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Horcajo de Montemayor Horcajo de Montemayor is a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located 90 kilometres from the provincial capital city of Salamanca and has a population of 193 people.
Horcajo Medianero Horcajo Medianero is a village and municipality in the province of Salamanca, western Spain, part of the autonomous community of Castile-Leon. It is located 48 kilometres from the provincial capital city of Salamanca and has a population of 329 people.
Horcas Horcas ("Gallows") is a Heavy Metal band from Argentina created in 1988, two years after the dissolution of V8 by that band's guitar player, Osvaldo Civile. The band's growth was hampered by the constant changing of members.
Hordak Hordak is a fictional character in the popular toy line Masters of the Universe. He is the leader of the Evil Horde, an army of savage warriors, most of whom wear a red bat symbol on their chests to convey their allegiance.
Hordanes Land Hordanes Land was the first official release by Enslaved. It was initially released as a split with Emperor, although it has been re-released with the band's first album, Vikingligr Veldi, as a double-CD set as well.
Horde (band) Horde is the single-album Christian project of Australian musician Jayson Sherlock, formerly of Mortification and Paramaecium. Sherlocke recorded one album, "Hellig Usvart" (Holy Unblack) under the pseudonym "Anonymous" (a possible play on "Euronymous," the infamous Mayhem guitarist) and it was released on Nuclear Blast Records in 1994, followed by a later re-release on Rowe Productions.
Horde (Warcraft) The Horde is one of the major factions in the Warcraft universe — a fictional universe in which a series of games and books are set. In World of Warcraft, the Horde is a sturdy alliance of five major races: the brutal Orcs, the quick-witted Darkspear Trolls, the spiritual Tauren, the shadowy Forsaken (Undead) and the driven Blood Elves.
Hordern Pavilion The Hordern Pavilion, or "The Hordern" as it is affectionally known by Sydneysiders, has been an architecturally and socially significant Sydney landmark since its construction in 1924. Now best known as a dance party and rock concert venue, the Hordern Pavilion was originally constructed to meet the increasing demands for exhibition space at the Royal Easter Show.
Hordes of Chaos The Hordes of Chaos is the first of two recent "Warhammer Army" books detailing the armies of Chaos in the world of Warhammer Fantasy for the Warhammer Fantasy Battle game. Hordes of Chaos is devoted to "Mortals," which are the human worshippers of Chaos (the brutal tribesmen referred to in-game as "Marauders") and the devoted worshippers ("Chaos Warriors" & Champions), the Daemonic legions, and Chaos Magic.
Hordle Hordle is a small (population approximately 6000) village that lies in between the cities of Bournemouth and Southampton on the south coast of England. It is bordered by the towns of Lymington, New Milton and Ashley.
Horeca Horeca is a business term which refers to a sector of the food service industry, to establishments which prepare and serve food and beverages. The term is a concatenation of the words Hotel/Restaurant/Café (or Hotel/Restaurant/Caterer, or Hotel/Restaurant/Canteen).
Horeswood Horeswood GAA is a proud bastion of Wexford Gaelic football. Best known for the Silver Fox and a magical headband, the following history will give you a taste of the culture and stature of one of Wexford's most famous clubs.
Hori Hidemasa Hori Hidemasa (堀秀政)(1553-1590) was a samurai retainer of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi during Japan's Sengoku period. He was one of Hideyoshi's greatest generals, and commanded his forces in several of his most major battles.
Horie Kuwajirō Horie Kuwajirō (堀江鍬次郎 Horie Kuwajirō)Horie's name is sometimes written in reverse order, with given name first and family name last. (1831 – 1866) was an early Japanese photographer and science writer.
Horihone Saizou Horihone Saizou (掘骨砕三) is a Japanese manga artist whose works (like fellow manga-ka Henmaru Machino) prominently feature themes of hermaphrodism (futanari), coprophilia, shotacon, lolicon, and body transformation. Most of his works are published by Sanwa Comics.
Horites Horites (Egyptian Khar) were cave-dwellers mentioned in the Torah (Genesis 14:6, 36:20, Deuteronomy 2:12) inhabiting areas around Petra. They have been identified with Egyptian references to Khar which concern a southern region of Canaan.
Horizon The horizon (from Greek orizein, to limit) is the line that separates earth from sky. More precisely, it is the line that divides all of the directions you can possibly look into two categories: those which intersect the Earth, and those which do not.
