can't be negotiationg prices and the horse needs to go immediately. Not jsut because of the breed. Maybe you should stop being such an *rsewipe and realise that no one cares about your opinion if it's just going to be stupid and meaningless.

    • ANSWER:
      Well, my family owns two gypsy vanners. They are not aggressive, but they are certainly not gentile. There is a lot of power packed into their little bodies and they don't always realize this, so they will occasionally mow someone over, break the fence scratching an itch or rip their buckets off the wall at feeding time. Ransom is willing to please. Willie is a bit of a sour pus and has moments where he wants nothing to do with anything except his hay pile. He will buck, bite and trample his handler to get out of work sometimes. So try not to rely on generalizations that you read in books or online. They're not always true for every member of the breed.

      I think the funniest thing about gypsy vanners that most people don't know about is that some of them have mustaches. Willie has a handlebar mustache sometimes. He wears it off when he grazes in the summer, but it grows back over the winter and it's the silliest thing.

      Also, while they are a rare breed in the US, they are very common in the UK.

      Ransom: http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y52/kiltsrhott/IMGP1120.jpg
      Willie: http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs45/i/2009/131/b/1/Willie_14_by_Tilt_Stock.jpg

  17. QUESTION:
    Parents: What do you feel is a fair price for a horse camp?
    I asked a similar question a few days ago, but I now have more specific details and wanted to ask again.

    I am doing a two day horse camp in June, 9am-4pm both days (I'm a professional and give lessons on a regular basis with 25 years of equine experience).

    I would like to know your opinions on what a reasonable rate would be to charge for our camp.

    The camp will be open to kids ages 7-12. Kids would learn the basics of safety, feeding, grooming, saddling, riding, and other general care. They would also learn a little about different breeds, colors and markings, and other interesting horse facts. We will work in a craft or two as well and are providing snacks and drinks. Kids would need to bring their own lunch.

    So, in your opinion, how much would you pay for a camp like this? Or what have you paid in the past for other special interest camps (cheerleading, soccer, etc.)?

    My original thought was 0 (that would break down to an hour), but I'm considering going less as I want it to be affordable in this crummy economy.

    If it matters - our barn is a pretty, a little above average, 8 stall barn. Lots of trees, riding areas, and a pond. It's not top of the line, but it is a lovely, serene place to be. We don't have expensive show horses, but we have a variety of kind, kid-friendly, well-cared for horses. We have an indoor facility with a bathroom and kitchen - a place to get out of the heat and take a break if necessary.

    As a parent, what do you think would be an appropriate price?

    • ANSWER:
      It may depend on where you are, and what the "going rate" is for horse camps in your area, if there are any to compare to.

      There are several horse camps in my area that run different lengths of time, but the pricing per hour seems to average -20/hr. My daughter loves horses, but until I got a new job recently I was never able to fork out that kind of money.

      There is another horse camp near us that advertised only 0/week for about 7am to 5pm, and they provide transportation. We have some neighbors who had gone to the horse camp and I figured you couldn't beat that deal, so I sent her for two weeks. During the second week, she came home telling me she had fallen off a horse while trotting and had a couple of skinned areas on her leg and hip. I was upset that horse camp had not informed me of an incident, so I called them but they didn't return my call. The next day I went to the camp to talk to them, and discovered why accidents like that happen - there was one adult "supervising" 16 kids, though at some times of the day they had two adults. It was basically a free-for-all, with little real instruction on how to handle horses. The man in charge told me that she was responsible for ensuring her horse was properly saddled, but she hadn't "tightened the cinch" and that is why she fell off. On one hand, I want kids to learn responsibility and I know horses are large and potentially dangerous animals. But on the other hand, I was upset that there wasn't more supervision or an adult double checking the kids' work. She should have been required to return-demonstrate the skill before being allowed to do this on her own. When you consider that many of the kids there had little to no previous instruction on how to handle horses, I was no longer surprised that an accident had happened.

      I am now considering a horse camp that has a higher ratio of adults to kids and offers real instruction on grooming and saddling, as well as riding. One of the horse camps I am looking at costs 0 for 5 days, 6 hours a day, bring your own lunch. This sounds about the same price as what you are offering, just with different hours. This is far more expensive than what I paid before, but they only have 8 kids at a time and 3-4 adults, so there is much more individual instruction. I can't afford as much time at the horse camp at that price (that probably accounts for the popularity of the cheap horse camp), but I believe it would be worth the investment. I'd rather pay more to know that my daughter is in an environment where safety and instruction is a priority, not just free time with horses.

      The catch is, many people can't afford much for stuff like this. But horses are also more expensive to care for than, say, soccer equipment at a sports camp. I don't how to judge whether a camp is reasonably priced, but I would consider it if there were plenty of adults to supervise and really teach the kids, and as long as the kids spent sufficient time with the horses.

  18. QUESTION:
    What do you feel is a fair price for a 2 day horse camp?
    I asked a similar question a few days ago, but I now have more specific details and wanted to ask again.

    I am doing a two day horse camp in June, 9am-4pm both days (I'm a professional and give lessons on a regular basis with 25 years of equine experience).

    The camp will be open to kids ages 7-12. Kids would learn the basics of safety, feeding, grooming, saddling, riding, and other general care. They would also learn a little about different breeds, colors and markings, and other interesting horse facts. We will work in a craft or two as well and are providing snacks and drinks. Kids would need to bring their own lunch.

    So, in your opinion, how much would you pay for a camp like this? Or what have you paid in the past for other special interest camps (cheerleading, soccer, etc.)?

    My original thought was 0 (that would break down to an hour), but I'm considering going less as I want it to be affordable in this crummy economy.

    If it matters - our barn is a pretty, a little above average, 8 stall barn. Lots of trees, riding areas, and a pond. It's not top of the line, but it is a lovely, serene place to be. We don't have expensive show horses, but we have a variety of kind, kid-friendly, well-cared for horses. We have an indoor facility with a bathroom and kitchen - a place to get out of the heat and take a break if necessary.

    As a parent, what do you think would be an appropriate price?

    • ANSWER:
      I think 0 is actually a very good price. Stick with that, IF the kids are going to be doing lots of riding. It is really the perfect price based on how you and your facility sound, and based on what you will be doing.

      I used to do a day camp for horseback riding, it was 5 days a week, 8am - 5pm and it was 0 (that's 0 per day). But that wasn't a very fair price based on the type of activites we did. We got virtually no riding instruction...just riding...in a big group.

      Seriously your price is perfect. Don't bring it down any more than 0 so long as the kids will be doing a lot of riding and you will be giving them lots of instruction and allowing them hands-on experience with the horses.

      If you will not be teaching them to ride as much as you will be teraching them the basics, like grooming, etc. then I would put it down to like - 0.

  19. QUESTION:
    What Native American Tribe Is/Was This?
    What Native American tribe are/were considered the horse people? And please provide either links or interesting facts about them in general. Also, I am especially interested in their horses- what breeds they were, famous horses, names they called their horses, etc. Thank you.

    • ANSWER:
      I think it was the Apachees !! They were Clint Eastwood's friends. I don't know much about their horses but I do know they named their chief.....Crazy Horse. They are the only environmentalists I know who are helping the earth stay alive and clean. I wish Tonto was still around, he could have given a better answer here.

  20. QUESTION:
    horse biology?
    Hi I am doing a report on the defernts between horses and wolfs and I was wondering if you could help

    all I need you to do is give me any unick interesting facts about horse biology.
    asap if possible
    thanks sooo much,
    Kianna
    and im not an evaloshonisht
    and yes I know one is pray one is pretitor I need a little more detale!

    • ANSWER:
      Horses are designed to eat plants. They have a rumen located just after their small intestine, which helps digest plants and get rid of toxins.

      their front teeth are flat and designed for grabbing grass, while their back teeth are flat, designed for chewing the grass.

      Horses' hooves are the remnant of four fingers, the thumb is where the chestnut on the horse is now. The hoof is the fingertip, the pastern are the next two joints of the fingers. The cannon bone are the metacarpals (or metatarsals) fused. The chestnut is at the top portion of the cannon bone. The upper leg is equivalent to the forearm. Not seen are the equivalent to the upper arm (or thigh in hind legs) and shoulder (or hip) The patella (kneecap) can be seen it it's rightful place, at the point where the hairs go all screwy - where the upper leg meets the stomach.

      Horses eyes are designed for seeing as close to 360 degrees as possible. They have two blind spots - directly behind them and directly infront of their eyes. They can see down their nose, but not what would be infront of their forehead. This is why horses often raise their heads if you are holding something high - so they can see it.

  21. QUESTION:
    17 Interesting Facts.?
    1) When you look at the stars, Your actually looking back in time.

    2) When a star explodes, It leaves a Black Hole.

    3) If you are right handed you will tend to chew your food on your right side, And if your left handed you tend to chew it on your left.

    4) If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. For when a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off.

    5) Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

    6) The Titanic was the first ship to use the SOS signal.

    7) The average person who stops smoking requires one hour less sleep a night.

    8) Laughing lowers levels of stress hormones and strengthens the immune system. Six-year-olds laugh an average of 300 times a day. Adults only laugh 15 to 100 times a day.

    9 The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.

    10) The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it’s already been digested by a bee.

    11) The color blue has a calming effect. It causes the brain to release calming hormones

    12) Every time you sneeze some of your brain cells die.

    13) Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros.

    14) It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it.

    15) Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die.

    16) Colgate faced big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking countries. Colgate translates into the command “go hang yourself.”

    17) If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cause.

    If you have any, Please say them.

    • ANSWER:
      I do! I do!

      1. If you break wind whilst singing 'God Save the Queen' a dolphin will die.

      2. The Eiffel Tower is painted with Marmite twice a year to stop rats from eating it.

      3. Prince Philip is a Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

      4. Bird's Eye fish fingers contain neither fish nor fingers, but they do contain extract of unicorn. The unicorns are reared on a farm owned by Suggs on Jupiter's innermost moon, Io.

      5. The Tower of Babel was constructed of Lego. It was never completed because the builders ran out of yellow pieces.

      6. Hitler was clinically addicted to Dairylea triangles by the age of 15. He tried to take over the rest of the world to stamp out all competitors of Dairylea's cheese-style processed goodness.

      7. Stephen Hawking once posed for the centrefold of popular jazz mag Razzle.

      8. If you read the Bible from cover to cover, backwards and out loud, your feet will shrink by half a size.

      9. Jeremy Kyle is worshipped as a god by the Baka people of West Africa.

      10. Orangutans are allergic to pilchards.

  22. QUESTION:
    interesting facts about japan?
    give me stars XD

    1. Raw horse meat is a popular food in Japan.

    2. Sometimes the trains are so crowded railway staff are employed to cram passengers inside.

    3. Japanese celebrate Christmas, but it is more like Valentine's Day in the western world.

    4. Poorly written English can be found everywhere, including T-shirts and other fashion items.
    5. More than 70% of Japan consists of mountains, including more than 200 volcanoes.

    6. Mt. Fuji, the tallest mountain in Japan, is an active volcano.

    7. Many Japanese do not know the difference between Shintoism and Buddhism.

    8. A nice musk melon, similar to a cantaloupe, may sell for over 0US.

    9. There are four different writing systems in Japan, romaji, katakana, hiragana, and kanji.

    10. Coffee is very popular and Japan imports approximately 85% of Jamaica's annual coffee production.

    11. Japan's literacy rate is almost 100%.

    12. Sumo is Japan's national sport, although baseball is also very popular.

    13. Sumo wrestlers eat a stew called Chankonabe to fatten up. Many restaurants in the Ryogoku district of Tokyo serve this nabe (Japanese word for stew).

    14. Many toilets in Japan have a built-in bidet system for spraying your backside.

    15. When you use the restroom in some one's home, you should put on special bathroom slippers so as not to contaminate the rest of the home.

    16. Noodles, especially soba (buckwheat), are slurped very loudly when eaten. It is often said slurping symbolizes the food is delicious, but the slurping also serves to cool down the hot noodles for eating.

    17. Japan is the world’s largest consumer of Amazon rain forest timber.

    18. Vending machines in Japan sell beer, hot and cold canned coffee, cigarettes, and other items.

    19. When moving into an apartment it is often required to give the landlord a "gift" of money equal to two months' rent.

    20. There are around 1,500 earthquakes every year in Japan.

    21. It is not uncommon to eat rice at every meal, including breakfast.
    22. Average life expectancy in Japan is one of the highest in the world. Japanese people live an average of 4 years longer than Americans.

    23. Japan is the largest automobile producer in the world.

    24. The Japanese language has thousands of foreign loan words, known as gairaigo. These words are often truncated, e.g. personal computer = paso kon. The number of foreign loan words is steadily increasing.

    25. Tsukiji market in Tokyo is the world's largest fish market.

    26. Although whaling is banned by the IWC, Japan still hunts whales under the premise of "research". The harvested whale meat ends up in restaurants and supermarkets.

    27. Some men in Japan shave their heads to apologize.

    28. Some women in Japan cut their hair after breaking up with a boyfriend.

    29. Tokyo has had 24 recorded instances of people either killed or receiving serious skull fractures while bowing to each other with the traditional Japanese greeting.

    30. The first novel, The Tale of Genji, was written in 1007 by a Japanese noble woman, Murasaki Shikibu.

    IF YOU GUYS LIKE IT THERE IS MORE

    • ANSWER:
      number 19 isn't correct, normally its the landlord that gives you the welcoming gift (normally its something cheap, like fruits and house products).

      number 28, I doubt this.

      number 27. in the oldern time they also used to hirakiri (slash their belly) when they bring disgrace or commit sins.

      although some facts weren't nice but over all it was interesting. and yeah it would be awesome if you do this again.

  23. QUESTION:
    What do you feel is a reasonable price for a horse camp?
    I am considering doing a couple of horse camps this summer (I'm a professional and give lessons on a regular basis with 25 years of equine experience).

    I would like to know your opinions on what a reasonable rate would be to charge for our camp.

    This is what I'm considering:
    3 days (like a Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday) from 8am - Noon. OR two days 8am - 4pm. Kids would learn the basics of safety, feeding, grooming, saddling, riding, and other general care. They would also learn a little about different breeds, colors and markings, and other interesting horse facts. We'd probably work in a craft or two as well and would provide a snacks. The age group would probably be 8-12 year olds.

    So, in your opinion, how much would you pay for a camp like this? Or what have you paid in the past for other special interest camps (cheerleading, soccer, etc.)?
    Our place is nice - above average, but not top of the line. Not high dollar show horses, but good natured, well cared for schooling horses. It's a pretty 8 stall barn, nice scenery (lots of trees, pond, green grass). Lots of different areas to ride. We have an indoor "club house" type area with a kitchen and bathroom. We've had local youth groups come to our place for field trips to learn about horses.

    • ANSWER:
      The camps I used to go to were 5 days long. We would get assigned one horse to ride, groom, and feed. We would do a craft a day and one classroom lesson. Then we would have the choice of ring work or going out on a trail. At the end of the week there was an in-house show for the riders that did the camps regularily. For the newer riders they would do a group "class" and weren't judged. Those of us who did it every season (there were camps twice in the summer, over christmas break, and spring break), got to show in whatever our specialty was. I was into speed, so I did barrels and pole bending. They also had an obstacle course and you were judged on how well you manuevered the horse. That was an awesome camp. They charged 0 - 650, it depended on what you wanted it to include. They would let us stay over night for the expensive package, otherwise we would have to be there 7 am - 1:30 pm.

      Then when I moved I went to one camp where you were assigned one horse. You got to ride the last three days of camp, the first two were spent on grooming, tacking, horsemanship, crafts, and classroom activities. That was 0.

      I now teach at camps and for one day they charge . That's from 9 - 11 and you get to ride (with an instructor) and taught basics.

      You might want to make your age range bigger. You can split them up into groups based on age and riding ability. I would say 8 - 15 year olds. You can split the kids up like 8-10, 10 -12, 12-15. And then into groups of begginers, intermediate, advanced.

      If it was a "week" long camp (5 days) I would charge 0 - 500 for what you're planning on doing.

      Hope I helped!

  24. QUESTION:
    Parents: What do you feel is a reasonable price for a horse camp?
    I am considering doing a couple of horse camps this summer (I'm a professional and give lessons on a regular basis with 25 years of equine experience).

    I would like to know your opinions on what a reasonable rate would be to charge for our camp.

    This is what I'm considering:
    3 days (like a Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday) from 8am - Noon. OR two days 8am - 4pm. Kids would learn the basics of safety, feeding, grooming, saddling, riding, and other general care. They would also learn a little about different breeds, colors and markings, and other interesting horse facts. We'd probably work in a craft or two as well and would provide a snacks. The age group would probably be 8-12 year olds.

    So, in your opinion, how much would you pay for a camp like this? Or what have you paid in the past for other special interest camps (cheerleading, soccer, etc.)?
    Yes, they would get to ride also.

    • ANSWER:
      My kids went to a camp like that and I paid 300$ because of the cost of snacks, the amount of days, the possible craft, and all the information that would be learned.
      Would they be riding a horse also?

  25. QUESTION:
    Do you know any great websites about horses?
    Everybody on here seems to know more about horses than the other. I was wondering if any of you can give me a few websites to go to find a few facts interesting or just basic facts.
    Either one thx!
    by the way I am also building a webite about horses. Can you guys give me some catagories. I know a lot but I want to add some new ideas thx a bunch please answer both please

    • ANSWER:
      My favorite horse website is Liverystable.net. It has a lot of horse training articles here:
      http://www.liverystable.net/archive.html

      There's also a forum to talk about horses, which I am a member of:
      http://www.liverystable.net/talk

      There are horses for sale, stallions at stud, professional training advice, and horse articles, a horse blog, and a forum....pretty much everything about horses!

  26. QUESTION:
    what is an interesting fact about animals?
    tell me an interesting fact about dogs, cats, birds, horses, and ferrits

    • ANSWER:
      when a puppy is born he is deaf, blind, and toothless
      also dogs don't sweat by salivating, they sweat through the pads on their feet.
      It's a myth that dogs are color blind, they can actually see in color but not as vividly as humans.

  27. QUESTION:
    A Horse Question.?
    Im looking for the best interesting FACT about horses, just for fun....

    P.s- Must be true

    • ANSWER:
      Horses have two sides to there brain. what you teach a horse on one side you have to teach the same thing to the other side. for example sacking out a horse you have to do this to both sides of the horse so they learn it is ok

  28. QUESTION:
    Ideas needed for horsey magazine artical??
    I want to write up some articals to send in to a couple of horse mags to see if I can get published and even maybe a regular role. But I need some ideas on what to write about that would be new and interesting.

    The two mags I'm thinking of writing into a kids mags, aimed at 6+. (Horsewyse and Horsepower for those in Aus)

    Some of their articals include things like horse care/interesting facts/amazing stories/comics/games and reader input.

    So what do you think these mags would be interestied publishing that hasnt been done 100 times before??

    • ANSWER:
      The thing I always want to see (and some parents) is what to look for in a good horse.
      Maybe you could do the different breeds each time ...alot of people I know who want to buy a certian breed dont know what the standerd is.
      Or possibly you could do what you should look for in a certian aged horse...like a yearling...and what training and handling should already been achived by that age.
      Best of luck!

  29. QUESTION:
    Who knows anything about the greek god Helios?
    Who was his brothers, sisters, parents, horses names, and any other interesting facts.

    • ANSWER:
      Helios is the sun god, the word helium comes from it.

  30. QUESTION:
    Do you love horses? HELP?!?
    I need to know some fun, funny, interesting or amazing facts on horses, i have 2 but everyone seems to know some cool stuff about horses so plz share?

    • ANSWER:
      1.Most foals are born at night under cover of darkness and away from prying eyes and possible danger.

      2.The best time of year for a foal to be born is in the spring

      3.A newborn foal can stand up within an hour of being born

      4.When first born, foals cannot eat grass because their legs are too long to reach it

      5. Oldest horse ever was 62 his name was old billy

      6. smallest horse ever was a stallion he dtood 14 in. tall and was only 20 lb.

      7. tallest-heaviest horse was 7 feet 2.5 inches and weighed 3360 lbs

      8.There is 3 horse years in every human year

      9.The world's horse population is estimated at 75,000,000.

      10.The average lifespan for a horse is around 20 - 25 years

      11.There are over 350 different breeds of horses and ponies

      12.The "OLDEST" horse ever to give birth was a 42 year old Australian brood mare

      13.The average horse's HEAD WEIGHS 11.84 pounds

      14.A horse's "HEART WEIGHS" about 10 pounds

      15.You can tell how old a horse is by how many teeth it has

      16.Did you know that in the old black and white films, when the script said that a horse was to be shot, they really did the shooting on screen

      17.Horses can communicate how they are feeling by their facial expressions

      18.Horses can drink up to ten gallens of water a day

      19.Horses expend more energy lying down than they do when they are standing up

      20.Horses cannot vomit.

      21.Horses cannot breathe through their mouths

  31. QUESTION:
    every saturday im going to these horse back rideing classes and i want to know some stuff please?
    im going horse back rideing every saturday in 2 days it will be my 2nd time going and i kinda want to impress my teacher can anyone give me some cool facts about horses please so i dont look stupid lol please cause i want to impress her cause i asked her a question and she said she likes that cause i ask and want to learn about horses so please give me come cool facts some interesting facts thanks
    ok im sorry guys i guess i kinda put my question in the wrong way i dont mean like impress her i meen like just not feel like the only one there that know nothing about horses but yet i love them to death lol anyway i dont have anything spacific but just something cool ya know and im not sure if its western or not can someone tell me the diffrence please thanks

    • ANSWER:
      random but intresting fact:
      horses once had toes, which eventually moved up their legs to form the chestnut, a patch of skin on their legs.

  32. QUESTION:
    Information about the lusitano horse?
    I'm doing a project about horse breeds, and I wanted to do one on the Lusitano horse. Can someone help me find the country of origin, I'm guessing Spain? I also would like average height, characteristics, behavior, dominant colors, or other interesting facts if anyone has a good website about them, and other horses please let me know. thank you!

    • ANSWER:
      The lusitano horse is from Portugual. Both the Lusitano and the Andalucian are sometimes called Iberian horses, as they originated from the Iberian peninsula.

      The Lusitano derives its name from lusitania, the name which the ancient Romans gave to the part of the Iberian peninsula that corresponds roughly to modern Portugal and part of modern Spain. Lusitanos and Andalusians originally were registered together under the Spanish Stud Book, but the breeds separated in 1960. At that time Portguese breeders sought to strengthen the breed and re-emphasize the distinct qualities of the Lusitano. Famous Portuguese breeders named several notable lines, including the Andrade and Veiga.

      Temperamentally, the Lusitano has a reputation for courage, with a tendency to move forward toward that which threatens, combining calmness with great fire while under saddle. Lusitanos are reputed to be intelligent, to possess a sensible, levelheaded temperament and tendency to bond strongly with humans. They have great balance, and are said to have very comfortable gaits.

      At a maximum of 16hh, the Lusitano stands a little taller than his Spanish cousin and is what is called more 'one the leg' - that is, there is more daylight between his body and the ground.
      Many Lusitanos turn gray with age. They come in a variety of solid colors and usually stand 15 to 16 hands. Palomino, buckskin, and cremello are the rarest hair coat colors, and most sought after.

      Here is a website that may be useful to you: http://www.worldofhorses.co.uk/horses_usa/Breeds/horse_breed_Lusitano_Horse.htm

      Good luck and hope this helped! x

  33. QUESTION:
    your horse? just curious!☺?
    what funny things has your horse done? any interesting facts about them?pictures of your horse?what breed is it? what style do you ride?how long have you had it?whats its name? if you do not have one what is your dream horse? just curious!☺
    to horse champ 223 it was not boring i enjoyed reading all of them it is gunna be hard to choose best answer but if i dont choose you dont feel bad i LOVED all the answers they were funny (i might even just randomly pick a best answer i cant decide)
    to horse champ 223 it was not boring i enjoyed reading all of them it is gunna be hard to choose best answer but if i dont choose you dont feel bad i LOVED all the answers they were funny (i might even just randomly pick a best answer i cant decide)
    to horse champ 223 it was not boring i enjoyed reading all of them it is gunna be hard to choose best answer but if i dont choose you dont feel bad i LOVED all the answers they were funny (i might even just randomly pick a best answer i cant decide)

    • ANSWER:
      My horses do funny things all of the time. I wish I had the video camera ready every time. I have a Jack RUSSELL, that loves one of my spotted horse. They were raised together, T.J. the JRT and Rook the SSH were the best of buddies and still are, it is so funny to see a Little 8 inch red and white spotted dog and a 15.3 hand black and white spotted horse chase each other and play. The dog is 4 now and the horse 6 but they love one another, and it is obvious!
      breeed- TWH & SSH
      style- English & Western, Show & Trail& Sport
      how long- all of my life, since age 3, I have had TWH and age 14 we started the SSH.
      name- the horse I'm talking about is Patches Rookie, I have had him since birth, and the dog is T.J. and I got him at 12 weeks.
      I have my dream horse, after 30 years of looking, training, showing, I have 3 horses that will never leave this 400 acre farm.
      Patches Rookie
      The Power Of Magic
      Patches Dream Maker
      I forgot to add the dog rides the horse, with me leading him, and with me on the horse!

  34. QUESTION:
    HELP ME!!!! RESEARCH PAPER DUE!!!! Percheron Horses?
    What is their history/origin and what are their distinguishing features? What is an interesting fact about them?

    • ANSWER:
      The Percheron Horse originated in the area known as "Le Perche" in the north west of France. Here in 732 A.D. Arabian Horses abandoned by Moors after their defeat in the Battle of Tours were crossed with the massive Flemish stock and from this cross came the Percheron type which has endured for twelve centuries.

      During the Crusades, further infusion of Arab blood was made; Arab sires procured in the Holy Land were bred to the Percheron. In the early 1800's the French Government's Stud at La Pin introduced further Arab blood into the Percheron breed by covering selected mares with two outstanding Arab sires. Now all contemporary Percheron's share this common heritage descending from the foundation stock that originated in Le Perche.

      The Percheron Horse Society of France was founded in 1883, to safeguard the breeding of pure stock and from this small district of Le Perche. Pure-bred breeding stock has been exported all over the world with each nation except U.S.S.R., having an official Breed Association to ensure the preservation of the pure-bred Percheron, and so the Percheron Horse remains genetically pure with registered animals.

      Introduction of the Percheron into England came about at the conclusion of the First World War. Many farmers serving with the British Forces in France became familiar with the Percheron and impressed with its docility, activity and power and ability to work both in mud and on hard surfaces. At the conclusion of activities the Percheron was imported to England as a general workhorse and large numbers were to be seen working through out the arable counties of East Anglia and the Fens in particular and they quickly spread to other parts of the country.

      The formation of the British Percheron Horse Society took place in 1918 and during 1918-1922, 36 stallions and 321 mares were imported from France and the merits of this clean-legged animal were unmistakably recognised, and membership of the society grew steadily. The main aim of the Society was to encourage the breeding of a clean legged draught horse with short legs, short back, ample bone, powerful, active and quick in work with a good temper and easy to handle.

      During World War Two and immediately afterwards, there was a rapid increase in farm mechanisation and a consequent decline in the numbers on heavy horses seen on farms. However, a strong nucleus of Percherons remained on farms in Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Co. Durham, and Hampshire. Enthusiasts have since kept the breed alive and active and now in the 21st century with energy crises and oil shortages, there is a tremendous amount of interest in the breed with many new studs being started in various parts of the country. The demand for the Percheron has been such that export sales have been made to Canada, Australia and many other parts of the world to the extent that the Percheron is now a leading breed in the world of Heavy Horses...

  35. QUESTION:
    FUN QUESTION!!! ....im bored!!?
    http://www.google.ie/imgres?imgurl=http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_CPP7LjnMEdM/SkE5mwW0RpI/AAAAAAAAA9Y/Bn1gsjcqx0s/s320/mr_ed3.gif&imgrefurl=http://americaswhiteboy.blogspot.com/2009/06/13-other-guys-named-ed.html&usg=__mKiv6Evj5Hnn1clPicmc5fa3z8Y=&h=300&w=235&sz=16&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=EDskIyvO6in0_M:&tbnh=172&tbnw=135&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmr%2Bed%2Bthe%2Btalking%2Bhorse%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1026%26bih%3D654%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=142&vpy=249&dur=488&hovh=240&hovw=188&tx=57&ty=117&ei=n_OlTI-xEsjKjAfEhI2sDA&oei=fPOlTLjCIcqBswaThcWsCA&esq=7&page=1&ndsp=15&ved=1t:429,r:5,s:0

    who will be the first person to guess what this horse's name is??

    just incase there is a tie, the person that has the most interesting fact about the horse wins!!!!

    • ANSWER:
      That would be Mr. Ed!! Apparently a string was used on his lower lip to get him to "talk". and later he just caught on to moving his lips when someone in the scene stopped talking!

  36. QUESTION:
    some highly interesting and useless facts? but are thse true or funny?
    1. The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
    2. Coca-Cola was originally green.

    3. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.

    4. Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.

    5. The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska

    6. The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% (now get this..)

    7. The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%

    8. The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: ,400

    9. The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000 (wonder if this one is still true)

    10. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

    11. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

    12. The youngest pope was 11 years old.

    13. The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.

    14. Those San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.

    15. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
    Spades - King David
    Hearts - Charlemagne
    Clubs -Alexander the Great
    Diamonds - Julius Caesar

    16. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

    17. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

    18. Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

    20. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

    21. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that make them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

    22. Until the St. Louis Rams, no NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Super bowl.

    23. The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-stars Game.

    Q. What occurs more often in December than any other month?
    A. Conception.

    Q. What separates "60 Minutes," on CBS from every other TV show?
    A. No theme song

    Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?
    A. Their birthplace.

    Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested?
    A. Obsession

    Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"?
    A. One thousand

    Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common?
    A. All invented by women.

    Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil?
    A. Honey

    Q. There are more collect calls on this day than any other day of the year?
    A. Father's Day

    Q. What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the most ironic?
    A. He is allergic to carrots

    • ANSWER:
      i saw some of those in an email i got from one of my friends, and some i read in a book. but there were a few i didnt know. love it

      : )

  37. QUESTION:
    Some highly interesting and useless facts? but are thse true or funny?
    1. The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
    2. Coca-Cola was originally green.

    3. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.

    4. Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better.

    5. The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska

    6. The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% (now get this..)

    7. The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38%

    8. The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: ,400

    9. The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000 (wonder if this one is still true)

    10. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

    11. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

    12. The youngest pope was 11 years old.

    13. The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer.

    14. Those San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.

    15. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history:
    Spades - King David
    Hearts - Charlemagne
    Clubs -Alexander the Great
    Diamonds - Julius Caesar

    16. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

    17. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

    18. Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.

    20. I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

    21. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that make them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.

    22. Until the St. Louis Rams, no NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Super bowl.

    23. The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League all-stars Game.

    Q. What occurs more often in December than any other month?
    A. Conception.

    Q. What separates 60 Minutes, on CBS from every other TV show?
    A. No theme song

    Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?
    A. Their birthplace.

    Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested?
    A. Obsession

    Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter A?
    A. One thousand

    Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common?
    A. All invented by women.

    Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil?
    A. Honey

    Q. There are more collect calls on this day than any other day of the year?
    A. Father's Day

    Q. What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the most ironic?
    A. He is allergic to carrots

    • ANSWER:
      Holy cow that is some awesome stuff.

  38. QUESTION:
    I need info on these animals 10 pts?
    What interesting facts can you tell me about
    Horse
    White Tiger
    Cameleon
    Turtle
    Elephant
    Brown Bear
    Racoon
    Porkupine (sorry)
    Wolf
    Monkey
    Panda
    Cow
    blue Whale

    If you can help me THANK U SOOOO VERY MUCH!!!

    • ANSWER:
      Horse-You measure a horse's height in hands. Each hand equals four inches. If you say a horse is 16.2 hands high, the 2 stands for 2 fingers.
      White Tiger-Often carries the Chinese mark of wang or king on the forehead.
      Chameleon- A chameleon's tongue can be longer than their body.
      Turtle- Turtles live on every continent except Antarctica.
      Elephant- Despite the size of ears the elephant’s hearing is poor
      Brown Bear- Brown bears have a better sense of smell than a hound dog and can detect food from miles away.
      Raccoon-Young raccoons are the main victims of starvation, since they have very little fat reserves to draw from during food shortages in late winter and early spring.
      Porcupine-Contrary to popular myth, porcupines cannot shoot their quills.
      Wolf-The cubs weigh approximately one pound at birth and cannot see or hear.
      Monkey-Monkeys have an IQ of 174 .
      Panda-Pandas are pink when they are born.
      Cow-It used to take a person 1 hour to milk 6 cows by hand. Today, a person can milk 100 cows in an hour with modern machines.
      Blue Whale-A newborn calf weighs about three tons when it is born and averages approximately twenty-five feet in length.

  39. QUESTION:
    Quarter horse people: what can you tell me about the "Conclusive" and "Investor" lines?
    My 13 year old gelding is out of a Conslusive mare ("Heidi Conclusive") by an Investor stallion ("Invester's Big Bucks.") Apparently, the breeders were pleased with the results, because they bred those two horses again a year later, and my horse has a full sister out there somewhere. I don't know much about those bloodlines, other than that Conclusive was a son of Impressive (and yes, I'm aware of the HYPP gene.) I'd like as many interesting facts and tidbits as people can give me. Specifically, I'd like to know what discipline(s) those lines were bred for, or if they are characterized by any particular personality traits (i.e., did Smokey inherit his butt-headed-ness from one of his ancestors, or is that something he developed all on his own?) I've tried emailing the breeders, but they never responded. I'm not interested in retraining him or anything -- he's strictly a fox hunter and schooling show horse -- but I'm curious.
    I had to laugh when I read Victoria's and Domino's responses. So brattiness is an Impressive trait?! No, he doesn't really have that blocky, Quarter Horse head -- his head's more wedge-shaped. He'd never have made it as a halter horse -- too many subtle conformation flaws -- but he is well-balanced overall, and very athletic.

    I'm going to leave my question up for a couple more days because I'm still hoping to find out something about the "Investor" side of his pedigree; anyone know where I can get more information on that?

    • ANSWER:
      You are lucky to have such a versatile horse! The bloodlines you ask about are noted Halter horses and more western specialty horses than fox hunters.

      Conclusive was an AQHA World Champion stallion. Conclusive (AQHA # 1322925) was a 1977 sorrel AQHA stallion who sired 368 foals including many World Champions. His off-spring includes Hint of Conclusive, Conclusive Leo, Conclusive Win, and Whiskey Conclusive. Conclusive was sired by Impressive.

      Impressive is regarded as one of the most influential stallions in modern Quarter Horses. Impressive (AQHA # 0767246) was a 1969 sorrel AQHA stallion. He was the 1975 AQHA World Champion Aged Halter Stallion. He is credited with developing a very strong line of specialized Halter horses that still maintained the versatility characteristic of the American Quarter Horse. Prior to Impressive, most Quarter Horses were bred to perform and achieve desirable physical characteristics. With over 2,200 foals sired, Impressive was listed on the AQHA All-Time Leading Sires List.

  40. QUESTION:
    wolf biology asap?
    Hi I am doing a report on the defernts between horses and wolfs and I was wondering if you could help

    all I need you to do is give me any unick interesting facts about the wolf's biology.
    asap if possible
    thanks sooo much,

    • ANSWER:
      All creatures need an energy source. They can be autotrophs like plants and photosynthesize from the sun or they can be heterotrophs and eat another organism. Weather it is an herbivore like a horse that eats grass or a carnivore like a wolf that eats mice, herbivores, omnivores, & carnivores are all heterotrophs. They all eat other organisms for energy rather than make it for themselves like plants.

      Non herbivores, like wolfs, digest carbohydrates, protein and fat by enzymatic action in their stomach. This gives them an efficient digestion of their type of food. Their digestive system is short and works rapidly digesting the raw meat and bones. Their teeth are well adapted to puncture and shear meat from the carcass but gives them little ability to chew so they swallow their food in large chunks. Their molars in the upper jaw are modified into blades, or carnassials, which can cut flesh but also have grinding areas to crush bones. They have just the one stomach so they can produce a very acidic environment necessary for starting digestion of lumps of meat and bones. It also destroys harmful bacteria they get when they go back to old kills. The gut is simple and only about five times the length of the animal.

      Ruminants (cattle, sheep and deer) use bacteria in the fore stomachs to digest fiber by fermentation and use enzymatic digestion in the small intestines.

      A horse has energy & protein requirements, as other animals do, but differs in the ordering of their digestive system, falling between a ruminant and a carnivore. Horses digest grain in the fore gut by enzymatic action and hay in the hindgut by fermentation. Horses stomachs work in the reverse order of ruminants. This means they begin digesting protein, & fat like the wolf does but go on to digest the cellulose from the plants they eat and the wolf doesn't. This gives them a much longer digestive system than the wolf at about 100 feet.
      http://ohioline.osu.edu/b762/b762_5.html
      Horses evolved to graze with their heads down at ground level eating grasses for many hours a day, eating about 3% of their body weight each day. Their teeth are shaped to tear plant stems then grind & shred the cell walls before swallowing. This is called grazing dentition.
      http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/livestock/horses/facts/info_digest.htm
      http://www.answers.com/topic/the-ungulates-hoofed-mammals

  41. QUESTION:
    Info. About Dutch Warmbloods?
    I want to know everything about Dutch Warmbloods. I have one, so I'm not stupid, I just want to know more.

    1. I know Totilas is a Dutch Warmblood, but what other famous horses are Dutch Warmbloods?
    2. What disciplines do they excel in?
    3. Do you have a Dutch Warmblood? If so, what do you love the most about it?
    4. Is there an abbreviation for Dutch Warmbloods? There's something that starts with a K that's four or five letters... What is it and what does it stand for?
    5. Any interesting facts about Dutch Warmbloods?

    No rude comments. I am an experienced owner and can handle my filly well, in fact, probably better than most people on Y!A who have horses so don't say I shouldn't have a horse.
    NO RUDE COMMENTS!!!!!!

    Thanks in advance for any KIND answers.

    • ANSWER:
      1. Hickstead, Judgment, Nimmerdor, Contango, Ravel
      2. Dressage and show jumping.
      3. Yes. His cooperative and low key attitude.
      4. DWB is the usual abbreviation in English. KWPN is the acronym for the royal dutch warmblood studbook of the Netherlands. I won't even attempt to write out the words in Dutch.
      5. The symbol for the dutch warmblood breed logo is a lion.

  42. QUESTION:
    Ideas and help please.?
    This isn't a normal "How do i convince my mommy to get me a wee little puppy! i love them so much, and even though we live in an apartment that doesn't allow any dogs, i want to get a great dane!" question. I am looking to get a Chihuahua. My dad would like one too. We have 9 acres, three dogs, five cats and two horses. The chihuahua would sleep inside with me.
    But, i do you guys have any interesting facts about Chihuahua's that i can just throw into conversations with my mom?

    Thanks guys

    • ANSWER:
      it sounds like you have enough pets already, i can't blame your mum for not wanting anymore!. xD

  43. QUESTION:
    Found email from wife’s boyfriend to tell police I’ve hit her in the stomach attempting to cause a miscarriage?
    I found email from my wife’s (we been married 10 month) boyfriend advising her to call the police and tell police that she is pregnant (she is not!) that I’ve punched her in the stomach attempting to cause a miscarriage i.e. attempted murder of an unborn baby. Since the attempted murder has a high bail (75k) I might stay in jail for while! The nice touch in that email that he telling her to first tell my priest and my neighbors that I’ve hit her and I demand an abortion and she refused, then call the police.
    She said she filed a divorce but haven’t served me yet….
    She still lives with me, and refuses to leave; the actual difficulty is we have a 9 month old baby. I feel that I’m in danger living in proximity with her as she can call the police anytime and make that claim, she doesn’t know that I know.
    I don’t want to move out it’s my house, she never paid a dime towards the mortgage

    Other interesting facts about my dear wife’s character are:
    1.She used to own and operate a “Russian-Bride” website she married and divorced for green card and there was a Domestic Violence charge against her first husband that got dismissed.
    2.She worth over 100k in brokerage account (that’s exceeds all W2’s/1099’s she ever got while living in this country)
    3.The boyfriend/sugar-daddy figure that gave her ~2k for airfare allegedly back from Europe where in fact she was in US at that time. When I found that email awhile ago, she told me she did that was because he encourage her to go to expensive divorce lawyers (prior marriage) and now they send her not her X the bill. So she had no choice but to extort from him. Classic “Russian-Bride” move.
    4.Her boyfriend/sugar-daddy put her in his will as a sole heir to a supposed estate that includes a farm with horses, condos by the beach (where someone lives now while he lives overseas). The sugar-daddy sounds like a con-job where my wife’s is the mark but the con is not over yet.
    5.She conceived my baby daughter by lying to me that she is on birth control explicitly.

