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Horned Screamer The Horned Screamer (Anhima cornuta) is a member of a small family of birds, the Anhimidae, which occur only in tropical South America. There are three screamer species, the other two being the Crested Screamer and the Black-necked Screamer in the genus Chauna.
Horned Society In the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, the Horned Society is a secret society devoted to evil. The name can also be applied to a former independent nation of the Flanaess, formerly part of Iuz's kingdom, which has since been reclaimed and is now known as the Horned Lands.
Hornets Attack Victor Mature The Hornets Attack Victor Mature is a fictitious band inspired by a headline that ran in a Los Angeles newspaper in the early 1980s (the Hollywood star had been harassed by a swarm of crazed wasps while playing golf), the faux punk group was cited in numerous publications as a genuine act that was taking the L.A.
Hornfels Hornfels (German, meaning "hornstone") is the group designation for a series of contact metamorphic rocks that have been baked and indurated by the heat of intrusive igneous masses and have been rendered massive, hard, splintery, and in some cases exceedingly tough and durable. Most hornfelses are fine-grained, and while the original rocks (such as sandstone, shale and slate, limestone and diabase) may have been more or less fissile owing to the presence of bedding or cleavage planes, this structure is effaced or rendered inoperative in the hornfels.
HornFans HornFans is a University of Texas at Austin-focused online community that was created in 1999. It is currently the 13th-most visited college sports website, third-most visited team-specific website, and the most-visited independent college sports website.
Hornchurch and Upminster (UK Parliament constituency) Hornchurch and Upminster will be a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It will elect one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
Hornchurch tube station Hornchurch Station is a London Underground station on the District Line, located in Hornchurch and a short walk south from the town centre. The station is in Zone 6, located between Elm Park and Upminster Bridge stations.
Horniman Circle Gardens The Horniman Circle Gardens is a large park in South Mumbai, India which encompasses an area of 12,081 square yards (10,101 m²). It is situated in the Fort district of Mumbai, and is surrounded by offices complexes housing the country's premier banks.
Horns and Halos Horns and Halos (2002), an award-winning documentary film directed by Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky, is primarily about the difficult road the author (James Hatfield) and publisher (Sander Hicks at Soft Skull Press) travelled to bring Fortunate Son, an unauthorized and controversial biography of George W. Bush to bookshelves again.
Hornsby & Upper North Shore Advocate The Hornsby and Upper North Shore Advocate is an Australian local newspaper, serving the local communities of Hornsby Shire and part of the Upper North Shore. Established in 1919, it is the only local paper for its area.
Hornsby (crater) Hornsby is a tiny lunar crater in the western part of the Mare Serenitatis, a lunar mare in the northeast quadrant of the Moon's near side. It is a solitary formation that is located at least 100 kilometers from any significant craters, although the small Krishna crater lies about 50 km to the west-northwest.
Hornsea Mere Hornsea Mere is generally described as the largest natural freshwater lake in Yorkshire and lies to the west of Hornsea in the East Riding. It covers an area of 467 acres, is 2 miles long, Âľ mile at its widest point and 12 feet at its deepest point.
Hornsea Pottery Hornsea Pottery, a pottery factory just outside of Hornsea in the East Riding of Yorkshire was founded by brothers Colin Rawson and Desmond Rawson in 1949. The factory's earliest pieces, mostly designed by John Clappison, were produced in the early 1950s.
Hornsey (UK Parliament constituency) Hornsey was a constituency in North London which returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1885 until it was abolished for the 1983 general election.
Hornsey and Wood Green (UK Parliament constituency) Hornsey and Wood Green is a parliamentary constituency in the London Borough of Haringey represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
Hornsey Housing Trust Hornsey Housing Trust was set up in 1933 with the purpose of housing people in the Hornsey and Crouch End areas of North London. Since that time, it has grown to become a specialist provider of a range of housing, support and care options for older people.
Hornsey Town Hall Hornsey Town Hall is a public building in Crouch End area of Hornsey, London. Designed by architect Reginald Uren 1933-1935, the building shows the influence of the town hall in Hilversum, Holland and was awarded a bronze medal by the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Hornsherred Hornsherred is a peninsula between Roskilde Fjord and Isefjord on the island of Zealand in eastern Denmark. It falls within the expanded Frederikssund municipality and includes Jægerspris and Skibby and part of Bramsnæs.
Hornsleth Village Project The Hornsleth Village Project is a controversial conceptual art project by Danish artist Kristian von Hornsleth in which he went to the Ugandan village of Buteyongera and paid impoverished villagers to legally change their names to "Hornsleth": in exchange for consenting to have "Hornsleth" added to their identity documents, the villagers were given livestock. The project began in June of 2006.