Horizon (TV series) Horizon is a long-running BBC popular science and history documentary programme, notable for coining the term supervolcano. The format of the series varied in the early years following its launch in 1965 but is now standardised at 50 minutes.
Horizon Airlines (Australia) Horizon Airlines was an Australian airline based in Sydney. It predominantly operated night time cargo services on contract to Australian Air Express using BAe 748 and Fairchild Metroliner aircraft but also operated some passenger services.
Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, headquartered in Newark, New Jersey, is the only licensed Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association plan in New Jersey, providing health insurance coverage to over 3.2 million people throughout all of North, Central, and South Jersey.
Horizon Global Horizon Global (traded on the Australian Stock Exchange under the stock symbol HZG) is a corporation specializing in media-compression technology, peer to peer video telephony, video on demand, and real-time satellite imaging hardware.
Horizon League The Horizon League is a nine school, NCAA Division I college athletic conference, whose members are located in five of the Midwestern United States. Although the league does not sponsor football, Youngstown State plays in the Gateway Football Conference, and Butler and future member Valparaiso in the Pioneer League.
Horizon of connectivity Within most client-server architectures, a horizon of connectivity is the boundary that limits access to server-based resources when the client is disconnected from the network. Client-server applications such as desktop email clients, which provide offline functionality (typically only a subset of that possible while connected), may be referred to as operating beyond the connectivity horizon.
Horizon Organic Horizon Organic is an organic dairy product label owned by Dean Foods, and distributed by White Wave Foods. It the largest supplier of organic milk in North America, and sold by vendors including Starbucks and Wal-Mart.
Horizon problem The horizon problem is a problem with the standard cosmological model of the Big Bang which was identified in the 1970s. It points out that different regions of the universe have not "contacted" each other due to the great distances between them, but nevertheless they have the same temperature and other physical properties.
Horizon Pictures Horizon Pictures (GB) Ltd was a film production company founded in Britain by the Austrian-born film producer Sam Spiegel. The company's first production was the Academy Award-winning The African Queen, starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, in 1951.
Horizon Radio Horizon Radio or Хоризонт (Horizont) in Bulgarian is a state-owned Bulgarian Radio Station, specializing in news coverage from Bulgaria. It is the most popular radio station in Bulgaria and it is part of The Bulgarian National Radio Network.
Horizon Science Academy Horizon Science Academy is a group of charter schools which is owned by Concept Schools in Ohio and independently operated. They have schools in Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Dayton, Springfield, Toledo, and other Ohio cities.
Horizons (Epcot attraction) Horizons was the name of a dark ride attraction at Epcot, a theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida USA. Located on the eastern side of the "Future World" section of Epcot, the attraction used Disney's Omnimover conveyance system, which took guests past show scenes depicting visions of the future.
Horizons: Empire of Istaria Horizons: Empire of Istaria is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Artifact Entertainment and released in Europe on December 5, 2003 and in North America on December 9, 2003. Tulga Games, LLC acquired the game and all related assets on January 25, 2005 and sold them to EI Interactive July 2006.
Horizontal Horizontal is an orientation relating to, or in parallel with the horizon, and thus perpendicular to the vertical. A horizontal line goes from left to right (or vice versa) where a vertical line goes from top to bottom.
Horizontal and vertical writing in East Asian scripts Many East Asian scripts can be written horizontally or vertically. The Chinese, Japanese and Korean scripts can be oriented in either direction, while the traditional Mongolian script and its offshoots (like Manchu) are written vertically.
Horizontal blank interrupt A horizontal blank interrupt is a programming technique used in some systems, notably video games and consoles, to allow program code to be run in the periods when the display hardware is turned off, waiting for the TV to complete its horizontal blank, which takes about 10 ÎĽS.
Horizontal branch The horizontal branch (HB) is a stage of stellar evolution which immediately follows the red giant branch in stars whose masses are similar to the Sun's. Horizontal branch stars are powered by helium fusion (aka the triple-alpha reaction) in the core and hydrogen fusion in a shell surrounding the core.
Horizontal coordinate system The horizontal coordinate system is a celestial coordinate system that uses the observer's local horizon as the fundamental plane. This conveniently divides the sky into the upper hemisphere that you can see, and the lower hemisphere that you cannot (because the Earth is in the way).