    What is the best way for:
    1.Baby to be safe.
    2.Me to stay safe (not in jail).
    3.Get her out of my house.
    4.Should I even consider getting her in therapy?
    5.Sell the story to Jerry Springer?

    • ANSWER:
      Print the email for your own records in case you need it for evidence. Second, get the hell out of that house before you are arrested and have to pay legal fees. Three get a legal consultation in case you need him or her in the future.

  44. QUESTION:
    Social Studies Help Please?
    Ok so i have to do a wax museum speech (being Sacajawea) and i need to make my speech longer. It is due on friday and i have done a lot or research and i need some more interesting facts about her life to but in my speech. Please help?

    This is what i have so far.

    I was born in 1784 in Salmon, Idaho and was born into the Shoshoni Tribe. My name means “boat launcher” or “bird woman.” Around twelve years of age I was captured by Hidatsa Indians. I was then sold to a French-Canadian trapper named Toussaint Charbonneau who made me one of his wives. My husband and I lived in the upper Missouri river area which is now North Dakota. In 1804 the Lewis and Clark expedition had camped for the winter at Fort Mandan. Charbonneau was also spending the winter there with me while I was pregnant with my son. My husband was hired to guide Lewis and Clark in the expedition because of his knowledge of the country. He was instructed to bring my baby and I. We were brought along on the expedition because I was a peace symbol. A group traveling with a woman and child were treated with less suspicion than a group of men alone. I was helpful in many ways I found edible plants and was good at telling direction. I was a good translator and was familiar with more than one Indian tribe. Once I was on a capsized boat I was able to save some cargo, including important documents and supplies. I also knew the land very well. My knowledge of the terrain and mountain passes saved weeks of travel time. My ability to speak with native tribes allowed the expedition to keep horses and food along the way. I gave birth to Jean Baptiste on February 11, 1805 at Fort Mandan. Lewis and Clark took me back to the Shoshoni tribe of my childhood. We ran into Shoshoni Indians and they were about to attack but then realized that I was united with my long-lost brother who was one of the Shoshoni chiefs. During the journey Clark became fond of Jean and nicknamed him Pomp or Pompey. He even offered education for him. After I died at Fort Lisa in 1812 at the age of twenty eight of putrid fever, Clark quickly took custody of Jean and raised him in St.Louis.

    • ANSWER:
      Sacagawea -

      Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

      Biography|Name|In entertainment|MemorialsSacagawea was a Shoshone woman who accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition, acting as an interpreter and guide, in their exploration of the Western United States. She traveled...

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Sacagawea - 86k - Cached.

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  45. QUESTION:
    ~dog/horse survey for you!!!!!!!~ :) ?
    whoever gets the closest answers to me is the winner of 10 points. you can either say stuff about your dog or say stuff about your horse.

    DOG
    1. What kind of dog is it?
    2. what color is it?(say all the colors on him/her)
    3. name?
    4. sex?
    5. funny/interesting fact?
    6. dog treat recipes? if any??

    HORSE
    1. name?
    2. breed?
    3. age?
    4. color?
    5. height?
    6. horse treat recipies?
    7. bad habit?interesting fact?
    8. sex?

    Good luck!

    • ANSWER:
      dog
      1: Collie/Lab
      2: Black, little white
      3: Rudy
      4: Girl
      5: She sneezes a lot when shes excited
      6: No, sorry

      horse
      1: Dale
      2: Clidedale
      3: 2
      4: White
      5: N/A
      6: No, sorry
      7: loves to eat apples
      8: boy

  46. QUESTION:
    Horse Help!?
    I have a project. What you are mainly supose to do is write down facts about the SPORT of riding. I cant seem to find any interesting facts about the sport, horseback riding. can you give me some or possibly list any websites I can go to? Thanks!

    • ANSWER:
      The "sport" of riding is, in fact, a number of different sports. Unless you are talking about pure pleasure riding, just taking a horse out on the trails and riding along, you probably need to narrow your search for facts.

      Here are some of the different sports that are done with horses:

      * Polo
      * Foxhunting
      * Showing over fences (hunters)
      * Show jumping (competition to jump over the highest fences in the fastest time)
      * Three-day event: competing on the same horse in a competition that involves dressage, cross-country jumping/endurance, and show jumping.
      * Dressage
      * Endurance riding (competitions like the 100-mile Tevis Cup in California).
      * Steeplechasing (riding in races over fences)
      * Flat racing (like the Kentucky Derby)
      * Reining, cutting, and other Western riding competitions
      * Showing purebred horses like Arabians, Morgans, Saddlebreds, Tennessee Walking Horses and so forth in breed-specific competitions
      * Barrel racing and other gymkhana events
      * Modern Pentathlon, which involves horseback riding

      Good luck!

  47. QUESTION:
    horse colour genetics?
    can someone explain it to me simply? have tried to understand horse colour genetics but have not had much luck.bonus points if u can provide a website.

    this is what i need to know.
    - please name all the different types of genes.
    - you can use abbreviations if you like but please tell me what they stand for before you use them

    for example.

    gene types:
    - gruello (GUO)
    - smokey (SM)
    ....

    one cremello gene + one bay gene = blah blah blah
    one cremello gene + one black gene = blah blah blah

    ....

    one gruello gene + one chestnut gene = blah blah blah

    - also please mention any interesting facts about the combination.
    eg. double diluted gruello + smokey = balh balsaibdsasabjd (combination creates unstable digestive system and foal dies after a couple of days)

    thankyou in advance as i can understand how hard it must be to explain it.
    thanks all for your answers. i particuarly liked the answer jeff gave, explaining simply that all horses have a black or chestnut base colour. and also explaining the dormant gene.

    but....

    could one of you put it in this format.....
    example.

    one chestnut gene + one cremello gene = bay. for example (i know that the product isnt actually bay)

    i am a very visual learner and it would help tremendously if it was put in this way, but i have to say i am impressed with the answers i have been given so far.

    remember, 10 points is up for grabs :)

    • ANSWER:
      Personally I like equinecolor.com at the top their is a tab to horse color.

      Think of color as if you are painting. First you decide the base or bottom coat. Horses have a base coat of chestnut (brown) or black. That is the only two colors of base coat they come in. Thus every horse is brown or black. Everything else just changes where and when those two colors show up.

      Genes are locations on chromosomes where a protein recipe should be. A dominant gene is a recipe for a protein that does what it is supposed to do. A recessive gene has a mistake in the protein which prevents it from doing what it is supposed to do. You have two of each chromosome (same for horses) one of those you got from your father and the other from your mother. Thus for each protein you have two recipes. For the most part the individual genes of horses are simply dominant and recessive genes so if both copies of the recipe (the one from the mother and the one from the father) work (are dominant) then you get the color the dominant gene codes for. If One works and one doesn't you get the color the dominant gene codes for as well. The only way you get the recessive color is if both genes are recessive and thereby the only recipe there is are for proteins that do not work. This is the basic on Mendelian genetics. You must understand that part before proceeding.

      The unstable digestive system is from a homozygous FRAME horse and that is called OLWS. A similar disease occurs from the albino gene, which is why albinism is so rare in horses that it is almost unheard of (it is actually only limited albinism not full albinism).

  48. QUESTION:
    Monolouge Advice/tips?
    Hi.
    So I've got my very first professional audition. It'll be recorded on a camera and sent to the director then if they think I'm good, I go to the audition in London.
    The monolouge is;
    http://www.sallypotter.com/files/Audition%20Scene%20-%20Ginger%20Rosa.pdf

    Anyway, is there any tips you have for me?
    As this is my first professional audition, I'm so scared I'll mess it up.

    a few basic questions I'm not sure on;
    Should I be over dramatic? (like use hand gestures, big facial expressions etc.I'm saying Ginger's part)
    Should I thank the director at the end of the video like say something like, Thanks for this great oppertunity or is that unprofessional. (i heard somewhere it was.)
    should I look directly into the camera, or pretend I'm talking to someone beside me?

    Also one last thing, what type of things should I say about myself? I have to give one interesting fact.
    I was thinking, telling them I horse ride? (because i do obviously, but is this what they mean?)

    Thanks so much in advance!!!
    (and yes, I'm prepared for them telling me i haven't got the part, as I know actor's have to get used to that, I'm just making a big deal because this might only be my chance until I'm older.)
    Thanks to people who have answered so far
    @TheatreDoc I got the audition through my local drama group play, the director was watching in the audience and asked me and 2 other girls to audition. I do know things about theatre acting, however film acting is completely new to me, that's why I seem like an amateur, haha.

    • ANSWER:
      Don't be over dramatic. Film is much more subtle. The camera picks up everything.
      You will probably have a reader with you in the room. Look at the reader. Talk to the reader. Unless they specifically tell you, don't look directly into the camera during the scene.

      You will probably go into the room and say hello and they may talk to you a bit first, or they may not. They'll probably ask you to slate yourself, which means you look directly into the camera and say your name and (if applicable) your agency. If you are younger, they may ask you to say your age. You can ask them what they want.

      When the scene is over, stay "in character" until the camera person stops the camera, or says "scene." Afterwards, you can thank whoever is in the room. Just a simple thank-you will do. No need to say "for this opportunity" because that is, indeed, a sign of an amateur.

      Riding horses is a good tidbit about yourself. You may want to think of a story to go along with it just in case. If you can think of anything else that makes you YOU, add that in as well.

      Have fun!

  49. QUESTION:
    One tip about the horse or horse health/management?
    Thought this would be just a little bit of fun for us horsy people :)

    If everybody who reads this question puts ONE interesting tip/fact that they know about horses, their health and ownership, or even riding (basically anything at all!), we can all come back and look at the answers everybody else has put. Then, everybody will learn something they didn't know before ^^

    Try not to put the same answer as anybody else, but of course it can't be helped if you answer at the same time :p

    I know this should come under Polls and Surveys but in that section we wouldn't get the people with the right interests!

    Enjoy! :D

    • ANSWER:
      This one's kind of interesting:
      Most house insurance companies also offer damages insurance for horses (like if they get on the road and cause an accident or something) for a nominal fee (around dollar per horse per year) as a write-on to your original contract with them if you ask, and this will protect you in the chance of an accident even if your horse doesn't live on your property.

  50. QUESTION:
    Are some people just not cut out to have horses?
    I don't mean those who can't afford them financially, or those who don't have enough time, are abusive to people/animals, etc.

    I mean someone who is genuinely interested in horses, is taking lessons (and has been for a while), wants to learn about them, seems to be financially and emotionally stable... but they just don't quite "get it."

    For a mild example (and example only!!), I know a girl at my barn whose father wants to buy her a horse, and though she comes regularly to lessons (and has for some time), seems to really struggle in her lessons and with horse care on the lesson horses. Sometimes it seems she isn't trying, but others it seems she just really doesn't have a clue, despite our trainers' best efforts (as well as the working student's and myself, who answer any question she has for us).

    She is a very nice and friendly girl, and doesn't seem to intentionally want to do any harm to the horses, but she does have her moments that make me wonder. She seems to forget what needs to happen from one lesson to the next. Things like how to put polos on (despite being shown almost weekly), the fact that her lesson horse needs polos, that baths are necessary in this heat, how her course should go (after saying it back to the trainer), diagonals, how to unhook/adjust various parts of the bridle, how to adjust her stirrups, not to let the horse cut corners, etc. Every week I hear my trainer working on the same problems- almost more to do with *what* she needs to be doing rather than actual equitation/riding problems.
    She is old enough to drive and have a job, so not too young to remember these things from one week to the next.

    I feel badly for her, because I'd love it if anyone who loved horses and had the funds could have one... but I'd want those horses to be safe and comfortable as well! (I also feel badly because it seems her father gets grouchy at her for not progressing any so that he can buy her a horse, so perhaps getting the horse isn't her idea/desire at all, but I can't say for certain.)

    Enough of the storytelling (since it is merely an example, and not a question of whether this particular girl should get a horse since I am not fully informed of her situation), though, and back to the basic question...

    Do you believe that it is possible that a person who loves horses, and wants to learn about them (and does try to learn), can still have a hard enough time understanding basic care and riding principles that they should not own horses?
    horsegirl9 - What is your opinion, then, when their "strengths" are neither in riding or horse care, if those are both "weaknesses"? Say, for example, they are very skilled at math/cooking/networking/etc., but the entire "horses" area is a weakness for them- a poor rider/handler and not competent with care? This is more of what I meant through my question. Of course, anyone may own anything, but is it in the horse's best interest in these cases?

    • ANSWER:
      Oh my gosh! There is a girl at the barn I work and train at who is just like this. But, she tends to confuse every horse that she rides. Maybe there is a horse for people like this, but it is painful to watch. I am a firm believer that every horse "chooses" it's rider. Simply, the right horse has to find her. But I know it is frusterating attempting to teach a child who has no intentions of learning or correcting her ways.


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Observation:

Guys never notice differences in their friend's appearance unless the difference is too obvious (like a very poor haircut that leaves the scalp like a partially mowed lawn). But with girls, it's not the case... Try walking to your friend who is a girl (the phrase girl friend avoided for obvious reasons) with a small stain on your shirt which is usually unnoticeable. Chances are that you would get caught within the first couple of minutes.

Care:

Guys try their best to be caring but come on... they are not designed for that! Girls often tend to care more than what you want them to and often that makes them question every 10-15 seconds about your wellness. If you are down with fever and you let your best friend who is a girl (quite funny to type) know, chances are that you'll end up answering the phone at least 20 times that day!

Frequently Asked Questions

  1. QUESTION:
    Any Basic, cool, interesting, horse facts?
    I am a massive fan of horses and if you have any facts about them it would be great to know. Thankyou! :D

    • ANSWER:

  2. QUESTION:
    Interesting Horse Facts?
    I am just wondering, what some interesting, lesser known things about horses you know. I just found this and found it kind of interesting!

    "The Horse belongs to the Equus Family. Equus comes from the ancient Greek word meaning "QUICKNESS." Cool, eh?

    So, what do you know that is interesting about horses?

    • ANSWER:
      1.horses had toes before they evolved into hoves
      2.they were once as tall as a fox
      3.camargue horses are whie as adaults but pitch black when babies
      4.you can tell how old a horse is by its teeth( all in by 5yrs old)
      5.horses see yellow beter than any other color
      6. a horses heart is 10 lbs when full grown
      7.the arabian horse has 17 ribs instead of 18 like other horses
      8.a newborn foals legs are 80% of the length of what they will be
      9.light coated horses can get sunburned
      10.a horse eats 7 times his own weight each year
      11.the oldest horse was 62yrs old
      12.if a female horse and male donkey mate the ofspring is known as a mule if a male horse and female donky mate the offspring is known as a hinnie
      13.a horse statue represents how a rider died- two legs raised died in batle 1 leg raised died from battle wounds no legs raised died of natural causes
      14.horses love sweets
      15.horses r awsome! :)

  3. QUESTION:
    Any Interesting Or Uncommon Facts?
    Hey...I looooovvveee to learn new things about horses. Especially interesting little facts that not a lot of people know. So do you have any interesting facts that you would like to share?

    Mine:
    **Did you know that prehistoric horses had THREE toes? and were the size of medium sized dogs? lol. **cool zoology project informed me of this**

    Not uncommon, but could educate someone:
    **Normal body temperature is 99 - 101 F. A healthy horse's temperature can vary by 3 degrees depending on environmental factors.
    **The pulse rate of an adult horse at rest averages 30-40 beats per minute (bpm). The average pulse rates for young horses are as follows:
    Foals (70-120 bpm), Yearlings (45-60 bpm), 2yr. olds (40-50 bpm).
    **The average respiration rate of an adult horse at rest is 8-15 breaths per minute.
    **Adult female horses (mares) usually have 36 teeth. A mare may have up to 40 teeth if she happens to have any canine teeth, which is possible but less common. Adult males have between 40 and 44 teeth. (These don't include wolf teeth)
    **A horse's upper jaw is wider than its lower jaw.
    **The average horse's heart weighs approximately 9 or 10 pounds. The great American racehorse Secretariat had a heart estimated during his autopsy to weigh 21 pounds.
    **Horses produce approximately 10 gallons of saliva a day.
    **The tallest horse on record was a Shire. He was 21.2 hands (7 feet, 2 inches) tall.
    **The oldest horse on record is "Old Billy," an English barge horse. He was 62 years old when he died, living from 1760 to 1822.
    **The record for the longest jump over water is held by a horse named Something who jumped 27 feet, 6 and 3/4 inches on April 25, 1975 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
    **Horses cannot breathe through their mouths.
    **A horse's splint bones are thought to be remnants of toes from prehistoric horses.

    I really like learning about equine health. =D So....what's your facts?
    mz_ haha. that made me laugh.

    • ANSWER:
      The average horse's head weighs 11.84 pounds.

      A horse's heart weighs about 10 pounds.

      Horses expend more energy lying down than they do when they are standing up.

      Rabbits are more closely related to horses than they are to rats or mice

      Jumping is not a natural activity for horses and left to their own devices most will go around obstructions.

      China not only has the most people in the world, but also has the most Horses with 10,000,000

      EQUINOPHOBIA - Fear of horses.

      HIPPOPHOBIA - Fear of horses.

      If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds re ceived in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

      Horses cannot breathe through their mouths.

      The only horse to defeat the great race horse Man'O War was named 'Upset'

      Showjumping was first televised in Great Britain in 1948 during the Olympic Games in Wembley, London.

      Horses hooves grow approx. 0.25 inches a month and take nearly a year to grow from coronet band to the ground.

      St. George, St. Steven and St. Anthony are patron saints pf the horse

      The Romans are thought to have invented the first horseshoe. Called a hipposandal, it was not nailed on but tied with leather strings and therefore, removable.

      The word 'Dressage' comes from the French verb "dresser" meaning to train.

      The small intestine of the horse is about 75.5 ft. long.

  4. QUESTION:
    every saturday im going to these horse back rideing classes and i want to know some stuff please?
    im going horse back rideing every saturday in 2 days it will be my 2nd time going and i kinda want to impress my teacher can anyone give me some cool facts about horses please so i dont look stupid lol please cause i want to impress her cause i asked her a question and she said she likes that cause i ask and want to learn about horses so please give me come cool facts some interesting facts thanks
    ok im sorry guys i guess i kinda put my question in the wrong way i dont mean like impress her i meen like just not feel like the only one there that know nothing about horses but yet i love them to death lol anyway i dont have anything spacific but just something cool ya know and im not sure if its western or not can someone tell me the diffrence please thanks

    • ANSWER:
      random but intresting fact:
      horses once had toes, which eventually moved up their legs to form the chestnut, a patch of skin on their legs.

  5. QUESTION:
    Paraguay vs Japan - 5 interesting facts about both countries you probably DIDN'T know ?
    Paraguay:

    1. Paraguay sounds similar in name to Uraguay yet does not share a border with it. It shares its borders with just 3 south american countries. Bolivia to the NW, Brazil to the North and Argentina to the south namely.

    2. Paraguay's independence occurred in May of 1811 from Spanish rule and occupation.

    3. The term Guarani holds three important aspects in Paraguay. First, Guarani is the name of the tribe that lived in the region before the Europeans came to the land. Second, Guarani is the name of Paraguay's currency. Third, Guarani is one of the two official languages spoken in Paraguay: Spanish is the other.

    4. Paraguay's first railroad was created and built in three years starting in 1858 by British engineers.

    5. The capital of Paraguay is Asuncion and was built and founded in 1537.

    5 Interesting facts of Japan:

    1. Raw horse meat is a popular food in Japan.

    2. Coffee is very popular and Japan imports approximately 85% of Jamaica's annual coffee production.

    3. There are four different writing systems in Japan, romaji, katakana, hiragana, and kanji.

    4. Noodles, especially soba (buckwheat), are slurped very loudly when eaten. It is often said slurping symbolizes the food is delicious, but the slurping also serves to cool down the hot noodles for eating.

    5. Some women in Japan cut their hair after breaking up with a boyfriend / Some men in Japan shave their heads to apologize. (so should the Japanese national side get trounced 6-0 today...)

    and there u have it ! ^_^

    10 facts smarter than you were prior to me telling u them !

    do please share your thoughts and opinions on these facts. We won it 5 times and that too is a fact ! : ))

    p.s - what do u predict the score will be between Paraguay and Japan ?

    all the best

    MR ANFIELD ACES

    ~ " the peoples choice " ~

    ~ " 民族選択 " ~

    • ANSWER:
      I saw two Geisha girls walking across London bridge the other day..!

      Never seen one in real life..!!

  6. QUESTION:
    Do you love horses? HELP?!?
    I need to know some fun, funny, interesting or amazing facts on horses, i have 2 but everyone seems to know some cool stuff about horses so plz share?

    • ANSWER:
      1.Most foals are born at night under cover of darkness and away from prying eyes and possible danger.

      2.The best time of year for a foal to be born is in the spring

      3.A newborn foal can stand up within an hour of being born

      4.When first born, foals cannot eat grass because their legs are too long to reach it

      5. Oldest horse ever was 62 his name was old billy

      6. smallest horse ever was a stallion he dtood 14 in. tall and was only 20 lb.

      7. tallest-heaviest horse was 7 feet 2.5 inches and weighed 3360 lbs

      8.There is 3 horse years in every human year

      9.The world's horse population is estimated at 75,000,000.

      10.The average lifespan for a horse is around 20 - 25 years

      11.There are over 350 different breeds of horses and ponies

      12.The "OLDEST" horse ever to give birth was a 42 year old Australian brood mare

      13.The average horse's HEAD WEIGHS 11.84 pounds

      14.A horse's "HEART WEIGHS" about 10 pounds

      15.You can tell how old a horse is by how many teeth it has

      16.Did you know that in the old black and white films, when the script said that a horse was to be shot, they really did the shooting on screen

      17.Horses can communicate how they are feeling by their facial expressions

      18.Horses can drink up to ten gallens of water a day

      19.Horses expend more energy lying down than they do when they are standing up

      20.Horses cannot vomit.

      21.Horses cannot breathe through their mouths

  7. QUESTION:
    interesting facts about japan?
    give me stars XD

    1. Raw horse meat is a popular food in Japan.

    2. Sometimes the trains are so crowded railway staff are employed to cram passengers inside.

    3. Japanese celebrate Christmas, but it is more like Valentine's Day in the western world.

    4. Poorly written English can be found everywhere, including T-shirts and other fashion items.
    5. More than 70% of Japan consists of mountains, including more than 200 volcanoes.

    6. Mt. Fuji, the tallest mountain in Japan, is an active volcano.

    7. Many Japanese do not know the difference between Shintoism and Buddhism.

    8. A nice musk melon, similar to a cantaloupe, may sell for over 0US.

    9. There are four different writing systems in Japan, romaji, katakana, hiragana, and kanji.

    10. Coffee is very popular and Japan imports approximately 85% of Jamaica's annual coffee production.

    11. Japan's literacy rate is almost 100%.

    12. Sumo is Japan's national sport, although baseball is also very popular.

    13. Sumo wrestlers eat a stew called Chankonabe to fatten up. Many restaurants in the Ryogoku district of Tokyo serve this nabe (Japanese word for stew).

    14. Many toilets in Japan have a built-in bidet system for spraying your backside.

    15. When you use the restroom in some one's home, you should put on special bathroom slippers so as not to contaminate the rest of the home.

    16. Noodles, especially soba (buckwheat), are slurped very loudly when eaten. It is often said slurping symbolizes the food is delicious, but the slurping also serves to cool down the hot noodles for eating.

    17. Japan is the world’s largest consumer of Amazon rain forest timber.

    18. Vending machines in Japan sell beer, hot and cold canned coffee, cigarettes, and other items.

    19. When moving into an apartment it is often required to give the landlord a "gift" of money equal to two months' rent.

    20. There are around 1,500 earthquakes every year in Japan.

    21. It is not uncommon to eat rice at every meal, including breakfast.
    22. Average life expectancy in Japan is one of the highest in the world. Japanese people live an average of 4 years longer than Americans.

    23. Japan is the largest automobile producer in the world.

    24. The Japanese language has thousands of foreign loan words, known as gairaigo. These words are often truncated, e.g. personal computer = paso kon. The number of foreign loan words is steadily increasing.

    25. Tsukiji market in Tokyo is the world's largest fish market.

    26. Although whaling is banned by the IWC, Japan still hunts whales under the premise of "research". The harvested whale meat ends up in restaurants and supermarkets.

    27. Some men in Japan shave their heads to apologize.

    28. Some women in Japan cut their hair after breaking up with a boyfriend.

    29. Tokyo has had 24 recorded instances of people either killed or receiving serious skull fractures while bowing to each other with the traditional Japanese greeting.

    30. The first novel, The Tale of Genji, was written in 1007 by a Japanese noble woman, Murasaki Shikibu.

    IF YOU GUYS LIKE IT THERE IS MORE

    • ANSWER:
      number 19 isn't correct, normally its the landlord that gives you the welcoming gift (normally its something cheap, like fruits and house products).

      number 28, I doubt this.

      number 27. in the oldern time they also used to hirakiri (slash their belly) when they bring disgrace or commit sins.

      although some facts weren't nice but over all it was interesting. and yeah it would be awesome if you do this again.

  8. QUESTION:
    Should I Trust This Horse Trainer?
    A couple months ago, an acquaintance of mine passed on the name of a trainer. I was looking for one for my filly, to train her to saddle (I've done all her groundwork). His website is great: http://www.pinedanceranch.com/ and their Facebook is pretty cool. After seeing those, I called and set up an appointment to visit. He seemed friendly, and I liked his facility; the horses there get 24 hour turnout, most of the day in big paddocks with shelters and hay, then a few hours grazing in a grass turnout field (my horse has never been stalled, so this appealed to me). He had a really nice solid-wall wooden roundpen and big arena, trails right across the road and safe fencing. I saw happy people there grooming and riding their horses. I liked the equipment he uses (no harsh bits, etc, in fact he starts without a bit). He talked about using a mix of natural horsemanship and other things (but wasn't a frou-frou guy either). I liked that he encouraged me to visit, saying that the more I could be out at his place to watch what he does and practice it with my horse, the better it would be for me and my horse.

    However, the local vet hasn't heard of him. No one I know (aside from the original acquaintance) has heard of him. The facilities are pretty good-- but they look like they were put up somewhat recently, there's no barn or hay storage that I can see, and there's weeds growing all over everything. The trainer himself is also...interesting. He talked about how, after a horse was okay with a rider, just getting on and letting the horse wander around the farm and not trying to direct it right away. He said he doesn't have anything to do with the website or Facebook (his wife does those) and he is kind of hard to reach by phone-- he says he spends all his time with the horses. When I made a tentative appointment to bring my horse in for July, he didn't ask about Coggins or vaccination records; he did ask that I bring a saddle pad in for her so that, "...skin diseases like rainrot wouldn't spread from too many horses using the same one." Um, what would a horse in his care be doing with rainrot?

    So I was a little worried, and as the date got closer, I sent an email asking for some more details and references. His wife got back to me right away with some reassurances, sounding very professional, and told me her husband would call me. It's been 10 days since then and he hasn't called.

    Am I worrying over not much, just fretting (naturally) about sending my horse to a stranger?

    Or are these concerns seriously enough that I shouldn't use this trainer?

    Argh, any trainer is going to be kind of a shot in the dark since I don't know them, this is so nerve-wracking!

    • ANSWER:
      I would call him back and ask for references again. I'd also ask what vet he uses, and then call that vet to verify (maybe there's another vet?). Same with farrier. Go back and visit and talk to some of the people there.

      If the facility is safe and the horses are cared for, that's the first important thing. If he does his job well and the horses end up doing what they're supposed to do, that's the other important thing. If he is "new" to the area or the job, maybe he just hasn't established as much of a relationship with other horsey people in the area. I understand your anxiety over it (and I think it's well-founded) but I don't know that you should rule him out just because of that. On the bright side, no one has said anything bad about him!

      Neither trainer my family has used asked for vaccination records, and the first didn't ask for Coggins, either. He's a great trainer who takes horses to the World show, and everyone knows him, but it's not something he asked for. I wouldn't be too concerned about his rainrot comment; after all, remember that a lot of the horses are owned by other people and may come in with a contagious skin condition, so it's not necessarily something he's done (or not done). It makes sense that he would want to take measures to keep those things from spreading in the unlikely event they do occur (and we all know that sometimes horses develop issues despite our best attempts to prevent them).

      I just glanced at his website and it says that the pastures, roundpen, and driveway are all complete. That makes it sound like it was just built, so it may explain why he isn't as well-known. Ask him when he got started, where he got started, where his training is from, etc. He could be a great trainer who just needs some time to get established, or he could be a total loser.

      My point is, I wouldn't rule him out based only on those things you mentioned, but I would first look into him a little more. Call him back. Ask around some more. Go back and visit. If you're happy with what he does with the horses, give him a try. Go visit frequently so you can make sure things are progressing the way you want.

      EDIT: Forgot to mention--although our first trainer didn't require a proof of Coggins (and really, the second didn't either), they also both work with horses who are shown frequently. The only babies they break are their own. Coggins are required for any show, so the horses there would have already had them. I would probably be a little more concerned by the lack of Coggins at a recreational/trail riding facility with a lot of horse-turnover.

  9. QUESTION:
    Writer's block, need help for more on my saga?
    I'm writing a series called two worlds saga, 7 different arcs, with 1 to 3 books in each. All are planned out well, story and characters, i'm satisfied. When comes to writing the first book of first arc, i have a writer's block, mainly because this is the first book, not much material to use. I got up to seven chapters.
    it's not romance based, but i need a little, like there was in lord of the rings, or harry potter. I DO Not want to make another twilight. No offense to twilight fans, of course. I just didn't like the movie (never read books) because Bella was a mary sue. So, aside from the fact you're all gonna flame me for that, give me advice on not overdone romantic scenes, and what you think would be good to inquire in the story! need nice solid list.
    Here's some snippets (the character's name is goddess, as in god. No offense to Christians, really. I just thought it would've made an interesting story if god was a goddess, and made two worlds, unhappy with the first. I'll be doing some heavy editing with my grandmother, too):

    Goddess’s feet lay relaxed in the soil on a cliff, barefooted. She lay in the lush emerald grasses, and grinned up at puffy white blobs in the sky. “You are the best, goddess,” She said to herself, “You are one good creator. Watch, the elder titans won’t laugh at me like when I created my biggest mistake: the Milky Way. This world is beautiful.” Her accent was casual, coolness filling her voice.
    Her strikingly exotic neon green hair was spread around, curls entangled in grass. Her eyes dim azure eyes closed and she smelled strong fragrance in the air. “Oh god, miss high-maintenance is back. I could smell her perfume from over here.” She felt the disturbance wouldn’t be for the best. “I bet she got kicked off Noah’s arc.” Goddess got up and thought of how she would get rid of the ‘thing’ that arrived to her new world and planet. She frowned as she walked through the field.
    excerpt from ch1

    “I told you who I was; tell me what’s going on.” Mikael looked up, and wasn’t shy to tell one bit, as usual.
    “The elveen were, well, at first a peaceful race, with leader Evengelia. She had the greatest ideas ever. Apparently as legend goes,” he sighed, “She had a horned horse, who was a sore believer goddess, even able to talk. One day she showed the apple seed, which created a tree called ‘tree of red living.’ When the horned horse disappeared, galloping to the heavens, people started to believe this tree was the holder of life.” Mikael cleared his throat, as Goddess started to tremor
    “OH I see, they believe my favorite food is god, EH!? I’ll-” Goddess started to go back to irritated, infuriated mode when someone clasped across her body, tightly yet softly. “I just don’t get how to make perfect beings, you know?” Goddess sighed. Calm energy filled the room.
    excerpt from ch7 (if you've watched spice and wolf, I got inspired by holo, she's so cool for the harvest goddess!)

    Meanwhile, Goddess was paying attention to the wind, blotting everything else out. She stood still as a statue, listening to sounds that may travel. Something came across her, a thumping and patting noise coming from the grounds. Wait, is that… someone?
    “Footsteps, I hear…” Goddess whispered to herself, unsure of herself. Lillia looked at a focused Goddess, who was looking was deep in thought. She then came to conclusion; of that it was horse hooves. It was too loud to be human steps, and too choppy.
    “Rodan, you shouldn’t have run away, now the whole family is angry at you. Moreover, why didn’t you lie about your belief?” Lillia was now a little livid and emotional, with Lucretia trying to soothe them. However, it was Goddess who interrupted them.
    “Um, I hate to burst your fighting bubbles, but…” Goddess paused, hesitant to finish, not mention the four listening intently, “but someone is on your tracks. People on horses, to be exact are coming.” A frantic look now came upon them. “Okay, look, I barely know any of you, but trust one thing, whoever says ‘Goddess isn’t real’ IS going to get a can of whoop-”
    excerpt from ch4
    ---
    10 points for best answer! thank you and don't steal, cause i'm planning to publish this. (also there much more to the story involving two words, ours and another. So there's no way you can steal it completely now, hehe)
    hai hai, let's get this straight:
    1.Mikael and goddess have a child, mini goddess, main character of seventh arc
    2. Lynn of the 4th arc goes into the other world (she's from earth)
    3. each arc, new main character
    just for clarification
    Oh yeah, there's a spin of series too.

    • ANSWER:
      Wow I honestly really love that idea! Having a goddess instead of a god. Then having her create two separate worlds. If it were me writing that, I would have it really far off in the future and have humans in one world find the other world. I would also explain how Goddess took out the Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians. Wow seriously I wish i'd come up with that idea!

  10. QUESTION:
    Do our only similarities lie within Naruto
    I was thinking about this a little while ago.....

    See, I have several friends who I BECAME friends with because we shared a common interest in the Naruto Series.
    But, as we tried to branch out our friendship, I realized that ALL we have in common is Naruto.
    Seriously...

    So, I was thinking about all the people on Yahoo!Answers who take my polls......or....make their own polls....or have a tendency to express their love of everything Naruto related.
    And I was wondering how different all of US must be.

    We come from different parts of the world.
    Some of us speak different languages.
    We dress differently.
    Act differently.
    Have different interests.

    But surely, in a community of fans this big, we should be able to find SOME things we have in common, shouldn't we?

    So, I want to know about all you NaruFans out there.
    What's your name?
    How old are you?
    What do you like?
    What don't you like?
    Where do you live?
    How's the weather there? :P
    What are you good at.
    You get the idea....

    Let me start by introducing myself :]

    My name is Isabelle Gadoury (Don't ask....it's French)
    I am 16 years old and my birthday is March 11th. :3
    I LOVE to cook and I'm actually pretty darn good.
    I read....a lot. And my favourite thing in the entire world is music.
    Some of my favourite bands include:
    Jackson Waters, The Weepies, Band Of Horses, Careless, La Rocca, The Perishers, Built To Spill, West Indian Girl, Trespassers Williams, Radiohead, Queens of The Stoneage, The Foo Fighters....etc.
    But truth betold, I listen to everything from Classical (Beethoven is love people!) to Death Metal.

    I'm 25 days away from beginning my senior year at Polyvalente Grande-Riviere (Yes, it's a french school.....I'm french, but fluently bilingual.) GO CYCLONES. =D

    My favourite colours are Lime green and Neon orange, which is why I chose to paint my bedroom walls in those particular colours.

    My eye colour varies from shade of blue, green and gray.
    I have a brother who is 14 months older than I am.
    And he's the one who got me addicted to Naruto in the first place.

    I could own all your asses at SuperSmash Bros.

    I HATE softdrinks.

    Give me a pina colada and I'll love you for life.

    I'm deadly afraid of spiders....Seriously. I see one, I run.
    But I'm just fine with every other kind of creepy critter there is. :3

    I have a cat named Sai.
    (Haha...YES. I named him after the character)

    I used to have three mice named Orochimaru, Tsunade and Jiraiya, but they all died in a tragic accident.....(Orochimaru killed the other two and then died a few weeks later....I know..........I shouldn't laugh....but the circumstances were just too funny.)

    My favourite movies are Dead Poets Society, A Clockwork Orange and The Austin Powers Series.

    I have an insane fangirl-type crush on Jack Sparrow.
    NOT Johnny Depp....JUST that particular character.

    I suck at math (which is a derivation of the fact that I suck at life, in general) but I balance it out by being easily one of the most gifted in english and french in my grade. (Not to brag or anything...hehehe)

    My parents are divorced and I haven't see my dad in over two years.
    I despise my step-father more than I have ever despised another human being....ever.
    But my mom and I get along ok.....most of the time.

    I think monkeys are wicked cool.

    Winter makes me want to blow my brains out...
    Someone with as little coordination as I have should not be aloud to freely walk on icy surfaces.
    Seriously...I'm a menace.

    Here I am. =D
    lol
    http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w47/musikmaniak_photos/OW2-1.jpg
    Fairly old picture.....(last november) sorry. :P

    Well...wasn't that just a whole bunch of boring? :P

    Anyways, now that I'm done MY rambling....tell me about yourselves Naruto fans. :3
    I want to get to know some of you!. :]
    Cause you all seem pretty hardcore. o_O

    x--Isabelle
    TheNarutoNerd.

    • ANSWER:
      What's your name?
      >>Drew Walker! It's of English decent. =D
      How old are you?
      >>14, I'll be 15 on April 4.
      What do you like?
      >>I like silly stuff! Being silly and stupid. As, crazy as it sounds I love school, meeting new people, hanging with my friends, I like to get on Y!A, drawing, reading, writing stories and poetry and stuff. I like being involved in stuff and being in the center of attention. I like chaos and randomness! Animals rule, I LOVE music, it's like my life! Sports.
      What don't you like?
      >>Order, rules. I don't like to be left out of things. Closed mindedness.
      Where do you live?
      >>Detroit, Michigan, USA!!!!!!!
      How's the weather there? :P
      >>Like Michigan weather. Today it's 99 degrees but tomorrow it's gonna be 60 with a chance of raining, but yesterday it was a blizzard. xD
      What are you good at.
      >>acting! drawing, arguing, being silly, singing, writing. basketball, tennis, cheer. clarinet track Pretty much alot of things that have to do with arts.

      http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3050/2746...

      Pic of me! I look slow! xD

      A little more about me.....
      I love performing arts. I plan to go to either Harvard, Juliard, or Michigan State to get my BFA [bachelor in fine arts] I wanna be an actress. I am going to Cass Tech in the fall. We have a freaking wkipedia page! lol I'm supah dupah smart with an I.Q. of like 160. xP

      I was born and raised in Detroit. Although many people think it's horrible, Detroit is one of the best cities the US has to offer.

      I play alot of sports. Cheer [if you would consider that being a sport], basketball and alot of other stuff. I don't have a label. I can pretty much fit in with everyone at my school. But I label myself as a Normal Geeky Gangster Emo Preppy Jock. Yup, that's me. lolz

      My mom died when I was 10 so my Grandma took care of me, now she has adopted me and I am her legal daughter ^^ I don't let my parent's death take control of my life, I just move on so they can be proud of me.

      I have alot more junk to say but...I won't xP Ya'll can ask me that later! :D

  11. QUESTION:
    crowded schedule please help?
    hi i'm 11 and as u probably know i just started 6th grade, so i have more tests and everything and homework and all that school stuff. but besides that i also have tennis class, piano class, acting (play rehearsals), and now i am suddenly interested in archery. whenever somebody asks me what is cool about me, i really have a struggle to think of something. in fact, i can't think of anything at all besides performing at the Kennedy center and falling asleep on a horse.
    My main problem is, though, i don't know if i have time for archery. I feel like my parents are spending too much money on me and i'm afraid i'm going to quit cause i have too much of a schedule. (that's what happened in figure-skating.)
    if u have any advice on what i can do or if i can teach myself, i'd like to receive it
    THX :)
    plus, i've been doing piano for 6 years, tennis for 5 years, and want to be an actress. i don't think dropping out will really make me feel better.
    but thanks anyway!