Horntail Horntail or wood wasp is the common name for any of the 100 non-social species of the family Siricidae, of the order Hymenoptera, a type of xylophagous sawfly. This family was until recently the sole living representative of the superfamily Siricoidea, a group well-represented in early Tertiary and Mesozoic times, but the family Anaxyelidae has recently been linked to this group.
Horntye Park Sports Complex Horntye Park Sports Complex sports complex and conference centre located in Hastings, East Sussex. The complex contains a large indoor sports hall, an all weather pitch used for football and hockey and a county standard cricket pitch.
Hornussen Hornussen is an indigenous Swiss sport and is like a cross between baseball and golf. The sport gets its name from the puck which is hit which is known as a "Hornuss' or "Nouss" or hornet in English on account of the noise it makes as it whizzes through the air at up to 300 km per hour.
Horolodectes sunae Horolodectes sunae is a long-extinct eutherian mammal species of uncertain taxonomic position, recently discovered in Paleocene formations in northern Alberta, Canada. Its name means "hourglass biter" in Greek, because of the shape of its teeth.
Horologium Supercluster The Horologium Supercluster (also known as Horologium-Reticulum Supercluster) is a massive supercluster about 905 million light-years away in the constellations Horologium and Eridanus. It is about 550 million light-years across and has a mass of 1017 solar masses.
Horonai Railway The Horonai Railway (官営幌内鉄道, kan'ei tetsudō) was a Japanese government-managed railway which was among the first to be built in Hokkaidō. Established in 1869, it was sold off to the private sector twenty years later.
Horopter The horopter is a 3-dimensional curve that can be defined as the set of points in space for which the light falls on corresponding areas in the two retinas, that is, anatomically identical points. Along this curve, no stereopsis can be detected by the eye.
Horoscope In astrology, a horoscope is a chart or diagram representing the positions of the planets, other celestial bodies, and sensitive angles at the time of any event, such as the moment of a person's birth. The word "horoscope" is derived from Greek words meaning "a look at the hours" (horoskopos, pl.
Horoscope pattern In astrology, the concept of a horoscope pattern was devised by Marc Edmund Jones. He devised seven distinct patterns of horoscope, as the planets appeared on along the 360° circle that used today to plot the placements.
Horr Horr was a book by the Iranian author Ali Shariati about the historic Battle of Karbala in which Hussein, the grandson of the Muslim prophet Muhammad, was killed by Yazid (6th Sunni Caliph). Horr was a commander of the army of the Caliph Yazid during the battle.
Horr's Island archaeological site The Horr's Island archaeological site is a significant Archaic period archaeological site located on an island in southwestern Florida formerly known as Horr's Island. Horr's Island (now called Key Marco, not to be confused with the archaeological site Key Marco) is on the south side of Marco Island.
Horrabridge Horrabridge is a village in West Devon, England with a population of about 2,000 people. It is located approximately 12 miles north of the city of Plymouth and 4 miles south of Tavistock and is within the Dartmoor National Park.
Horrible Geography Horrible Geography is a series of books which is a spin-off of the Horrible Histories series written by Anita Ganeri, illustrated by Mike Phillips, and published in the UK by Scholastic. They are designed to get children interested in Geography by concentrating on the trivial, unusual, gory, or unpleasant.
Horrible Histories Horrible Histories is a series of illustrated books published in the United Kingdom by Scholastic. They are designed to get children interested in history by concentrating on the trivial, unusual, gory, or unpleasant.
Horrible Science Horrible Science is a spin-off series of books of Horrible Histories written by Nick Arnold (with the exception of Evolve or Die, which is written by Phil Gates), illustrated by Tony de Saulles and published in the UK by Scholastic. They are designed to get children interested in science by concentrating on the trivial, unusual, gory, or unpleasant.
Horribly Famous Similar to the Dead Famous series, Horribly Famous is a series of books containing biographies of famous people who are now dead. These books are written by a range of authors and the books are, in some cases ghost-written under the same name as the one person featured in a Dead Famous book.
Horris Hill Stakes The Horris Hill Stakes is a Group 3 flat horse race in the United Kingdom for two-year-old thoroughbred colts and geldings run over a distance of 7 furlongs (1,408 metres) at Newbury Racecourse in late October. Prior to 2000 the distance of the race was 7 furlongs 64 yards (1,467 metres).