Horizontal correlation Horizontal correlation is a methodology for gene sequence analysis. Rather than referring to one specific technique, horizontal correlation instead encompasses a variety of approaches to sequence analysis that are unified by two specific themes:
Horizontal elevator The term horizontal elevator is used ambiguously. It might be something which acts like a person conveyor (similar to Moving walks or Moving sidewalk) or might consist of little vehicles travelling automatically on a (single)rail or road surface horizontal People mover.
Horizontal gene transfer Horizontal gene transfer (HGT), also Lateral gene transfer (LGT), is any process in which an organism transfers genetic material to another cell that is not its offspring. By contrast, vertical transfer occurs when an organism receives genetic material from its ancestor, e.
Horizontal gluteal crease The horizontal gluteal crease is an area of the body of great apes, including humans, described by a horizontal crease formed by the inferior aspect of the buttocks and the posterior upper leg. It is one of the major defining features of the buttocks.
Horizontal integration In microeconomics and strategic management, the term horizontal integration describes a type of ownership and control. It is a strategy used by a business or corporation that seeks to sell a type of product in numerous markets.
Horizontal Integration Facility The Horizontal Integration Facility located in Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida is a seven-story white building containing 2 bays measuring 250 ft by 100 ft each. Construction was completed in June 2000.
Horizontal Market Software Horizontal Market Software refers to application software programs that are general enough to be used in virtually all industries, such as Microsoft Office applications; almost every company uses this software to increase its organizational productivity. Horizontal market software is sometimes referred to as "productivity software" or “personal productivity software.
Horizontal scan rate Horizontal scan rate, or horizontal frequency, usually expressed in kilohertz, is the frequency at which a CRT moves the electron beam from the left side of the display to the right and back, and therefore describes the number of horizontal lines displayed. CRT timings actually include some horizontal scans before the visible display, after it, and during the travel from bottom to top (known as vertical back porch, vertical front porch, and vertical sync width, respectively, and collectively known as vertical blank time), so the horizontal scan rate does not directly correlate to visible display lines, unless the unseen lines are also known, but it can still be used to approximate the display lines, as the total blank time is usually a small but significant portion of the total lines.
Horizontal space Horizontal space is the term used in differential geometry for a particular choice of subspace of the set of all frames on the manifold. The horizontal space denoted by H_b in B (where B is the space of all frames ) is one that obeys the following conditions.
Horizontal Situation Indicator The horizontal situation indicator (commonly called the HSI) is an aircraft instrument normally mounted below the artificial horizon in place of a conventional directional gyro (DG). It combines both the DG and the VOR display, reducing pilot workload by lessening the number of elements in his or her instrument scan.
Horizontalism Horizontalism (Spanish: horizontalismo) is a concept that implies the striving for nonhierarchical power structures and relationships. As a term, it arose in Argentina within the radical movements that sprouted after the economic crisis of 2001.
Horizontes Experimental Forest Horizontes Experimental Forest, a nature reserve which is part of the Guanacaste Conservation Area in northwestern Costa Rica. It is an experimental forest restoration program seeking to restore land previously converted to agriculture back to dry tropical forest.
Horizontina Horizontina is a municipality and a city in Rio Grande do Sul, in southern Brazil, with 18 046 habitants in a 2004 IBGE estimation. The first settlers were German, Italian and Polish immigrants who arrived in the region in 1927, though the city was created only in 1955.
Horlick Mountains The Horlick Mountains () are a mountain range in the Transantarctic Mountains of Antarctica, lying eastward of Reedy Glacier and including the Wisconsin Range, Long Hills and Ohio Range. The mountains were discovered in two observations by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1933-35, one by Kennett L.
Horloogiyn Choybalsan Horloogiyn Choybalsan (Mongolian: Хорлоогийн Чойбалсан; February 8 1895–January 26, 1952) was the Communist leader of Mongolia from the 1930s until his death. The spelling of his name can vary as "Horloogiin" or "Khorloogiyn" and "Choibalsan" is a common alternative to Choybalsan.
HorĹŤ 'HorĹŤ' were stiffened cloaks worn by messengers (tsukai) and bodyguards (yojimbo) on the battlefields of feudal Japan. Their primary purpose was to improve the visibility of the wearer on the battlefield, but they also served as arrow-catchers.