    • ANSWER:
      I would simply suggest dropping one of your activities. if your schedule is to hectic you might not have time for all the things you do. i'm in 8th grade and let me just say middle school comes with lots of hw. but you really honestly want to do archery then maybe you should just drop another class. just the amount of hw in middle school is overwhelming enough, so don't stretch urself out to much. but don't drop all of the things your taking just bcuz of hw. u have hw, school, friends, and 4 afterschool classes. thats to much. i hope i helped out a little bit :)

  12. QUESTION:
    is he being out of line or am i?
    me and my boy finished about a month ago neither of us wanted it but he just didnt trust me so we cooled it for awhile to see can he gain trust or so he can figure out what he wants.
    But anytime im talking to him and say somethinghe dosent liek he just says ok i gota go bye.
    and tehn i get frustrated and start giving out in which he ignores tehn we talk a few days later and its liek nothing happened. hes not a confrontational person and wen we were together we never once had an argument.last night i asked him had he been txting other girls and he said no,well one txt me but i didnt tb then he asked me and i said well yes one guy asked me 2 go see new moon but i told him i already seen it with you. he then just txt back and said all you had to say was yes i was txting an other boy im going asleep now so goodnight. But if i had just said that he would have thought i was interested when i really am interested in nobody but him and i do tell him this but its like talking to a wall. so i went off on one and txted him bk and was like you want me to be honest but teh truth is you cant handle it,you make it easier to move on and im sick of it, all i wanted was to be friends im over the fact wer not getting back(not true) its time to stop flogging the dead horse oh and you can ignore me for a week now for saying taht too. was i too harsh?should i txt him to say sorry or just leave it?he didn txt back to me rant.

    • ANSWER:
      first of all shut up kev, if you have nothing useful to say dont say anything!!!

      i dont think you were being unreasonable at all!! he has issues that he has to sort out and you cant keep waiting around for him to deciede what he wants, if you want it to work go and talk face to face, if you dont think its worth it then moveon to someone who deserves you!!


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Interesting Facts About Horses And Ponies

Anyone lacking to know the necessary practice of mare breech applied in the precedent can rent a western show. Watching is about all the fashion is practical for as nowadays there are far kinder ways in which to opening in a mount.

I surely do not like to use the call flaunting basically as the word flaunting, denotes push. Ultimately steed flaunting is guidance of the pony. Training for a work or pleasure charger, has the same principal sagacity of receiving a mare to yield to man.

Training sheep has two chief methods, the old and the new. The old technique is still very much in use today, but has been refined and untouched along the way. That is to say that in most countries where steed folk are being educated, they no longer hurt the mount.

In the old living one would tie a pony up to a fence for hours pending he had no battle left in him and one could then sit in the lumber and not be bucked off. Today thankfully man has academic to work with pigs instead of simply dominating them.

The new system of teaching known as expected horsemanship may not be wholly new, but the trend and following is. Natural horsemanship as against easy mount breaking does not absorb the mare submitting to man.

Frequently Asked Questions

  1. QUESTION:
    6 questions for fun.. if you're bored? horse lovers what about you? questions for fun...?
    1. what's the (show name, registered name and and what you call them) name/sex/breed/age/how many hands of your horse or the horse that you ride?
    2. what's does your horse look like (pic)
    3. how long have you been riding? what do you ride (english, western; hunter, jumper, dressage, barrells, parrelli)
    4. what got you into horses? and why do you love them?
    5. what's your favorite horse website (can be a game, place to buy horse stuff, chat, facts about horses anything!)
    6. any facts you find interesting?

    my answers:
    1. my pony is a 15 year old qh mare at 14.1 hh. her show name is Tickle my Fancy, her registered name is PeppyDell Snickers, and her regular name is Snickers.
    2. this is all her: http://www.flickr.com/photos/39821419@N06/page2/ and you can look at the other two pages (that's me in all the pics with her) and the others are of my dogs...
    3. i've been riding for 9 years. i ride english hunter.
    4. when I was little, I had medical/health issues and i did therapeutic horse riding. I quit after a few years (well the barn shut down…) and so a few years later.. when I was like 9 I went to a horse camp and fell in love with horses. It was really for the people at the school (like competition in which I didn’t wanna do) so I switched farms and was at a farm for five years until I started getting competitive (that was when I was 14… when I switched the third time).
    I love horses because they are my life. Without them, I don’t know what I would do! They make me happy and teach me so much! They also help me get stronger (physically and mentally) speaking that I have physical problems but I am a really good rider… i work my way through it… horses are every part of my life as are my best friends (they actually love horses just as much as I do!) and horses are my best friends too for I can trust them not to tell a secret or anything!!!
    5. idk what my favorite website is. It used to be howrse/horseland/horseisle but then I grew out of that. I was hoping I could try some of you guys websites!
    6. - did you know the oldest horse ever lived was named old billy lived for 62 human years!!!
    - did u know that horses can’t throw up? And they only sleep for 2-3 ½ hours a day!

    • ANSWER:
      Okay, Im bored. I'll bite.

      1) Wow that's a lot for just number one! Well his show name is Miakoda Night, I call him Koda (he is unregistered). He is a gelding, a Quarter horse/Paint horse cross (solid), 8 years old 16 hands.

      I also have another horse. Show name Sigil of Zoso, but I call him Zoso. He is a gelding, 8 years old also, Mustang (MWHL papers), 14.3 hands.

      2) Koda: http://i414.photobucket.com/albums/pp228/Meagk78/Koda/2008_0920Morepics0012.jpg
      Zoso: http://www.flickr.com/photos/meagan_kay/3616948921/in/set-72157619609509940/

      3) LOL parelli is a discipline now? Anyway, I ride western, english, and bareback. I like it all. I have been riding for 14 years (since I was 4)

      4) I don't know honestly. None of my family rides. I guess I just felt drawn to them. Why do I love them? Words cannot say.

      5) Here! LOL but besides that Fugly horse of the day!

      6) I find all the color genetics just fascinating for some reason. A sidenote interesting fact: According to Yahoo I have 11 spelling mistakes right now, all of which consist of my horses names and the word parelli, lol, and MWHL (Missouri wild horse league). And of course explaining that upped it to 14 mistakes. Better quit now! haha

      Edit----

      Lauren, why would they not be able to go upstairs? I just dont understand.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGdhu9tBV6s

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkLeOdwJvGg

      I just had to know for myself so I searched youtube lol

  2. QUESTION:
    Everyone who loves horses, please read this!!?
    I did not write this, but it's an amazing peom, and I cried when I read it.
    This is the story of my life:

    To Have A Horse:

    To have a horse in your life is a gift. In the matter of a few short years, a horse can teach a child courage, if they choose to grab mane, and hang on for dear life. Even the smallest of ponies is mightier than the tallest of girls. To conquer the fear of falling of, having one's toes crushed, or being publicly humiliated at a horse show is an admirable feat for any child. For that, we can be grateful.

    Horses teach us responsibility. Unlike a bicycle or a computer, a horse needs regular care and most if it requires that you get dirty and smelly and up off the couch. Choosing to leave your cozy kitchen to break the crust of ice of the water buckets is to choose responsibility. When our horses dip their noses and drink heartily; we know we've made the right choice.

    Learning to care for a horse is both an art and a science. Some are easy keepers, requiring little more than regular turn-out, a flake o hay, and a trough of clean water. Others will test you- you'll struggle to keep them from being too far or too thin. You'll have their feet shod regularly only to find shoes gone missing. Some are so accident-prone you'll swear they're intentionally finding new ways to injure themselves.

    If you weren't raised with horses, you can't know that they have unique personalities. You'd expect this from dogs, but horses?? Indeed, there are clever horses, grumpy horses, and even horses with a sense of humor. Those prone to humor will test you by finding new ways to escape from the barn when you least expect it.

    Horses can be timid or brave, lazy or athletic, obstinate or willing. You will hit it off with some horses and others will elude you altogether. There are many "types" of horses as there are people- which makes the whole partnership thing all the more interesting.

    If you've never ridden a horse, you probably assume it's a simple thing you can learn in a weekend. You can, in fact, learn the basics on a Sunday, but to truly ride well takes a lifetime. Working with a living being is far more complex than turning a key in the ignition and putting the car of tractor in "drive."

    In addition to listening to your instructor, you horse will have a few things to say to you as well. On a good day, he'll be happy to go along with the program, and tolerate your mistakes, on a bad day, however, you'll swear he's trying to kill you. Perhaps he's naughty or perhaps he's fed up with how slowly you're learning his language.

    Regardless, the horse will have an opinion. He may choose to challenge you (which can ultimately make you a better rider) of he may carefully carry you over fences or around barrels- if it suits him. It all depends on the partnership- and partnership is what it's all about.

    If you face your fears, swallow your pride, and are willing to work at it, you'll learn lessons in courage, commitment, and compassion in addition to basic survival skills. You'll discover just how hard you're willing to work toward a goal, how little you know, and how much you have to learn.

    And, while some people think the horse “does all the work”, you’ll be challenged physically as well as mentally. Your horse may bumble you completely. Or, you may find that sitting on his back is the closest you’ll get to heaven.

    You can choose to intimidate your horse, but do you really want to? The results may come more quickly, but will your work ever be as graceful as that gained through trust? The best partners choose to listen, as well as to tell. When it works, we experience a sweet sense of accomplishment brought about by smarts, hard work, and mutual understanding between horse and rider. These are the days when you know with absolute certainly that your horse is enjoying his work.

    If we make it to adulthood with horses still in our lives, we will have to squeeze riding into our over saturated schedules, balancing our need for things equine with those of our households and employers. There is never gonna be enough time to ride, or to ride as well as we’d like. Hours in the barn will be stolen pleasures.

    If it is in your blood to love horses, you share your life with them. Our horses know our secrets, we braid our tears into their manes and whisper out hopes into their ears. A barn is a sanctuary in an unsettled world, a sheltered place where life’s true priorities are clear: a warm place to sleep, someone who loves us, and the luxury of regular meals. Some of us need theses reminders.

    When you step back, it’s not just about horses- it’s about love, life, and learning. On any given day, a friend is celebrating the birth of a foal, a blue ribbon, or recovery from an illness. That same day, this is also a loss: A broken limn, a case of colic, a decision to sustain a lice or end it gently. As horse people, we share the accelerated life cycle of horses: the hurried rush of lie, lo
    Yes, this poem just made me feel....complete. When I read it, i got all teary eyed and my mascra started running. I felt all warm and fuzzy inside, and had to go out and hug my horse. :] it just makes me want to sigh in relief for some reason. lol
    When you step back, it’s not just about horses- it’s about love, life, and learning. On any given day, a friend is celebrating the birth of a foal, a blue ribbon, or recovery from an illness. That same day, this is also a loss: A broken limn, a case of colic, a decision to sustain a lice or end it gently. As horse people, we share the accelerated life cycle of horses: the hurried rush of lie, love, loss and death that caring for these animals bring us. When our partners pass, it is more than a moment of sorrow.

    We mark our loss with words of gratitude for the ways our lives brave been blessed. Our memories are of joy, are, and wonder. Absolute union; We honor our horses for their brace hearts, courage and willingness to give.

    To these outside our circle, it must seen strange. To see us in our muddy boots, who would guess such poetry lives in our hearts?
    We celebrate our companions with praise worthy of heroes. Indeed, horses have the hearts of warriors and often carry us into and out of fields of battle.

    Listen to stories of that once-in-a-lifetime horse; of journeys made and challenges met. The best of horses rise to the challenges we set before them asking little in return. Those who know them understand how fully a horse can hold a human heart. Together, we share the pain of sudden loss and the lingering taste of long-term illness. We shoulder the burden of deciding when or whether to end the life of a true companion.

    In the end, we’re not certain if God entrusts us to our horses- -or our horses to us. Does it matter? We’re grateful God loaned us the horse in the first place.

    **sorry. didn't know that it got cut off, and my "f" is sticking, so alot of the "of's" and "lies" are suppose to say off and life.

    • ANSWER:
      this is my life story, no joke, goin out side, breaking the ice, i feel like i am in heavin when i am on my horse, galloping thru the woods, its amazing. i love to sit on thop of the hay bale while my horse is eating from it, playing with her and feeding her some, its amazing, horses are my life, and singing, i love to sing to, but horses tie with it. i printed that poem, and i will keep it forever chick, thanks fro posting it:)

  3. QUESTION:
    Can i get into horse racing?
    I am 17 and always had a slight interest in horse racing...

    I have an illness which i do not wish to mention that stops me being able to muck out due to the aspergillus spores. However my condition also prevents me from ever gaining much weight above 8 stone and i am 5ft 2
    I went on a career day with the school and they had a model horse that moved similar to a racehorse so that they could see your position. They said to me my position was very good and they would definitely consider taking me on (how much of that being true, im not entirely sure) Anyway when i explained my situation about mucking out, they said this would definitely hold me back as the whole point is to start of mucking out and riding for trainers. They said i should still go to their taster-day in Newmarket and to see what people said there. I still haven't been to a taster-day as it is quite a distance from me and i'm still not too sure if i really want to go into this career as i do end up in hospital a lot. I am a very determined person and once i have my mind set on something i go for it, so i would like to get my facts straight before diving into this.

    I was just curious to see if anyone knew if there is any chance i could just ride?
    I also have a pony which i've had for 5 years and there is no way i will sell him so i also have to take this into consideration.
    I have my own beliefs on how you treat horses and i know there are a few trainers out there who only care about winning and not the welfare of the horses. However are there any trainers out there who care about the horses first?

    Maybe there are pony races i could think about? and how would i go about getting into this?

    Hope this isnt too confusing....

    Thanks

    • ANSWER:
      Of course there are trainers out there that put the horses first! Their are only a handle full of trainers that dont put the horses first and it's those kinds of trainer that will take anyone to ride for them. It's going to be tough to go straight into riding but if you put your heart to it and you really want to do it than you can achieve it. I would still go to taster-day and see and learn everything you can. Your best bet would be starting out as an exercise jockey first.

      Good luck :)

  4. QUESTION:
    What should i do now? Where do i go from here?
    I'll start from the basics of my experience. I have been riding for 8 1/2 years. For the first 6 months it was just hour lessons then after that I started going to the Saturday pony care clubs at a variety of stables. I'm 15 now. At the moment I am loaning a pony from the stables I started at 2 months ago. I go up and see him Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays and every other Friday in the school term and everyday on holidays. I would go up every day but i live a 30 minute drive away and there aren't any bus routes out there. I am loaning this pony for 3 months (should be 1st April until 1st July but i started a week early as i'm going away next unfortunately). We are planning on loaning for an extra month so it will last most of the Summer holidays. At the moment we are paying £50 per week, so £200 per month.

    I really want a horse and have just found a livery stables where some friends keep their ponies. It's about 15 minutes away if i walk it and under 5 minutes in the car. I found out the prices and they are cheap, very cheap, at £5 per week for a shetland, £10 for a pony and £15 for a horse per week. Everywhere else is about £25 per *week* here but at that yard it's £40-£50 per month for a pony (depending on how much they eat.)

    I have made a spreadsheet saying the costs per month and year and i told my mum about the costs yesterday on the way to see my loan pony. She carried on asking for prices like shoeing and trimming, insurance, shots, dentist, etc. After i had told her it all she just said "hmm... that's very interesting actually" I have seen this yard and everything seems fine and safe and it's one of the only ways that people in my area can afford horses.

    I don't know what else to do now, she hasn't seen the spreadsheet as of yet so i will show that to her in a day or two (i was talking about prices this evening) because i know that if i talk about it too much she'll get angry and say flat out no.

    With the most expensive month going as high as £175 it isn't as much as the loan and with my own i could go up any day, the pony wouldn't be used for 4 hours of hacking straight one day per week (not including my ride) and i would have more freedom.
    The main factor hasn't been the responsibility because she's seen how i am with Minstrel (the loan pony) and i have never quit in all those years, i've had breaks due to lack of riding schools but i've never stopped at my own will. She's never said "You wouldn't go out in the rain" more than once although that was her first ever answer which was a load of nonsense and i've proved her wrong since.
    The main factor was money (as always) and i've said that i will go and get a saturday job in the mornings sweeping floors in the hairdressers or something, the factor was always money before i brought this place up and now it's the excuse of "What if they decide they don't like to run the business any more, where would you keep it then? You'd have a pony without a place to keep it. You'd have to sell" This place is a working farm that a family live on, they have horses and cows and sheep of their own so it won't be closing down any time soon if it ever did.

    I don't know what else i can say, I'm going to have to wait a few days before bringing it up again but the fact is i have everything thought of, it's just how to present it to her without her thinking I'm nagging and me having a greater chance of having my own eventually. I'd love to buy Mini but he's a lesson horse and pulls a trap in the summer too, he's quite valuable to the yard and he'd be expensive. Where i am £1500 is expensive right now, economy isn't fantastic so it would be the perfect time to buy this winter when my loan has ran out.

    • ANSWER:
      It's very easy to see that you've thought this out a lot. You seem to be a very mature young lady and well prepared for the responsibility of owning a pony. My suggestion is this: a) start applying for a job now. This might help show your mom that you're really serious about this. After that, b) save up enough money for all of the equipment you'll need and the first few months of boarding. It would also be wise to save some extra money for emergencies (parents love that kind of stuff ;] )

      Maybe you could work out a deal with the people who own the stables you want to board at so you could work there for board, or help out every day to show your mom that you could easily get to your pony and that you are willing to go out in rain or shine (it sounds like you do this already, but again, parents love that kind of stuff).

      Good luck! I genuinely hope you get your pony!

  5. QUESTION:
    To worm or not to worm???
    I'd love other peoples opinion please, I keep my two ponies at DIY livery on our local farm, it is a very informal arrangement made up of village ladies and we govern ourselves we have no yard manager. I share a field with one other pony (three in total) and we have shared for 6 years. Our ponies are happy hackers, never go out to any shows, and we have had no new horses on the yard for 6 years, Both of us are toying with the idea of stopping worming based on the fact that our ponies do not have contact with others, we clear our field every week, (we're both a bit anal about that, excuse the pun) and the poo pile is cleared away (to a organic farmer) once a month. I would imagine our worm burden is very small but it's a big step deciding not to worm, what is the worse that could happen? they get worms and we re-start the programme!! have other people rebelled and chosen not to worm? I would be interested to know other people thoughts. (we are UK based)
    But how to we KNOW that worming is not detrimental to their systems? when horses are kept in low risk situations how do we know that our horse won't be healthier and happy without the chemicals in their bodies if we don't try it? I have wormed religiously for 6 years think of all the money I have spent over the past 6 years what if it wasn't neccessary???
    blimey, I've had such brilliant answers and It's given me such a lot to think about, more research is required i think
    Thank you for your answers, Every answer has been informative, my ponyies have been on a regular programme for the last six years but it's interesting what has NOT been said, that no one has answered that they have stopped worming so I will research with the help of my vet and wormer supplier the implications of reducing my worming or using kinder products. This site is great for this sort of debate. Boo it's pissing down with rain here today, no chance of any pony fun today !!!!!

    • ANSWER:
      There will always be worms - one of the red worms lives partially encysted in the gut wall and these are difficult to get at.

      I have just two horses and have reduced worming to three times a year and one tape worm treatment in the autumn.

      But I do get an annual faecal egg count to check that all is well.

      Search intelligent worming to get a site which helps you to work these things out.

  6. QUESTION:
    Am I asking too much of my daughter?
    She is four, will be five in April, and has been taking riding lessons for about 2 1/2 months. Ever since she was a little baby, she has ignored all of her other toys, stuffed animals, etc. except for her stuffed horses. I never pushed this on her, but she has developed a very strong love of horses. (Ok, I did push her once, for her first pony ride, but that was only to get on, she was squealing with glee as soon as the pony took his first step.)

    Her riding has been progressing very well, and "Santa" has gotten a saddle for her for Christmas. My only real problem is, most of the ponies she rides have attitudes, and that makes her nervous (you know how ponies can be..) There is one horse available for her to ride, but she doesn't like to trot him, as he's over 17hh, and she has learned just how far down it is from 13hh.

    I would love for her to be able to show by spring, and she says she wants to. She jumps at the chance to even look at a horse, so she still loves riding. In fact, she was proclaiming at the end of her last lesson how much she loved riding, "because it's so much fun". She has a very natural seat, and has learned a number of leg cues exceedingly quickly, but am I asking too much of her to keep it up? She gets nervous and nearly cries at every pull of the reins, or slight pinning of the ears (at the riding instructor or me, for keeping him in line). She can do it, and is wonderful when she does. One pony she rides cannot be controlled by 14yo's, but she guides him BEAUTIFULLY until he starts pulling the reins. When her riding instructor and I ignore them in the ring, we have witnessed her pulling off even a perfect figure 8.

    Should I have her take a break, or am I right to keep insisting that she ride? Like I said, she does love it, but gets very apprehensive during the ride if her pony is being naughty. I don't want to over-do it and be that "show mom" that everyone hates, but I do want the best for her, and to nurture her interests. I know she gains confidence with every lesson, but it is hard for me to watch her get so frustrated during her lessons.
    We keep her lessons fun, more of games than anything. So far as showing, I was thinking leadline class, nothing too heavy, naturally, But like I said, she says she wants to, and at least in leadline class, everyone walks away with at least something. I think that would be a good experience for her. One of the naughtiest ponies she rides is her favorite. She does ask to ride him, and even named her latest stuffed horse after him. She has no fear of actually riding, it's mostly when things dont go as she planned (ie: pulling the reins)

    • ANSWER:
      Hmm I can see both sides of the coin in your situation ;-) I have 4 girls under 7yo and they all ride, my youngest is 2 1/2 years old.

      My girls have grown up with horses and I am lucky enough to have my horses on our property. So they have been around them in one form or another since birth. Early on it was just being led around on my big horses and sitting up with me. In fact we did not buy a pony until my oldest girl was 3yo.

      Unfortunately with ponies (as you have pointed out) many of them do have attitudes. I learned a lesson very quickly with my oldest girl, if they have a bad experience, they can loose their confidence VERY quickly and it is then very hard to get back.

      When my oldest girl was 4yo she was being led on a 10hh Shetland pony, he was pretty toey and normally she laughed, asked for trot and thought he was the best thing since sliced bread. He reared up one day and hit her in the face with his head. She got a blood nose and obviously was very shaken. After that day she refused to get back on him for over a year.

      She was happy to get on the big horses, but the ponies freaked her out. She still talks about that happening like it was yesterday. Even though she had previously been riding independently, I had to take her back to baby steps and just get her to sit on a pony and not move. Heaps of praise and obtaining very small goals each time, until she was eventually ready to trot again - this took over a year, I never pushed her.

      Both of my older girls are confident (now), but they lack the skills, seat, strength of leg and ability to make a naughty pony do as it is asked most of the time. Ponies figure this out very quickly, this results in frustration for your child and ultimately ends in tears.

      The clever ponies just stand and refuse to move. Now I have given her a crop, just holding it is enough to make them walk or trot when requested from little legs.

      I always took what ever measures I needed to hopefully get a successful outcome. Depending on the day I used one or several of these methods, like keeping them on a lead on a naughty or new pony. I understand it is hard in a riding school situation because you don't always get a choice of pony.

      I use a "grazing rein" when necessary, it stops the pony trying to eat grass where the child cant pull the ponies head back up. I walk in front to let the pony follow me (off lead). I have the pony ride with another pony to keep it calm and let if follow the other pony. I ride the pony myself to ensure they are educated and learn to be responsive.

      I do what ever it takes to make sure my girls have a safe and just as importantly, positive ride and experience. A stressed child is not learning effectively.

      Nearly all ponies will have an issue of some sort (lazy, toey), and all of them are super smart at knowing how to get away with not doing, what they don't want to do!

      I think you need to take the pressure off yourself and off your daughter (even though she does not know it is there yet). I had no intention of showing with my girls, they had always been happy to ride around the paddock and it had never been a topic I thought of.

      However my oldest girl was reading her horse books and asking questions. I asked them if they wanted to go to our local show in the fun ring to see what it was all about. They were very excited at the prospect.

      You can show successfully with a 4yo child ;-) You need to practice heaps on the lead. Kids that young will probably require a led on the pony, the judges don't expect the child to be "riding" the pony independently. You need to get the pony working well (ours are on voice commands) so you can walk, halt and trot when required. You will learn that the pony often matches your stride, so practice running fluidly beside the pony.

      The judges just want to see the child sitting up, rising to the trot and holding the reins in rider classes (practice rhythm by saying up, down, up down). If you enter breed or classes judged on the pony, then they just want to see the pony is quiet enough for a child to ride it (on the lead).

      Our first show was just about letting the girls see what a show was like. They both placed in their rider classes and where thrilled to get a ribbon. Then in the ridden pony class (judged on the pony) they got 1st and 2nd. It was very exciting for them to take their ribbons to show and tell ;-)

      The next show was their choice, I gave them the option and they wanted to go. They got a handful of ribbons each, ranging from 1st to 3rd. More show and tell.

      Go with little expectation and anything on that is a bonus. We found it a fun family day that our whole family could enjoy.

  7. QUESTION:
    What do you think of this horse?
    So my mum has finally decided to look into getting a pony on full loan for me. She's thought about this for the past month or so, she's asked me average prices, which i have given her with no lies, and we've even been looking into livery yards. I have a share pony at the moment who is absolutely amazing but the owner (he's a riding school horse) will probably not sell him because she uses him for her cart and for the lessons. So last night i came home from school and she told me to go and get my laptop and search for horses on loan.
    I found one who is about 20 miles away from me:
    http://www.horsemart.co.uk/advert/for_loan_14_2_connemara_princ_cornwall/97782
    I have already kind of fallen in love with him and my mum is arranging for my horse-lover/owner aunt to come over and phone the people because i'm a little bit shy on the phone and my mum doesn't know very much about horses. (she should with all of the random facts i drop everyday!)

    The other one is technically for sale but I was thinking about asking for a full loan on him instead and also a vet check would need to be done too:
    http://www.horsemart.co.uk/advert/7_yrs_3_mths_14_3_hh_bright_bay_arab_horse_devon/98477
    I'm just a bit worried about that kick injury and that that may be the reason for the price. I want to do some jumping up to 3 foot or so, so if his leg is bad then i couldn't have him because there would be so many restrictions. The owner is doing their A-levels so they need to get him out and doing something so i was thinking about asking if the would be willing to loan him out on either a full or permanent.

    I'm more interested in Prince because i had a soft spot for a grey, 14h gelding called Prince a few years ago and my dad had mentioned possibly buying him but it never happened (he never did/does keep to his word.)

    What do you think of them?

    • ANSWER:
      I would be more interested in the Arab for a couple of reasons.

      1- when somebody says a horse has "loads of character" and is for a "confident rider, no novices" it usually means that horse has a vice. It doesn't necessarily mean the horse rears and throws riders, but it can easily mean that the horse is headstrong or has a hard mouth. Or even that they are too forward. If you think those things aren't going to be a problem then that's alright, but be warned that what might seem as a little annoyance to begin with can become so tiresome that you might not enjoy going out for rides on him anymore, because you are thinking "ok, he's going to do it.. I'm just gonna wait til he does"

      2- It doesn't say how experienced he is. The Arab on the other hand, has lots of info about what he's done, what he's good at and where he needs some work.

      Don't worry about the injury. If you get a vet check and it comes back clear, then odds are he's fine. An injury from 2008 is quite old, and if they have the vet records from when it happened you can find out exactly what it was. Was it a hairline fracture in a bone, or a torn tendon? Get your vet to look at those records and make an informed decision about whether this horse can do the work you ask for.

      And finally... don't judge a book by its cover. As they say "A good horse is never a bad colour". It works in reverse too. The most beautiful horse in the world could be a real psycho that can't be ridden by anybody because of how mean and crazy it is. Don't fall in love just cos a pony is grey and cute looking... look at the facts about each horse and make a rational decision, you'll be glad in the long run :) (and who knows, bay might grow on you?)

  8. QUESTION:
    Question about draw reins?
    I've had this horse on part loan for like... 3 years? she's absolutely gorgeous but can be stroppy, difficult to ride etc. What happened was, she basically didn't get rode at all by her owner, didn't get looked after at all- not that she was abused or anything, she just sort of got left to her own devices but had no work for her whole life. Then when she was eight her owner decided she wanted to give her some exercise becuause she was getting rather porky and all this lack of work wasn't good for her so she part loaned her out to two people: me and this other girl. obviously, having never really been rode since she was broken she had a few bad habits but we both worked hard with her and she's pretty much angelic. But once she stopped being a project the other girl got sick of her and she was kind of passed down the family to the girl's sister. And that's where it became problematic:

    This girl is a brilliant rider, probably better than me in terms of position, jumping ability etc but she's only ever ridden dopey riding school ponies whereas Milly is a bit wild sometimes, quite cheeky and spirited etc. And this girl wants to take her in just about every show of the season... Well, she's a capeable horse, there shouldn't really be any harm in it, however i don't like the way she is 'training' my beloved pony for these shows: she is using a whip excessively (which just makes Milly buck so it's not going to get her very far) she over rides her and my friend saw her the other night making Milly wear draw reins (despite the fact that Milly has a beautiful outline already) I really don't want her using them on the pony that I worked so hard on and love so much- i don't believe in them for any horse really but i respect that in some cases they may be the best option- but seriously, not in this one.

    What can I do? (talking to the owner is not an option: i've only met her once when i signed the contract- we rang her up to tell her that Milly was lame and she wasn't interested) I don't want her ruining my pony.

    Also, if anyone could give me some info about the pros and cons of draw reins, that would be really helpful :)

    • ANSWER:
      When she uses the draw reins make sure they are not tight, never ever keep them tight i.e. head pulled in by them when stood still, and give plenty of periods of free walk. We do use draw reins on some of our horses, some never need them, however it is not the draw reins that abuse it is the person using them. Would you be able to take the pony on full loan yourself? If so phone the owner and ask her, (even if shes not interested) she can only say no! Don't forget the original contract was between you and your friend, not some other person in your friends family. Failing this, sit down with this girl and agree on what is acceptable and what is not, be firm! Arrange which days she will have and what training methods are acceptable. Explain to her that you dont belive she is acting in the ponies best interest! Hey look on the bright side, maybe she has the same amount of stamina and interest as her sister and will give up soon x

  9. QUESTION:
    how do i get her to stop being so over the top :@?
    basically my friend who i love to bits is really starting to annoy me now because she used to ride my little sisters pony about once a week but my sister isn't interested in riding really and would rather just come up the stables and play with the other kids and not actually ride or muck out or anything. but my friend wanted us to keep the pony because she cant afford to have another one but she likes riding her but im not going to keep a pony which i cant really ride all the time, and to be honest my friend is a little bit big to be doing it all the time as well, just so that she can ride her once a week. so we loaned her out to my mums friend who has two little kids who are 4 and 1 and they absolutely love her to bits and she has the most beautiful home in a massive deer park being looked after by people who have huge amount of experience with horses and used to have a team of horses used for weddings and the people have done a lot of parelli training and stuff like that. and now my friend everytime wont stop going on about it and saying that she could look after her better and that she can ride her more and have more fun and asking if she can come and going on about the fact that she didnt come and visit her with me, which isnt really my choice. im not exactly going to invite my friend to the house of my parents friends who i dont even know that well when they have invited us to come and have dinner with them and are cooking their venison for us as well as letting me see their arab because i might possibly look after it for the summer when they go sailing for 6 weeks.

    • ANSWER:
      Just tell her to shut up. What's done is done. It wasn't her choice to make, it was yours. She was too big, and to be honest, she was freeloading off of you for a long time. Also, tell her that the pony is in the best place possible with top notch care and a family who loves her. If she wants to ride that bad, she should take lessons. I'm sure her family can afford one lesson a week, and if they can't she should muck stalls to pay for it.

      Or you could just tell her that you can't afford to keep her when she isn't being used and you can't afford to allow your friend to ride for free. That might be nicer to start off with, but if she doesn't listen, just tell her the top part.

  10. QUESTION:
    Because you guys are all blatently honest. Re Loan.?
    Don't normally ask questions regarding anything to do with horses particularly here, but I think this is one of the occasions where I need some answers from people who aren't going to sugar coat it and give me false hope.

    Basically, I've been involved with my loan pony for over a year now, it is a very complicated loaning process but has actually worked very well up until now - occasionally he goes home to his owners for a while, when they need him, yeah messed up but that's just how they own him, they bring him home when they have time for him which has been rarely, adding up to a few months really - so not affected me much and gives me time to have a break from getting up at balls o clock in the morning, and gives me time to actually save a bit of money instead of constantly burning holes in my pockets.

    Anyway, recently it's been weird - they've suddenly taken a massive interest in keeping him for longer, for one reason or another - and suddenly they've been talking to me about ridiculously shortened times having him. Nothing's set in stone yet, but i'm starting to feel really put out, feel like I'm going to have to start arranging my life around this, because I need to be home all day when he first comes back to let him get settled again, this means time off work which of course needs planning. And to be honest the people that own him have suddenly shown another side, no apologies for messing me about, no respect for the fact I've put hours and hours into him to get his ground manners actually respectable and just generally not caring.

    So I'm now finding myself making a decision, to give up this loan on fairly good terms and before anyone gets hurt, or cling onto what's going to turn into a ridiculous loan which I know I have slated other people on here for doing, and probably finally ending up in arguments and termination anyway.
    I tried speaking to my mum and friends about it and have got 'ohh keep trying, I'm sure it's just a phase they're going through' which it might be, and I have that horrid feeling if I give up now, in a few months they'll have decided he's too much work to have him that often again.

    If I wasn't so attached to this little lad, I would be saying screw that and giving it up - but I just can't say no and find myself never seeing him anymore, he's the type of horse who although can be an absolute sh*t at times, when you do break through that barrier and find what he really is, you can't just let go of him.
    I'll still be involved in horses, I work at a riding school and sometimes do some schooling for horses for friends etc when I have time and when something crops up - but it's just not the same, the riding school is incredibly health and safety concious, which they have to be because of insurance but they can be just too tight sometimes, meaning you often feel a bit bubble wrapped, and the schooling etc isn't often, and there's no attachment with the horses.
    I've spoken to the owners about that I'm not happy, and to be fair they've said they'll think about stuff, but I just feel now they're starting to have him more often, i'm soon going to be getting the brunt end of a very crap deal.

    So now you've read all that, I need opinions and probably a boot up the bum as to what I should be doing. This is the second horse this year who things seem to have ended so abruptly with because of the owners, was riding a share in the summer aswell, and really i'm just sick of getting screwed around.
    Thanks all for responces.
    I do have a loan agreement, always have had one, renewed regularly - and it is in agreeance there that I get notice when they want him back so that I have time to sort things out, they said from the start it would not be often to have him back, and it did me good to have a rest from him when it wasn't regularly, but now that it is going to be more often, and I can't have loads of time off - of course i'm not happy.
    I'm more than aware it's their horse, but if they're going to loan their horses out I'm the one taking care of him, and so the way I see it I should have a bit of a say in what happens, although they can have him back when ever I don't feel it's fair for me to just get screwed over, I don't have loads of spare time to mess around

    I'm yet to make a decision , and neither are they really, so I'll give it some time, take a step back and let things roll for a while, when I feel it's starting to get silly i'll start to concidering what's happening.

    • ANSWER:
      Mmmm, that's a hard one!

      I would tell these people how you feel regardless, because it will either sort them out or it will end the loan. As you have spoken to them already and they said they will think about it, the ball is in their court.

      I would draw up a pro and con list (yeah corny I know ;-) But it really will help you to sort out what YOU can live with. Yes, it is their horse and they can choose what they do with him. However they are also messing with your emotions and life in general (work etc). Ownership of the horse does not give them the right to treat you poorly!

      Some questions to ask yourself would be.
      What is the minimum amount of time with the horse I would be happy with?
      Arrangements for drop off? As he might come and go more regularly, they will have to drop him off at a time suitable to your working hours.
      How long am I willing to wait for them to decide?
      Would you be happy to sit back and wait for a month or two and see if they get sick of him and want to go back to your previous arrangement?
      Or would you look for another loan horse now?

      There are some things that are non negotiable and you need to draw a line of what is acceptable and what is not. We teach people how to treat us, so if you have allowed them to just come and go as they please, then they think that is ok ;-)

      Don't put up with being treated badly, as you said, it will end one way or the other in that case. But don't pre-empt them too soon, if they are a bit scattered and you think they will give up in a month. Make the offer that he can always come back if you have not found another horse? It gives them a window to change their mind, but allows you to explore your options.

      Loans are tough on you, good luck with him ;-)

  11. QUESTION:
    Do you think these ideas would generate much interest?
    I have two horse-related things I am considering doing once our barn and outdoor arena are built, but I was wondering if you thought they would generate much interest.

    The first would be half-leasing our sweet old Swedish Warmblood mare. She is 27, about 16hh, sane and sound. She is not lazy, in fact she really enjoys going, but easy to hold back. Completely safe and easy to handle on the ground. She has former dressage training, but it has been many years since she did that. Currently we just do some basic hunter flatwork with her and trail ride.
    Ideally I wanted to lease her to a little kid who wanted a safe older horse to trail ride or show (hunter under saddle, ground poles/crossrails, showmanship, etc.). The lease would include riding time 4 days a week, plus the option to trailer off-property to trail ride or show her.
    The facility where she would be kept would have a barn with heated/air conditioned tack room, bathroom, wash rack with hot water and grooming stall with heat lamps. It would also have an outdoor arena with some jumps or pasture to ride in and is about 5mi away from local trails.

    Do you think kids/parents would be attracted to this sort of lease? What do you feel would be a fair price per month?

    My second idea is to hold a small horse show for charity. If anyone has ever seen the Pony Hunt Teams at Devon, I wanted to do something similar. The show would have classes for hunt pairs or hunt teams (of 3 riders), and divisions based on fence height. For example:
    18" Crossrail Hunt Pairs
    18" Crossrail Hunt Teams
    2' Hunt Pairs
    2' Hunt Teams, etc.
    It would be a charity/fun show for a horse rescue or humane society, hopefully something that could be held annually, but do you think many people would come since the classes are a bit limited in variety?
    I was hoping I could attract some of the more western/HUS/casual trail type riders to give it a try as well by making it very casual, no hunt coats needed, costumes and themes encouraged, etc.

    • ANSWER:
      A charity show is an excellent idea, but planning a show takes lots of time and organization.

      The first thing you want to do is contact the charity you want the proceeds donated to. A nice idea is to have them have a stall at the show where people can offer further donations. If it is a horse charity you can have a spot where they can donate tack, feed, and other equipment. A nice thing to do, if you have the space, is to invite them to bring along a few horses that are up for adoption. Set up a paddock to put these horses in where people can view them.

      You will want to have a few small prizes for the winners of the classes. You can chat to local tack, feed and horse supply shops and ask if they will be willing to donate small prizes. You can also offer them a stall spot if you have the space. Other shops can have a stall at a small fee or they can donate prizes.

      You will want to broaden you classes so you have more people entering. Try some fun gymkhana games like bending poles, sack races, potato race. You can also have a best walk and trot. To further encourage the costume and theme idea you can offer a prize to the best dressed in different categories. These can be children's, juniors and adults etc. For this you will need someone to do the judging.

      You will also want to add a few normal jumping classes, for this you will need a course designer, someone to announcer the riders, a PA system or bull horn will be required as well so the announcer can be heard. A scribe to write down every ones times. We incorporate fun jumping in our shows. Two classes that we do, the first is a grid of 6 jumps 1 stride apart, each person jumps the grid in turn, after each round it goes up 3". If any horse or rider knock a poll, have a fall or refusal they are eliminated. The last person standing wins. You can have a height limit to be safer. The other one is a single jump with the same rules. last person standing wins. If there is a tie at the height limit, the jump goes up once more. If both riders clear it then they share first place.

      You will need to organize a course designer, judges, stewards, announcer, refreshment stand, scibes, people to pick up and help move jumps, a medic. Mot of these will cost money. Try encourage them that it is for a charity and they may give you a discounted rate or not charge. (If they aren't charging it's nice to give them a small hamper with some chocolate or wine or something in it)

      You need to work out your basic expenses and what to charge per class. Take 50% of the class fee and divide it by your total expenses. This tells you the minimum amount of entries you need in order to cover your expenses and make a profit for the charity.

      You will need to take into account advertisement, paper for show entries, rosettes (we made certificates on colored paper or card fitting two on an A4 page), any helpers you may need to pay.


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Interesting Facts About Horses Animals

Before plush stuffed animals ever came along, most toys for children had been manufactured out of hard materials, such as wood or tin. Dolls were popular, but their papier-mAchA or porcelain heads and bodies, stuffed with horsehair, were not comforting to cuddle. If it had not been for a bunch of felt elephant pincushions that have been given to women as gifts in 1877, who knows when plush stuffed animals would have been invented.