Horrocks (crater) Horrocks is a lunar impact crater located entirely within the eroded northeast rim of the much larger Hipparchus walled-plain. The rim of Horrocks is somewhat irregular and polygonal, particularly with an outward protrusion on the eastern rim.
Horror (emotion) Horror is the feeling of revulsion that usually occurs after something frightening is seen, heard, or otherwise experienced. It is the feeling one gets after coming to an awful realization or experiencing a hideous revelation.
Horror conventions Horror conventions are gatherings of the community of fans of various forms of horror including horror cinema, goth lifestyle, paganism, and occasionally science fiction and fantasy. Historically the focus has been on the cinematic form rather than literature and art, but this has broadened to include all forms in recent years.
Horror fiction Horror fiction is, broadly, fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle, or horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience has often been the intrusion of an evil—or, occasionally, misunderstood—supernatural element into everyday human experience.
Horror film Films from the horror genre are designed to elicit fright, fear, terror, disgust or horror from viewers. In horror film plots, evil forces, events, or characters, sometimes of supernatural origin, intrude into the everyday world.
Horror films of Mexico The Mexican horror film proper came into its own with the release of El Fantasma del convento (1934), Dos monjes (1934), and El Misterio del rostro pálido (1935), three films from the writer-director Juan Bustillo Oro.
Horror Incorporated Horror Incorporated featured horror movies and first ran on KSTP-TV in the Twin Cities, generally airing at or after midnight Saturday nights, from 1969 - 1979. It was revived by KSTP owner Hubbard Broadcasting when it spawned the launch of KSTC-TV, a new sister station to KSTP, in the fall of 2000.
Horror of Glam Rock Horror of Glam Rock is an audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. This audio drama was produced by Big Finish Productions and was broadcast on BBC 7 on 14 January 2007.
Horror of Porn Horrors of Porn is a category of special articles published on on a weekly or monthly basis by the Something Awful. It focuses on obscure and often outrageous pornographic films from a number of independent, underground, or international sources, which it reviews in a sardonic and often insulting manner.
Horror Victorianorum Horror Victorianorum (terror of the Victorian) is a term devised by the philosopher David Stove to refer to irrational distaste for, or condemnation of, Victorian culture, art and design. The term was used in Stove's book The Plato Cult as part of his argument against Karl Popper and other philosophers whom he characterised as "modernists".
Horror Writers Association The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is a worldwide non-profit organization of professional writers and publishing professionals dedicated to promoting the interests of Horror and Dark Fantasy writers. It was formed in the 1980's with the help of many of the field's greats, including Joe Lansdale, Robert McCammon, and Dean Koontz.
Horror-of-personality One of three sub-genres of the horror film that grew out of late-20th-Century American culture. Perhaps the finest example of this sub-genre is Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), although the earliest examples include Diabolique (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1955), I Bury the Living, (Albert Band, 1958), and Macabre (William Castle, 1958).
Horry County Schools Horry County Schools (HCS) is a public school district serving Horry County, South Carolina and is the third-largest school district in South Carolina. It serves over 32,840 students (as of Spring 2005) in 45 schools around the county in nine attendance areas.
Hors d'Ĺ“uvre Hors d'Ĺ“uvre, (IPA: French but often in English as ; French plural: hors d'Ĺ“uvre, without an extra s; English plural often hors d'Ĺ“uvres), also known as appetizer(s), refer to the food served before or outside of (French: hors de) the main dishes of a meal (Ĺ“uvre, literally "work").
Hors de combat Hors de combat, literally meaning "out of the fight," is a French term used in diplomacy and international law to refer to soldiers who are incapable of performing their military function. Examples include a downed fighter pilot, as well as the sick, wounded, detained, or otherwise disabled.
Horsa Horsa, according to tradition, was a fifth century warrior and brother of Hengest who took part in the invasion and conquest of Britain from its native Romano-British and Celtic inhabitants. It is often said that his name is Anglo-Saxon for "stud", but this is not quite accurate; the Anglo-Saxon for "horse" is hors (genitive horses).
Horsburgh lighthouse The Horsburgh Lighthouse (Chinese: 霍士堡灯塔) is a lighthouse which marks the eastern entrance to the Straits of Singapore. It situated on Pedra Branca, which is currently the subject of dispute between Singapore and Malaysia (Malaysia calls the island Pulau Batu Puteh).
Horse & Elephant Eatery (No Elephants Allowed): The Singles and Songles Album Horse & Elephant Eatery (No Elephants Allowed): The Singles and Songles Album is a compilation album released by the band Of Montreal. It was released on Bar/None Records in 2000, and contains bonus tracks and rare tracks from singles over their career.