Horma The horma was a tribute paid by subservient tribes to their protectors in traditional Sahrawi-Moorish society in today's Mauritania and Western Sahara in North Africa. The relatively high-caste zawiya tribes, whose role in society was to attend to religious matters, would pay it for armed protection to Hassane warrior tribes; the low-caste znaga tribes would pay it to their respective masters.
Hormah Hormah (meaning "broken rock", "banned", or "devoted to destruction"), also known by its Canaanite name Zephath (Tsfat צפת) in an unidentified city in the Hebrew Bible, mentioned as one of the cities captured by Joshua. Its location is unknown; some place it between Beer Sheba and Gaza, some between
Hormando Vaca Diez Hormando Vaca Diez (born April 30, 1949) was formerly president of the upper house (Senate) of the Bolivian National Congress. Offered the post of president after Carlos Mesa's resignation, he declined amid protests against him, in a televised speech where he stated that the recent protests were caused by Carlos Mesa and Evo Morales.
Horme Horme is the Greek goddess personifying energetic activity and effort. She is presumably the daughter of Zeus, as she only had an altar at Athens, where mainly the divine servants and relations (Including Pheme and Aidos, as well as Athene) of Zeus had altars.
Hormesis Hormesis is the term for generally-favorable biological responses to low exposures to toxins and other stressors. A pollutant or toxin showing hormesis thus has the opposite effect in small doses than in large doses.
Hormigueros, Puerto Rico Hormigueros is a municipality of Puerto Rico located in the western region of the island, northeast of Cabo Rojo; northwest of San Germán; and south of Mayagüez. Hormigueros is spread over 5 wards and Hormigueros Pueblo (The downtown area and the administrative center of the city).
Horminum Horminum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Lamiaceae, comprising a single species, Horminum pyrenaicum, native to rocky slopes and grasslands in the Pyrenees and Alps in western Europe. Common names include Dragonmouth and Pyrenean Dead-nettle.
Hormogonales The term "Hormogonales" is no longer in use. It once indicated an order inside the class Cyanobacteria comprising the former suborders "Nostocales", "Scytonematales" and Stigonematales.
Hormonal imprinting Hormonal imprinting (HI) is a biological phenomenon which takes place at the first encounter between a hormone and its developing receptor in the critical periods of life (in unicellulars during the whole life) and determines the later signal transduction capacity of the cell. The most important period in mammals is the perinatal one, however this system can be imprinted at weaning, at puberty and in case of continuously dividing cells during the whole life.
Hormone replacement therapy Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is a system of medical treatment for surgically menopausal, perimenopausal and postmenopausal women, based on the assumption that it may prevent discomfort and health problems caused by diminished circulating estrogen and progesterone hormones. The treatment involves a series of drugs designed to artificially boost hormone levels.
Hormone replacement therapy (trans) Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for transgender and transsexual people replaces the hormones naturally occurring in their bodies with those of the other sex. Its purpose is to cause the development of the secondary sex characteristics of the desired gender.
Hormone response element A hormone response element (HRE) is a short sequence of DNA within the promoter of a gene that is able to bind a specific hormone receptor complex and therefore regulate transcription. The sequence is most commonly a pair of inverted repeats separated by three nucleotides, which also indicates that the receptor binds as a dimer.
Hormosira banksii Neptune's necklace (Hormosira banksii) is a type of seaweed found in Australia and New Zealand. It is a common seaweed found in rock pools at mid-tide levels and is characterised by strings of olive-brown hollow beads.
Horn (acoustic) A horn is a tapered, sound guide designed to provide an acoustic impedance match between a sound source and free air. This has the effect of maximising the efficiency with which sound waves from the particular source are transferred to the air.
Horn (anatomy) A horn is a hollow, pointed projection of the skin of various animals, consisting mainly of keratin as well as other proteins. True horns are found only among the ruminant artiodactyls, in the families Antilocapridae (pronghorn) and Bovidae (cows, buffalo, yaks, goats, antelope etc.
Horn (diacritic) The horn is a diacritic mark attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u in the Vietnamese alphabet to give ơ and ư, unrounded variants of the vowel represented by the basic letter. In Vietnamese, it is rarely considered a separate diacritic; rather, the characters ơ and ư are considered separate from o and u.