Those felt pincushions, were created by none other than Margarate Steiff, the creator of the first teddy bear. After she gave away the pincushions, the children of the women they were given to, liked them so much, they claimed them for themselves, loving their size and tactile qualities. Margarete began to receive so many requests for the tiny elephants that on December 29, 1880, she decided to start selling them. The first batch produced sold out quickly and soon after that, soft toys which included dogs, camels, lions, monkeys, and donkeys, formed the majority of what was her original felt store where felt petticoats and children's clothes were made.

In 1889, Margarete's German based company moved to Muehlstrasse, to much larger premises. It was here that in 1892, the company produced its first catalog which showed an overview of the entire range of products offered. In the same year, the company applied for a patent "for the making of animals and other figures to serve as playthings." The patent was designed so as to avoid the trouble of imitations in the future, but ironically, that trouble eventually came to pass.

In the same year as the catalog was produced and the patent obtained, the first Steiff bear was launched. It was one of many animals which were available in a set. The tiny bear character was so popular, he was soon given the feature position amongst the set. This was the beginning of the Steiff bear journey that would see him perfected and established as the world's most popular soft toy.
Margarete's brother and his six sons, all played vital roles in the further development of the company. Four years after the company had been registered, it was doing so well financially, that Margarete decided to have her own stand at the Leipzig Toy Fair. The person chosen as the family representative was her nephew Richard, her brother's second oldest son. At the time, he had just graduated from art school and would eventually become the most influential person (after his Aunt) when it came to the history of the soft toy.

Richard Steiff was responsible for designing and developing new toy lines at Margarete's company. From the get go, he was fascinated with the possibility of having a soft toy bear and spent many hours trying to design one that children would be attracted to. He went on to make numerous sketches of bears he saw at the Stuttgart Zoo, circuses, and animal shows. It is from here that what we now know as the best plush stuffed animal ever made - the teddy bear - finally came to life.

Animals have always had great influence in our lives in one way or another, but who knew that plush stuffed animals would one day take their inspiration from them as well.

Frequently Asked Questions

  1. QUESTION:
    what is an interesting fact about animals?
    tell me an interesting fact about dogs, cats, birds, horses, and ferrits

    • ANSWER:
      when a puppy is born he is deaf, blind, and toothless
      also dogs don't sweat by salivating, they sweat through the pads on their feet.
      It's a myth that dogs are color blind, they can actually see in color but not as vividly as humans.

  2. QUESTION:
    I need info on these animals 10 pts?
    What interesting facts can you tell me about
    Horse
    White Tiger
    Cameleon
    Turtle
    Elephant
    Brown Bear
    Racoon
    Porkupine (sorry)
    Wolf
    Monkey
    Panda
    Cow
    blue Whale

    If you can help me THANK U SOOOO VERY MUCH!!!

    • ANSWER:
      Horse-You measure a horse's height in hands. Each hand equals four inches. If you say a horse is 16.2 hands high, the 2 stands for 2 fingers.
      White Tiger-Often carries the Chinese mark of wang or king on the forehead.
      Chameleon- A chameleon's tongue can be longer than their body.
      Turtle- Turtles live on every continent except Antarctica.
      Elephant- Despite the size of ears the elephant’s hearing is poor
      Brown Bear- Brown bears have a better sense of smell than a hound dog and can detect food from miles away.
      Raccoon-Young raccoons are the main victims of starvation, since they have very little fat reserves to draw from during food shortages in late winter and early spring.
      Porcupine-Contrary to popular myth, porcupines cannot shoot their quills.
      Wolf-The cubs weigh approximately one pound at birth and cannot see or hear.
      Monkey-Monkeys have an IQ of 174 .
      Panda-Pandas are pink when they are born.
      Cow-It used to take a person 1 hour to milk 6 cows by hand. Today, a person can milk 100 cows in an hour with modern machines.
      Blue Whale-A newborn calf weighs about three tons when it is born and averages approximately twenty-five feet in length.

  3. QUESTION:
    Are some people just not cut out to have horses?
    I don't mean those who can't afford them financially, or those who don't have enough time, are abusive to people/animals, etc.

    I mean someone who is genuinely interested in horses, is taking lessons (and has been for a while), wants to learn about them, seems to be financially and emotionally stable... but they just don't quite "get it."

    For a mild example (and example only!!), I know a girl at my barn whose father wants to buy her a horse, and though she comes regularly to lessons (and has for some time), seems to really struggle in her lessons and with horse care on the lesson horses. Sometimes it seems she isn't trying, but others it seems she just really doesn't have a clue, despite our trainers' best efforts (as well as the working student's and myself, who answer any question she has for us).

    She is a very nice and friendly girl, and doesn't seem to intentionally want to do any harm to the horses, but she does have her moments that make me wonder. She seems to forget what needs to happen from one lesson to the next. Things like how to put polos on (despite being shown almost weekly), the fact that her lesson horse needs polos, that baths are necessary in this heat, how her course should go (after saying it back to the trainer), diagonals, how to unhook/adjust various parts of the bridle, how to adjust her stirrups, not to let the horse cut corners, etc. Every week I hear my trainer working on the same problems- almost more to do with *what* she needs to be doing rather than actual equitation/riding problems.
    She is old enough to drive and have a job, so not too young to remember these things from one week to the next.

    I feel badly for her, because I'd love it if anyone who loved horses and had the funds could have one... but I'd want those horses to be safe and comfortable as well! (I also feel badly because it seems her father gets grouchy at her for not progressing any so that he can buy her a horse, so perhaps getting the horse isn't her idea/desire at all, but I can't say for certain.)

    Enough of the storytelling (since it is merely an example, and not a question of whether this particular girl should get a horse since I am not fully informed of her situation), though, and back to the basic question...

    Do you believe that it is possible that a person who loves horses, and wants to learn about them (and does try to learn), can still have a hard enough time understanding basic care and riding principles that they should not own horses?
    horsegirl9 - What is your opinion, then, when their "strengths" are neither in riding or horse care, if those are both "weaknesses"? Say, for example, they are very skilled at math/cooking/networking/etc., but the entire "horses" area is a weakness for them- a poor rider/handler and not competent with care? This is more of what I meant through my question. Of course, anyone may own anything, but is it in the horse's best interest in these cases?

    • ANSWER:
      Oh my gosh! There is a girl at the barn I work and train at who is just like this. But, she tends to confuse every horse that she rides. Maybe there is a horse for people like this, but it is painful to watch. I am a firm believer that every horse "chooses" it's rider. Simply, the right horse has to find her. But I know it is frusterating attempting to teach a child who has no intentions of learning or correcting her ways.

  4. QUESTION:
    I need opinions from you based on personal facts...any help?
    I have been torn for many yrs trying to decide what to do with myself. When I was much younger I wanted to be a lawyer but after thoroughly thinking it through I decided I couldn't & wouldn't be able to defend a criminal. I also wanted badly to become a farrier (a person who trims & shoes horses hooves) but a back problem kept me from fulfilling that desire. Anyway...I have recently been seriously considering different options for a career. I have taken many career aptitude tests & have asked every person who knows me what they feel are my strengths, talents or skills. I have been given a huge surprise by doing this. All the people and tests tell me I'm destined to be a Psychologist, the strange & shocking part is this is what I've always felt I should be doing but never seriously thought I could do not to mention well. I have spent many hrs over the yrs in person & on the phone with multiple people asking for a listening ear or advice. Everybody told me I obviously enjoy cleaning & am good at it, I'm a good listener & have a great way about me to tell someone in a direct & honest way what I think when asked, I am patient but not afraid to stop people from enabling themselves or others. I am a passionate person & do well in all I do.
    Here's my problem though, I am 27yrs old, just got my GED this last Feb & have no funds for college. If I were to pursue this career it would take about 8-10yrs to complete entirely which puts me at quite an old age for the profession doesn't it? Here's a general look at my status currently, I work doing housekeeping at two hotels, I have done construction work physically, the accounting, advertising, & other paperwork. I was also a security officer. I worked at a variety store as an opener/closer, accounting & customer service/cashier. I am married & have been for 4yrs, we have no children & may never be able to have our own. We bought our house on ten acres about 6yrs ago & our vehicles are paid for but our credit isn't great because of my hubby's construction business going under a couple yrs ago. Please help if you can, I need your honest opinion as to what I should try to do.

    Here is a list of my top skills, talents & strengths: I like to clean, organize, work independantly & with other competent people with simular interests, give advice, listen to problems, take care of animals, learn new things & to know everything I possibly can about something, I have a soft spot in my heart for abused children & animals among others, I would like to do fundraising for helpful organizations, I would like to be a foster parent or adoptive parent, I have great spelling & grammar, I excel educationally in Science with 99% & with Reading, Language Arts & Social Studies very close behind within the 90%s range, I enjoy research & analysing things (especially people) I enjoy any outdoor sports, fishing, hunting, hiking, etc, oh & I would love to be able to save the world both emotionally & physically! LOL seriously though I'd appreciate any comment(s) you may have for me, I've honestly never been so scared to take such a huge leap before. With my age & uneasiness about my own success I am scared. I usually put myself on the back burner so I can help everyone else & I've learned how to say "no" sometimes but still so unsure because I feel like I'm being pulled many different directions!!!

    Thanks for taking the time to read my rambling!
    I'm so very sorry this got so long! Thanks again for your time.

    • ANSWER:
      How about social work?

      A psychologist has a PhD, which means you're looking at least 9+ years of school if you went full time (4 for the BA, 5+ for the PhD) and that really may be more school than you can get through. Also, PhD programs in psychology are very, very competitive with acceptance rates as low as 5%.

      Social work matches your interest in psychology and the foster care system. Many schools offer a BSW (4 years) or you could get a BA/BS (4 years) in psychology and then a MSW (2 years).

      Really, you should just start taking some summer classes at your local community college. The summer semester should be starting in a week or two. Call and make an appointment with an admissions counselor this week at your local community college. Make it clear you plan on eventually going for a 4 year degree and that you want courses that will apply to that degree. Don't take the interesting/fun classes yet, take the basic ones all colleges require so you can be sure they will apply for a 4 year degree.

  5. QUESTION:
    School Presentation? Help!?
    Okay so I'm in the eight grade, I'm a girl obviously. But I have to be able to entertain 107 other eight graders boy male and female, along with my teachers. This costs me 4 grades in each class and I have to do well. I have to stand in front of the whole team and talk about something for 10 minutes straight. No more no less.

    I can present a video though.

    I'm concerned cause I have failed to yet come up with a project due to the fact that my fear of talking in front of more than 10 people makes me very nervous. During class my face turns to the color of red white and blue.(Blue eyes, red face and light blonde hair.)

    Here are something's I'm good at.
    Drawing.
    Info on dogs.
    Info on chickens.
    Raising dogs.(Training them.)
    Saving animals.

    Thing's I'm interested in.
    Dogs.
    Horses.
    Dancing.
    Drawing.
    Writing.
    Chickens.
    Saving animals.

    I need help anything else that is more interesting should be listed I'm open to ideas! My friends are sucking at helping.

    • ANSWER:

  6. QUESTION:
    Overall, do you think horseracing is a humane sport?
    I have always loved the sport of horseracing, and have never been one to buy into the argument that horseracing is “inherently” inhumane. (Since we all know how much horses love galloping.) HOWEVER, as I have increased my interest in preventing horse slaughter, I have become more and more concerned over the fact that so many horses selected for this fate are former race horses. (And success on the track does does not prevent it--Kentucky Derby winner Ferdinand was slaughtered, as was Exceller, the only horse ever known to have defeated two triple crown winners.)

    I do not fault the fans, jockeys or trainers for this as they do not control what happens to the horses--(although I resent the fact that some trainers drug horses--even successful trainers like Curlin & Rachael Alexandra’s Steve Asmussen).--But I believe the owners and breeders are responsible for the health and welfare of the animals who bring home the bacon. They try their hearts out for these people, rake in many thousands of dollars, and in the end are sold to slaughter for a measly 0 more? Why can’t the people who benefited from the animals effort foot the bill for a pleasant (out to pasture?) end-of-life scenario? Why can’t they ensure the animals are properly retrained or retired?

    I want to continue to enjoy the sport of horseracing, but am afraid that the behind-the-scenes ugliness has pricked my consciousness enough to suck the joy out of it. What about the rest of you? What do you think of horseracing? Are you able to enjoy it as a spectator sport? Do you have any concern over the fate of the animals involved? Do you think reasonable reforms could ensure more humane treatment? (Actually here’s my supremely unrealistic brain storm: how about--thanks to identifying tattoos--former owners and breeders of horses caught being shipped to slaughter could lose their license--assuming we could use licensing as a means of regulation--AND, because they cannot be held responsible for what happens to the horse when it is no longer in their possession--potential buyers have to agree to the transfer of responsibility upon purchase--or the owner/breeder has to retain first buy-back rights to prevent the animal being sold to slaughter.-->Don’t you think this might discourage over-breeding by breeders who ultimately have no concern for animal welfare, or dissuade the involvement of owners who aren’t prepared to accept responsibility for horse welfare? (Obviously, none of this would prevent euthanasia--but that is a humane option for homeless animals.)

    Also, is any part of what I’ve said completely off-base? Am I ill-informed? Am I wrong to be preoccupied over what happens to the animals involved in the sport? Do you think I should still be able to enjoy racing in spite of these flaws?

    Thanks for your input--I look forward to hearing what the rest of you think of all this…

    • ANSWER:
      yes

  7. QUESTION:
    Why is it so hard for my family to understand that I feel pressure free working with animals?
    mainly horses. I've been passionate about them since I was tiny and they all know that from the fact I use to pretend the back of the sofa was a horse. I knew my Mum and Dad could never afford to buy me a horse so I waite until I was old enough to do it myself and actually chose my career plan around the equine industry. Now I need their help and support to continue with my ambition they're hell bent on killing it and trying to break the spirit I have. I feel my purpose in life is to care for horses and it's the only thing I know i'm good at and have faith in myself for. They just wont understand and the pressure they've put on me has even given me suicidal thoughts. I'm waiting for counselling but it's taking forever and now I feel totally alone.. They just think I should do any job to make ends meet but I just can't bear been around people for longer than necessary I get flustered. When i'm working around horses i'm at my happiest and i can also have a laugh and joke with the other people who work with them too because 99% of the time we share the same interests and sense of humour..Why is it so god damn hard for my family to see this and why are they saying i'm crazy verging on insane for thinking this way..

    • ANSWER:
      Parents are like from a totally different planet so yer i wouldn't be surprised if my parents don't understand me neither (which they don't). Hun you need to MAKE THEM UNDERSTAND. Tell them you will go ahead and what u wanna do with or WITHOUT THEM. Good luck.

  8. QUESTION:
    Everyone: I am reading Sam Harris's The End of Faith?
    There is a interesting couple of paragraph's. I want people opinion of what they think of it.

    "What if all our knowledge about the world were suddenly to disappear?
    Imagine that six billion of us wake up tomorrow morning in
    a state of utter ignorance and confusion. Our books and computers
    are still here, but we can't make heads or tails of their contents. We
    have even forgotten how to drive our cars and brush our teeth. What
    knowledge would we want to reclaim first? Well, there's that business
    about growing food and building shelter that we would want to
    get reacquainted with. We would want to relearn how to use and
    repair many of our machines. Learning to understand spoken and
    written language would also be a top priority, given that these skills
    are necessary for acquiring most others. When in this process of
    reclaiming our humanity will it be important to know that Jesus was
    born of a virgin? Or that he was resurrected? And how would we
    relearn these truths, if they are indeed true? By reading the Bible?
    Our tour of the shelves will deliver similar pearls from antiquity—
    like the "fact" that Isis, the goddess of fertility, sports an impressive
    pair of cow horns. Reading further, we will learn that Thor carries
    a hammer and that Marduk's sacred animals are horses, dogs, and a
    dragon with a forked tongue. Whom shall we give top billing in our
    resurrected world? Yaweh or Shiva? And when will we want to
    relearn that premarital sex is a sin? Or that adulteresses should be
    stoned to death? Or that the soul enters the zygote at the moment
    of conception? And what will we think of those curious people who
    begin proclaiming that one of our books is distinct from all others in
    that it was actually written by the Creator of the universe?"
    Bang Bang. You make no sense.
    @Phaery G
    Phaery. Funny you don't think unicorns or faeries exist with that name. lo. But any way... this is the problem with most theists in this country. You ask people to prove that god is irrelevant, yet you yourself cannot furnish any evidence of your diety being relevant or that he actually exists. If you took the time to read the book, one of the things they talk about is that the beliefs of yesterday (ancenstors). Most of those beliefs are impossible to have today. Things like the plague had no explantion in the past except sin and evil. Now we know that it is a virus. So what theists are following now are "imaginary" beliefs. The fact you won't or can't imagine anything but your limited world will ensure that we will never progress as a society.

    • ANSWER:
      To reply to this post and some of the people who have responded:

      Man would need to start learning how to take care of himself again. It would more than likely be a natural step for him to do so... hunting, speaking, cleaning himself/herself, building, and cooking. The least of man's worries would be the founding of religion as it is something that is of faith and not necessary to the survival of the human species...when you look at the history of religion it is usually based off of astrology and the inner workings of astrology... ask a homeless man if he would rather have a 6 course meal or GOD and I can garauntee he will tell you to pass the butter and shove god up your ass. Now... when man has regained all these things and he wants to understand why he is here and what is his purpose then he will fall back in to the throws of a religion that is more nature, astrology, and common sense based... in basic based on the quote man would be a product of the restart button.

  9. QUESTION:
    What should I do after highschool?
    I'm starting my senior year of highschool next year and I really don't know what to do with my life. I get good grades and I could easily get into college, but I don't know if that is the right route for me. I'll try and explain a bit about myself.

    I crave adventure. I've been in the same little bubble of southern california all of my life, and when I got to escape it for a few weeks last summer, it was glorious. I get this indescribable feeling whenever I watch videos of faraway places, and I ache to be able to go there. I don't have to stay in lavish hotels. In fact, I'd prefer to be like a common resident of these places and not do all of the touristy things.

    I would die in an office/cubicle. I have no desire to do meaningless paperwork or enter numbers on a spreadsheet for 50+ years. I need to do something with my hands, something that challenges my mind and my creativity. I love animals, horses in particular, but I do not have the experience or talent to train them or ride professionally. Ideally, I'd love to own a rescue center and rehabilitate abused horses, but there is certainly no money to be made in that.

    I am very eco-conscious and would love to own land and build an off-grid house someday. These things take money, however. I've looked into being an environmental engineer, but I'm not strong in math or science, so that'd likely be something I wouldn't be good at. I am a strong writer and really love english, but I don't have the imagination that I would need to be a fiction writer. I'm interested in solving problems or "mysteries" you could say, and Journalism intrigues me, but it seems like a very impacted field.

    Photography is something I'm interested, but also, impacted.

    Health care is growing rapidly, but I would also be miserable stuck in a hospital or doctors office all day. I have no interest in that whatsoever.

    I don't need to make millions of dollars. I'm mostly just concerned with happiness. I don't want to be miserable for the rest of my life. Ideally, i'd like to make enough to support my hobbies(horses, gardening, living sustainably), but I don't need expensive cars, a huge house, or all of the latest technologies.

    I don't want to spend 6, 8, 10 years in college. I think the most I would get would be a Bachelors degree. College is very expensive, and I'm not spending the rest of my life to pay off student loans. It's just not happening. I refuse. I could get some federal aid due to my family's financial situation, but an Associate or Bachelors degree would be best.

    I know this seems like a hard question to answer. Believe me, I've been struggling with it for months. I see myself doing best working from home, online, or owning my own business. I think I'd just be miserable doing anything else. I get bored very easily with routine and I get very discouraged if I'm not being challenged enough.

    I really appreciate any suggestions. I know this is hard and I probably won't get very many responses. It really just helped a bit to organize my thoughts like this.
    @PE- LOL! Productive, right. I've read countless blogs about people who are stuck in cubicles trying to be fired. They are not doing anything productive at their jobs in corporate america, and are absolutely miserable. Their supervisors don't notice when they leave 30 minutes early and arrive 30 minutes late to work. No-one comments when they IM their friends all day on the computer and blog about the meaninglessness of their jobs.

    I think you and I have different definitions of productive. If you are productive, you will be successful, right? Well I don't want the same success as the typical american, so I don't think I should be the same kind of productive. I don't want the McMansion. I don't want the Mercedes. I don't want the 2.5 children and the divorce.

    That's all.
    Oh, and I specifically said that I don't want to make lots of money. I just want to have enough to live and support my hobbies. I don't have a love of collecting helicopters, so I don't think I need to make the big bucks. :]

    • ANSWER:
      You know what I think you need after graduation? A gap year! Apply to colleges and pick one you're accepted to, and then take a year off! (Most colleges allow this; just make sure you tell them after you take their offer of admission.)

      Go backpacking in the States or tour Europe or visit Africa if you can afford it. If not, find a job volunteering for an animal shelter, be a part of a non-profit organization, create fundraisers, etc. Do something that will make you grow a little and understand your priorities more :)

      After that, go to college and take at least one class in the Languages/Art, one in the Social Sciences, and one in Math/Sciences during the first semester, and the same in the second semester. See if you can find something you'd like to pursue further, even if it doesn't lead to any kind of career (remember, many people end up in jobs not related to their majors).

      At the same time, look up jobs and careers that you might consider -- it seems almost unlikely, what with so much attention on so few career paths like law, medicine, and business -- but there are so many things out there to do and enjoy and earn decent money in! Talk to some of your parents' friends about their choices concerning colleges and jobs, and learn from them. See if you can shadow or intern someone during the summer.

      I'm sorry I can't tell you exactly what you should do ;) But that's something for you to figure out yourself -- no stranger on the internet knows you as well as you do! I think you will be successful, whether you'll be a suburban housewife or tattoo artist or aeronautical engineer! :)

      **Don't be too disdainful of others' professions, even if you view them as useless. Sometimes it's the only job they can get; sometimes it's what the world has demanded of them; sometimes it's just an imagined dream gone wrong. People with McMansions can be more generous and kindhearted than many others; people with 2.5 children may raise those kids to become future poets and engineers; people who get divorces may be letting go of something bad for another chance at happiness.
      Well, that was a little cheesy ;) But you get what I mean...

  10. QUESTION:
    How does horse boarding work?
    Because of being in the military and for the obvious fact I have a lot to learn about as far as riding and horse care is concerned, it will not be till another 3-4 years that I will be able to purchase my own horse, if I'm interested at the time (and I'm sure I will be VERY interesting). Right now, my only time with horses consists of once a week lessons.

    But I was curious on how boarding works. We are not all so fortunate as to be able to purchase land for horses, so it appears to be very common.

    When I was younger, livestock was tended to 3 times a day; get up early to feed, water, and release into the pasture or pens. Then a welfare check mid-day, and in the evening, more feed, bring the animals in for the night, grooming and area cleaning.

    But horses are not cattle, sheep, and goats. They appear to require MUCH more. So with a 9-5 job, how is it done? Do you check on your horse once a day after work/school, with any feeding or maintenence during the day done by the boarders?

    Please excuse my lack of knowledge on this- I'm still very new to horses!

    • ANSWER:
      Many barns offer boarding, boarding is the care for your horse. At a good barn it may cost 0-0 per month for a nice stall boarding. In stall boarding, the stall should NOT be smaller than 12x12. Andy smaller would just be mean to your horse. This boarding should offer turn out every day. Turn out is when they take your horse out of its stall (usually in the morning), and buts your horse outside in a pasture or some kind of large, enclosed area so your horse may run around and graze. They should do this every day to your horse. They should also feed your horse its special diet of food each day, how many meals your horse needs. The barn should also offer lessons, training and exercise rides. (Because you are new to riding, you should pick a place that offers training and lessons). Stall boarding may also consist of grooming, they may also groom the horse and pick the horses feet after turn out. Water buckets should be clean, scrubed and washed down 1 or 2 times every week. And the stalls should be clean.

      Pasture board is much different. If you want to get your horse, it wont just be in a stall waiting for you :P . Your horse must be good with others to pasture board. This board can be from 0-0. Your horse can nasally be on a special diet in a pasture board. They ushually have unlimited food, all the food of the same hay or grain type. A plus side to pasture board is your horse can always exercise, but MUCH more grooming and basic care like hoof picking, baths and things along those lines are needed. There should be shelters out in the pasture so that in bad weather your horse will be safe. Every day, there should be someone that cheaks up on all the horses. The water in a pasture may come from a nice pond in the pasture. BUT the pond should be cleaned. Make sure of that, where the horse will be drinking from.

      Depending on where you live, if you want to do stall board, I sure LOVE heated barns! Plus it keeps your horse happy. Depending on what disaplain you ride, they should cater to you disaplain. I do jumping so I would have to make sure that they have jumps there and a trainer and instructor in this kind of jumping.

      You should be allowed tocome in whenever you want! (just not at one in the morning or something crazy like that!) Coming in after work is a good time. Try to ride the horse every day or at least do something with them each day. A nice ride in each day will make your horse happy!

  11. QUESTION:
    your thoughts on these please,enjoy?
    Cheltenham – Tuesday 10th March

    1.30 - Williamhill.com Supreme Novices Hurdle

    The traditional opener of the Festival and one in which the Irish will attempt to fill their satchels and pay for the rest of their week. The race has generated lots of interesting stats over the years, the key ones being:

    • 8 of the last 11 winners started first or second favourite.
    • Favourites have won the race 3 times in the last 7 years.
    • 6 of the last 8 winners were trained in Ireland.
    • 14 of the last 18 winners had won last time out.
    • 14 of the last 18 winners had won races with at least 14 opponents.
    • Only 7 of the last 18 winners had won previously in Graded company, with a further 3 having been placed.
    • 14 of the last 16 winners had run no more than four times over hurdles.
    • 14 of the last 15 winners had run two to five times over hurdles.
    • 10 of the last 11 winners ran within the last 45 days.
    • Only 1 winner in the last 20 years had run more than twice since 1st January.
    • Only 1 four year old has won since 1973 (Hors La Loi (1999) and there has been only 3 winners aged 7 or more since 1973.
    • All of the last 15 winners had won a hurdle race over two miles beforehand.
    • 8 of the last 15 winners had run on the flat.

    It's not always wise to try and select a horse based purely on statistical compliance but they are sometimes useful in assessing the collateral chance of one horse over another.

    Cousin Vinny - A horse for which the majority of Ireland will not hear the word defeat. He will handle rain softened ground, in fact his chances will be enhanced by it, and he will have no problems with the track, having won the Bumper at last year's Festival impressively. Rumours of problems incurred through travelling have surfaced in the past 24 hours and created unease in the market. Similar problems were muted before his Bumper victory and it didn't stop him then. Bigger worries about a horse so short in the market are the inexperience of his jockey at this track and the horses steep looking jumping at times. If he jumps fluently and his partner has him in the right position at the top of the hill he is likely to take all the beating. However it's not hard seeing him lose momentum over some of his hurdles and his jockey pushing the panic button. he is definitely the class horse of the race but there are enough negatives to swerve him now the value has gone from his price.

    Ainama - Fits the stat of a lightly raced horse but was unfortunately beaten last time out at Kempton. Would have work to do to beat Torphicen on a line through Trenchant but has said to be pleasing connections since that defeat and it's likely the stamina demands of Cheltenham will suit him better than the speedy track at Kempton. Decent and progressive on the flat at up to two miles but didn't always give the impression he was the hardiest of animals. Therein lies the nagging doubt that, for all Tony McCoy's urgings. he may just not fancy getting involved when the going gets very tough.

    Aachen - Lightly raced and unbeaten over hurdles so he has a lot going for him. Switched to this race from the County Hurdle and is one who will not mind how much rain falls. Won all his three hurdle races to date in soft or heavy ground last month. If conditions deteriorate sufficiently he could handle them better than most but he could find himself tapped for toe on anything faster than soft ground. Always a chance that three quick races within a month before the Festival could have taken the edge off him also. Only once raced in a double figure field (11 runners) over hurdles or on the flat.

    Copper Bleu - Losing last time out is a stat against him but being beaten just over three lengths at Kempton by Master Of Arts giving him 17 pounds has to go down as his best effort yet. That rival is as low as 5/1 for the Triumph Hurdle on Friday and the form could turn out to be more than useful. A winner of a Maiden point over three miles in Ireland it's not hard to imagine Copper Bleu improving again for this stiffer test of stamina. Seven years old but lightly raced he will handle the ground and makes plenty of appeal at a price.

    Go Native - Irish trained six year old who was a winner last time out at Naas. Three wins and two second places from five races over hurdles he has a progressive profile on good ground or softer. Easily brushed aside by Hurricane Fly at Leopardstown in December but that rival could be anything so the form could turn out much better than it looks. The type of horse who may need holding onto for as long as possible but he has the right jockey to execute such tactics. His resolution has been called into question on occasions but he does seem to improving mentally with experience, albeit in smaller fields. Remains a risky proposition in a race of this nature but does give the impression that he could run a big race if everything falls into place and he fancies it.

    Kempes - Would seem the stable s
    Selections:

    PLANET OF SOUND - 1 point E/W
    11/1 available at Paddy Power
    FOLLOW THE PLAN – 0.5 points E/W
    20/1 generally available

    2.40 - William Hill Trophy Handicap Chase
    STAR DE MOHAISON - 1 point win
    10/1 generally available
    CAILIN ALAINN – 1 point win
    12/1 generally available

    3.20 - Smurfit Kappa Champion Hurdle Challenge Trophy
    CELESTIAL HALO - 1 point E/W
    9/1 generally available
    PUNJABI – 0.5 points E/W
    28/1 generally available
    SENTRY DUTY – 0.5 points E/W
    33/1 generally available

    4.00 - Glenfarclas Handicap Chase Cross Country Chase
    DIX VILLEZ - 1 point E/W
    8/1 generally available
    DROMBEAG – 1 point win
    12/1 generally available

    4.40 - David Nicholson Mares Hurdle

    QUEVAGA – 3 point win
    3/1 available at Coral
    DANSIMAR – 0.5 points E/W
    22/1 available at Stan James

    Regards
    Badsha
    Hi friends i am no writer or racing journalist i get my information from www.k1gic.com.i pay good money for these informations and i like sharing my information with you guys,please do not back these selections unless you are confident i personally make regular income from these selections some days i loose money but overall i am very happy with what i get.i would like to say a word to the loan shark morans not to make any of his b.s stupid comments on these selections p off moran get a life,and grew up.strongly suggest.stay a way from good comunity like yahoo.Thank you.
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    4;40 Cheltenham – BALZACCIO – 1 point E/W@18/1
    SILK AFFAIR – 1 point E/W@14/1
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    #10/03/2009 5;15 Cheltenham – SHINROCK PADDY – 1 e/w@14/1
    CADSPEED – 0.5 points E/W@22/1
    Good Afternoon .Thursday 11th March 2009

    #12/03/2009 1:30 Cheltenham 2 point e/w Isnt That Lucky@11/1
    #12/03/2009 2:05 Cheltenham 2 point e/w Synchronised@12/1
    #12/03/2009 2:30 Southwell 2 point e/w Russian Rocket @15/1
    #12/03/2009 2:40 Cheltenham 2 point e/w Our Vic@9/1
    #12/03/2009 3:20 Cheltenham 2 point e/w Big Bucks@13/2
    #12/03/2009 4:00 Cheltenham 2 point e/w Or Bleu@18/1
    #12/03/2009 4:40 Cheltenham 2 point e/w Le Duc@24/1
    Good Afternoon .Friday 13th March 2009

    #13/03/2009 1:30 Cheltenham 2 point e/w Zaynar@5/1
    #13/03/2009 2:05 Cheltenham 2 point e/w Sunnyhillboy@7/1
    #13/03/2009 2:40 Cheltenham 2 point win Cape Tribulation@7/2
    #13/03/2009 3;05 Lingfield 2 point e/w Imperial Skylight@11/2
    #13/03/2009 3:20 Cheltenham 3 point e/w Kauto Star@2/1
    #13/03/2009 4:40 Cheltenham 2 point e/w Mamlook@7/1
    #13/03/2009 5:15 Cheltenham 2 point e/w Poquelin@11/2
    #13/03/2009 5;40 Lingfield 2 point winn Smokey Rye @4/1
    #12/03/2009 2:40 Cheltenham 2 point e/w The Midnight Club@22/1
    #12/03/2009 5:15 Cheltenham 2 point e/w Pasco@9/1
    Good Afternoon .Saturday 14th March 2009

    #14/03/2009 3:30 Lingfield 2 point winn Dubai Storming@3/1
    #14/03/2009 4:05 Lingfield 2 point e/w Lopinot (IRE) @13/2
    #14/03/2009 5:15 Lingfield 2 point winn Lopinot (IRE) @7/2

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    #14/03/2009 3:30 Lingfield 2 point winn Dubai Storming@3/1
    #14/03/2009 4:05 Lingfield 2 point e/w Lopinot (IRE) @13/2
    #14/03/2009 5:15 Lingfield 2 point winn Stonecrabstomorrow@4/1

    • ANSWER:
      wow!, have you copy and pasted this from racing post website or something?
      If not then i suggest you become a racing journalist

  12. QUESTION:
    My schoolmates call me an emo freak, any advice on dealing with this?
    By 'friends', I actually mean schoolmates. Well, they call me an emo freak. I'm not depressed, ha, I appreciate life as much as any of them. But it's my rather obscure interests, I guess. And this is actually really getting to me. Because they treat me like I'm a whole different species.

    My class isn't all that big. And every one of the girls is girly to the extremes. My closest friend has only one thing in common with me - we both love to draw. That is it. She's pretty nice and doesn't judge me for my different interests. But she seems like the only one. It's making me upset, how everybody else treats me like some kind of hideously mutated monster.

    Now, they are idiotic enough to judge a person on what music they listen to. Some of my favorite bands consist of:
    Three Days Grace, My Chemical Romance, 30 Seconds to Mars, Nightwish, System of a Down, Simple Plan, Papa Roach, Fall Out Boy, Say Anything, Yellowcard, Breaking Benjamin, Drowning Pool, Seether, Green Day, The Used, Evanescence and more.

    I like rock music. They like that awful rap stuff. I never say that I hate R&B and Hip-Hop and rap to their faces, and yet they openly insult me on my 'emo freakish' taste in music. I find it personally unfair, and it isn't like I go around saying "OH EM GEE! I LOVE THREE DAYS GRACE!!" Like they do, except they refer to The Black Eyed Peas or whatever the heck they listen to.

    Anyway, the other thing is my pretty dark taste. I love horror movies, I love violent movies, I'm not messed up! Just a little odd in comparison to them. I also LOVE animated movies, I want to be an animator when I am older, but in their opinion it is uncool to like animated movies. I think there may be some exceptions, anyway, moving on... I love animals - especially wild cats and wild dogs. I specialize in drawing those. Ha. Oh, and I don't squeal at the sight of a spider. I tend to admire spiders. I hate killing them. Anyway, they find it unusual to love any movie that isn't a chick flick, and love any animal other then a horse. Therefore - I am considered an emo freak.

    I like to doodle on stuff too. Skulls, snarling animals, cute kittens (XD), undead bunnies 'cause they are made of win and demented insects. I don't mean to brag, but I'm pretty good at all of these because I draw them so much. Lol. They compliment on my drawing skills, but are constantly saying "Draw a horse!" which I refuse to do. I can draw horses, yes, but I find them a bit of a bore. They also go "Ew, draw something un-ugly maybe? You're really good but yuck. That's so emo. Like you." Those are a couple of the nicer comments I receive.

    Does the emo come from the music I like? Or the fact I like horrors? And spiders? What makes me emo - I don't have black hair, I do wear dark clothes, but I don't hate my life and I want to be me without being pestered. I don't openly go round showing people what I like and draw, screeching about how much I love the bands I reckon are awesome. I just want to be me, and be me in peace. They're never content.

    Please give me a little bit of advice, no mean stuff please. And I hope I didn't offend anybody with anything I put in this. If you are anything at all like the girls at my school, please, I didn't mean to offend you! D:
    I hope this is in the right category - haha. Hopefully it is xD;

    • ANSWER:
      aww dont worry. the music you listen to and your interests are just a way that you express your individuality. your schoolmates like to go with whats hip and whats cool now and you just go with your own flow. thats fine. theres nothing wrong with the music you listen to and theres nothing wrong with liking dark things. you should never change yourself just to make people like tyou. that means they cant accept you for you and its all a matter of preference and your schoolmates should understand this. my advice would be to just ignore them and keep doing what you're doing. sooner or later they're gonna get tired of teasing you and making fun and they're just gonna be used to the fact that you have different interests, trying to fit in all of a sudden will only make them tease you more. remember, if your schoolmates cant accept you, then its their problem. since you said you're not asserting yourself or trying to push your interests on them, you've done nothing wrong. personally i love the dark and the rock music too! :) i'm rooting for you :D

  13. QUESTION:
    Why do they keep calling?
    the guy that i am REALLY interested in, comes over to my house, like 3 times a week, (i am 16, hes 18). everytime he is over, (we do stuff with my parents most of the time, dinner, or movies, we dont just hang out the two of us, very often. there are always parents around) his parents call, like 3 or 4 times. we live like a 1/4 of a mile apart, it's not like they dont know where he is. and our dads are friends. so it is not like they dont know us. (not to mention the fact, that we are both VERY open about the fact that we are both saving sex for marriage. so they know that we arnt having sex, especially with parents around!)
    sometimes, he will stay until like 11 or 12, and his parents will keep calling even then, until he comes home. Why do they think that they need to do this? he is 18, and he practically runs his dads buisness, (since his dad had an acident a couple years ago) he takes care of the land and the animals (28 acre farm, 14 horses, 35 cows) why do they do this?

    • ANSWER:
      they are very scared of letting him go. his parents know that sooner or later if you both continue seeing eachother, you both will get married and live together. i guess his parent are insecure. don't stress it, try be understand.

  14. QUESTION:
    Am I asking too much of my daughter?
    She is four, will be five in April, and has been taking riding lessons for about 2 1/2 months. Ever since she was a little baby, she has ignored all of her other toys, stuffed animals, etc. except for her stuffed horses. I never pushed this on her, but she has developed a very strong love of horses. (Ok, I did push her once, for her first pony ride, but that was only to get on, she was squealing with glee as soon as the pony took his first step.)

    Her riding has been progressing very well, and "Santa" has gotten a saddle for her for Christmas. My only real problem is, most of the ponies she rides have attitudes, and that makes her nervous (you know how ponies can be..) There is one horse available for her to ride, but she doesn't like to trot him, as he's over 17hh, and she has learned just how far down it is from 13hh.

    I would love for her to be able to show by spring, and she says she wants to. She jumps at the chance to even look at a horse, so she still loves riding. In fact, she was proclaiming at the end of her last lesson how much she loved riding, "because it's so much fun". She has a very natural seat, and has learned a number of leg cues exceedingly quickly, but am I asking too much of her to keep it up? She gets nervous and nearly cries at every pull of the reins, or slight pinning of the ears (at the riding instructor or me, for keeping him in line). She can do it, and is wonderful when she does. One pony she rides cannot be controlled by 14yo's, but she guides him BEAUTIFULLY until he starts pulling the reins. When her riding instructor and I ignore them in the ring, we have witnessed her pulling off even a perfect figure 8.

    Should I have her take a break, or am I right to keep insisting that she ride? Like I said, she does love it, but gets very apprehensive during the ride if her pony is being naughty. I don't want to over-do it and be that "show mom" that everyone hates, but I do want the best for her, and to nurture her interests. I know she gains confidence with every lesson, but it is hard for me to watch her get so frustrated during her lessons.
    We keep her lessons fun, more of games than anything. So far as showing, I was thinking leadline class, nothing too heavy, naturally, But like I said, she says she wants to, and at least in leadline class, everyone walks away with at least something. I think that would be a good experience for her. One of the naughtiest ponies she rides is her favorite. She does ask to ride him, and even named her latest stuffed horse after him. She has no fear of actually riding, it's mostly when things dont go as she planned (ie: pulling the reins)

    • ANSWER:
      Hmm I can see both sides of the coin in your situation ;-) I have 4 girls under 7yo and they all ride, my youngest is 2 1/2 years old.

      My girls have grown up with horses and I am lucky enough to have my horses on our property. So they have been around them in one form or another since birth. Early on it was just being led around on my big horses and sitting up with me. In fact we did not buy a pony until my oldest girl was 3yo.

      Unfortunately with ponies (as you have pointed out) many of them do have attitudes. I learned a lesson very quickly with my oldest girl, if they have a bad experience, they can loose their confidence VERY quickly and it is then very hard to get back.

      When my oldest girl was 4yo she was being led on a 10hh Shetland pony, he was pretty toey and normally she laughed, asked for trot and thought he was the best thing since sliced bread. He reared up one day and hit her in the face with his head. She got a blood nose and obviously was very shaken. After that day she refused to get back on him for over a year.

      She was happy to get on the big horses, but the ponies freaked her out. She still talks about that happening like it was yesterday. Even though she had previously been riding independently, I had to take her back to baby steps and just get her to sit on a pony and not move. Heaps of praise and obtaining very small goals each time, until she was eventually ready to trot again - this took over a year, I never pushed her.

      Both of my older girls are confident (now), but they lack the skills, seat, strength of leg and ability to make a naughty pony do as it is asked most of the time. Ponies figure this out very quickly, this results in frustration for your child and ultimately ends in tears.

      The clever ponies just stand and refuse to move. Now I have given her a crop, just holding it is enough to make them walk or trot when requested from little legs.

      I always took what ever measures I needed to hopefully get a successful outcome. Depending on the day I used one or several of these methods, like keeping them on a lead on a naughty or new pony. I understand it is hard in a riding school situation because you don't always get a choice of pony.

      I use a "grazing rein" when necessary, it stops the pony trying to eat grass where the child cant pull the ponies head back up. I walk in front to let the pony follow me (off lead). I have the pony ride with another pony to keep it calm and let if follow the other pony. I ride the pony myself to ensure they are educated and learn to be responsive.

      I do what ever it takes to make sure my girls have a safe and just as importantly, positive ride and experience. A stressed child is not learning effectively.

      Nearly all ponies will have an issue of some sort (lazy, toey), and all of them are super smart at knowing how to get away with not doing, what they don't want to do!

      I think you need to take the pressure off yourself and off your daughter (even though she does not know it is there yet). I had no intention of showing with my girls, they had always been happy to ride around the paddock and it had never been a topic I thought of.

      However my oldest girl was reading her horse books and asking questions. I asked them if they wanted to go to our local show in the fun ring to see what it was all about. They were very excited at the prospect.

      You can show successfully with a 4yo child ;-) You need to practice heaps on the lead. Kids that young will probably require a led on the pony, the judges don't expect the child to be "riding" the pony independently. You need to get the pony working well (ours are on voice commands) so you can walk, halt and trot when required. You will learn that the pony often matches your stride, so practice running fluidly beside the pony.

      The judges just want to see the child sitting up, rising to the trot and holding the reins in rider classes (practice rhythm by saying up, down, up down). If you enter breed or classes judged on the pony, then they just want to see the pony is quiet enough for a child to ride it (on the lead).

      Our first show was just about letting the girls see what a show was like. They both placed in their rider classes and where thrilled to get a ribbon. Then in the ridden pony class (judged on the pony) they got 1st and 2nd. It was very exciting for them to take their ribbons to show and tell ;-)

      The next show was their choice, I gave them the option and they wanted to go. They got a handful of ribbons each, ranging from 1st to 3rd. More show and tell.

      Go with little expectation and anything on that is a bonus. We found it a fun family day that our whole family could enjoy.

  15. QUESTION:
    Relationship help ASAP please?
    Me (19) and my girlfriend (20) have been together since march or something this year. I'm from Norway, she's from Thailand.
    She has many Thai friends in Norway, that she likes to hang out with, and go to parties with.
    I do not like to party at all, and when 90% of the people in these parties choose to solely speak Thai, and not Norwegian, even though they're able to, it's very easy to feel left out, and very uncomfortable. And as soon as we meet some of her Thai friends, wherever we may be, or we walk into these parties, it's like she forgets me, until she's leaving or something. This is why I choose not to go. My girlfriend doesn't seem to care one slightest bit about me being uncomfortable with her partying, and then I have to see the pictures of that party the next day about how she put everyone's phones in her bra to take a picture, and kept them in there for about 10-20 minutes. I thought this was an area only I was able to access, but the fact that she's doing that, and through that, making a little show for everyone about her breasts, in an area where there are many guys, to me seems like she doesn't care who's able to get a little peek. She's pretty short, so she likes wearing short dresses to make her look tall, but this is also to show everyone her big thighs and hips, in tight dresses.
    I thought her other sexual areas, also were just for me, but it seems like she doesn't care at all and goes around showing herself off to everyone.

    I asked her to come with me to this dairy farm (she loves animals), where we'd see pigs and horses and cows etc, and she wouldn't be a third wheel of anything. It would be just the two of us and we would have a lot of fun. She refused, while it was only 4 PM. She said she was tired and didn't feel like it. I tried to convince her, but she just kept refusing. 11 days later, at 10 PM, she was tired as hell, and wanted to go to bed. She told me she was going to bed soon, but before she could, she got the question from someone (a couple) if she would go play pool with them. The couple asked around if anyone wanted to come. She said yes. She was tired, but still said yes at once. She asked me if she could go, I didn't want her to, but she left anyway. Later that night, she's out drinking too. She refused me, ten times, because she was a little tired, but while drop-dead tired, she accepted to go out that late. They also started drinking that same night and she went to bed around 6 AM, or later. Why would she do that? Many signs similar to this, has come up of her not wanting to hang out with me, and that she has a wayyy better time with others than with me. She has been generally refusing to hang out with me, wanting to be with her friends instead, even though she lives with them, and has no job. She's able to be with them all day long, and then when I'm finally off work or school, she refuses just like that. I understand that her friends is a whole gang, which has the same interests as she does + the more the merrier, and she can speak Thai to them, which probably makes her feel more at home, but this is far from within reason. At the beginning of this relationship she didn't care at all though. She chose to be with me most of her time, even though she had less time to spare. Now she's hanging out with them 24/7, both weekdays and weekends.

    There was a misunderstanding when I was very hurt by something she did, so I told her, and she thought I'd broken up with her when I didn't, changed the status on her Facebook account to single, and didn't talk to me. She's been telling me since then that she's not ready to talk to me, or see me, yet, but she was fully ready to go to a party and act crazy, get drunk and put everyone's phones down her bra and even let her friends take a closeup picture of this, and use the rest of the night to show off her curves. What is up with that?

    Yesterday, when i got home from convincing her to talk to me again, I saw the pictures on Facebook again, and she was letting this guy put her arm around her neck and hand on her shoulder, and she was smiling like hell. There were no intentions either way, but I started crying, feeling replaced, and once again reminded of how much fun she's easily having without me and how she'd rather choose to hang out with anyone else but me. I called her, because I needed to talk to her about this. She didn't care much at all, and after 2 minutes hung up on me.

    I'm tired of having to practically beg her to be with me, and then walk around in town to see someone from Thailand, and be forgotten just like that.
    We used to ask each other out all the time, and it was more or less an "of course" that we were going to hang out with each other.
    I don't see the point of her being with me, when she's all okay without me. She still chooses to be with me, but chooses n

    • ANSWER:
      wow im so sry i think u should just keep ur head up and find sum one who will Truly love u back like u love them

  16. QUESTION:
    Do You Have Any Dog Related Hobbies That Don't Involve REAL Dogs?
    I've been wondering about this for a while now. :-)

    Do you collect anything dog? Maybe paint or draw dogs?

    Me? My life revolves around dogs. I collect dog artwork, Gordon Setter mainly, but I also have a couple of lovely Papillon pieces. Actually, I collect ANYTHING Gordon Setter- statues, shirts, stuffed animals, mugs, glasses... BUT it has to be a piece I like, not 'just' because it represents my breed.

    I collect all breed dog statues, in fact, if they are a good representative of the breed and appeal to me. I probably have over 100. There is a model dog showing hobby I am starting to get interested in, the shows are run through a club, judging pictures against one another. I also customize Breyer dog statues, turning them into different breeds by re-sculpting them with epoxy putty and repainting.

    I enjoy writing and hope to be published eventually; my stories always include a few dogs- not as background clutter, but as involved characters, just as dogs are involved in our lives.

    I love drawing and painting dogs and horses.

    Here are a couple examples of my hobbies:

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v20/PapSett/Artwork/038.jpg

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v20/PapSett/Artwork/007.jpg

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v20/PapSett/Model%20Dogs/011.jpg
    (this started out as a standing Dalmatian...)

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v20/PapSett/Model%20Dogs/MVC-002F.jpg

    These, too, were the same standing Dal. The GSP in nthe background is the original pose but had the tail docked.

    So... Any non-dog dog hobbies besides me?
    LOL Show Breeders... I collect Breyer & Peter Stone horses too, along with a few chinas & artist's resins. I have roughly 450 model horses.
    Awwww... I just use the Dalmatian as a base because they can be made into SO many breeds!

    On the other hand, I resculpted a Foxhound to make this Dalmatian:

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v20/PapSett/Model%20Dogs/014.jpg

    • ANSWER:
      I collect anything "Afghan hound"..Figurines and other art, old magazine ads, old photos, etc.
      I also sculpt Afghans, and have sold many on eBay, as well as custom pieces from client's photos

      Added: I just looked at the pics of your work. Those are delightful! I especially love the Dane puppy.

  17. QUESTION:
    My mother is Mentally ill and refuses any medical help what can I do?
    I am 18 and my brother 19 and she was admitted to a mental health hospital back when I was around 10ish. She took medication up until I was about 13 and ever since she has refused to take any medication. I cant get her in a mental health hospital again because to do so she has to agree to go there with this stupid law, and most people with her type of illness will NOT agree to go into a hospital.

    Yes so I am 18 and the sad part is that I really do not have a life because of this. I stay at my dads for week days for college/job and friday to sunday Im at my mams. While all my friends are having fun at the weekends Im stuck at my mams. I cant stay at my dads on any weekend whatsoever because she freaks out and comes looking for my dads house( she doesnt know where he lives because shes unpredictable) :(

    Recently she has been buying animals and outrageous things that an 18 and 19year old boys would not be interested in but she just carrys on and thinks that we are much younger. Things such as a dog, 2 cats, 2 budgies, Mouse and now shes talking about a Horse! All she ever talks about is my dad in a negative way because he was the one that got her into the mental hospital the first time which was definatly the right decsion. When ever you try to reason with her its like she doesnt even take on board a word in which you have spoken as she continies with her view.

    Its not as though I can just move out and get my own place to stay all the time either with prices of places and the fact im a student looking to go to university in 2 years time.
    What are my options I want to help her because she is making my life hell, like I say I never go out with friends on a weekend maybe 3-4 times a year max I get to see friends on a weekend, its hardly a life. I get asked to go to town on a night out almost every week and i hate having to turn everyone down they must think im just anti social or something

    Thank you alot for reading this and I hope I can find the help i need.

    • ANSWER:

  18. QUESTION:
    Can my Native American animal guide spirit be something I hunt?
    After MANY hours of research, both on the internet and with people who know a lot about the Native American ways (I guess you could say), I found out my animal guide spirit is a deer. I've gotten this answer 9 out of 10 times. (My messenger animal is a horse and my shadow animal is a coyote) But this is where i come to my pondering for I am an avid deer hunter. I'm not one of those "let's go kill us a deer" kind of people who shoot up the entire forest. I am a VERY ethical hunter and use every part of the deer I harvest and in fact, have an astounding amount of respect for the creatures. I even go sit in the woods when they're not in season just to watch and observe them in a manner that has nothing to do with hunting. ****PLEASE NO ANTI- HUNTING COMMENTS!**** I am part Blackfoot and am very interested in the beliefs of the tribe and am looking to get I guess "closer" to my roots.
    I just can't understand how something that is supposed to "guide" me be something I hunt. I mean, I understand it is in a way helping me out by its life being taken, (I use the meat and the hide) but this is one thing that is really jumbling my mind. Any help would be **greatly** appreciated! Thanks! :)

    • ANSWER:
      ok, no offense, but how do you get the answer "9 out of 10" times? Are you taking a test? Asking the magic 8 ball? Did you complete 9 out of 10 vision quests?

      The Cherokee tell a story that says anyone who kills a deer without first offering a prayer before killing him, and then asking his pardon, will be stuck with painful rheuatism in their joints. When a deer is slain by an Indian hunter, Chief Little Deer will run to the spot and ask the slain deer's spirit, "Did you hear the hunter's prayer for pardon?" If the reply is yes, then all is well.

      But then, that only applies to the Indian who hunts. ;)

  19. QUESTION:
    What would be a good sport for me?
    Hi! I am fifteen years old, overweight, unfit and lethargic-I really want to find a sport to get in better shape, but so far I haven't been able to find anything I enjoy. I don't like team sports like football or basketball because I don't like the idea of lots of people depending on me (everyone knows not to pass the ball to me in PE) but I like having someone to talk to otherwise I get bored. I am quite violent and competitive, but I don't take part in competitive sports because I get embarrassed, always lose and I am a really sore loser! Also even though I enjoy sparring I am not very good with pain... (Alright I admit I'm a big baby!)
    I tried a karate class, but I quit after three lessons because all we did was kata with no sparring and whilst I liked the philosophy I did not like all the rules and how disciplined it all was-I was really bored and felt like an automaton. It was all work and no play. Another problem is that I get embarrassed if I am not good at something the first time and tend to lose my motivation and quit.

    I used to play tennis but I was not very good and found it boring, I hate badminton even more. I used to enjoy trampolining but I got sick of it after a few years and when everyone else quit the class I had no one to talk to and got bored again! I like the "feel" of cycling but I get bored cycling around the same old places and I don't like cycling with other people because I prefer to do my own thing when cycling. I absolutely hate hiking and walking up hills, and I hate the gym as well as I find it really boring even when I go with friends.
    I want to find something fun and engaging that will also help me get in shape-I am quite geeky and into RPG games like Zelda and adventure books and would be interested in learning to use a sword as a hobby, but I am worried about it being like the karate class and also my mum doesn't want me to do anything "violent". I also like the idea of parkour or free running (not being bound to set paths, being able to move my own way, as well as the fact that both are not very popular sports in my area so I wouldn't feel hemmed in by other people) but I do not know where I could go to learn and also apparently you have to be incredibly fit to do both and that it can be dangerous, and once again I am anxious about the "automaton" mentality I encountered in Karate. I love animals and would love to do horse riding, but we cannot afford lessons. :(

    I really can't think of a sport that would suit me, but I get the feeling there must be one out there. I'm also going to be moving up to fourth year now and I can't do a sport that will take away too much from studying time. Someone please help me as I don't want to be another overweight bum who just sits all day on the computer, but I simply can't come up with something that would hold my interest for more than ten seconds without being too expensive... I am a girl and I am into books, video games, animals, exploring, drums and jazz, pop punk and punk rock music and I'm a goody twoshoes not very good at taking risks if that makes any difference (apparently it does but I'm not sure).
    I also meant to say I don't like things like dancing-I feel awkward doing it and don't really enjoy it or see the incentive.

    • ANSWER:
      Hey,
      You sound a lot like me ;)
      I just started to be more active, Did you know an hour doing housework burns roughly 200 calories?
      I don't really like sports much, but i've started walking and i've already seen the benefits! However as you say you don't like hills...here are a few suggestions that you haven't mentioned...La-cross, Handball, Football, Netball, Swimming, Boxing, Kick Boxing, Archery, Skiing, Fencing and Sailing. There are many, many sports out there, you just need to find one you like! Even if you don't like the sound of doing a sport, go try it out, as you never know! If I were you try typing sports list into google and see what comes up :)

      -And, side note: Since you love Horses, why not try and volunteer at a local shelter, you never know you might be allowed to ride them sometimes!

  20. QUESTION:
    About life span during biblical times?
    Out of the thousands of stories and hundreds of thousand of shorter anecdotes in the Bible I feel one of the most interesting, more encouraging and definitely not overpowering_is the fact that people appear to live for hundreds, almost a thousand year in some cases, as it is told in Genesis. Now, while I understand that the Bible is to each person what they allow it in their heart and mind to be, and many simply reject the story about "longevity" altogether, this is one which I've always wondered about. Why? Simply because there is no (again) "overpowering" thing about this; it is a story "light to carry around", whereas most other stories in the Bible tend to be "heavy on the heart".

    Back to longevity:

    Has science tried to analyze this? Scientists have wondered and studied, and experimented with many other theories in the Bible.

    From scientific point of view, why would this not be possible?

    Most people back then died of horse falls, drowning, snake or spider bite, sword injury, probably of E.coli (drinking water and animal feces in rivers), and maybe consequences of living in desert area (such as wondering off and dying of thirst in the larger part of desert). Also some women dying in childbirth. But aside from these, what other causes were there to cause illness in them?

    As compared to nowadays in which millions are dying of cancer, diabetes, alzheimer, chronic respiratory conditions (due to smoking primarily), ever-increasing heart ailments due to so much grease and salt, high incidence of traffic accidents_and we can add to this an epidemic of pedestrians killed all over Miami alone! There's been at least 12 fatalities in less than two months!_Oh, and we can add gun-shot victims; botch up surgery; mixed medication or erroneous ones, such as the pregnant woman days ago in which she was prescribed instead of antibiotic, something for cancer (which she does not have), and which is also used to create abortions! All in all, in the USA alone supposedly 90,000 people die yearly because of medical errors.

    Well, since we certainly beat by a huge margin anyone from those ages where death-causing conditions is concerned, why is it hard to believe people did live really long time?!

    I am one to believe that people did live that long, and that many more generations went by (but were not included probably because inability to count them), between those people and the following ones which only lived nearly a hundred years or so. And it would be interesting to know what it is they began doing that caused their lifespan to shorten.

    What do you think?
    Really didn't expect so many answers and so varied. Concerning Frank N's answer (which is the last one, after I got all initial ones), I thank you for the link. I promise myself I will read the whole wikipedia article. But all this brings up many more questions for me, the first one being (and which I will "investigate") is how is science so sure of all these statistics about "those numbers back in those times". Also, I insist that artificial things, mostly the ones used in foods, plus all the chemicals floating around in the form of disinfectant sprays, disinfectant liquid soap, all types of chlorine mixed w/ who knows what else, and the tons of perfumes, makeup, etc., contribute to much more cancers and many illness which have not even been properly diagnosed yet.

    On the other hand I am quite aware of the "plagues" from different Biblical times, as well as the ones striking during the middle ages, many of which came up because of nonexistent hygiene. But, if we go further back_and t

    • ANSWER:
      In fact life expectancy was much shorter 2,000 years ago than it is now.

  21. QUESTION:
    Does my daughter have a mild form of autism?
    She's 6 yrs. old, and her 1st grade teacher has told me that she is not coherent in her answers. Example: teacher reads a book about a bear in the woods. Asks my daughter what the story is about, my daughter will answer: how a flower grows when you water it. It is very difficult to understand what she is trying to tell you, she usually leaves out words. When reading, she will read backwards (will read "saw" instead of "was"). Also, she immediately notices when something that belongs to her has been moved or is missing. She does not role play, not interested in dolls. She can play for hours with a box. She has always had a strong fixation and attachment to horses and unicorns, be it in the form of a stuffed animal or a toy. She developed since 3, a fixation on eating crackers with cream cheese and up until 6 months ago, refused to eat any kind of meat. She was diagnosed with mild ADHD at the age of 3. She walks on all fours at least 60% of the time and gains incredible speeds in doing so. She is a little daredevil, and doesn't seem to experience physical pain. She loves to socialize, but is usually rejected because she doesn't know how to interact, or plays a bit rougher than the other little girls, but when she does play, she will eventually "go into her own little world" and ends up playing by herself. She is usually followed by her peers, does not like to follow.
    I don't have insurance so I have taken my child to a neurologist pediatrician in Mexico. She diagnosed her with Semantic Pragmatic Linguistic Disorder and says a she needs language therapy. And medication to help her focus.
    The teacher and the school counselor tell me I pay too much attention to her. So, I'm at a point where I don't know if in fact I should be worried about her and seek a second opinion, or if in fact I am paying too much attention to her behavior, or her. Does any bodyknow? Your input is much appreciated. Also, I would like to ask what kind of specialist is the one who would be able to diagnose (psychologist, neurologist, etc.), and if there are any tests and what kind they are (psychological, blood analysis, etc) performed that could confirm or deny a diagnosis. Thank you

    • ANSWER:
      Federal law is that schools will provide professionals to diagnose your daughter. Just put in writing to the school that you want your daughter evaluated for autism and other psychological diagnoses as well as for learning disabilities. By law, they have so many days to respond. They can deny this, but they would have to have a good reason. Since she already has a diagnosis, you can put that in your written request to make your argument stronger, for her to need to be evaluated. Usually the schools will do it, but some might not if the request is not in writing. Don't pay much attention to what the teachers say or even the school counselor, unless they are licensed to diagnose autism and other special needs, and most are not. Also Google "Wright's Law" since you will need to know this to help your daughter.

  22. QUESTION:
    NEED HELP on English poetry question please...Eavan Boland - poet?
    Can you please help me on this question its higher level leaving cert in Ireland question....question: ''The appeal of Eavan bolands poetry'' using the title write an essay what you consider to be the appeal of bolands poetry...support your answer by reference of bolands poetry.....please please i need help on this.....here are poems you can refer to:

    The War Horse by Eavan Boland :

    This dry night, nothing unusual
    About the clip, clop, casual

    Iron of his shoes as he stamps death
    Like a mint on the innocent coinage of earth.

    I lift the window, watch the ambling feather
    Of hock and fetlock, loosed from its daily tether

    In the tinker camp on the Enniskerry Road,
    Pass, his breath hissing, his snuffling head

    Down. He is gone. No great harm is done.
    Only a leaf of our laurel hedge is torn—

    Of distant interest like a maimed limb,
    Only a rose which now will never climb

    The stone of our house, expendable, a mere
    Line of defence against him, a volunteer

    You might say, only a crocus, its bulbous head
    Blown from growth, one of the screamless dead.

    But we, we are safe, our unformed fear
    Of fierce commitment gone; why should we care

    If a rose, a hedge, a crocus are uprooted
    Like corpses, remote, crushed, mutilated?

    He stumbles on like a rumour of war, huge
    Threatening. Neighbours use the subterfuge

    Of curtains. He stumbles down our short street
    Thankfully passing us. I pause, wait,

    Then to breathe relief lean on the sill
    And for a second only my blood is still

    With atavism. That rose he smashed frays
    Ribboned across our hedge, recalling days

    Of burned countryside, illicit braid:
    A cause ruined before, a world betrayed.

    CHILD OF OUR TIME:

    Yesterday I knew no lullaby
    But you have taught me overnight to order
    This song, which takes from your final cry
    Its tune, from your unreasoned end its reason;
    Its rhythm from the discord of your murder,
    Its motive from the fact you cannot listen.

    We who should have known how to instruct
    With rhymes for your waking, rhythms for your sleep
    Names for the animals you took to bed,
    Tales to distract, legends to protect,
    Later an idiom for you to keep
    And living, learn, must learn from you, dead.

    To make our broken images rebuild
    Themselves around your limbs, your broken
    Image, find for your sake whose life our idle
    Talk has cost, a new language. Child
    Of our time, our times have robbed your cradle.
    Sleep in a world your final sleep has woken.

    OUTSIDE HISTORY:

    These are outsiders, always. These stars—
    these iron inklings of an Irish January,
    whose light happened
    thousands of years before
    our pain did; they are, they have always been
    outside history.
    They keep their distance. Under them remains
    a place where you found
    you were human, and
    a landscape in which you know you are mortal.
    And a time to choose between them.
    I have chosen:
    out of myth in history I move to be
    part of that ordeal
    who darkness is
    only now reaching me from those fields,
    those rivers, those roads clotted as
    firmaments with the dead.
    How slowly they die
    as we kneel beside them, whisper in their ear.
    And we are too late. We are always too late.

    THIS MOMENT:

    A neighbourhood.
    At dusk.

    Things are getting ready
    to happen
    out of sight.

    Stars and moths.
    And rinds slanting around fruit.

    But not yet.

    One tree is black.
    One window is yellow as butter.

    A woman leans down to catch a child
    who has run into her arms
    this moment.

    Stars rise.
    Moths flutter.
    Apples sweeten in the dark.

    thanks...
    but i dont really know hat the poet means in these poems?? can someone help?? i think a full answer would help me because it would give me a goo example for the nexy question i get??

    • ANSWER:
      well I'm not going to answer it for you .. How will that help you in the long run like!

      Basically split the question up.. Have an opening topic such as ''Eavan Bolands poetry appeals to me because I find it interesting to read, I can relate to his poetry, etc.
      Then move onto your first paragraph.. mention a point and make sure the paragraph revolves around it eg. Bolands Imagery could be the first paragraph, His Language the second paragraph, and his various themes in the last paragraph. Make sure to Quote and give your personal reponse... the examiners dont want a run down on the poetry THEY ALREADY KNOW WHAT THE POEMS ARE ABOUT they are looking for YOUR thoughts and YOUR opinions!
      The last paragraph is basically a rewording of the first paragraph.. eg. All the above reasons is why Eaven Bolands appeals to me and without doubt I find him the most interesting poet to learn about!

      THE END=]

  23. QUESTION:
    What is wrong with this essay?
    Alexander the Great had a bottomless and extensive influence that lasted for centuries. He used a phalanx, his father’s Macedonian army, to draw the attention of his enemies while preparing the key charge that brought victory. Marching for eleven years and covering twenty-two thousand miles without losing a battle over the strongest foes of his time indicates that he was a legend and a fearless conqueror. What he truthfully wanted in his life was glory and heroism, rather than easy living and wealth. Alexander was a great man rather than a lucky man of his time.
    In 356 B.C, Alexander was born in Pella, an ancient capital of Macedonia, to King Phillip and Olympia, princess of Epirus. At the age of thirteen, his parents hired a personal tutor, Aristotle, a Greek philosopher, logician and scientist, who thought him rhetoric and literature. The young boy had an interest in science, medicine and philosophy. Aristotle’s teaching soon came in play against other philosophers in India. When his father left to Byzantium to battle against rebels, he was left to rule Macedonia as a regent, someone who rules during the absence of a monarch. This position shows that he was already accomplished in battle at the age of sixteen.
    Alexander the Great was a true visionary and leader who fought for larger pieces of territory around Asia, the Middle East and Africa. He was also a military genius of his time who attacked an army of Persians, (under King Darius III) and Greek hoplites, profoundly armed foot soldiers of ancient Greece who were on the Persian’s side and against Macedonians. Alexander’s forces killed 40,000 men and only 110 of his men were killed. When he was in Egypt, he was voluntarily made pharaoh because the Egyptian despised living under the Persian rule. He also conquered the land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers and found a Persian army of one million men. On October 1st, 331 B.C, his Macedonian men slaughtered them. They burned the royal palace and soon, the ancient Persian Empire fell. Of all the battles he had fought in, the greatest battle was against Porus of India, one of the greatest leaders. The Indians were defeated in a brutal battle even though they fought with elephants, animals the Macedonians haven’t seen before. Aristotle’s teaching helped when Alexander debated against Bhramin philosophers, who were famous for their wisdom. He was known as a legendary in India for his philosophy and fearless conquerors.
    With his large, loyal and combative army, he united an area over twenty two million square miles. He setup a common system of currency for his entire realm, established many new cities and colonies, many of them that were named after him. An example of a city that was named after him was Alexandria in Egypt and Alexadropolis in Greece. A foundered city was even named after his dead horse, Bucephalus. Though the Greek culture was already expanding, he continued to expand from the polis to the unknown world of his time. He established many training programs to teach Persians about Greek and Macedonian culture.
    Alexander the Great died in 323 B.C at the age of thirty three years due to a heavy drinking bout and swimming in a river from which he caught a fever. Despite the fact that he was an alcoholic, heavy drinking was a cherished tradition at the Macedonian court. Alexander was “great” in a sense because he had so much influence in history. Greece ruled the near east politically for three hundred years and culturally for one thousand years because of his actions. If he had lived longer, it was possible that he would have politically united the world. Alexander the Great deserved his title as he was very young who conquered most of the world. It was only lost when he died. He was the first king ever to the called “the Great”.

    my teacher said it was awkward it didn't analyze my thesis. help, can you please help me analyze this better with details? thanks

    • ANSWER:
      One important mistake you are making, is you need to define paragraphs, with indentation.
      Thesis should be Alexander was....lucky man ...of his time...
      NEW paragraph.
      That is/should be your thesis.
      Next separate main/most important ideas, make them paragraph.
      Indent new paragraphs.
      Otherwise it's not bad

  24. QUESTION:
    RATE OUT OF TEN please?
    She was on her way to becoming a college graduate
    Wouldn't even stop to talk to the average kid
    The type of latina I'd sit and contemplate marriage with
    Fuck the horse and carriage shit, her love was never for hire
    Disciplined, intellectual beauty's what I desire
    Flyer than Salma Hayek or Jennifer Lopez
    Everyone told me, kickin' it to her was hopeless
    At first I just thought, she didn't mess with broke kids
    The thug niggaz always talking about, how they smoke kids
    But the rich-sniff-coke kids got no play
    "I'm not even interested" is what her body language would say
    Everyone around the way, gave up trying to get in it
    It didn't matter how good your game was, she wasn't with it
    On the block, bitches was jealous, but wouldn't admit it
    Talk shit, and deny to everyone that they did it
    'Cause they regretted the long list of niggaz that they let hit it
    And no one ever gave them shit except McDonald's and did-dick
    Smoking weed with thoughts of envy, whenever they lit it
    She smoked intelligently and they bit it, always trying to copy
    But when they tried to use her vocab, they sounded sloppy
    She had a style, all her own, respectful and pure
    I was sick in the head for her, and there wasn't a cure

    [Verse 2]
    Her eyes are brown and beautiful, yet empty and sad
    I used to talk to her occasionally, and she was glad
    That I wasn't just another nigga trying to get in it
    So every now and then we'd stop and talk for a minute
    I didn't have a gimmick so the minutes turned to hours
    On her birthday, I gave her a poem with flowers
    Then I took her out to dinner after her cousin's baby shower
    We talked about, power to the people and such
    We spent more time together but it was never enough
    I never tried to sneak a touch, or even cop a feel
    I was too interested, in keeping it real
    Perfectly honest and complete, she would always call me "carino",
    And never Technique, bought me a new book to read every 2 or 3 weeks
    Forever changing the expression of my thoughts when I speak
    It was because of her, I even deaded all of my freaks
    She convinced me, to stop hangin' out on the streets
    To stop robbin' and stealin', from people like you
    Instead I took her out to the Apollo and the Bronx Zoo
    We sailed in Barrio and the Metropolitan too
    Got to the point when I was either with her or my crew
    So I decided one day, to tell her my feelings was true
    I couldn't live without her so I told her, facing my fears
    But honey's only response, was a face full of tears
    She could only sob hysterically, holding me tight
    I tried to speak, but she wouldn't stop until I left sight
    I felt like a moth who got himself too close to the light
    Except I didn't burn, I turned cold after that night

    [Hook]

    [Verse 3]
    I went on with my life, college and my career
    Ended up locked up like an animal for a year
    Where the C.O.'s talk to you like they were the overseer
    Then I got sent to the hole, when my exit was near
    At night in my cell, I'd close my eyes and I'd see her
    Hold her close in my dreams, but when I woke she disappeared
    Just an empty cell until the state gave me parole in the summer
    came back, in tact and on track
    But the fact of the matter, is I still felt cold
    Even after my mother, hugged me, cryin' at home
    My real niggaz would catch me thinkin', out of my zone
    Fuckin' lots of different women, but I still felt alone
    Relatively well-known around the New York underground
    But I kept thinking of her and how we used to be down
    The sound of her voice, and the beautiful smell of her hair
    Though gone physically, somehow it was still there
    I had to do something, because the shit was too much to bear
    So I went and visited the building where she used to live
    The world looks a lot different after you do a bid
    The way your life done changed
    While primitive minds (are) still stuck in the same game
    Like her cousin who was on the corner slangin' cocaine
    Stepped in the lobby and tapped the button next to her last name
    Her mom buzzed me up and hugged me up, like a mother oughta
    But her facial expression changed, when I asked about her daughter

    [Hook]

    [Verse 4]
    She told me that there was a note for me, that was left behind
    She had left it there waiting, for such a long time
    I was inclined to ask about it but she brought it up first
    I saw a tear swelling up in her eye, and then she cursed
    She told me where the letter was and I started thinking the worst
    Reversed my position, stepped over and opened the door
    And sure enough there was an envelope with my name on the floor
    "Nobody loves you more than me carino" is what the letter said

    "By the time you get to read this, I'll probably be dead
    But when you left in '97 a part of me went to Heaven
    I thank God at least I got to know what love really was
    But it hurt me, to see what true love really does
    'Cause even though we never made love, you were all that there was
    It was because I loved you so much that I had to make you leave
    You made me doubt the way I thought, you made me want to believe
    And then I slipped up, and I let you get close to me
    It was hard to not be openly when people spoke to me
    This was not the way I thought my life was supposed to be
    Baby don't you see, I had a blood transfusion that left me with HIV
    Hoped the end exists for me since late in 1993
    I died a virgin, I wish I could've given myself to you
    I cried in the hospital because there was no one else but you
    Promise that you'll meet me in paradise inevitably
    No matter what, I'll keep your love forever with me"

    What happened for the rest of the day is still a blur
    But I remember wishing that I was dead, instead of her
    She was buried on August 3rd
    The story ends without a sequel
    And now you know why Technique, don't fucking fall in love with people
    Hold the person that you love closely if they're next to you
    The one you love, not the person that'll simply have sex with you
    Appreciate them to the fullest extent, and then beyond
    'Cause you never really know what you got, until it's gone

    • ANSWER:
      8

  25. QUESTION:
    help me find allusions? I need help!!!!!!!?
    Verse 1]
    She was on her way to becoming a college graduate
    Wouldn't even stop to talk to the average kid
    The type of latina I'd sit and contemplate marriage with
    Fuck the horse and carriage shit, her love was never for hire
    Disciplined, intellectual beauty's what I desire
    Flyer than Salma Hayek or Jennifer Lopez
    Everyone told me, kickin' it to her was hopeless
    At first I just thought, she didn't mess with broke kids
    The thug niggaz always talking about, how they smoke kids
    But the rich-sniff-coke kids got no play
    "I'm not even interested" is what her body language would say
    Everyone around the way, gave up trying to get in it
    It didn't matter how good your game was, she wasn't with it
    On the block, bitches was jealous, but wouldn't admit it
    Talk shit, and deny to everyone that they did it
    'Cause they regreted the long list of niggaz that they let hit it
    And no one ever gave them shit except McDonald's and did-dick
    Smoking weed with thoughts of envy, whenever they lit it
    She smoked intelligently and they bit it, always trying to copy
    But when they tried to use her vocab, they sounded sloppy
    She had a style, all her own, respectful and pure
    I was sick in the head for her, and there wasn't a cure

    [Hook - Jean Grae]
    Don't you know that, time waits for no man
    Not fate, it's all planned
    I'm blessed just to know you
    I've loved and I've lost just to hold you all night
    Can't find, a reason why
    God came, to you and I
    If I had the chance again, I'd never let you go
    Hold tight to your love, 'cause you never know

    [Verse 2]
    Her eyes are brown and beautiful, yet empty and sad
    I used to talk to her occasionally, and she was glad
    That I wasn't just another nigga trying to get in it
    So every now and then we'd stop and talk for a minute
    I didn't have a gimmick so the minutes turned to hours
    On her birthday, I gave her a poem with flowers
    Then I took her out to dinner after her cousin's baby shower
    We talked about, power to the people and such
    We spent more time together but it was never enough
    I never tried to sneak a touch, or even cop a feel
    I was too interested, in keeping it real
    Perfectly honest and complete, she would always call me "carino,"
    And never Technique, bought me a new book to read every 2 or 3 weeks
    Forever changing the expression of my thoughts when I speak
    It was because of her, I even deaded all of my freaks
    She convinced me, to stop hangin' out on the streets
    To stop robbin' and stealin', from people like you
    Instead I took her out to the Apollo and the Bronxu
    We sailed in Barrio (?) and the Metropolitan too
    Got to the point when I was either with her or my crew
    So I decided one day, to tell her my feelings was true
    I couldn't live without her so I told her, facing my fears
    But honey's only response, was a face full of tears
    She could only sob hysterically, holding me tight
    I tried to speak, but she wouldn't stop until I left sight
    I felt like a moth who got himself too close to the light
    Except I didn't burn, I turned cold after that night

    [Hook]

    [Verse 3]
    I went on with my life, college and my career
    Ended up locked up like an animal for a year
    Where the C.O.'s talk to you like they were the overseer
    Then I got sent to the hole, when my exit was near
    At night in my cell, I'd close my eyes and I'd see her
    Hold her close in my dreams, but when I woke she disappeared
    Just an empty cell until the state gave me parole in the summer
    came back, in tact and on track
    But the fact of the matter, is I still felt cold
    Even after my mother, hugged me, cryin' at home
    My real niggaz would catch me thinkin', out of my zone
    Fuckin' lots of different women, but I still felt alone
    Relatively well-known around the New York underground
    But I kept thinking of her and how we used to be down
    The sound of her voice, and the beautiful smell of her hair
    Though gone physically, somehow it was still there
    I had to do something, because the shit was too much to bear
    So I went and visited the building where she used to live
    The world looks a lot different after you do a bid
    The way your life done changed
    While primitive minds (are) still stuck in the same game
    Like her cousin who was on the corner slangin' cocaine
    Stepped in the lobby and tapped the button next to her last name
    Her mom buzzed me up and hugged me up, like a mother oughta
    But her facial expression changed, when I asked about her daughter

    [Hook]

    [Verse 4]
    She told me that there was a note for me, that was left behind
    She had left it there waiting, for such a long time
    I was inclined to ask about it but she brought it up first
    I saw a tear swelling up in her eye, and then she cursed
    She told me where the letter was and I started thinking the worst
    Reversed my position, stepped over and opened the door
    And sure enough there was an envelope with my name on the floor
    "Nobody loves you more than me carino" is what the letter said

    "By the time you get to read this, I

    • ANSWER:
      find allusions? where?...ah, I'm not reading all that

  26. QUESTION:
    can someone help me find the name of this song?
    [Verse 1]
    She was on her way to becoming a college graduate
    Wouldn't even stop to talk to the average kid
    The type of latina I'd sit and contemplate marriage with
    Fuck the horse and carriage shit, her love was never for hire
    Disciplined, intellectual beauty's what I desire
    Flyer than Salma Hayek or Jennifer Lopez
    Everyone told me, kickin' it to her was hopeless
    At first I just thought, she didn't mess with broke kids
    The thug niggaz always talking about, how they smoke kids
    But the rich-sniff-coke kids got no play
    "I'm not even interested" is what her body language would say
    Everyone around the way, gave up trying to get in it
    It didn't matter how good your game was, she wasn't with it
    On the block, bitches was jealous, but wouldn't admit it
    Talk shit, and deny to everyone that they did it
    'Cause they regreted the long list of niggaz that they let hit it
    And no one ever gave them shit except McDonald's and did-dick
    Smoking weed with thoughts of envy, whenever they lit it
    She smoked intelligently and they bit it, always trying to copy
    But when they tried to use her vocab, they sounded sloppy
    She had a style, all her own, respectful and pure
    I was sick in the head for her, and there wasn't a cure

    [Hook - Jean Grae]
    Don't you know that, time waits for no man
    Not fate, it's all planned
    I'm blessed just to know you
    I've loved and I've lost just to hold you all night
    Can't find, a reason why
    God came, to you and I
    If I had the chance again, I'd never let you go
    Hold tight to your love, 'cause you never know

    [Verse 2]
    Her eyes are brown and beautiful, yet empty and sad
    I used to talk to her occasionally, and she was glad
    That I wasn't just another nigga trying to get in it
    So every now and then we'd stop and talk for a minute
    I didn't have a gimmick so the minutes turned to hours
    On her birthday, I gave her a poem with flowers
    Then I took her out to dinner after her cousin's baby shower
    We talked about, power to the people and such
    We spent more time together but it was never enough
    I never tried to sneak a touch, or even cop a feel
    I was too interested, in keeping it real
    Perfectly honest and complete, she would always call me "carino,"
    And never Technique, bought me a new book to read every 2 or 3 weeks
    Forever changing the expression of my thoughts when I speak
    It was because of her, I even deaded all of my freaks
    She convinced me, to stop hangin' out on the streets
    To stop robbin' and stealin', from people like you
    Instead I took her out to the Apollo and the Bronxu
    We sailed in Barrio (?) and the Metropolitan too
    Got to the point when I was either with her or my crew
    So I decided one day, to tell her my feelings was true
    I couldn't live without her so I told her, facing my fears
    But honey's only response, was a face full of tears
    She could only sob hysterically, holding me tight
    I tried to speak, but she wouldn't stop until I left sight
    I felt like a moth who got himself too close to the light
    Except I didn't burn, I turned cold after that night

    [Hook]

    [Verse 3]
    I went on with my life, college and my career
    Ended up locked up like an animal for a year
    Where the C.O.'s talk to you like they were the overseer
    Then I got sent to the hole, when my exit was near
    At night in my cell, I'd close my eyes and I'd see her
    Hold her close in my dreams, but when I woke she disappeared
    Just an empty cell until the state gave me parole in the summer
    came back, in tact and on track
    But the fact of the matter, is I still felt cold
    Even after my mother, hugged me, cryin' at home
    My real niggaz would catch me thinkin', out of my zone
    Fuckin' lots of different women, but I still felt alone
    Relatively well-known around the New York underground
    But I kept thinking of her and how we used to be down
    The sound of her voice, and the beautiful smell of her hair
    Though gone physically, somehow it was still there
    I had to do something, because the shit was too much to bear
    So I went and visited the building where she used to live
    The world looks a lot different after you do a bid
    The way your life done changed
    While primitive minds (are) still stuck in the same game
    Like her cousin who was on the corner slangin' cocaine
    Stepped in the lobby and tapped the button next to her last name
    Her mom buzzed me up and hugged me up, like a mother oughta
    But her facial expression changed, when I asked about her daughter

    [Hook]

    [Verse 4]
    She told me that there was a note for me, that was left behind
    She had left it there waiting, for such a long time
    I was inclined to ask about it but she brought it up first
    I saw a tear swelling up in her eye, and then she cursed
    She told me where the letter was and I started thinking the worst
    Reversed my position, stepped over and opened the door
    And sure enough there was an envelope with my name on the floor
    "Nobody loves you more than me carino" is what the letter said

    "By the time you get to read this,

    • ANSWER:
      You Never Know by Immortal Technique

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pqiqrnZE44


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Information About Horseshoes

The picture of a blacksmith most people have in their minds is that of a big well muscled man standing in a shop with a raging furnace in a corner and using a huge hammer to shape a piece of red hot metal. The principles of blacksmithing have not changed with the passing of time and the basic concepts of the trade remain the same. Except now the blacksmith does not have to be a huge overly muscled man with the ability to apply massive force to the hammer blow. By the end of the 19th century power hammer became available that allowed metal to be worked into shape without the application of human muscle.