Horn Book Magazine The Horn Book Magazine, founded in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1924, is a bimonthly periodical about literature for children and young adults. It began life as a "suggestive purchase list" prepared by Bertha Mahony Miller and Elinor Whitney Field, proprietresses of the country's first bookstore for children, The Bookshop for Boys and Girls, which opened in 1916 in Boston, as a project of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union.
Horn car Horn cars was a name given to a range of dealer-modified passenger cars, usually Ford Falcons, sold at Australian Ford dealerships in the 1970s. The term "Horn car" comes from the Horn Car Accessories company which supplied the parts used to modify these cars.
Horn clause In logic, a Horn clause is a clause (a disjunction of literals) with at most one positive literal. A Horn clause with exactly one positive literal is a definite clause; a Horn clause with no positive literals is sometimes called a goal clause, especially in logic programming.
Horn in the West Horn in the West is an outdoor drama produced every summer since 1952 in Boone, North Carolina, about the life and times of the early settlers of the mountains of western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee. It covers a time period during the American Revolution, between the Battle of Alamance in 1771 and the Battle of King's Mountain in 1780.
Horn of Africa The Horn of Africa (alternatively Northeast Africa, and sometimes Somali Peninsula) is a peninsula of East Africa that juts for hundreds of kilometers into the Arabian Sea, and lies along the southern side of the Gulf of Aden. It is the easternmost projection of the African continent.
Horn of Bran the Niggard The Horn of Bran the Niggard from the North was one of the Thirteen Royal Treasures of the Island of Britain. The earliest sources of the legend of the Thirteen Treasures appear in the 7th Century Welsh poem Y Gogledd and are recycled in later works.
Horn of Valere The Horn of Valere is a fictional object in Robert Jordan's fantasy series The Wheel of Time. It is a horn that is able to call the heroes that are linked to it (the "Heroes of the Horn") back from the grave.
Horn speaker A horn speaker is a speaker that uses a "horn" to increase the overall efficiency of the driving element, often a diaphragm driven by an electromagnet. The horn itself is a passive component and therefore does not amplify the sound from the driving element as such, but rather improves the coupling efficiency between the speaker driver.
Horn-rimmed glasses Horn-rimmed glasses are a type of eyeglasses with frames made of horn, tortoise shell, or plastic that simulates either material. The name horn-rimmed glasses refer to their original material, which was horn or shell.
Hornazo Hornazo is a sort of Spanish meat pie eaten in the province of Salamanca, made with flour and yeast and stuffed with pork loin, spicy chorizo sausage and hard-boiled eggs. It is traditionally eaten in the field during the "Monday of the Waters" festival.
Horní Jiřetín Horní Jiřetín (German: Obergeorgenthal) is a Czech municipality with 1,900 inhabitants in the district of Most, in the Ústí nad Labem Region in the foothills of the Ore Mountains on the border with Germany.
Hornbækbanen Hornbækbanen is a local passenger railway north of Copenhagen in Denmark, part of the Lokalbanen system. It runs along the coast of Øresund between Helsingør and Gilleleje, through an area with many holiday homes.
Hornbeam The hornbeams (Carpinus) are a genus of relatively small hardwood trees, placed in the birch family Betulaceae, though some botanists separate it off together with the hazels (Corylus) and hop-hornbeams (Ostrya) into a segregate family Corylaceae. The 30-40 species occur across much of the north temperate regions, with the greatest number of species in east Asia, particularly China.
Hornbeam Maple Hornbeam Maple (Acer carpinifolium; Japanese: Chidorinoki) is a species of maple, native to Japan on the islands of Honshū, Kyūshū, and Shikoku, where it grows in woodlands and alongside streams in mountainous areas.
Hornbeck Offshore Services Hornbeck Offshore Services is a publicly traded corporation headquartered in Covington, Louisiana providing offshore drilling and support services in the Gulf of Mexico and other areas. Their offshore supply vessels and Anchor Handling Vessels are from the latest generation, and the corporation recently issued new shares for expansion.
Hornblendite Hornblendite is a plutonic rock consisting mainly of the amphibole hornblende. Hornblende rich ultramafic rocks are rare and when hornblende is the dominant mineral phase they are classified as hornblendites with qualifiers such as garnet hornblendite identifying a second abundant contained mineral.
Hornbook A hornbook was a primer for children consisting of a sheet containing the letters of the alphabet, mounted on wood and protected by a thin sheet of transparent horn. Sometimes the sheet was simply pasted against the slice of horn.