The first hammers that did not use direct muscles power to strike the metal were trip hammers. These were lifted to the top of their frame water power (and later by steam) and once they were at the top of the frame, were released and fell with their own weight to make the strike. Basically, it used gravity to create the force of the blow. Power hammers are a development of the trip hammer. In the case of the blacksmith’s power hammer, energy is stored in the form of compressed air or steam and using a system of mechanical linkages this energy is added to the force of gravity and increases the force of the hammer blow. Power hammers are categorized according to the force applied at the time of the hammer hitting the metal and large industrial hammers exceed 100 tones in force.

The first power hammers were steam powered and continued to be in use till the middle of the 20th century. However, by the beginning of that century, smaller mechanical power hammers became popular with blacksmiths. These hammers were powered by electric motors that powered the ram that drove the hammer. These were easier to use and since no boilers were required to create the steam pressure they occupied much less space and were also safer. The motor driven hammers were also easier to control and set for the desired force behind the hammer blow.

Modern blacksmiths power hammers are extremely precise machines, often with micro chip based controls and moveable beds that allow for the easy placement and adjustment of the metal to be worked on. Since the force of the hammer blows are variable, they can be used not just for the gross shaping of the metal in the initial stages, but also for the finer shaping and finishing required to complete the piece being manufactured.

The modern blacksmith metal artist uses power hammers that range between 25 to 500 pounds of strike force, although larger one are used for very large projects.

The blacksmith of yore used his muscles combined with his skill to produce metal objects of high quality that were often works of art. The power hammer removes the need for physical strength and allows those of slight build to shape metal and become blacksmiths and, in increasing numbers, metal artists.

Frequently Asked Questions

  1. QUESTION:
    information about horseshoe crabs?
    im at school and i have to do something about a horseshoe crab fossil lol
    but anyways...
    i need to know

    1.how did it move?
    2. What type of environment did it live in?
    3. How and what did it eat?

    • ANSWER:
      Here is the story on the Horseshoe Crab.
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_crab

  2. QUESTION:
    Where can I find information about Appalachian folklore pertaining to ghosts?
    I am writing a story and need some information on traditional Appalachian practices in dealing with or expelling spirits from within their homes or lives. I have been able to find children's ghost stories mostly, but am looking more for specifics about ritual or commonly used trinkets (such as rabbits feet or horseshoes).

    • ANSWER:
      The Appalachian and or Smoky Mountain region has a rich history in lore mostly due to the Native American Tribes and early settlers of the areas. There is a good book which I have read called "Ghosts and Haunts From The Appalachian foothills" by Burchill, Bonner, Crider and Kendrick . It has numerous stories and accounts regarding hauntings and mysterious happenings.Good luck on your story.

  3. QUESTION:
    How do I find information on Walt Disney Lithographs?
    I have this DVD: Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen. It's sealed with 5 exclusive lithograph set which are Frontier land. They say Columbia, Golden Horseshoe Revue, Rainbow Caverns, Dark Train Riverboat, and Tom Sawyer Island.

    I tried looking these up online but I couldn't find any information. If anyone has any information about these could you help me? Everything is sealed, nothing is open. I'm not sure if it's rare or not?? On the back it says 50 Disneyland.

    • ANSWER:
      Sorry but they are not rare. Companies put lithos in sets all the time. Push comes to shove it is just a copy of the original artwork and they can crank them out by the thousands.

  4. QUESTION:
    How do i make my Own Ear Strechers (plugs, horseshoes,ect)?
    For a few months now i've been wanted to make my own Earings for my streched ear lobes but i cant find any information anywhere about it. i'd like to make them out of acrylic,wood,glass,clay ect

    if anyone could give me any information on this it would be appricated

    Also need a site that can tell me how to make silicone or some other mold and where to get it.

    Thanks

    • ANSWER:
      My boyfriend just bought his off of ebay sterilized em about three times then just used them to stretch his ears......i'm gonna sterilize his the same and do it myself as well. they pretty cheap, like £3 plus postage which is like under £10 well worth the money.

  5. QUESTION:
    More information about septum piercings?
    anyone got theirs done?
    how easy is it to hide?
    can they put in a horseshoe-shaped pierce of jewelry when you first get it done?
    how much does it hurt? (i have a rook and tragus and lip and belly, Relate to these if you can?)
    and also, do you think they look nice?

    • ANSWER:
      I have mine done and its extremely easy to hide now that it is healed. I never tried to hide it before it was healed, however. You'd probably need to talk to your piercer about that.
      They can use the horseshoe shaped jewelry, it just depends on what kind of material it is made out of.
      I did not hurt me that badly [and aside from getting my septum pierced, I only have had my ear lobes pierced] You just feel a quick poke and you might feel as its going through, but it isn't that bad. It literally takes a second.
      I'm probably biased...=], but I think that they do look cute. But I think it really depends on the type of jewelry you wear with it.
      I like to wear my retainer all the time because I like how it looks more than a circular barbell. I like the the sides point down.
      This is what I have:
      http://www.anatometal.com/catalog/sep.php

      But mine is in purple. =P

      Good luck. =]

  6. QUESTION:
    Information about Draft breeds?
    I am looking into adopting a draft breed of horse, so I would like to absorb as much information as I can. These are questions I could not find anywhere else.
    1. Which is the fastest draft breed? How fast does the Shire get to?
    2. Where could I find an extra-wide western saddle?
    3. Do draft horseshoes cost extra money? Should I even bother to shoe such a large horse?
    4. Do draft horses require extra money (besides feed of course) are they in any other way more expensive than usual horses?
    5. For a beginning draft owner, what breed would you recommend?
    6. Could I do western or barrel racing ( we don't have to win or be the fastest) on a draft?
    7. Would you recommend a Shire for a riding horse?

    • ANSWER:
      My horse is a shire cross and my mom owns two gypsies, so I can answer a lot of these questions from personal experience. Here goes...

      1. Shires are powerful, but not very fast. My horse doesn't even spook fast. She has a long, but leisurely stride and I don't think I've ever seen her break into a canter or gallop of her own will, and it takes a lot of encouragement to get her to canter under saddle. If you want a draft breed that's a little more forward, I would suggest a lighter or smaller draft, like the friesian, gypsy, fjord etc. The big guys just aren't built for speed at all.

      2. Most saddle makers make saddles with a wide tree, and most tack shops that carry western saddles have wide trees in stock. If your local tack shop doesn't have a wide tree saddle in stock they can order one for you. Though you shouldn't go out and get a wide tree saddle before you get your horse and know what will fit. My horse is 17 hands and built like a shire but a medium tree fits her. Her width is in her hip and her belly, not so much in her back.

      3. Draft horses can cost more or less. Ursula eats the same grain that the others do, but she does eat more hay and go to the bathroom in larger quantities so she costs more in bedding and hay. My mom's gypsies have slow metabolisms and eat less than half the grain the light horses do, so depending on the horse, feed could be more or less. None of our drafs wear shoes though, so that saves on farrier bills. Many drafts are not shod. If they are being ridden frequently, or by a heavier rider, or if they'll be walking on rough terrain or roads at all, then they might need shoes to keep their hooves from wearing and cracking. If they are just being lightly ridden, then they may be able to get away with just trimming. I can't tell you no draft will ever need shoes, though they are less likely to need them than a lighter breed, because every horse is different and some might need the extra protection on their feet. Their purchase prices also vary. Ursula was green, and unregistered, so she was fairly cheap. Some drafts and draft crosses can be expensive if they have good blood lines or are particularly well-trained in one or more disciplines, but this is true of most breeds.

      4. This question is the same as the previous. No. There is nothing that will cost you significantly more with a draft than any other horse.

      5. I would recommend any calmer or smaller breed of draft. Shires, clydesdales, and belgians are known for being intelligent, willing and laid back, but they can get very big, and someone who isn't experienced with horses may not be able to handle a horse that big. Friesians (at least the ones I've handled) can be somewhat headstrong and skittish (and also expensive), so I wouldn't recommend that either. Just keep in mind, size and temperament vary greatly amongst individuals of the same breed, so shop for drafts near you that have a temperament and size you can manage. I would actually recommend a draft crossed with a lighter breed for a first time draft owner that intends to use the horse for riding. Drafts, as a whole, are not bred for riding. They are bred for pulling, so they tend not to frame up well for riding or be very supple under saddle. When drafts are crossed with lighter breeds, the offspring usually has the substance, height, calm attitude and high intelligence of the draft breed but is a little more streamlined, athletic and comfortable under saddle.

      6. You could barrel race with a draft horse but with a horse like a shire, you would have one hell of the time getting a horse like that to take those turns. Ursula has trouble making it around the corners in the indoor riding arena. There's no way she could turn close around a barrel at anything faster than a walk. She's just too darn huge. So, yes, you could, but it would not be pretty and it would not be fast.

      7. A purebred shire could make a decent riding horse, especially for trail riding or maybe low level dressage where an upright carriage is more acceptable, but a pure shire would not be competitive showing western or hunt seat at an open show. This is why I recommend a cross. They are larger and drafty, but much more rideable. Even so, a draft cross looks better hunt seat than western. However, if winning isn't important to you, then get the horse you want and forget what the judge says. What's important is that you love your horse and enjoy riding.

      Here is an album of my horse, Ursula. She is half shire and half thoroughbred.
      http://s3.photobucket.com/albums/y52/kiltsrhott/ursula/

  7. QUESTION:
    how much does belly button piercings cost at blue horseshoe tattoo?
    I need to know information about the shop in hampton/newport news, virginia. I am looking into getting my belly button pierced and I would like to compare prices before I decide where to go.

    • ANSWER:

  8. QUESTION:
    Where and how do I get a sea card in the province of Ontario, Canada ?
    I'm in the Golden Horseshoe area about 45 minutes from Toronto. If anyone has any address of an office in the area that might help me in getting the answers I'm looking for that is also welcomed. The phone number or just general information is very welcomed and really needed. Thank You ahead of time.

    • ANSWER:
      SEA Card Program Manager
      Telephone: 703-767-0687
      DSN: 427-0687
      FAX: 703-767-8746

      SEACARD Support Team (1-866-308-5475, Customer-support@seacardsys.com, or Merchant-support@seacardsys.com)

  9. QUESTION:
    where did the name "politicians horseshoe" come from?
    i cant seem to find any information on the web about the politicians horseshoe. as far as i know, it is a meal consisting of: toasted bread, hamburger or chicken, french fries, and cheese. where did this originate from and where did the name come from?

    • ANSWER:
      One of the legendary food items that is part of the heritage of Springfield is the horseshoe sandwich. The horseshoe sandwich originated in Springfield, Illinois sometime in the early 20th century at the Leland Hotel. You can get horseshoe sandwiches at most Springfield restaurants, at some restaurants in central Illinois, and at a few restaurants in other parts of the state. Horseshoes are not generally served outside of Illinois.

      “The scattered potatoes looked like shoeing nails. A slice of ham laid on toast was the shape of a horseshoe, and the plate was an anvil. That’s how they got their name.”
      Many politicians ate at the Leland Hotel which was located near the capitol building, dubbing the sandwich as, "Politicians horseshoe".

      Not the original, but a traditional horseshoe is two hamburgers each on a piece of toast with fries and cheese sauce over the top. Variations now include broiled(or deep fried) tenderloins, shaved ham, shaved chicken and even vegetarian variations. A pony shoe is half a horseshoe - a sufficient quantity for most people.

      This link tells it all....

      http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/Sandwiches/HorseshoeSandwich.htm

  10. QUESTION:
    Lip piercing information?
    I'm 17, and I've wanted my lip pierced for some time. This isn't some stupid spur of the moment decision; I've done my research on it. The only thing that I haven't been able to find out for sure is what would happen if I ever decide to take the ring out permanently. Would I have a hole forever, or would it eventually grow back? I want to get an either 18g or 20g ring, starting with a captive ball ring, and later getting a horseshoe or curved barbell. I haven't been able to find a definite answer on how piercings heal, and that's one thing that my parents are wanting to know. I have a small scar on my lip from about 8 years ago, so another small mark or scar isn't going to bother me.
    Thanks so much to anyone who can help me out!
    Also- I am already having to wait until at least I turn 18 (which is in April), because my parents won't give consent.
    I've wanted this long enough that telling me I'm disfiguring my body is not going to stop me.

    • ANSWER:
      Yes, you will always have a tiny dent. I have one from a piercing I took out years ago.

  11. QUESTION:
    What kind of stuff will be considered as lucky charm for Western people?
    I have a school report to discuss these lucky charm, something like rabbit foot or horseshoe, can any one provide me more information about those?
    Name a few famous lucky charm for American people or European folk, please help me, there's no much information you can find in Taiwan here.
    thank you

    • ANSWER:
      Most do not make sense, but we do them anyway.

      "Respect the streak" - this means if something is going your way, do not change anything until things stop going your way. For example, if you wear a certain shirt to play baseball and you get a couple of good hits, wear that shirt the next time you play and keep wearing it as long as you are getting good hits.

      "Knock on wood" - if you tempt fate by saying something, you literally find a piece of wood to tap on to keep from "jinxing" the statement . EGG. "I studied so hard I bet I get an A on my exam, knock on wood."

      As for charms, rabbits feet, horseshoes, 4-leaf clovers, and the like - those are mighty primitive and I don't know anyone who actually has such things.

      Interesting question

  12. QUESTION:
    Cartilage Piercing-->general info, pain level (with a needle), price, nausea?
    for my sweet 16 i'm getting my cartilage pierced. my mom and i talked it over and decided that i should get it done at a tattoo parlor with a needle and get a 'horseshoe' ring http://product-images.imshopping.com/product/16-guage-black-ball-horseshoe-earrings-516-large.jpg

    but i want some general information as well as information about the pain level, a typical price, as well as i have had some issues with a pain=nausea=possible puking or fainting.....i'm just paranoid and nervous but what are some tips you have from getting sick or passing out....thanks :) )

    orrrrrrr should i go with a barbell??

    • ANSWER:
      i wont hurt and i think barbells are better

  13. QUESTION:
    LITERATURE HELP NEEDED!!!!?????!?!!?
    1. What method does the narrator of "The Fish I Didn't Catch" use to impart advice to readers? (Points : 3)
    He inserts the advice in a funny poem that is filled with exaggerations.

    He includes the advice in the conclusion of a traditional persuasive essay.

    He relates the advice through his description of an autobiographical incident.

    He composes a poem with memorable images that convey his advice to readers.

    2. In "The Fish I Didn't Catch," the narrator loses his fish. However, his uncle makes a comparison that helps teach the narrator a lesson. He compares the narrator's boasting about the fish to __________. (Points : 3)
    an older person bragging about something before it is done

    breaking a doll or losing a marble

    his own reaction when he caught his first fish as a boy

    a proverb he created about catching fish

    3. Readers can tell that the events narrated in “The Fish I Didn’t Catch” influenced the narrator deeply because __________ . (Points : 3)
    after the events occurred, the author never fished again
    fishing with his uncle has become a frequent pastime
    the author feels the disappointment of losing the fish years after the event
    the events happened in the author’s childhood, yet he remembers them into adulthood

    4. In his essay "Work," John Ruskin's position is weakened because his essay is filled with __________. (Points : 3)
    real-life examples

    logical appeals

    emotional appeals

    logical fallacies

    5. An emotional appeal is one in which the writer attempts to persuade readers by __________. (Points : 3)
    including facts, statistics, and logic in support of his or her position

    including expert opinions that agree with his or her position

    including descriptions and imagery that will affect readers' feelings

    including illogical claims and overgeneralizations about opposing positions

    6. Read this excerpt from “For Want of a Horseshoe Nail”:

    Before the king could rise, his frightened horse had galloped away. The king looked up and saw that his soldiers were fleeing in confused retreat, and that on all sides Henry’s troops were closing in upon him.

    What aspect of the scene does Baldwin’s use of language effectively communicate?

    (Points : 3)
    the glad confidence of the king
    the grief and shame of the soldiers
    the frenzy and confusion of battle
    the breezy, fun-loving nature of the king

    7. Joseph Addison, in his essay titled “Argument,” advises people not to become angry while arguing because anger is evidence of __________ . (Points : 3)
    a lack of emotional control
    a desire to learn the truth of a matter
    a strong ability to reason logically
    overconfidence in one’s position

    8. "Argument," by Joseph Addison, is a traditional persuasive essay. In the essay, Addison supports his thesis with __________. (Points : 3)
    impressive imagery

    reasons and evidence

    humor and exaggeration

    logical fallacies and emotional appeals

    9. Which statement best summarizes the advice Rudyard Kipling offers in "If"? (Points : 3)
    Don't be afraid to try several different kinds of work for short periods of time until you find what you really want to do.

    Do your best, but don't think too much of yourself or your accomplishments.

    Treat others the way you would like to be treated.

    Be yourself, but always keep other people's advice in mind.

    10. Which of the following is not a type of hook often used in persuasive works such as the poems “If,” “Can’t,” and “Perseverance”? (Points : 3)
    a claim or bit of information that surprises readers
    a statement of the work’s thesis
    a question that causes readers to think
    a comparison that catches readers off guard

    11. The speaker in Langston Hughes’s poem “Mother to Son” says that for her, “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair,” meaning that __________ . (Points : 3)
    she knows that life should be like a beautiful story
    she wishes she had a crystal staircase in her house
    her life is one of failure and regret
    her life has been full of challenges and difficulty

    12. Robert E. Lee and the speaker in Langston Hughes’s poem both advise their children to __________ . (Points : 3)
    responsibly follow rules at all times
    maintain a positive outlook
    carry on through difficult situations
    keep the promises they make

    13. Who is most likely the intended audience of “Rebecca” and “The Story of Augustus”? (Points : 3)
    grown-ups
    parents
    teens
    kids

    • ANSWER:
      I know all the answers but I can't help you cheat
      sorry :(

      but I'll answer few of them

      1. c
      2. a
      3. d

  14. QUESTION:
    Can You Answer These Questions About Ear Gauges/Stretching?
    Please read the entire entry, and please don’t flame me for anything I may be misunderstanding.

    I recently decided that I wanted to start stretching my ear lobes after seeing how awesome some ear gauges were, but I have no idea of how to begin the process. I've been trying to gather information from the internet and friends that have gauges, but they keep giving me inconsistent information. I'm hoping the Yahoo! Community can finally straighten everything up for me and start me on the path to gauge awesomeness.

    I already have two standard ear piercings, which I've had for about 3 years. I'm guessing they're 20 gauge, since the 18 gauge horseshoe barbells my friend gave me have a slightly larger stem than the earrings I'm wearing now. My friend also gave me a set of 16 gauge horseshoe barbells, and I’d love to wear them if they weren’t so damn small. (Their diameter is smaller than that of a dime) This is where you come in.

    Question #1: I’ve read that it’s okay to go from a 20 or 18 gauge piercing to a 14 gauge piece of jewelry, but I’ve also read that it is never okay to skip gauge sizes. Which is true?

    Question #2: I’ve read that you can go to a piercing shop and get a 14 gauge piercing right away? If this is true, can they do it to an ear that has already been pierced with a 20 gauge needle?

    Question #3: If I do decide to stretch them myself, do I have to use tapers, or for example, can I just push these 18 gauge horseshoe barbells through the original piercing? Are tapers more helpful? Are they primarily used for larger gauges? Can you just explain tapers in general?

    Question #4: Some people say you can stretch every two weeks or so, but I’ve also read that you’re supposed to allow the area anywhere from 1 - 2 months to heal. Which is true?

    Question #5: I’ve read that during the stretching process you should take your gauges out at least once a day to allow blood to circulate to the stretched area to prevent thin outs and so on. This seems like it could be problematic. Can anyone offer any advice on how to do this correctly?

    This is all that I could think of at the moment. If anyone could answer any one of these questions I would be extremely grateful. I’m fairly new to Yahoo! Answers, so I don’t really know how awarding points or selecting a best answer works, but just know that I am genuinely thankful for any help offered.

    Thank you!
    Of course I don't plan to have them for the rest of my life. From my understanding, they'll return to a normal size over time as long as you don't go past the "point of no return." I'm a biology major and I plan to attend medical school. People wouldn't take me seriously if I wore gauges around while practicing. I have to keep my tattoos hidden as well. It sucks that people are so quick to judge others based on outward appearances. As for that attractive remark, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

    • ANSWER:
      don't skip sizes! my friend did...there ears started bleeding, got red, and infected...also...r u sure u wanna like with big holes in ur ears the rest of ur life?...its not very attractive...

  15. QUESTION:
    Could someone read and revise my research paper...any helpful tips are welcome!?
    The Many Purposes of Stonehenge

    Stonehenge has been subjected to many theories about its origin, ranging from the academic worlds of archaeology to explanations from mythology and the paranormal. It will never be known exactly who constructed the ideas and built Stonehenge because the builders left no written records of this information. The only ideas that are known are those found in the rocks themselves and in the artifacts that have been recovered from underneath the ground.

    What is known is that the builders of the magnificent monument were not just common people you crossed on the street everyday. They had to have been very talented to discover this “intellect and empirical mathematical discoveries” in Stonehenge (Johnson 1). It is believed that three tribes constructed Stonehenge in three phases, all at different times. The first phase was constructed from 1900-1700 BC, the second from 1700-1600 BC, and the third phase from 1500-1400 BC.

    It is said that the first people to work on Stonehenge were Neolithic agrarians. They were a combination of the Neolithic tribe members from Eastern England and the local peoples. They dug a mound and had collective burials in large stone tombs. They were one of the first groups who held a strong respect for circles and symmetry.

    The second group of people that worked on Stonehenge is the Beaker people. They came from Europe at the end of the Neolithic Period and invaded Salisbury Plain. These people were extremely organized, used sophisticated mathematical concepts, and were most likely sun worshipers who aligned Stonehenge more exactly with certain important sun events, such as the mid summer and winter solstices.

    The Wessex Peoples are considered the third and final group of people who worked on the Stonehenge site. They arrived at the peak of the Bronze Age, around 1500 BC. They were considered one of the most advanced groups outside the Mediterranean during this time. The bronze dagger carving found on one of the stones is thought to have been from them. They used their talents such as, being an exceptionally smart culture, being wealthy, and using great precision in their calculations and constructions, to finalize what we see today of Stonehenge.

    Stonehenge was derived from the leftover pieces of a single stone building. It was originally built from one hundred and sixty-two stone blocks, and was not very large at all. It was only thirty-five paces across and would all but fit inside the dome of Saint Paul’s Cathedral. The five parts that made up the monument are, from the outside inwards: the sarsen circle with continuous lintels, the bluestone circle, the sarsen horseshoe of trilithons, the bluestone horseshoe, and the Altar Stone.

    The most talked about theory of Stonehenge had to do with astronomical purposes. Stonehenge was probably used to “predict the summer and winter solstices, the vernal and autumnal equinoxes, and eclipses of both the sun and moon” (Aubrey 2). The reason that so many people believed that it was built for astronomical reasons was because certain stones were thoughts of as being aligned with certain astronomical phenomena.

    This monument was thought of as being used to help keep track of the motions of the Sun, as well as the Moon, and stars. The trilithons used in the monument lie along the southwest-northeast line. They line up with the exact spot on the northeastern line, which is where the sun rises on the longest day of the year, which is called the summer solstice. As Colgate University archaeostronomer Anthony Aveni said, Stonehenge was probably “a Sun temple from its very inception” (3). (Make a note card)

    There is a small opening that is right above the main entrance of Stonehenge that sunlight comes through on the morning of the winter solstice and lights up the back of the tomb. It is said that people use to gather at the site at intervals of 18 ½ years, because this was when the moon had reached its southern most position in the sky.

    Stonehenge was also a religious monument, where religious belief and practice helped to construct it. Stonehenge was most definitely a ceremonial center where men and women could gather and pay honor to their ancestors (Falk 6). “Stonehenge was a cosmic temple dedicated to all twelve gods of the Zodiac” (Knowles 5). It is more likely for it to have been a temple for rituals with the living people rather than burials. The ceremonies were more than likely about renewal, by both the gods and by the humans. In Neolithic times, the rituals took place in midwinter, which was when the days started getting longer.

    Since cremated remains have been found in Stonehenge, it was probably used as a burial site for at least five hundred years. Stonehenge being used as a burial site five thousand years ago is a major component of all of Stonehenge’s main phases. People were buried here around 2,700 BC until the large stones, called sarsens, were p

    • ANSWER:
      Stonehenge
      I think you brought together a lot of thoughts and statements of Stonehenge, which is very good. At http://en.wikipedia.org you can find more ideas, if you need more (your paper seems to be longer than printed on yahooanswers).

      Here are some thoughts not widely known:

      1) Herman Wirth Roeper Bosch, born in the Netherlands, was the greatest researcher of the historic meanings of symbols of all times known. By symbol comparison he found that the people once lived at the North Pole. The Wegener theory of the continental drift supports that all land was once together: at the Pole.

      2) Alfred Wegener
      All of these facts supported Wegener's theory of "continental drift." In 1915 the first edition of The Origin of Continents and Oceans, a book outlining ...
      www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/wegener.html

      3) The ancient symbols would only make sense at the North Pole, with its summer sun circulating the skies for days without setting, and its winter sun, disappearing below the horizon for a months-long winter night. (Original research, Herman Wirth, Die heilige Urschrift der Menschheit, The Holy Primal Scripture of Humankind; not yet translated).

      4) Obviously, mankind thus is much older than history believes, for how long would it take to drift the contents from their polar unity to where they now are?

      5) Mankind lived at the pole, in a Paradise of harmony with nature. People's own divine energies were found in nature as symbols. E.g. the path of the sun was likened to our life energy, commonly called Kundalini, but not taught in common schools of today (original research, Dr. Loveland). Kundalini is called "she" as is the sun still in German ("die Sonne;" male "der Mond," the moon).

      6) When the land broke off more and more and pole shifts occurred, there were clouds in the sky covering the sun for a long time (ice age), due to Egyptian hieroglyphic texts (Budge).

      7) When the clouds lifted and the sun came out, the sun did not go all the way any longer, from South to North and back, as "she" did at the pole, since the people now lived in moderate zones of the earth.
      Consequently, all around the world the people were watching the sun, anxious to see if the sun would again go all the way (original research, Dr. Loveland).

      7) Due to research by Dr.Loveland, Stonehenge was one of the divine observatories to exactly observe the sun, if the sun would go further and further North, year after year, to reach its holy symbolic path from the pole. Yet, it did not.

      8) Information about the pole ad the sun and their symbolism for our divine energy is given in The (W)Hole Book on Mimbres Pots, originally published in 1985, now available on the Internet. However, such findings are not taught in common schools, since our common science limited itself to that which can be measured or weighed, to materialistic science. Unfortunately, anything our limited tools cannot measure or weigh are denied existence by common science.

      Nevertheless, you may enjoy an information beyond the legend that the Stone Age people were so primitive, and you may decide, what your school could accept as idea or fact.

      You may think about making subtitles, so that you can gather all related thoughts in one paragraph and one can look through the paper faster to understand what you want to get across. Not many people make enough subtitles.

      You may want to check your sentences, if the verbs always relate to the subject you wanted to talk about.

      Wishing you success.

  16. QUESTION:
    A cartoon shows name, its rather new, has 2 boys and 2 girls age 12.?
    It's a cartoon but i cant find it anywhere anymore, it is as the titel said rather new, definatly not that old style cartoons.

    The show was about 4 friends, 2 girls and 2 boys who are basically just starting on high school, probably aged 12. I know one of the names of the boy, he was called Casper.
    The show especially surrounds the other boy, who at the start and at the end of every episode would give you the typical personal opinion brief and debrief.
    I can remember that in one episode they are having their first "clownless" party and the boys were teaching the girls and vice versa on how to "interact" with the other sex, obviously failing.
    In another one they were searching for a sport that the main character, a sports wuss, could do during an event, it became horseshoe throwing after chess was aborted.

    The show revolves mostly around their ever existent friendship during the weekends.
    Features:
    The main guys hair was brown and short-mid long. The Casper guy was black of skin and shorter hair i believe. The tough guy girl had blond hair, mid long. And the last girl, the smart one to add, had longer red hair.

    I hope i have given enough information as i can recall really liking the way it was made.
    I saw it in the dutch version so it -might- not have appeared in the English country's though i doubt that... Our drawers suck to much to make that show.

    • ANSWER:
      Is it the weekenders? I love the weekenders it is a very funny show.

  17. QUESTION:
    Thinking about streching my ears to 16g?
    I'm thinking about strech my ears to 16g.
    But will I be able to get it through since my ears are pierced regular?
    I mean I never strech my ears before and I'm planning to put 16g in.
    And should I do it after taking a shower?
    I heard it's easier, but just making sure.
    And I will be using the horseshoe barbell.

    CARE:
    How long does it take for it to heal?
    What should I use to clean my ears?
    I'm not supossed to sleep on it while healing, correct?

    You may give me more information if you please.

    Thank you ;D

    • ANSWER:

  18. QUESTION:
    Balding at 23?
    About a year ago, I realized that I was starting to have thinning hair. It seems to be getting worse and worse. It's not hereditary, no body in my family has it. I'm an actor and it's probably going to hinder my career, otherwise I wouldn't care as much. But does anyone have any suggestions/advice as to how to stem it or, if possible, regrow it? Or at the very least, does anybody know a good website for information? I'm hesitant on searches b/c I know that alot of the "consumer" websites are just drug companies trying to shill their products. Some details:

    - Thinning in slight horseshoe pattern
    - Using Nioxin shampoo, doesn't seem to be doing much
    - I've heard that rogaine helps, but you have to keep using it for the rest of your life or else it make it even worse
    - I've been told to take Zinc, so I'm buying some soon
    - Also, rarely wear caps. Only when I'm working at my part-time job (Pizza Delivery)
    - Money is also an issue. I have no health insurance (yay America), so seeing a professional is a last resort

    • ANSWER:
      Hi Von, sorry to hear this is a problem for you.

      You say its not hereditary, but the horse-shoe shape of hair loss is typical of hereditary hair loss.

      There seems to be a few products out there that are reported to help, but to be honest, I think that they all just blow their own trumpets, where is the evidence of anyone changing their hair pattern by using particular shampoos or serums?

      The only sure thing seems to be mastered by Elton John, who was once almost bald on the top of his head - the typical horse shoe pattern, but now he has a thick head of hair - reportedly by hair transplant.

      There are many clinics offering this.

      Maybe you could be checked out by a specialist before taking on any treatment - get a professional's opinion.

      Good luck.

      :)

      Edit: Ok Von, understood. I have spoken with my hairdresser on your behalf, and this is her advice :- when you shampoo your hair, massage your scalp in a good way to stimulate the hair roots.

      I have also done some research and found a good website offering advice. It is not selling creams lotions or potions, it just gives information regarding possible causes and options.
      This is the link-

      http://www.ehow.com/how_2048913_evaluate-hair-loss-treatments.html?ref=fuel&utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=ssp&utm_campaign=yssp_art

      Good luck :)

  19. QUESTION:
    20 points hurry plz!?
    1. In order to impart good advice to readers, the narrator of “The Fish I Didn’t Catch” __________ . (Points : 3)
    includes guidance in the last paragraph of a standard persuasive essay
    passes on helpful tips as he narrates something that happened to him
    drops bits of information into a humorously exaggerated poem
    writes a poem with striking images that communicate his ideas

    2. In “The Fish I Didn’t Catch,” the narrator loses his fish. However, his uncle makes a comparison that helps teach the narrator a lesson. Which best summarizes the comparison? (Points : 3)
    The narrator’s boasting about the fish is like a proverb the uncle invented about fishing.
    The narrator’s boasting about the fish is like the time the uncle first caught a fish.
    The narrator’s boasting about the fish is like an older person being overly proud of something that has not yet been done.
    The narrator’s boasting about the fish is like a child losing a marble or breaking a doll.

    3. What suggests to readers the powerful impact that the events of “The Fish I Didn’t Catch” had on the author? (Points : 3)
    the author’s vivid recollection of an event that happened in his childhood
    the author’s persistence in learning to fish from his uncle
    the continued disappointment of the author, even as an adult, that he lost the fish
    the author’s dislike of fishing as an adult because of what happened to him as a child

    4. What weakens John Ruskin’s argument in his essay called “Work"? (Points : 3)
    examples drawn from real life
    uses of logical fallacies
    appeals to logic
    appeals to readers’ emotions

    5. Writers make emotional appeals when they try to persuade readers by including _________ . (Points : 3)
    illogical claims or overgeneralizations about opposing positions
    facts, statistics, and logic that support their positions
    expert opinions that agree with their positions
    imagery and description that may influence readers’ feelings

    6. Read this excerpt from "For Want of a Horseshoe Nail":

    Before the king could rise, his frightened horse had galloped away. The king looked up and saw that his soldiers were fleeing in confused retreat, and that on all sides Henry's troops were closing in upon him.

    The language that Baldwin uses in this text helps __________. (Points : 3)
    capture the panic and disorder of battle

    capture the confidence and hope of the king

    capture the sadness and regret of soldiers

    capture the fun and frivolity of Henry's personality

    7. Joseph Addison, in his essay titled “Argument,” advises people not to become angry while arguing because anger is evidence of __________ . (Points : 3)
    a lack of emotional control
    a desire to learn the truth of a matter
    a strong ability to reason logically
    overconfidence in one’s position

    8. “Argument,” by Joseph Addison, is a traditional persuasive essay. What technique does Addison use to explain and support his position? (Points : 3)
    He makes readers laugh with comic exaggeration.
    He employs fallacious reasoning and plays with readers’ emotions.
    He includes imagistic, sensory language.
    He argues logically and provides supporting data.

    9. What general advice does Rudyard Kipling offer readers in “If”? (Points : 3)
    Strive for your personal best without becoming conceited or proud.
    Seek your career widely, trying many options before settling.
    Behave with others in the way you want them to behave with you.
    Listen to the guidance of others, but follow your own dream.

    10. Which of the following is not a type of hook that is often used in persuasive pieces, such as the poems "If," "Can't," and "Perseverance"? (Points : 3)
    a surprising statement or fact

    an interesting question

    an unusual comparison

    a thesis statement

    11. What does the speaker in Langston Hughes's poem, "Mother to Son," mean when she says, "Life for me ain't been no crystal stair"? (Points : 3)
    The speaker has never had a crystal staircase in her house.

    The speaker wishes her life were more like something in a fairy tale.

    The speaker's life has not been grand or easy.

    The speaker is bitter and angry about her life.

    12. Robert E. Lee and the speaker in Langston Hughes’s poem both advise their children to __________ . (Points : 3)
    responsibly follow rules at all times
    maintain a positive outlook
    carry on through difficult situations
    keep the promises they make

    13. Who is most likely the intended audience of “Rebecca” and “The Story of Augustus”? (Points : 3)
    grown-ups
    parents
    teens
    kids

    • ANSWER:
      You will get nowhere in life.

  20. QUESTION:
    Problem with the baby about seven months into pregnancy?
    My sister's already had one child who is for the most part healthy. There was something about her kidneys are connected in a horseshoe way but otherwise, no problems and that's under control. She's in about her seventh month of pregnancy and apparently she found out there's some type of chromosomal problem with the child. I'm not a hundred percent sure, but it was something about there was something wrong with his head, maybe water near the brain or something. The doctors tested for down's today, which they decided it wasn't. She told us it is probably worse than that, but I have no idea what kinds of mental retardation are considered worse than down's or better or anything. I don't want to ask her about this because I don't want to upset her, but does anyone know anything about this? Any kind of information would be useful, thank you.

    • ANSWER:
      Sounds like the baby may have hydrocephalus which is water on the brain and can be detected in an ultrasound. This means the babies vessels in the brain do not get rid of fluid properly and so they would have to put a shunt in the top part of the head and it goes down into the abdominal area and is filtered out. It is not life threatening if treated . It is a concern though and requires life long treatment.

  21. QUESTION:
    Should I be worried about an asymmetrical cyst on my back?
    I've had the cyst for as long as I can remember. It started out about the size of the tip of my thumb. My dermatologist looked at it and diagnosed it as a harmless cyst that didn't require removal as long as it didn't cause me any discomfort. Recently (within the last 2 months) it has gotten larger...nearly double the original size. It is no longer symmetrical...it makes a round-ish horseshoe shape. It nearly always causes me discomfort now (I believe it's because it sits just below my shoulder-blade and my shoulder-blade is pressing against it nearly all the time).
    I can't find much information online about cysts and whether they are common to randomly start growing, and to start growing in an asymmetrical pattern. Can someone please shed some insight on this for me? I'm beginning to go into slight panic mode.
    (Also, I already have intentions of having it removed as soon as possible.. I'd just like to know how common my particular situation is and whether I have cause for serious alarm)

    • ANSWER:
      Listen, cysts are just fluid filled sacs that are usually harmless and self contained. The capsule that surrounds the fluid continues to create and secrete a fluid. There are 2 ways to treat the cyst. One is to insert a needle and withdraw the fluid immediately and hope it doesn't come back.

      The other is to insert a needle and withdraw the fluid and disturb the capsule so that it does not keep producing the fluid. This can be done with a thin wire scope which has various tips so that the capsule membrane can be disturbed. Antibiotics by mouth are not usually indicated because they can't penetrate the capsule. It is not serious.You will be fine. The fluid can be produced in copious amounts. Don't let that scare you. Once the capsule starts making the fluid it goes fast. You will be fine.

  22. QUESTION:
    Is it okay to play with septum piercings?
    I've had my septum for about 8 months (pierced it myself, straight-across, beautifully, and with a nail for your information), and I always play with it. Is this okay?

    It never gets sore or anything, and it's been completely healed for months, but I just want to make sure this is okay. I had my smiley and I knew little about migration, so now I'm paranoid that my septum will migrate in time. I know the skin is much stronger and thicker than the smiley's, but still.

    I asked my piercer, and she said it's totally fine, and she plays with hers all the time. I consider "playing with" flipping it in and out of my nose about 100 times a day (yes, I wear a horseshoe ring).

    And it's at a 14G, nothing unusual about it's gauge size.

    I'm sure it's fine, but I just want some feedback. Thanks!

    • ANSWER:
      I play with mine, I've had it for two years and it's completely fine. As long as you don't pull it hard enough so it rips, it'll be fine.

      And please, don't use a nail next time! :P

  23. QUESTION:
    english first and best answer gets 10 points?
    1. In order to impart good advice to readers, the narrator of “The Fish I Didn’t Catch” __________ . (Points : 3)
    includes guidance in the last paragraph of a standard persuasive essay
    passes on helpful tips as he narrates something that happened to him
    drops bits of information into a humorously exaggerated poem
    writes a poem with striking images that communicate his ideas

    2. In “The Fish I Didn’t Catch,” the narrator loses his fish. However, his uncle makes a comparison that helps teach the narrator a lesson. Which best summarizes the comparison? (Points : 3)
    The narrator’s boasting about the fish is like a proverb the uncle invented about fishing.
    The narrator’s boasting about the fish is like the time the uncle first caught a fish.
    The narrator’s boasting about the fish is like an older person being overly proud of something that has not yet been done.
    The narrator’s boasting about the fish is like a child losing a marble or breaking a doll.

    3. What suggests to readers the powerful impact that the events of “The Fish I Didn’t Catch” had on the author? (Points : 3)
    the author’s vivid recollection of an event that happened in his childhood
    the author’s persistence in learning to fish from his uncle
    the continued disappointment of the author, even as an adult, that he lost the fish
    the author’s dislike of fishing as an adult because of what happened to him as a child

    4. What weakens John Ruskin’s argument in his essay called “Work"? (Points : 3)
    examples drawn from real life
    uses of logical fallacies
    appeals to logic
    appeals to readers’ emotions

    5. Writers make emotional appeals when they try to persuade readers by including _________ . (Points : 3)
    illogical claims or overgeneralizations about opposing positions
    facts, statistics, and logic that support their positions
    expert opinions that agree with their positions
    imagery and description that may influence readers’ feelings

    6. Read this excerpt from "For Want of a Horseshoe Nail":

    Before the king could rise, his frightened horse had galloped away. The king looked up and saw that his soldiers were fleeing in confused retreat, and that on all sides Henry's troops were closing in upon him.

    The language that Baldwin uses in this text helps __________. (Points : 3)
    capture the panic and disorder of battle

    capture the confidence and hope of the king

    capture the sadness and regret of soldiers

    capture the fun and frivolity of Henry's personality

    7. Joseph Addison, in his essay titled “Argument,” advises people not to become angry while arguing because anger is evidence of __________ . (Points : 3)
    a lack of emotional control
    a desire to learn the truth of a matter
    a strong ability to reason logically
    overconfidence in one’s position

    8. “Argument,” by Joseph Addison, is a traditional persuasive essay. What technique does Addison use to explain and support his position? (Points : 3)
    He makes readers laugh with comic exaggeration.
    He employs fallacious reasoning and plays with readers’ emotions.
    He includes imagistic, sensory language.
    He argues logically and provides supporting data.

    9. What general advice does Rudyard Kipling offer readers in “If”? (Points : 3)
    Strive for your personal best without becoming conceited or proud.
    Seek your career widely, trying many options before settling.
    Behave with others in the way you want them to behave with you.
    Listen to the guidance of others, but follow your own dream.

    10. Which of the following is not a type of hook that is often used in persuasive pieces, such as the poems "If," "Can't," and "Perseverance"? (Points : 3)
    a surprising statement or fact

    an interesting question

    an unusual comparison

    a thesis statement

    11. What does the speaker in Langston Hughes's poem, "Mother to Son," mean when she says, "Life for me ain't been no crystal stair"? (Points : 3)
    The speaker has never had a crystal staircase in her house.

    The speaker wishes her life were more like something in a fairy tale.

    The speaker's life has not been grand or easy.

    The speaker is bitter and angry about her life.

    12. Robert E. Lee and the speaker in Langston Hughes’s poem both advise their children to __________ . (Points : 3)
    responsibly follow rules at all times
    maintain a positive outlook
    carry on through difficult situations
    keep the promises they make

    13. Who is most likely the intended audience of “Rebecca” and “The Story of Augustus”? (Points : 3)
    grown-ups
    parents
    teens
    kids

    • ANSWER:
      LOL do you actually think someone is going to do your homework for you for 10 points? Especially when this homework involves reading several stories. Concentrate, do your own work, and you won't be in this situation anymore.

  24. QUESTION:
    House superstitions explained?
    It's for a project and I can't find any information about these superstitions. I mainly want their origins.

    The first time you leave your new home, make sure you exit by the same door that you entered, otherwise you will never settle.

    Hanging a horseshoe over a door will attract good fortune.

    Never hammer after sunset or you will wake the tree gods.

    Stuff fennel in your keyhole or hang it over your door to protect against witches.

    When you move to a new house, always enter first with a loaf of bread and a new broom. Never bring an old broom into the house.

    Send your cat ahead into each property. If she hurries out the house is unlucky, but if she stays put in an offer.

    To protect your house from lightning, gather hazel tree branches on Palm Sunday and keep them in water.

    • ANSWER:
      http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/osc/index.htm - origins of superstitions and myths

  25. QUESTION:
    Small red bumps on top of my hands?
    So about a month ago I noticed this small red bump on top of my right hand. I didn't think much of it but it hasn't gone away yet. Not only that but more of these red bumps have appeared on both hands. The first one is shaped like a horseshoe and is about 1-2 mm long. There is also a pea sized bump on my left hand that has just appeared about a week ago. They aren't bug bites because they only last a few hours. They do not itch, they do not hurt, I actually dont notice them at all. I am a 20 year old male if that changes anything. I was just wondering if anyone knew what these things are and if I should be concerned. If you need any more information just let me know and I will post a follow up question with the answers

    • ANSWER:
      ring worm maybe

  26. QUESTION:
    I'm not sure if I hit a car or not because my brakes grind and cause the whole car to make noise.?
    I was at a restaurant. I was in a parking lot and backed out of my spot and heard a grinding noise. I looked behind me and noticed I was very close to an SUV, but couldn't tell if I had hit it or not. Another car had taken my place and I had to leave the parking lot because of the way the parking lot was laid out (in a one-way horseshoe shape, if that's important), so I had to make a trip around the block. By the time I returned, the car had left the lot, so I couldn't leave a note or check for damages. I looked at the back of my car, which was covered in salt from the roads, and noticed no scratches, dings, or marks in the salt that would indicate I had hit the car. I didn't remember any information about the car, and I'd like to know whether or not I hit it so I can report it to the police if I did. What should I do in this situation?

    • ANSWER:

  27. QUESTION:
    English help pleasee?!?! I really need help ASAP!!(:(:(:(:?
    1. Which technique does the narrator of “The Fish I Didn’t Catch” employ to teach readers something useful? (Points : 3)
    He incorporates sensory detail into a poem that advises readers.
    He includes good advice in a comic, overstated poem.
    He lists helpful tips in the concluding paragraph of a persuasive essay.
    He weaves good advice into a story about what once happened to him.

    2. In “The Fish I Didn’t Catch,” the narrator loses his fish. However, his uncle makes a comparison that helps teach the narrator a lesson. Which best summarizes the comparison? (Points : 3)
    The narrator’s boasting about the fish is like a proverb the uncle invented about fishing.
    The narrator’s boasting about the fish is like the time the uncle first caught a fish.
    The narrator’s boasting about the fish is like an older person being overly proud of something that has not yet been done.
    The narrator’s boasting about the fish is like a child losing a marble or breaking a doll.

    3. Readers can tell that the events narrated in “The Fish I Didn’t Catch” influenced the narrator deeply because __________ . (Points : 3)
    after the events occurred, the author never fished again
    fishing with his uncle has become a frequent pastime
    the author feels the disappointment of losing the fish years after the event
    the events happened in the author’s childhood, yet he remembers them into adulthood

    4. In his essay “Work,” John Ruskin undermines his thesis by including __________ . (Points : 3)
    logical fallacies
    real-world instances
    appeals to logic
    appeals to emotion

    5. Writers make emotional appeals when they try to persuade readers by including _________ . (Points : 3)
    illogical claims or overgeneralizations about opposing positions
    facts, statistics, and logic that support their positions
    expert opinions that agree with their positions
    imagery and description that may influence readers’ feelings

    6. Read this excerpt from “For Want of a Horseshoe Nail”:

    Before the king could rise, his frightened horse had galloped away. The king looked up and saw that his soldiers were fleeing in confused retreat, and that on all sides Henry’s troops were closing in upon him.

    In this excerpt, Baldwin uses language that conveys _________ .
    (Points : 3)
    Henry’s fun-loving, easy-going personality
    the battle’s alarm and turmoil
    the soldiers’ remorse and sorrow
    the king’s optimism and certainty of victory

    7. Joseph Addison, in his essay titled “Argument,” advises people not to become angry while arguing because anger is evidence of __________ . (Points : 3)
    a lack of emotional control
    a desire to learn the truth of a matter
    a strong ability to reason logically
    overconfidence in one’s position

    8. "Argument," by Joseph Addison, is a traditional persuasive essay. In the essay, Addison supports his thesis with __________. (Points : 3)
    impressive imagery

    reasons and evidence

    humor and exaggeration

    logical fallacies and emotional appeals

    9. What general advice does Rudyard Kipling offer readers in “If”? (Points : 3)
    Strive for your personal best without becoming conceited or proud.
    Seek your career widely, trying many options before settling.
    Behave with others in the way you want them to behave with you.
    Listen to the guidance of others, but follow your own dream.

    10. Which of the following is not a type of hook often used in persuasive works such as the poems “If,” “Can’t,” and “Perseverance”? (Points : 3)
    a claim or bit of information that surprises readers
    a statement of the work’s thesis
    a question that causes readers to think
    a comparison that catches readers off guard

    11. The speaker in Langston Hughes’s poem “Mother to Son” says that for her, “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair,” meaning that __________ . (Points : 3)
    she knows that life should be like a beautiful story
    she wishes she had a crystal staircase in her house
    her life is one of failure and regret
    her life has been full of challenges and difficulty

    12. Robert E. Lee and the speaker in Langston Hughes’s poem both advise their children to __________ . (Points : 3)
    responsibly follow rules at all times
    maintain a positive outlook
    carry on through difficult situations
    keep the promises they make

    13. “Rebecca” and “The Story of Augustus” were probably originally written for an audience of __________ . (Points : 3)
    elementary school students
    adolescent readers
    mature readers
    reading teachers

    • ANSWER:
      This is called cheating

      anyway here are some of the answers :

      2. C
      11. D
      13. A

  28. QUESTION:
    Engish best answer get 10 points?
    1. In order to impart good advice to readers, the narrator of “The Fish I Didn’t Catch” __________ . (Points : 3)
    includes guidance in the last paragraph of a standard persuasive essay
    passes on helpful tips as he narrates something that happened to him
    drops bits of information into a humorously exaggerated poem
    writes a poem with striking images that communicate his ideas

    2. In “The Fish I Didn’t Catch,” the narrator loses his fish. However, his uncle makes a comparison that helps teach the narrator a lesson. Which best summarizes the comparison? (Points : 3)
    The narrator’s boasting about the fish is like a proverb the uncle invented about fishing.
    The narrator’s boasting about the fish is like the time the uncle first caught a fish.
    The narrator’s boasting about the fish is like an older person being overly proud of something that has not yet been done.
    The narrator’s boasting about the fish is like a child losing a marble or breaking a doll.

    3. What suggests to readers the powerful impact that the events of “The Fish I Didn’t Catch” had on the author? (Points : 3)
    the author’s vivid recollection of an event that happened in his childhood
    the author’s persistence in learning to fish from his uncle
    the continued disappointment of the author, even as an adult, that he lost the fish
    the author’s dislike of fishing as an adult because of what happened to him as a child

    4. What weakens John Ruskin’s argument in his essay called “Work"? (Points : 3)
    examples drawn from real life
    uses of logical fallacies
    appeals to logic
    appeals to readers’ emotions

    5. Writers make emotional appeals when they try to persuade readers by including _________ . (Points : 3)
    illogical claims or overgeneralizations about opposing positions
    facts, statistics, and logic that support their positions
    expert opinions that agree with their positions
    imagery and description that may influence readers’ feelings

    6. Read this excerpt from "For Want of a Horseshoe Nail":

    Before the king could rise, his frightened horse had galloped away. The king looked up and saw that his soldiers were fleeing in confused retreat, and that on all sides Henry's troops were closing in upon him.

    The language that Baldwin uses in this text helps __________. (Points : 3)
    capture the panic and disorder of battle

    capture the confidence and hope of the king

    capture the sadness and regret of soldiers

    capture the fun and frivolity of Henry's personality

    7. Joseph Addison, in his essay titled “Argument,” advises people not to become angry while arguing because anger is evidence of __________ . (Points : 3)
    a lack of emotional control
    a desire to learn the truth of a matter
    a strong ability to reason logically
    overconfidence in one’s position

    8. “Argument,” by Joseph Addison, is a traditional persuasive essay. What technique does Addison use to explain and support his position? (Points : 3)
    He makes readers laugh with comic exaggeration.
    He employs fallacious reasoning and plays with readers’ emotions.
    He includes imagistic, sensory language.
    He argues logically and provides supporting data.

    9. What general advice does Rudyard Kipling offer readers in “If”? (Points : 3)
    Strive for your personal best without becoming conceited or proud.
    Seek your career widely, trying many options before settling.
    Behave with others in the way you want them to behave with you.
    Listen to the guidance of others, but follow your own dream.

    10. Which of the following is not a type of hook that is often used in persuasive pieces, such as the poems "If," "Can't," and "Perseverance"? (Points : 3)
    a surprising statement or fact

    an interesting question

    an unusual comparison

    a thesis statement

    11. What does the speaker in Langston Hughes's poem, "Mother to Son," mean when she says, "Life for me ain't been no crystal stair"? (Points : 3)
    The speaker has never had a crystal staircase in her house.

    The speaker wishes her life were more like something in a fairy tale.

    The speaker's life has not been grand or easy.

    The speaker is bitter and angry about her life.

    12. Robert E. Lee and the speaker in Langston Hughes’s poem both advise their children to __________ . (Points : 3)
    responsibly follow rules at all times
    maintain a positive outlook
    carry on through difficult situations
    keep the promises they make

    13. Who is most likely the intended audience of “Rebecca” and “The Story of Augustus”? (Points : 3)
    grown-ups
    parents
    teens
    kids

    • ANSWER:
      5. Writers make emotional appeals when they try to persuade readers by including imagery and description that may influence readers’ feelings.

      11. What does the speaker in Langston Hughes's poem, "Mother to Son," mean when she says, "Life for me ain't been no crystal stair"? The speaker's life has not been grand or easy.

      12. Robert E. Lee and the speaker in Langston Hughes’s poem both advise their children to
      Do their own homework!!!


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Inspirational Quotes About Horses

INSPIRATIONAL, MOTIVATION & LIBERATIONAL QUOTES FAILURE, MISTAKES CHALLENGES & ENDURANCE

  1. You are where you are, because that is where you plan to be through your practical action - Anonymous
  2. - Anonymous
  3. A man who won the battle never quitted when the battle was going tough - Sesan
  4. Until you believe in yourself, you won't believe in your future success - Anonymous
  5. Proper preparation prevents poor performance - Anonymous
  6. Failure to plan is plan in to fail - E. A. Adeboye
  7. Success is getting up one more than you fall - Bill Newman
  8. It is not what happens but how you handle what happens to you makes the difference - Bill Newman
  9. Always remember Failure is an event never a person; an attitude, not an outcome. It is a stepping stone teaching you something and adding to your experience - Bill Newman
  10. My great concern is not whether you have failed but whether you are content with your failure - Abraham Lincoln
  11. It's not where you come from - it's where you are going that counts. Where you come from is not as important as where you are going - Bill Newman
  12. Past failures are guide pests to future success - Bill Newman
  13. Failure is in a sense, the highway to success in as much and every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after.
  14. Mistakes mark the road to success. He who makes no mistakes makes no progress - Bill Newman
  15. It doesn't matter where we start only where we finish. Often it is not the wrong start but the winning stop that makes the difference between success and failure
  16. It is not what you have lost but what you have left that counts - Bill Newman
  17. Men don't fail, they give up trying in trying time - Bill Newman
  18. If you want the rainbow you have to endure the rain - Bill Newman
  19. It is better to fail gallantly being yourself that succeeding being another person - Anonymous
  20. Not all who seem to fail have failed indeed. Not all who fails have therefore worked in vain - Anonymous
  21. Success is failure turned inside out - Anonymous
  22. Great achievers of old were people who attempted difficult things and who overcame tough time - Anonymous
  23. You need to go through the pains to be promoted. No cross, No crown, No pain, No gain.
  24. The man who would tell the story of the battle never died at the battle field

FOCUS & DETERMINATION
It is true that tough times came for everyone but it is also true that the source of most tough times is lack of direction - Anonymous

    1. A 100% commitment to one goal is more than twice as good as a 50% commitment to two goals - Bill Newman
    2. This is one thing I do, not these fifty things I dribble in - Bill Newman
    3. Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety - nine percent perspiration - Thomas Alva Edison
    4. If your determination is fixed, I don't counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill - Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance - Samuel Johnson
    5. - Denis Waitley
    6. Success is a journey and not a destination - Anonymous
    7. - Bill Newman
    8. The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal, the tragedy lies in having no goal to reach - Bill Newman
    9. Better to die for something than living for nothing - Bill Newman
    10. The Strategy befalls a man is running nothing - Bill Newman

X Many people look allied, some look back, but most look confused - Anonymous

  1. Goals cannot be properly pursued without action plan laid out to give direction and focus on area of concentration - Anonymous
  2. Many people look ahead some look back but, most look confused - Anonymous
  3. - Sesan
  4. Your destination determines your direction. Always make your journey with a MAP ROAD.
  5. You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to be with satisfaction - George Lorimer

DREAMS, VISIONS & GOALS

  1. Great success is a product of foresight and forthrightness in pursuing a set goal - Anonymous
  2. Great men and women of the past and contemporary, who were successful in each academics, businesses and inventions, were men and women of Dreams & Visions - Anonymous
  3. Every success starts with dreaming of ambition - Anonymous
  4. The successful man must be an individualist who can think and act independly
  5. Success is not a product of chance, destiny, luck, it depends on how you work it out. Success is a product you must be ready to get - Anonymous
  6. Your destination determines your direction, your action must be relevant to your goal - Anonymous
  7. Don't waste your life you only have one life give it your best short - Bill Newman
  8. Obstacles are what you see when you take off the goals
  9. - Bill Newman
  10. One thing you cannot recycle is wasted time. A waste of time is never waste of life. Lost time is again - Bill Newman
  11. Where there is no faith in the future, there is no work in the present.
  12. Almost everything comes from almost nothing - john Mason
  13. Adequate planning is always essential before progress can be made in any area of human endeavour . - Anonymous
  14. When you live without goals you live like goats -Sesan
  15. Where you are going determines the direction you are going - Ofem
  16. Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life - Les Brown
  17. Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has self sail with no destination - Fitzhugh Dodson
  18. To solve a problem or to reach a goa, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach - W. Clement Stone
  19. If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end to somewhere else - Lewis Carrol
  20. - Greg Anderson

ACTION, PLANNING & DISCIPLINE

  1. Without plotting there will be no harvesting, success is the precious harvest of great dreams with diligent action - Anonymous
  2. If you don't make a move, you wont make a dime - Anonymous
  3. You cannot achieve God's plan for your life unless you will put yourself in His plan - Anonymous
  4. A man's desire is achieved by practical action - Anonymous
  5. A man who cannot follow a leader intelligently cannot become an efficient leader - Napoleon Hill
  6. The sad of the diligent shall be made fat - King Solomon
  7. Success is not a product of chance, destiny, luck, it depends on how you work it out. Success is a product you must be ready to get. - Anonymous
  8. Undecision to your great determination is a great disease that kills your success slowly - Anonymous
  9. - Ofem
  10. Knowledge is not power, but potential power. Practical and applied knowledge is power indeed which attracts your success - Sesan
  11. People never know the diamond in you until you display if through practical action - Ofem
  12. Goals cannot be properly pursued without action plans laid out to give direction and focus on areas of conservation
  13. A man who cannot read good books has no advantages over a man who cannot read at all - Anonymous
  14. Your past cannot be changed but you can change tomorrow by your actions today - Bill Newman
  15. If you put off everything until you are sure of it, you will get nothing done - Bill Newman
  16. These is nothing as sad as the people who spend their lives for their ship to come in when they never send one out - Bill Newman
  17. The people of uncertain terms, they are going to get started tomorrow and tomorrowaaaa.
  18. Success comes by starting with something you have, and not what you don't have - Anonymous
  19. No degree of excuses can justify the degree of procrastination - Sesan
  20. Great faith always involves great trials - Albert Benjamin Simpson
  21. Ideas wont work unless you do it - Bill Newman
  22. Great achievement starts with starting with small beginning - Sesan
  23. He who loves to lead must love to labour - Anonymous
  24. Outstanding performance comes by reaching out to what others see as impossible - Anonymous
  25. One way to stand head and shoulders above the crowd is to choose to do regular, ordinary things with extra ordinary and supernatural way with great enthusisasm - John Mason
  26. Precious stones do not lie on the surface of the earth - The winners dig deep down to get them.
  27. A consistent step after another, the longest journey is ended - Sesan
  28. There is no joy in victory without action - Bill Newman
  29. Action may not always being happiness; but there is no happiness without action - Benjamin Wieder
  30. Success seems to be connected to action, success people keep moving. They make mistakes but they don't quit - Conrad Hilton
  31. Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability - Bill Newman
  32. A man must suffer one of the two things. A pair of discipline or a pain of regret - Anonymous
  33. The best things in life don't come easy. They may come free, but not easy!
  34. Setting and waiting wont put a fish on a table - Anonymous
  35. You wont catch a fish, until you draw your nod into the river - Ofem
  36. Persistence drives the nails of success - Anonymous
  37. The best way to be ahead is to go ahead - Ofem
  38. What the New year brings us will depend a great deal on what we bring to the New Year
  39. Eni maa je mundun, a jowo egungun

Frequently Asked Questions

  1. QUESTION:
    I need inspirational horse quotes?
    I like editing pictures of my horse and I and putting cute quotes about horses or life on the picture. I've been looking for some new quotes and just can't seem to find any that fit me and my horse. We were an underdog team that defied all odds and are working our way to the top. One of my favorites is "you are a lion in a fight, just because you didn't win doesn't mean you don't know how to roar" so something along those lines. THANKS!

    • ANSWER:
      "Neigh neigh whinny"

  2. QUESTION:
    Does anybody know any really good horse quotes?
    I am looking for some unusual ones, ones you don't hear everyday. It could be an inspirational quote a famous equestrian said, or just a quote about horses in general. Please give credit to the writer though. I am looking for something to put in my facebook "write about yourself" box, so anything about horses that would be good there would work!
    Easy 10 points! Thanks to everyone who summits answers!

    also, I am an english hunter/jumper if that helps. Anything that has to do with that would be awesome, but it doesn't have to be.
    ahhh! Those are all great! Thanks so much! It's going to be hard choosing when "pick the best answer" comes along! Thanks so much to those who sudmitted

    • ANSWER:
      "Theres something about the outside of a horse thats good for the inside of a man" - Winston churchill

      "It is not enough for a man to know how to ride; he must know how to fall". ~Mexican Proverb

      "No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle". ~Winston Churchill

      "Dressage is like dancing... on horseback" - Me :D

      "He knows when you're happy

      He knows when you're comfortable
      He knows when you're confident
      And he always knows when you have carrots."
      ~Author Unknown
      "The wind of heaven is that which blows between a horse's ears". ~Arabian Proverb

      It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts! ~Nicholas Evans
      These are just a few :D

      heres another i like - 'All I pay my psychiatrist is the cost of feed and hay, and he'll listen to me any day.' ~Author Unknown

      *EDIT* - uh.. just another answerer you just copied mine and added a few more. I don't appreciate that :(

  3. QUESTION:
    anyone know any funny or inspirational quotes about polo playing (horse type)?

    • ANSWER:
      I can't remember any inspirational quotes, but I remember many humerious indoor polo games played at our stable Fox Run Farm in Suffield ct during the years 1969 to 1982 especially one player named Moe Garber. There was also an artical written about indoor polo played at our stable in the 1970's

  4. QUESTION:
    I want to get a certain tattoo, any suggestions on my ideas?
    i've wanted a tattoo for a long time and have thought about it for a long time, im not getting a tattoo just to get one, i want one that has personal meaning for me.

    i have two ideas. im thinking of getting a inspirational word tattooed on my upper back like believe or hope. If you have any other inspirational words to suggest that would be great. I want the tattoo to be simple, i want it to be in black ink and in cute cursive writing.

    For my second idea i want to get something to do with horses tattooed on my back. Ive been riding for over 10 years and i love it. So i was thinking of getting an outline of a horse head and maybe a quote underneath it. Like "in riding we borrow freedom" or "horses lend us the wings we lack"

    For both tattoos i want them to be simple, i don't want two tattoos so thats why im trying to decide on both ideas.

    If you do not feel the same way i do about horses and don't like them at all, then please don't write anything about it. I don't have any interest in people's useless and negative opinions on things that they dont understand.

    Thank you to everybody for your suggestions, if you have any links or pictures please share.

    thanks so much :) :)
    if you don't agree with my ideas that is fine :) but please don't put rude comments. Negative comments are fine but please dont be unnecissarily rude.

    • ANSWER:
      you could tie both tattoo's in quite well by using the word 'freedom' and for you the horse head is a good option, i wouldnt get it personally im not a massive fan but i can see were your coming from, i would love to be able to ride, it does have a sense of freedom and companionship.
      the horses head would possibly be the best idea yeah, and on either side of the writing underneath you could have maybe 2 small horseshoe's so it isnt too plain.
      and for the qoute i have no idea, maybe ermmm... 'together we glide' i dont have any idea to be honest but i wouldnt use the starts to what you said like using the word horses, for me it wouldnt have the same effect but im not you so you may really like it. hope this helps


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Information About Horseshoeing

Every horse and every hoof is unique. Deciding what is best for you horse and your horses feet, is an important part of owning a horse. Finding a good farrier that is knowledgeable, on time and willing to work with you is important.

I will give you some ideas and questions you should ask yourself and your farrier to help you do the best thing for your horse!

  1. Consult your farrier and get his advice. He'll decide if your horse needs shoes based on a number of factors. Your farrier should ask you some questions like the following to help you both decide what to do:
  • What kind and how much work is your horse doing?
  • What kind of footing do you ride on?
  • What is the footing in your horse's turn-out like?
  • Do your horse's feet chip short or grow long when barefoot?
  • What time of year is it that you are considering?
  • Does your horse have any tendon or ligament injuries?
  • Does your horse get abscesses or stone bruises easily?
  • Is your horse competing, and if so does he move better with or without shoes?
  • What is your budget?
  1. If something starts to change, like a new crack or change in shape, you should be aware of it right away.
  2. If you notice a change in your horse's feet, you should look at management and other factors that could have changed such as diet, environment, a new farrier, illness, fever, stall cleanliness, lameness, or weather.
  • Does your horse have on a good quality bell boot that fits correctly?
  • Are your pastures deep and muddy?
  • Are there any other horses in the field that your horse is not getting along with, causing them to run around inappropriately?
  • Is your horse being left out for too long and getting restless?
  • Are the shoes that are on your horse the right size, or are they too big, leaving too much steel out behind him to grab with a back foot?
  1. Not all shoes are created equal. The best shoe for one horse is not necessarily the best shoe for another horse. Every horse and every hoof is an individual. Some of the factors that your farrier should consider when picking out the right shoe for your horse are the shape of the hoof, the job of your horse, the type of footing you ride in, and your riding discipline.

Frequently Asked Questions

  1. QUESTION:
    information about horseshoe crabs?
    im at school and i have to do something about a horseshoe crab fossil lol
    but anyways...
    i need to know

    1.how did it move?
    2. What type of environment did it live in?
    3. How and what did it eat?

    • ANSWER:
      Here is the story on the Horseshoe Crab.
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_crab

  2. QUESTION:
    How do I find information on Walt Disney Lithographs?
    I have this DVD: Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen. It's sealed with 5 exclusive lithograph set which are Frontier land. They say Columbia, Golden Horseshoe Revue, Rainbow Caverns, Dark Train Riverboat, and Tom Sawyer Island.

    I tried looking these up online but I couldn't find any information. If anyone has any information about these could you help me? Everything is sealed, nothing is open. I'm not sure if it's rare or not?? On the back it says 50 Disneyland.

    • ANSWER:
      Sorry but they are not rare. Companies put lithos in sets all the time. Push comes to shove it is just a copy of the original artwork and they can crank them out by the thousands.

  3. QUESTION:
    Where can I find information about Appalachian folklore pertaining to ghosts?
    I am writing a story and need some information on traditional Appalachian practices in dealing with or expelling spirits from within their homes or lives. I have been able to find children's ghost stories mostly, but am looking more for specifics about ritual or commonly used trinkets (such as rabbits feet or horseshoes).

    • ANSWER:
      The Appalachian and or Smoky Mountain region has a rich history in lore mostly due to the Native American Tribes and early settlers of the areas. There is a good book which I have read called "Ghosts and Haunts From The Appalachian foothills" by Burchill, Bonner, Crider and Kendrick . It has numerous stories and accounts regarding hauntings and mysterious happenings.Good luck on your story.

  4. QUESTION:
    More information about septum piercings?
    anyone got theirs done?
    how easy is it to hide?
    can they put in a horseshoe-shaped pierce of jewelry when you first get it done?
    how much does it hurt? (i have a rook and tragus and lip and belly, Relate to these if you can?)
    and also, do you think they look nice?

    • ANSWER:
      I have mine done and its extremely easy to hide now that it is healed. I never tried to hide it before it was healed, however. You'd probably need to talk to your piercer about that.
      They can use the horseshoe shaped jewelry, it just depends on what kind of material it is made out of.
      I did not hurt me that badly [and aside from getting my septum pierced, I only have had my ear lobes pierced] You just feel a quick poke and you might feel as its going through, but it isn't that bad. It literally takes a second.
      I'm probably biased...=], but I think that they do look cute. But I think it really depends on the type of jewelry you wear with it.
      I like to wear my retainer all the time because I like how it looks more than a circular barbell. I like the the sides point down.
      This is what I have:
      http://www.anatometal.com/catalog/sep.php

      But mine is in purple. =P

      Good luck. =]

  5. QUESTION:
    how much does belly button piercings cost at blue horseshoe tattoo?
    I need to know information about the shop in hampton/newport news, virginia. I am looking into getting my belly button pierced and I would like to compare prices before I decide where to go.

    • ANSWER:

  6. QUESTION:
    Where and how do I get a sea card in the province of Ontario, Canada ?
    I'm in the Golden Horseshoe area about 45 minutes from Toronto. If anyone has any address of an office in the area that might help me in getting the answers I'm looking for that is also welcomed. The phone number or just general information is very welcomed and really needed. Thank You ahead of time.

    • ANSWER:
      SEA Card Program Manager
      Telephone: 703-767-0687
      DSN: 427-0687
      FAX: 703-767-8746

      SEACARD Support Team (1-866-308-5475, Customer-support@seacardsys.com, or Merchant-support@seacardsys.com)

  7. QUESTION:
    where did the name "politicians horseshoe" come from?
    i cant seem to find any information on the web about the politicians horseshoe. as far as i know, it is a meal consisting of: toasted bread, hamburger or chicken, french fries, and cheese. where did this originate from and where did the name come from?

    • ANSWER:
      One of the legendary food items that is part of the heritage of Springfield is the horseshoe sandwich. The horseshoe sandwich originated in Springfield, Illinois sometime in the early 20th century at the Leland Hotel. You can get horseshoe sandwiches at most Springfield restaurants, at some restaurants in central Illinois, and at a few restaurants in other parts of the state. Horseshoes are not generally served outside of Illinois.

      “The scattered potatoes looked like shoeing nails. A slice of ham laid on toast was the shape of a horseshoe, and the plate was an anvil. That’s how they got their name.”
      Many politicians ate at the Leland Hotel which was located near the capitol building, dubbing the sandwich as, "Politicians horseshoe".

      Not the original, but a traditional horseshoe is two hamburgers each on a piece of toast with fries and cheese sauce over the top. Variations now include broiled(or deep fried) tenderloins, shaved ham, shaved chicken and even vegetarian variations. A pony shoe is half a horseshoe - a sufficient quantity for most people.

      This link tells it all....

      http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/Sandwiches/HorseshoeSandwich.htm

  8. QUESTION:
    Lip piercing information?
    I'm 17, and I've wanted my lip pierced for some time. This isn't some stupid spur of the moment decision; I've done my research on it. The only thing that I haven't been able to find out for sure is what would happen if I ever decide to take the ring out permanently. Would I have a hole forever, or would it eventually grow back? I want to get an either 18g or 20g ring, starting with a captive ball ring, and later getting a horseshoe or curved barbell. I haven't been able to find a definite answer on how piercings heal, and that's one thing that my parents are wanting to know. I have a small scar on my lip from about 8 years ago, so another small mark or scar isn't going to bother me.
    Thanks so much to anyone who can help me out!
    Also- I am already having to wait until at least I turn 18 (which is in April), because my parents won't give consent.
    I've wanted this long enough that telling me I'm disfiguring my body is not going to stop me.

    • ANSWER:
      Yes, you will always have a tiny dent. I have one from a piercing I took out years ago.

  9. QUESTION:
    Information about Draft breeds?
    I am looking into adopting a draft breed of horse, so I would like to absorb as much information as I can. These are questions I could not find anywhere else.
    1. Which is the fastest draft breed? How fast does the Shire get to?
    2. Where could I find an extra-wide western saddle?
    3. Do draft horseshoes cost extra money? Should I even bother to shoe such a large horse?
    4. Do draft horses require extra money (besides feed of course) are they in any other way more expensive than usual horses?
    5. For a beginning draft owner, what breed would you recommend?
    6. Could I do western or barrel racing ( we don't have to win or be the fastest) on a draft?
    7. Would you recommend a Shire for a riding horse?

    • ANSWER:
      My horse is a shire cross and my mom owns two gypsies, so I can answer a lot of these questions from personal experience. Here goes...

      1. Shires are powerful, but not very fast. My horse doesn't even spook fast. She has a long, but leisurely stride and I don't think I've ever seen her break into a canter or gallop of her own will, and it takes a lot of encouragement to get her to canter under saddle. If you want a draft breed that's a little more forward, I would suggest a lighter or smaller draft, like the friesian, gypsy, fjord etc. The big guys just aren't built for speed at all.

      2. Most saddle makers make saddles with a wide tree, and most tack shops that carry western saddles have wide trees in stock. If your local tack shop doesn't have a wide tree saddle in stock they can order one for you. Though you shouldn't go out and get a wide tree saddle before you get your horse and know what will fit. My horse is 17 hands and built like a shire but a medium tree fits her. Her width is in her hip and her belly, not so much in her back.

      3. Draft horses can cost more or less. Ursula eats the same grain that the others do, but she does eat more hay and go to the bathroom in larger quantities so she costs more in bedding and hay. My mom's gypsies have slow metabolisms and eat less than half the grain the light horses do, so depending on the horse, feed could be more or less. None of our drafs wear shoes though, so that saves on farrier bills. Many drafts are not shod. If they are being ridden frequently, or by a heavier rider, or if they'll be walking on rough terrain or roads at all, then they might need shoes to keep their hooves from wearing and cracking. If they are just being lightly ridden, then they may be able to get away with just trimming. I can't tell you no draft will ever need shoes, though they are less likely to need them than a lighter breed, because every horse is different and some might need the extra protection on their feet. Their purchase prices also vary. Ursula was green, and unregistered, so she was fairly cheap. Some drafts and draft crosses can be expensive if they have good blood lines or are particularly well-trained in one or more disciplines, but this is true of most breeds.

      4. This question is the same as the previous. No. There is nothing that will cost you significantly more with a draft than any other horse.

      5. I would recommend any calmer or smaller breed of draft. Shires, clydesdales, and belgians are known for being intelligent, willing and laid back, but they can get very big, and someone who isn't experienced with horses may not be able to handle a horse that big. Friesians (at least the ones I've handled) can be somewhat headstrong and skittish (and also expensive), so I wouldn't recommend that either. Just keep in mind, size and temperament vary greatly amongst individuals of the same breed, so shop for drafts near you that have a temperament and size you can manage. I would actually recommend a draft crossed with a lighter breed for a first time draft owner that intends to use the horse for riding. Drafts, as a whole, are not bred for riding. They are bred for pulling, so they tend not to frame up well for riding or be very supple under saddle. When drafts are crossed with lighter breeds, the offspring usually has the substance, height, calm attitude and high intelligence of the draft breed but is a little more streamlined, athletic and comfortable under saddle.

      6. You could barrel race with a draft horse but with a horse like a shire, you would have one hell of the time getting a horse like that to take those turns. Ursula has trouble making it around the corners in the indoor riding arena. There's no way she could turn close around a barrel at anything faster than a walk. She's just too darn huge. So, yes, you could, but it would not be pretty and it would not be fast.

      7. A purebred shire could make a decent riding horse, especially for trail riding or maybe low level dressage where an upright carriage is more acceptable, but a pure shire would not be competitive showing western or hunt seat at an open show. This is why I recommend a cross. They are larger and drafty, but much more rideable. Even so, a draft cross looks better hunt seat than western. However, if winning isn't important to you, then get the horse you want and forget what the judge says. What's important is that you love your horse and enjoy riding.

      Here is an album of my horse, Ursula. She is half shire and half thoroughbred.
      http://s3.photobucket.com/albums/y52/kiltsrhott/ursula/

  10. QUESTION:
    How do i make my Own Ear Strechers (plugs, horseshoes,ect)?
    For a few months now i've been wanted to make my own Earings for my streched ear lobes but i cant find any information anywhere about it. i'd like to make them out of acrylic,wood,glass,clay ect

    if anyone could give me any information on this it would be appricated

    Also need a site that can tell me how to make silicone or some other mold and where to get it.

    Thanks

    • ANSWER:
      My boyfriend just bought his off of ebay sterilized em about three times then just used them to stretch his ears......i'm gonna sterilize his the same and do it myself as well. they pretty cheap, like £3 plus postage which is like under £10 well worth the money.

  11. QUESTION:
    What kind of stuff will be considered as lucky charm for Western people?
    I have a school report to discuss these lucky charm, something like rabbit foot or horseshoe, can any one provide me more information about those?
    Name a few famous lucky charm for American people or European folk, please help me, there's no much information you can find in Taiwan here.
    thank you

    • ANSWER:
      Most do not make sense, but we do them anyway.

      "Respect the streak" - this means if something is going your way, do not change anything until things stop going your way. For example, if you wear a certain shirt to play baseball and you get a couple of good hits, wear that shirt the next time you play and keep wearing it as long as you are getting good hits.

      "Knock on wood" - if you tempt fate by saying something, you literally find a piece of wood to tap on to keep from "jinxing" the statement . EGG. "I studied so hard I bet I get an A on my exam, knock on wood."

      As for charms, rabbits feet, horseshoes, 4-leaf clovers, and the like - those are mighty primitive and I don't know anyone who actually has such things.

      Interesting question

  12. QUESTION:
    Cartilage Piercing-->general info, pain level (with a needle), price, nausea?
    for my sweet 16 i'm getting my cartilage pierced. my mom and i talked it over and decided that i should get it done at a tattoo parlor with a needle and get a 'horseshoe' ring http://product-images.imshopping.com/product/16-guage-black-ball-horseshoe-earrings-516-large.jpg

    but i want some general information as well as information about the pain level, a typical price, as well as i have had some issues with a pain=nausea=possible puking or fainting.....i'm just paranoid and nervous but what are some tips you have from getting sick or passing out....thanks :) )

    orrrrrrr should i go with a barbell??

    • ANSWER:
      i wont hurt and i think barbells are better

  13. QUESTION:
    LITERATURE HELP NEEDED!!!!?????!?!!?
    1. What method does the narrator of "The Fish I Didn't Catch" use to impart advice to readers? (Points : 3)
    He inserts the advice in a funny poem that is filled with exaggerations.