Hornbostel-Sachs Hornbostel-Sachs (or Sachs-Hornbostel) is a system of musical instrument classification devised by Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs, and first published in the Zeitschrift fĂĽr Ethnologie in 1914. An English translation was published in the Galpin Society Journal in 1961.
Hornby Dock The Hornby Dock is located on the River Mersey and part of the Port of Liverpool in the United Kingdom. It is situated in the northern end of the dock system, connected to Gladstone Dock to the north and Alexandra Dock to the south.
Hornby International On 16 December 2004, Hornby Railways announced the acquisition of the well known European model train manufacturer Lima, along with certain assets of the Rivarossi, Jouef, Arnold and Pocher ranges. The company produced a large range of European outline models, as well as US and British trains.
Hornby Vellard The Hornby Vellard was a civil engineering project aimed at uniting all seven islands of Bombay into a single island with a deep natural harbour. The project was started by the governor William Hornby in 1708 and all islands were linked by 1838.
Hornby's Storm-petrel The Hornby's Storm-petrel or Ringed Storm-petrel (Oceanodroma hornbyi) is a poorly known seabird that ranges in the Humboldt Current off the coasts of South America. The species is a very distinctive member of the storm-petrel family, with a dark cap, white face and underparts, forked tail and a black band across the chest.
Horncastle Horncastle is a market town of some 5,000 residents in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies to the south of the Lincolnshire Wolds, where the River Bain meets the River Waring, and north of the West and Wildmore Fens.
Horncastle (UK Parliament constituency) Horncastle was a partliamentary constituency in Lincolnshire which returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. MPs were elected by the first past the post system of voting.
Horncastle Canal The Horncastle Canal was a broad canal which ran 11 miles from River Witham to Horncastle through 11 locks largely following the course of River Bain. The canal gained its act of parliament in 1792 and was opened in 1802.
Horne Church Horne Church (Danish: Horne Kirke) was established in the Late Middle Ages on the southwest part of the island of Funen, Denmark. This church, originally founded as a Catholic place of worship, is situated in the village of Horne; in present times the church no longer serves as a Catholic Parish.
Horne Lake Caves Provincial Park Horne Lake Caves Provincial Park, also known as Euclataws is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada Discovered in 1963 by spelunkers Delores and Jim Johnson of Nanaimo BC Canada; it was made a class "A" category 2 park on Thursday October 9th 1969 when the caves' existance was revealed to parks director Robert Ahrens by the Johnsons. The main cave is 4000 feet long with outstanding natural phenomena including intricate calcite formations such as flow stone, hollow stalactites known as "soda straws", calcite crystals containing 'cave pearls', hanging stalactites and a type of formation known semi-informally as 'bacon strips'.
Horned dilemma Horned dilemmas, dilemmas that describes the position being criticized, could mean one of a number of things, all of which are unacceptable. The expression "being between a rock and a hard place" applies here because the alternatives are unappealing.
Horned God The Horned God is a modern syncretic term used amongst Wiccan-influenced Neopagans, which unites numerous male nature gods out of such widely-dispersed and historically unconnected mythologies as the Celtic Cernunnos, the Welsh Caerwiden, the English Herne the Hunter, the Hindu Pashupati, the Greek Pan and the satyrs, and even the Paleolithic cave painting "the Sorcerer" in the Cave of the Three Brothers in France.
Horned Guan The Horned Guan, Oreophasis derbianus is a large, up to 85cm long, turkey-like bird with glossed black upperparts plumage, red legs, white iris, yellow bill and a red horn on top of head. The breast and upper belly are white, and its long tail feathers are black with white band near base.
Horned lizard Horned lizards (Phrynosoma) are a genus of the Phrynosomatidae family of lizards. The horned lizard is popularly called a "horned toad," "horny toad", or "horned frog," but it is neither a toad nor a frog.
Horned melon The horny melon, also called melano, African horned cucumber or melon, jelly melon, hedged gourd, English tomato, or kiwano (a registered trademark of New Zealand's Prinut Inc.), is a vine of African origin, grown for its fruit, which looks like an oval melon with horns and is very decorative.
Horned Puffin The Horned Puffin (Fratercula corniculata) is an auk, similar in appearance to the Atlantic Puffin; this bird's bill is yellow at the base and red at the tip. It is a pelagic seabird that feeds primarily by diving for fish.

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