    He includes the advice in the conclusion of a traditional persuasive essay.

    He relates the advice through his description of an autobiographical incident.

    He composes a poem with memorable images that convey his advice to readers.

    2. In "The Fish I Didn't Catch," the narrator loses his fish. However, his uncle makes a comparison that helps teach the narrator a lesson. He compares the narrator's boasting about the fish to __________. (Points : 3)
    an older person bragging about something before it is done

    breaking a doll or losing a marble

    his own reaction when he caught his first fish as a boy

    a proverb he created about catching fish

    3. Readers can tell that the events narrated in “The Fish I Didn’t Catch” influenced the narrator deeply because __________ . (Points : 3)
    after the events occurred, the author never fished again
    fishing with his uncle has become a frequent pastime
    the author feels the disappointment of losing the fish years after the event
    the events happened in the author’s childhood, yet he remembers them into adulthood

    4. In his essay "Work," John Ruskin's position is weakened because his essay is filled with __________. (Points : 3)
    real-life examples

    logical appeals

    emotional appeals

    logical fallacies

    5. An emotional appeal is one in which the writer attempts to persuade readers by __________. (Points : 3)
    including facts, statistics, and logic in support of his or her position

    including expert opinions that agree with his or her position

    including descriptions and imagery that will affect readers' feelings

    including illogical claims and overgeneralizations about opposing positions

    6. Read this excerpt from “For Want of a Horseshoe Nail”:

    Before the king could rise, his frightened horse had galloped away. The king looked up and saw that his soldiers were fleeing in confused retreat, and that on all sides Henry’s troops were closing in upon him.

    What aspect of the scene does Baldwin’s use of language effectively communicate?

    (Points : 3)
    the glad confidence of the king
    the grief and shame of the soldiers
    the frenzy and confusion of battle
    the breezy, fun-loving nature of the king

    7. Joseph Addison, in his essay titled “Argument,” advises people not to become angry while arguing because anger is evidence of __________ . (Points : 3)
    a lack of emotional control
    a desire to learn the truth of a matter
    a strong ability to reason logically
    overconfidence in one’s position

    8. "Argument," by Joseph Addison, is a traditional persuasive essay. In the essay, Addison supports his thesis with __________. (Points : 3)
    impressive imagery

    reasons and evidence

    humor and exaggeration

    logical fallacies and emotional appeals

    9. Which statement best summarizes the advice Rudyard Kipling offers in "If"? (Points : 3)
    Don't be afraid to try several different kinds of work for short periods of time until you find what you really want to do.

    Do your best, but don't think too much of yourself or your accomplishments.

    Treat others the way you would like to be treated.

    Be yourself, but always keep other people's advice in mind.

    10. Which of the following is not a type of hook often used in persuasive works such as the poems “If,” “Can’t,” and “Perseverance”? (Points : 3)
    a claim or bit of information that surprises readers
    a statement of the work’s thesis
    a question that causes readers to think
    a comparison that catches readers off guard

    11. The speaker in Langston Hughes’s poem “Mother to Son” says that for her, “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair,” meaning that __________ . (Points : 3)
    she knows that life should be like a beautiful story
    she wishes she had a crystal staircase in her house
    her life is one of failure and regret
    her life has been full of challenges and difficulty

    12. Robert E. Lee and the speaker in Langston Hughes’s poem both advise their children to __________ . (Points : 3)
    responsibly follow rules at all times
    maintain a positive outlook
    carry on through difficult situations
    keep the promises they make

    13. Who is most likely the intended audience of “Rebecca” and “The Story of Augustus”? (Points : 3)
    grown-ups
    parents
    teens
    kids

    • ANSWER:
      I know all the answers but I can't help you cheat
      sorry :(

      but I'll answer few of them

      1. c
      2. a
      3. d

  14. QUESTION:
    Can You Answer These Questions About Ear Gauges/Stretching?
    Please read the entire entry, and please don’t flame me for anything I may be misunderstanding.

    I recently decided that I wanted to start stretching my ear lobes after seeing how awesome some ear gauges were, but I have no idea of how to begin the process. I've been trying to gather information from the internet and friends that have gauges, but they keep giving me inconsistent information. I'm hoping the Yahoo! Community can finally straighten everything up for me and start me on the path to gauge awesomeness.

    I already have two standard ear piercings, which I've had for about 3 years. I'm guessing they're 20 gauge, since the 18 gauge horseshoe barbells my friend gave me have a slightly larger stem than the earrings I'm wearing now. My friend also gave me a set of 16 gauge horseshoe barbells, and I’d love to wear them if they weren’t so damn small. (Their diameter is smaller than that of a dime) This is where you come in.

    Question #1: I’ve read that it’s okay to go from a 20 or 18 gauge piercing to a 14 gauge piece of jewelry, but I’ve also read that it is never okay to skip gauge sizes. Which is true?

    Question #2: I’ve read that you can go to a piercing shop and get a 14 gauge piercing right away? If this is true, can they do it to an ear that has already been pierced with a 20 gauge needle?

    Question #3: If I do decide to stretch them myself, do I have to use tapers, or for example, can I just push these 18 gauge horseshoe barbells through the original piercing? Are tapers more helpful? Are they primarily used for larger gauges? Can you just explain tapers in general?

    Question #4: Some people say you can stretch every two weeks or so, but I’ve also read that you’re supposed to allow the area anywhere from 1 - 2 months to heal. Which is true?

    Question #5: I’ve read that during the stretching process you should take your gauges out at least once a day to allow blood to circulate to the stretched area to prevent thin outs and so on. This seems like it could be problematic. Can anyone offer any advice on how to do this correctly?

    This is all that I could think of at the moment. If anyone could answer any one of these questions I would be extremely grateful. I’m fairly new to Yahoo! Answers, so I don’t really know how awarding points or selecting a best answer works, but just know that I am genuinely thankful for any help offered.

    Thank you!
    Of course I don't plan to have them for the rest of my life. From my understanding, they'll return to a normal size over time as long as you don't go past the "point of no return." I'm a biology major and I plan to attend medical school. People wouldn't take me seriously if I wore gauges around while practicing. I have to keep my tattoos hidden as well. It sucks that people are so quick to judge others based on outward appearances. As for that attractive remark, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

    • ANSWER:
      don't skip sizes! my friend did...there ears started bleeding, got red, and infected...also...r u sure u wanna like with big holes in ur ears the rest of ur life?...its not very attractive...

  15. QUESTION:
    Could someone read and revise my research paper...any helpful tips are welcome!?
    The Many Purposes of Stonehenge

    Stonehenge has been subjected to many theories about its origin, ranging from the academic worlds of archaeology to explanations from mythology and the paranormal. It will never be known exactly who constructed the ideas and built Stonehenge because the builders left no written records of this information. The only ideas that are known are those found in the rocks themselves and in the artifacts that have been recovered from underneath the ground.

    What is known is that the builders of the magnificent monument were not just common people you crossed on the street everyday. They had to have been very talented to discover this “intellect and empirical mathematical discoveries” in Stonehenge (Johnson 1). It is believed that three tribes constructed Stonehenge in three phases, all at different times. The first phase was constructed from 1900-1700 BC, the second from 1700-1600 BC, and the third phase from 1500-1400 BC.

    It is said that the first people to work on Stonehenge were Neolithic agrarians. They were a combination of the Neolithic tribe members from Eastern England and the local peoples. They dug a mound and had collective burials in large stone tombs. They were one of the first groups who held a strong respect for circles and symmetry.

    The second group of people that worked on Stonehenge is the Beaker people. They came from Europe at the end of the Neolithic Period and invaded Salisbury Plain. These people were extremely organized, used sophisticated mathematical concepts, and were most likely sun worshipers who aligned Stonehenge more exactly with certain important sun events, such as the mid summer and winter solstices.

    The Wessex Peoples are considered the third and final group of people who worked on the Stonehenge site. They arrived at the peak of the Bronze Age, around 1500 BC. They were considered one of the most advanced groups outside the Mediterranean during this time. The bronze dagger carving found on one of the stones is thought to have been from them. They used their talents such as, being an exceptionally smart culture, being wealthy, and using great precision in their calculations and constructions, to finalize what we see today of Stonehenge.

    Stonehenge was derived from the leftover pieces of a single stone building. It was originally built from one hundred and sixty-two stone blocks, and was not very large at all. It was only thirty-five paces across and would all but fit inside the dome of Saint Paul’s Cathedral. The five parts that made up the monument are, from the outside inwards: the sarsen circle with continuous lintels, the bluestone circle, the sarsen horseshoe of trilithons, the bluestone horseshoe, and the Altar Stone.

    The most talked about theory of Stonehenge had to do with astronomical purposes. Stonehenge was probably used to “predict the summer and winter solstices, the vernal and autumnal equinoxes, and eclipses of both the sun and moon” (Aubrey 2). The reason that so many people believed that it was built for astronomical reasons was because certain stones were thoughts of as being aligned with certain astronomical phenomena.

    This monument was thought of as being used to help keep track of the motions of the Sun, as well as the Moon, and stars. The trilithons used in the monument lie along the southwest-northeast line. They line up with the exact spot on the northeastern line, which is where the sun rises on the longest day of the year, which is called the summer solstice. As Colgate University archaeostronomer Anthony Aveni said, Stonehenge was probably “a Sun temple from its very inception” (3). (Make a note card)

    There is a small opening that is right above the main entrance of Stonehenge that sunlight comes through on the morning of the winter solstice and lights up the back of the tomb. It is said that people use to gather at the site at intervals of 18 ½ years, because this was when the moon had reached its southern most position in the sky.

    Stonehenge was also a religious monument, where religious belief and practice helped to construct it. Stonehenge was most definitely a ceremonial center where men and women could gather and pay honor to their ancestors (Falk 6). “Stonehenge was a cosmic temple dedicated to all twelve gods of the Zodiac” (Knowles 5). It is more likely for it to have been a temple for rituals with the living people rather than burials. The ceremonies were more than likely about renewal, by both the gods and by the humans. In Neolithic times, the rituals took place in midwinter, which was when the days started getting longer.

    Since cremated remains have been found in Stonehenge, it was probably used as a burial site for at least five hundred years. Stonehenge being used as a burial site five thousand years ago is a major component of all of Stonehenge’s main phases. People were buried here around 2,700 BC until the large stones, called sarsens, were p

    • ANSWER:
      Stonehenge
      I think you brought together a lot of thoughts and statements of Stonehenge, which is very good. At http://en.wikipedia.org you can find more ideas, if you need more (your paper seems to be longer than printed on yahooanswers).

      Here are some thoughts not widely known:

      1) Herman Wirth Roeper Bosch, born in the Netherlands, was the greatest researcher of the historic meanings of symbols of all times known. By symbol comparison he found that the people once lived at the North Pole. The Wegener theory of the continental drift supports that all land was once together: at the Pole.

      2) Alfred Wegener
      All of these facts supported Wegener's theory of "continental drift." In 1915 the first edition of The Origin of Continents and Oceans, a book outlining ...
      www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/wegener.html

      3) The ancient symbols would only make sense at the North Pole, with its summer sun circulating the skies for days without setting, and its winter sun, disappearing below the horizon for a months-long winter night. (Original research, Herman Wirth, Die heilige Urschrift der Menschheit, The Holy Primal Scripture of Humankind; not yet translated).

      4) Obviously, mankind thus is much older than history believes, for how long would it take to drift the contents from their polar unity to where they now are?

      5) Mankind lived at the pole, in a Paradise of harmony with nature. People's own divine energies were found in nature as symbols. E.g. the path of the sun was likened to our life energy, commonly called Kundalini, but not taught in common schools of today (original research, Dr. Loveland). Kundalini is called "she" as is the sun still in German ("die Sonne;" male "der Mond," the moon).

      6) When the land broke off more and more and pole shifts occurred, there were clouds in the sky covering the sun for a long time (ice age), due to Egyptian hieroglyphic texts (Budge).

      7) When the clouds lifted and the sun came out, the sun did not go all the way any longer, from South to North and back, as "she" did at the pole, since the people now lived in moderate zones of the earth.
      Consequently, all around the world the people were watching the sun, anxious to see if the sun would again go all the way (original research, Dr. Loveland).

      7) Due to research by Dr.Loveland, Stonehenge was one of the divine observatories to exactly observe the sun, if the sun would go further and further North, year after year, to reach its holy symbolic path from the pole. Yet, it did not.

      8) Information about the pole ad the sun and their symbolism for our divine energy is given in The (W)Hole Book on Mimbres Pots, originally published in 1985, now available on the Internet. However, such findings are not taught in common schools, since our common science limited itself to that which can be measured or weighed, to materialistic science. Unfortunately, anything our limited tools cannot measure or weigh are denied existence by common science.

      Nevertheless, you may enjoy an information beyond the legend that the Stone Age people were so primitive, and you may decide, what your school could accept as idea or fact.

      You may think about making subtitles, so that you can gather all related thoughts in one paragraph and one can look through the paper faster to understand what you want to get across. Not many people make enough subtitles.

      You may want to check your sentences, if the verbs always relate to the subject you wanted to talk about.

      Wishing you success.

  16. QUESTION:
    A cartoon shows name, its rather new, has 2 boys and 2 girls age 12.?
    It's a cartoon but i cant find it anywhere anymore, it is as the titel said rather new, definatly not that old style cartoons.

    The show was about 4 friends, 2 girls and 2 boys who are basically just starting on high school, probably aged 12. I know one of the names of the boy, he was called Casper.
    The show especially surrounds the other boy, who at the start and at the end of every episode would give you the typical personal opinion brief and debrief.
    I can remember that in one episode they are having their first "clownless" party and the boys were teaching the girls and vice versa on how to "interact" with the other sex, obviously failing.
    In another one they were searching for a sport that the main character, a sports wuss, could do during an event, it became horseshoe throwing after chess was aborted.

    The show revolves mostly around their ever existent friendship during the weekends.
    Features:
    The main guys hair was brown and short-mid long. The Casper guy was black of skin and shorter hair i believe. The tough guy girl had blond hair, mid long. And the last girl, the smart one to add, had longer red hair.

    I hope i have given enough information as i can recall really liking the way it was made.
    I saw it in the dutch version so it -might- not have appeared in the English country's though i doubt that... Our drawers suck to much to make that show.

    • ANSWER:
      Is it the weekenders? I love the weekenders it is a very funny show.

  17. QUESTION:
    Thinking about streching my ears to 16g?
    I'm thinking about strech my ears to 16g.
    But will I be able to get it through since my ears are pierced regular?
    I mean I never strech my ears before and I'm planning to put 16g in.
    And should I do it after taking a shower?
    I heard it's easier, but just making sure.
    And I will be using the horseshoe barbell.

    CARE:
    How long does it take for it to heal?
    What should I use to clean my ears?
    I'm not supossed to sleep on it while healing, correct?

    You may give me more information if you please.

    Thank you ;D

    • ANSWER:

  18. QUESTION:
    Balding at 23?
    About a year ago, I realized that I was starting to have thinning hair. It seems to be getting worse and worse. It's not hereditary, no body in my family has it. I'm an actor and it's probably going to hinder my career, otherwise I wouldn't care as much. But does anyone have any suggestions/advice as to how to stem it or, if possible, regrow it? Or at the very least, does anybody know a good website for information? I'm hesitant on searches b/c I know that alot of the "consumer" websites are just drug companies trying to shill their products. Some details:

    - Thinning in slight horseshoe pattern
    - Using Nioxin shampoo, doesn't seem to be doing much
    - I've heard that rogaine helps, but you have to keep using it for the rest of your life or else it make it even worse
    - I've been told to take Zinc, so I'm buying some soon
    - Also, rarely wear caps. Only when I'm working at my part-time job (Pizza Delivery)
    - Money is also an issue. I have no health insurance (yay America), so seeing a professional is a last resort

    • ANSWER:
      Hi Von, sorry to hear this is a problem for you.

      You say its not hereditary, but the horse-shoe shape of hair loss is typical of hereditary hair loss.

      There seems to be a few products out there that are reported to help, but to be honest, I think that they all just blow their own trumpets, where is the evidence of anyone changing their hair pattern by using particular shampoos or serums?

      The only sure thing seems to be mastered by Elton John, who was once almost bald on the top of his head - the typical horse shoe pattern, but now he has a thick head of hair - reportedly by hair transplant.

      There are many clinics offering this.

      Maybe you could be checked out by a specialist before taking on any treatment - get a professional's opinion.

      Good luck.

      :)

      Edit: Ok Von, understood. I have spoken with my hairdresser on your behalf, and this is her advice :- when you shampoo your hair, massage your scalp in a good way to stimulate the hair roots.

      I have also done some research and found a good website offering advice. It is not selling creams lotions or potions, it just gives information regarding possible causes and options.
      This is the link-

      http://www.ehow.com/how_2048913_evaluate-hair-loss-treatments.html?ref=fuel&utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=ssp&utm_campaign=yssp_art

      Good luck :)

  19. QUESTION:
    20 points hurry plz!?
    1. In order to impart good advice to readers, the narrator of “The Fish I Didn’t Catch” __________ . (Points : 3)
    includes guidance in the last paragraph of a standard persuasive essay
    passes on helpful tips as he narrates something that happened to him
    drops bits of information into a humorously exaggerated poem
    writes a poem with striking images that communicate his ideas

    2. In “The Fish I Didn’t Catch,” the narrator loses his fish. However, his uncle makes a comparison that helps teach the narrator a lesson. Which best summarizes the comparison? (Points : 3)
    The narrator’s boasting about the fish is like a proverb the uncle invented about fishing.
    The narrator’s boasting about the fish is like the time the uncle first caught a fish.
    The narrator’s boasting about the fish is like an older person being overly proud of something that has not yet been done.
    The narrator’s boasting about the fish is like a child losing a marble or breaking a doll.

    3. What suggests to readers the powerful impact that the events of “The Fish I Didn’t Catch” had on the author? (Points : 3)
    the author’s vivid recollection of an event that happened in his childhood
    the author’s persistence in learning to fish from his uncle
    the continued disappointment of the author, even as an adult, that he lost the fish
    the author’s dislike of fishing as an adult because of what happened to him as a child

    4. What weakens John Ruskin’s argument in his essay called “Work"? (Points : 3)
    examples drawn from real life
    uses of logical fallacies
    appeals to logic
    appeals to readers’ emotions

    5. Writers make emotional appeals when they try to persuade readers by including _________ . (Points : 3)
    illogical claims or overgeneralizations about opposing positions
    facts, statistics, and logic that support their positions
    expert opinions that agree with their positions
    imagery and description that may influence readers’ feelings

    6. Read this excerpt from "For Want of a Horseshoe Nail":

    Before the king could rise, his frightened horse had galloped away. The king looked up and saw that his soldiers were fleeing in confused retreat, and that on all sides Henry's troops were closing in upon him.

    The language that Baldwin uses in this text helps __________. (Points : 3)
    capture the panic and disorder of battle

    capture the confidence and hope of the king

    capture the sadness and regret of soldiers

    capture the fun and frivolity of Henry's personality

    7. Joseph Addison, in his essay titled “Argument,” advises people not to become angry while arguing because anger is evidence of __________ . (Points : 3)
    a lack of emotional control
    a desire to learn the truth of a matter
    a strong ability to reason logically
    overconfidence in one’s position

    8. “Argument,” by Joseph Addison, is a traditional persuasive essay. What technique does Addison use to explain and support his position? (Points : 3)
    He makes readers laugh with comic exaggeration.
    He employs fallacious reasoning and plays with readers’ emotions.
    He includes imagistic, sensory language.
    He argues logically and provides supporting data.

    9. What general advice does Rudyard Kipling offer readers in “If”? (Points : 3)
    Strive for your personal best without becoming conceited or proud.
    Seek your career widely, trying many options before settling.
    Behave with others in the way you want them to behave with you.
    Listen to the guidance of others, but follow your own dream.

    10. Which of the following is not a type of hook that is often used in persuasive pieces, such as the poems "If," "Can't," and "Perseverance"? (Points : 3)
    a surprising statement or fact

    an interesting question

    an unusual comparison

    a thesis statement

    11. What does the speaker in Langston Hughes's poem, "Mother to Son," mean when she says, "Life for me ain't been no crystal stair"? (Points : 3)
    The speaker has never had a crystal staircase in her house.

    The speaker wishes her life were more like something in a fairy tale.

    The speaker's life has not been grand or easy.

    The speaker is bitter and angry about her life.

    12. Robert E. Lee and the speaker in Langston Hughes’s poem both advise their children to __________ . (Points : 3)
    responsibly follow rules at all times
    maintain a positive outlook
    carry on through difficult situations
    keep the promises they make

    13. Who is most likely the intended audience of “Rebecca” and “The Story of Augustus”? (Points : 3)
    grown-ups
    parents
    teens
    kids

    • ANSWER:
      You will get nowhere in life.

  20. QUESTION:
    Problem with the baby about seven months into pregnancy?
    My sister's already had one child who is for the most part healthy. There was something about her kidneys are connected in a horseshoe way but otherwise, no problems and that's under control. She's in about her seventh month of pregnancy and apparently she found out there's some type of chromosomal problem with the child. I'm not a hundred percent sure, but it was something about there was something wrong with his head, maybe water near the brain or something. The doctors tested for down's today, which they decided it wasn't. She told us it is probably worse than that, but I have no idea what kinds of mental retardation are considered worse than down's or better or anything. I don't want to ask her about this because I don't want to upset her, but does anyone know anything about this? Any kind of information would be useful, thank you.

    • ANSWER:
      Sounds like the baby may have hydrocephalus which is water on the brain and can be detected in an ultrasound. This means the babies vessels in the brain do not get rid of fluid properly and so they would have to put a shunt in the top part of the head and it goes down into the abdominal area and is filtered out. It is not life threatening if treated . It is a concern though and requires life long treatment.

  21. QUESTION:
    Should I be worried about an asymmetrical cyst on my back?
    I've had the cyst for as long as I can remember. It started out about the size of the tip of my thumb. My dermatologist looked at it and diagnosed it as a harmless cyst that didn't require removal as long as it didn't cause me any discomfort. Recently (within the last 2 months) it has gotten larger...nearly double the original size. It is no longer symmetrical...it makes a round-ish horseshoe shape. It nearly always causes me discomfort now (I believe it's because it sits just below my shoulder-blade and my shoulder-blade is pressing against it nearly all the time).
    I can't find much information online about cysts and whether they are common to randomly start growing, and to start growing in an asymmetrical pattern. Can someone please shed some insight on this for me? I'm beginning to go into slight panic mode.
    (Also, I already have intentions of having it removed as soon as possible.. I'd just like to know how common my particular situation is and whether I have cause for serious alarm)

    • ANSWER:
      Listen, cysts are just fluid filled sacs that are usually harmless and self contained. The capsule that surrounds the fluid continues to create and secrete a fluid. There are 2 ways to treat the cyst. One is to insert a needle and withdraw the fluid immediately and hope it doesn't come back.

      The other is to insert a needle and withdraw the fluid and disturb the capsule so that it does not keep producing the fluid. This can be done with a thin wire scope which has various tips so that the capsule membrane can be disturbed. Antibiotics by mouth are not usually indicated because they can't penetrate the capsule. It is not serious.You will be fine. The fluid can be produced in copious amounts. Don't let that scare you. Once the capsule starts making the fluid it goes fast. You will be fine.

  22. QUESTION:
    Is it okay to play with septum piercings?
    I've had my septum for about 8 months (pierced it myself, straight-across, beautifully, and with a nail for your information), and I always play with it. Is this okay?

    It never gets sore or anything, and it's been completely healed for months, but I just want to make sure this is okay. I had my smiley and I knew little about migration, so now I'm paranoid that my septum will migrate in time. I know the skin is much stronger and thicker than the smiley's, but still.

    I asked my piercer, and she said it's totally fine, and she plays with hers all the time. I consider "playing with" flipping it in and out of my nose about 100 times a day (yes, I wear a horseshoe ring).

    And it's at a 14G, nothing unusual about it's gauge size.

    I'm sure it's fine, but I just want some feedback. Thanks!

    • ANSWER:
      I play with mine, I've had it for two years and it's completely fine. As long as you don't pull it hard enough so it rips, it'll be fine.

      And please, don't use a nail next time! :P

  23. QUESTION:
    english first and best answer gets 10 points?
    1. In order to impart good advice to readers, the narrator of “The Fish I Didn’t Catch” __________ . (Points : 3)
    includes guidance in the last paragraph of a standard persuasive essay
    passes on helpful tips as he narrates something that happened to him
    drops bits of information into a humorously exaggerated poem
    writes a poem with striking images that communicate his ideas

    2. In “The Fish I Didn’t Catch,” the narrator loses his fish. However, his uncle makes a comparison that helps teach the narrator a lesson. Which best summarizes the comparison? (Points : 3)
    The narrator’s boasting about the fish is like a proverb the uncle invented about fishing.
    The narrator’s boasting about the fish is like the time the uncle first caught a fish.
    The narrator’s boasting about the fish is like an older person being overly proud of something that has not yet been done.
    The narrator’s boasting about the fish is like a child losing a marble or breaking a doll.

    3. What suggests to readers the powerful impact that the events of “The Fish I Didn’t Catch” had on the author? (Points : 3)
    the author’s vivid recollection of an event that happened in his childhood
    the author’s persistence in learning to fish from his uncle
    the continued disappointment of the author, even as an adult, that he lost the fish
    the author’s dislike of fishing as an adult because of what happened to him as a child

    4. What weakens John Ruskin’s argument in his essay called “Work"? (Points : 3)
    examples drawn from real life
    uses of logical fallacies
    appeals to logic
    appeals to readers’ emotions

    5. Writers make emotional appeals when they try to persuade readers by including _________ . (Points : 3)
    illogical claims or overgeneralizations about opposing positions
    facts, statistics, and logic that support their positions
    expert opinions that agree with their positions
    imagery and description that may influence readers’ feelings

    6. Read this excerpt from "For Want of a Horseshoe Nail":

    Before the king could rise, his frightened horse had galloped away. The king looked up and saw that his soldiers were fleeing in confused retreat, and that on all sides Henry's troops were closing in upon him.

    The language that Baldwin uses in this text helps __________. (Points : 3)
    capture the panic and disorder of battle

    capture the confidence and hope of the king

    capture the sadness and regret of soldiers

    capture the fun and frivolity of Henry's personality

    7. Joseph Addison, in his essay titled “Argument,” advises people not to become angry while arguing because anger is evidence of __________ . (Points : 3)
    a lack of emotional control
    a desire to learn the truth of a matter
    a strong ability to reason logically
    overconfidence in one’s position

    8. “Argument,” by Joseph Addison, is a traditional persuasive essay. What technique does Addison use to explain and support his position? (Points : 3)
    He makes readers laugh with comic exaggeration.
    He employs fallacious reasoning and plays with readers’ emotions.
    He includes imagistic, sensory language.
    He argues logically and provides supporting data.

    9. What general advice does Rudyard Kipling offer readers in “If”? (Points : 3)
    Strive for your personal best without becoming conceited or proud.
    Seek your career widely, trying many options before settling.
    Behave with others in the way you want them to behave with you.
    Listen to the guidance of others, but follow your own dream.

    10. Which of the following is not a type of hook that is often used in persuasive pieces, such as the poems "If," "Can't," and "Perseverance"? (Points : 3)
    a surprising statement or fact

    an interesting question

    an unusual comparison

    a thesis statement

    11. What does the speaker in Langston Hughes's poem, "Mother to Son," mean when she says, "Life for me ain't been no crystal stair"? (Points : 3)
    The speaker has never had a crystal staircase in her house.

    The speaker wishes her life were more like something in a fairy tale.

    The speaker's life has not been grand or easy.

    The speaker is bitter and angry about her life.

    12. Robert E. Lee and the speaker in Langston Hughes’s poem both advise their children to __________ . (Points : 3)
    responsibly follow rules at all times
    maintain a positive outlook
    carry on through difficult situations
    keep the promises they make

    13. Who is most likely the intended audience of “Rebecca” and “The Story of Augustus”? (Points : 3)
    grown-ups
    parents
    teens
    kids

    • ANSWER:
      LOL do you actually think someone is going to do your homework for you for 10 points? Especially when this homework involves reading several stories. Concentrate, do your own work, and you won't be in this situation anymore.

  24. QUESTION:
    House superstitions explained?
    It's for a project and I can't find any information about these superstitions. I mainly want their origins.

    The first time you leave your new home, make sure you exit by the same door that you entered, otherwise you will never settle.

    Hanging a horseshoe over a door will attract good fortune.

    Never hammer after sunset or you will wake the tree gods.

    Stuff fennel in your keyhole or hang it over your door to protect against witches.

    When you move to a new house, always enter first with a loaf of bread and a new broom. Never bring an old broom into the house.

    Send your cat ahead into each property. If she hurries out the house is unlucky, but if she stays put in an offer.

    To protect your house from lightning, gather hazel tree branches on Palm Sunday and keep them in water.

    • ANSWER:
      http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/osc/index.htm - origins of superstitions and myths

  25. QUESTION:
    Small red bumps on top of my hands?
    So about a month ago I noticed this small red bump on top of my right hand. I didn't think much of it but it hasn't gone away yet. Not only that but more of these red bumps have appeared on both hands. The first one is shaped like a horseshoe and is about 1-2 mm long. There is also a pea sized bump on my left hand that has just appeared about a week ago. They aren't bug bites because they only last a few hours. They do not itch, they do not hurt, I actually dont notice them at all. I am a 20 year old male if that changes anything. I was just wondering if anyone knew what these things are and if I should be concerned. If you need any more information just let me know and I will post a follow up question with the answers

    • ANSWER:
      ring worm maybe

  26. QUESTION:
    I'm not sure if I hit a car or not because my brakes grind and cause the whole car to make noise.?
    I was at a restaurant. I was in a parking lot and backed out of my spot and heard a grinding noise. I looked behind me and noticed I was very close to an SUV, but couldn't tell if I had hit it or not. Another car had taken my place and I had to leave the parking lot because of the way the parking lot was laid out (in a one-way horseshoe shape, if that's important), so I had to make a trip around the block. By the time I returned, the car had left the lot, so I couldn't leave a note or check for damages. I looked at the back of my car, which was covered in salt from the roads, and noticed no scratches, dings, or marks in the salt that would indicate I had hit the car. I didn't remember any information about the car, and I'd like to know whether or not I hit it so I can report it to the police if I did. What should I do in this situation?

    • ANSWER:

  27. QUESTION:
    English help pleasee?!?! I really need help ASAP!!(:(:(:(:?
    1. Which technique does the narrator of “The Fish I Didn’t Catch” employ to teach readers something useful? (Points : 3)
    He incorporates sensory detail into a poem that advises readers.
    He includes good advice in a comic, overstated poem.
    He lists helpful tips in the concluding paragraph of a persuasive essay.
    He weaves good advice into a story about what once happened to him.

    2. In “The Fish I Didn’t Catch,” the narrator loses his fish. However, his uncle makes a comparison that helps teach the narrator a lesson. Which best summarizes the comparison? (Points : 3)
    The narrator’s boasting about the fish is like a proverb the uncle invented about fishing.
    The narrator’s boasting about the fish is like the time the uncle first caught a fish.
    The narrator’s boasting about the fish is like an older person being overly proud of something that has not yet been done.
    The narrator’s boasting about the fish is like a child losing a marble or breaking a doll.

    3. Readers can tell that the events narrated in “The Fish I Didn’t Catch” influenced the narrator deeply because __________ . (Points : 3)
    after the events occurred, the author never fished again
    fishing with his uncle has become a frequent pastime
    the author feels the disappointment of losing the fish years after the event
    the events happened in the author’s childhood, yet he remembers them into adulthood

    4. In his essay “Work,” John Ruskin undermines his thesis by including __________ . (Points : 3)
    logical fallacies
    real-world instances
    appeals to logic
    appeals to emotion

    5. Writers make emotional appeals when they try to persuade readers by including _________ . (Points : 3)
    illogical claims or overgeneralizations about opposing positions
    facts, statistics, and logic that support their positions
    expert opinions that agree with their positions
    imagery and description that may influence readers’ feelings

    6. Read this excerpt from “For Want of a Horseshoe Nail”:

    Before the king could rise, his frightened horse had galloped away. The king looked up and saw that his soldiers were fleeing in confused retreat, and that on all sides Henry’s troops were closing in upon him.

    In this excerpt, Baldwin uses language that conveys _________ .
    (Points : 3)
    Henry’s fun-loving, easy-going personality
    the battle’s alarm and turmoil
    the soldiers’ remorse and sorrow
    the king’s optimism and certainty of victory

    7. Joseph Addison, in his essay titled “Argument,” advises people not to become angry while arguing because anger is evidence of __________ . (Points : 3)
    a lack of emotional control
    a desire to learn the truth of a matter
    a strong ability to reason logically
    overconfidence in one’s position

    8. "Argument," by Joseph Addison, is a traditional persuasive essay. In the essay, Addison supports his thesis with __________. (Points : 3)
    impressive imagery

    reasons and evidence

    humor and exaggeration

    logical fallacies and emotional appeals

    9. What general advice does Rudyard Kipling offer readers in “If”? (Points : 3)
    Strive for your personal best without becoming conceited or proud.
    Seek your career widely, trying many options before settling.
    Behave with others in the way you want them to behave with you.
    Listen to the guidance of others, but follow your own dream.

    10. Which of the following is not a type of hook often used in persuasive works such as the poems “If,” “Can’t,” and “Perseverance”? (Points : 3)
    a claim or bit of information that surprises readers
    a statement of the work’s thesis
    a question that causes readers to think
    a comparison that catches readers off guard

    11. The speaker in Langston Hughes’s poem “Mother to Son” says that for her, “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair,” meaning that __________ . (Points : 3)
    she knows that life should be like a beautiful story
    she wishes she had a crystal staircase in her house
    her life is one of failure and regret
    her life has been full of challenges and difficulty

    12. Robert E. Lee and the speaker in Langston Hughes’s poem both advise their children to __________ . (Points : 3)
    responsibly follow rules at all times
    maintain a positive outlook
    carry on through difficult situations
    keep the promises they make

    13. “Rebecca” and “The Story of Augustus” were probably originally written for an audience of __________ . (Points : 3)
    elementary school students
    adolescent readers
    mature readers
    reading teachers

    • ANSWER:
      This is called cheating

      anyway here are some of the answers :

      2. C
      11. D
      13. A

  28. QUESTION:
    Engish best answer get 10 points?
    1. In order to impart good advice to readers, the narrator of “The Fish I Didn’t Catch” __________ . (Points : 3)
    includes guidance in the last paragraph of a standard persuasive essay
    passes on helpful tips as he narrates something that happened to him
    drops bits of information into a humorously exaggerated poem
    writes a poem with striking images that communicate his ideas

    2. In “The Fish I Didn’t Catch,” the narrator loses his fish. However, his uncle makes a comparison that helps teach the narrator a lesson. Which best summarizes the comparison? (Points : 3)
    The narrator’s boasting about the fish is like a proverb the uncle invented about fishing.
    The narrator’s boasting about the fish is like the time the uncle first caught a fish.
    The narrator’s boasting about the fish is like an older person being overly proud of something that has not yet been done.
    The narrator’s boasting about the fish is like a child losing a marble or breaking a doll.

    3. What suggests to readers the powerful impact that the events of “The Fish I Didn’t Catch” had on the author? (Points : 3)
    the author’s vivid recollection of an event that happened in his childhood
    the author’s persistence in learning to fish from his uncle
    the continued disappointment of the author, even as an adult, that he lost the fish
    the author’s dislike of fishing as an adult because of what happened to him as a child

    4. What weakens John Ruskin’s argument in his essay called “Work"? (Points : 3)
    examples drawn from real life
    uses of logical fallacies
    appeals to logic
    appeals to readers’ emotions

    5. Writers make emotional appeals when they try to persuade readers by including _________ . (Points : 3)
    illogical claims or overgeneralizations about opposing positions
    facts, statistics, and logic that support their positions
    expert opinions that agree with their positions
    imagery and description that may influence readers’ feelings

    6. Read this excerpt from "For Want of a Horseshoe Nail":

    Before the king could rise, his frightened horse had galloped away. The king looked up and saw that his soldiers were fleeing in confused retreat, and that on all sides Henry's troops were closing in upon him.

    The language that Baldwin uses in this text helps __________. (Points : 3)
    capture the panic and disorder of battle

    capture the confidence and hope of the king

    capture the sadness and regret of soldiers

    capture the fun and frivolity of Henry's personality

    7. Joseph Addison, in his essay titled “Argument,” advises people not to become angry while arguing because anger is evidence of __________ . (Points : 3)
    a lack of emotional control
    a desire to learn the truth of a matter
    a strong ability to reason logically
    overconfidence in one’s position

    8. “Argument,” by Joseph Addison, is a traditional persuasive essay. What technique does Addison use to explain and support his position? (Points : 3)
    He makes readers laugh with comic exaggeration.
    He employs fallacious reasoning and plays with readers’ emotions.
    He includes imagistic, sensory language.
    He argues logically and provides supporting data.

    9. What general advice does Rudyard Kipling offer readers in “If”? (Points : 3)
    Strive for your personal best without becoming conceited or proud.
    Seek your career widely, trying many options before settling.
    Behave with others in the way you want them to behave with you.
    Listen to the guidance of others, but follow your own dream.

    10. Which of the following is not a type of hook that is often used in persuasive pieces, such as the poems "If," "Can't," and "Perseverance"? (Points : 3)
    a surprising statement or fact

    an interesting question

    an unusual comparison

    a thesis statement

    11. What does the speaker in Langston Hughes's poem, "Mother to Son," mean when she says, "Life for me ain't been no crystal stair"? (Points : 3)
    The speaker has never had a crystal staircase in her house.

    The speaker wishes her life were more like something in a fairy tale.

    The speaker's life has not been grand or easy.

    The speaker is bitter and angry about her life.

    12. Robert E. Lee and the speaker in Langston Hughes’s poem both advise their children to __________ . (Points : 3)
    responsibly follow rules at all times
    maintain a positive outlook
    carry on through difficult situations
    keep the promises they make

    13. Who is most likely the intended audience of “Rebecca” and “The Story of Augustus”? (Points : 3)
    grown-ups
    parents
    teens
    kids

    • ANSWER:
      5. Writers make emotional appeals when they try to persuade readers by including imagery and description that may influence readers’ feelings.

      11. What does the speaker in Langston Hughes's poem, "Mother to Son," mean when she says, "Life for me ain't been no crystal stair"? The speaker's life has not been grand or easy.

      12. Robert E. Lee and the speaker in Langston Hughes’s poem both advise their children to
      Do their own homework!!!


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Information About Horseshoe Crabs

Some of the best beaches for shell collecting along the Virginia Coast include Assateague Island, the barrier islands of the Eastern Shore, Cape Henry, Virginia Beach and Sandbridge.

Beaches along the Virginia Coast yield a wide range of shells, artifacts and unique treasures including knobby whelks, channeled whelks, moon snails, periwinkles, scallops, ocean quahogs, hard clams, mussels, drills, angels wings, jingles, limpets, cockles and others.

In addition to mollusks and shellfish, there are other items such as sand dollars, starfish, ray and shark egg cases, horseshoe crab egg cases, crab shells, sharks teeth and occasionally even gold or silver coins!

Time and location are important for the collector. While the warm days of summer find most beach lovers out, the best sea shell collecting often occurs in the cooler months. One good way to find shells along beaches is to look for low stretches where the water can surge farther up on the sand. In these areas, small patches of beach can be covered with fragments and may also contain whole shells in excellent condition. Low tides may also yield shells as they are more accessible.

New crops of shells often wash ashore following a strong storm from an easterly direction. Once the storm subsides and the waters subside, sea shell enthusiasts visit the beach in hopes of finding freshly deposited shells to choose from. Experienced shell collectors may know a friend that can take them farther along the beach by four wheel drive vehicle, boat other means. Areas that are less accessible by foot can yield a much greater selection of sea shells.

Not to be overlooked are nearby beaches and shorelines of the Chesapeake Bay. Here, visitors will find hard clams, razor clams, oyster, mussel and other shells. In addition to collecting shells, beach lovers will enjoy seeing living sea creatures including fish, shorebirds, blue crabs, fiddler crabs, hermit crabs, shrimp, starfish, snails, live clams, oysters, mussels and others.

Once collected, sea shells and other items are often displayed in collections, used in crafts, or utilized in other forms of nautical art.

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