Horse & Rider Horse & Rider is a monthly magazine featuring Western riding, training, horse care, equine tack and equipment, horse shows, and trainers, among other subjects. Horse & Rider is published by Primedia Enthusiast Publications, Inc.
Horse and buggy The horse and buggy is a simple two-person carriage drawn by one or two horses. In countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, it was the primary mode of short-distance personal transportation for many years.
Horse and Bamboo Theatre Horse and Bamboo Theatre or Horse + Bamboo Theatre is a British theatre company founded in 1978 by the Artistic Director, Bob Frith. It works internationally as well as from its Centre in Waterfoot, Rossendale, Lancashire, UK.
Horse behavior Horse behavior is best understood from the perspective that horses are prey animals with a well-developed fight-or-flight instinct. Their first response to a threat is to flee, although they are known to stand their ground and defend themselves or their offspring in cases where flight is not possible, such as when a foal would be threatened.
Horse blanket A horse blanket is a blanket that's intended for keeping a horse warm or otherwise protected from the elements. They are tailored to fit around a horse's body with straps crossing underneath, allowing the horse to move about freely without dislodging it.
Horse breaking Horse breaking, sometimes called starting or gentling, refers to the process used by humans to get horses to let themselves be ridden or harnessed. Before such a learning process is accomplished, a horse will normally reject attempts to ride it.
Horse colic Colic in horses is defined as abdominal pain, but it is a clinical sign or a symptom rather than a diagnosis. The term colic can encompass all forms of gastrointestinal conditions which cause pain as well as other causes of abdominal pain not involving the gastrointestinal tract.
Horse culture The term "Horse culture" is used to define a tribal group or community whose day to day life revolves around the herding and breeding of horses. Notable examples are the Mongols of Mongolia, and the American Indians of the Great Plains, after horses had been imported from Eurasia during the 16th century.
Horse fair A horse Fair is a kind of fair where people buy and sell horses. In the United Kingdom there are many fairs which are traditionally attended by Gypsy and Travellers who converge at the fairs to buy and sell horses, meet with friends and relations and to celebrate their music, history and folklore.
Horse Feathers Horse Feathers (1932) was the fourth Marx Brothers film. It stars the four Marx Brothers, Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and Zeppo, as well as Thelma Todd as Connie Bailey, and was written by Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, S.
Horse guard The horse guard wasp is a type of sand wasp from the eastern United States which preys primarily upon horse flies. It is a large, colorful, fast-flying wasp, one of 28 species in the genus Stictia (which occur throughout North and South America), all of which have similar biology.
Horse Guards Parade Horse Guards Parade is a large parade ground off Whitehall in central London, at grid reference . It was formerly the site of the Palace of Whitehall's tiltyard, where tournaments were held in the time of Henry VIII.
Horse hoof The horse hoof is the structure surrounding the distal phalanx of the 3rd digit (digit III of the basic pentadactyl limb of vertebrates, evolved into a single weight-bearing digit in equids) of each of the four limbs of Equus species, which is covered by complex soft tissue and keratinised (cornified) structures. Since a single digit must bear the full proportion of the animal's weight that is borne by that limb, the hoof is of vital importance to the horse.
Horse Chestnut (horse) Horse Chestnut (born on 19 August 1995) is a champion thoroughbred racehorse bred in South Africa by Harry and Bridget Oppenheimer at their Mauritzfontein Stud in Kimberley. He won the South African Triple Crown and was awarded both Horse of the Year and Champion 3-year-old Colt at three.
Horse Island (Connecticut) Horse Island, at 17 acres (69,000 m²), is one of the largest of the Thimble Islands off Stony Creek, a section of Branford, Connecticut. It is owned by Yale University and is maintained as an ecological laboratory by Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History.
Horse Islands, Newfoundland and Labrador Horse Islands is the name of a resettled fishing community on one of the two islands that also bears its name, situated off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. Horse Island was the scene of a terrific accident of a Hollywood movie gone awry.
Horse Isle Horse Isle is a small, rocky, uninhabited island in the Firth of Clyde, in Scotland. The island lies around 1 km west of the mainland town of Ardrossan at , providing some shelter to the harbour that the Arran ferry sails from.
Horse latitudes Horse latitudes or Subtropical High are subtropical latitudes between 30 and 35 degrees both north and south, characterized by light winds and hot, dry weather, caused by descending air. The belt in the Northern Hemisphere is sometimes called the “calms of Cancer” and in the Southern Hemisphere it is called the “calms of Capricorn”.
Horse of the Dog Horse of the Dog is the debut album of British psychobilly band The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster's, released September 30, 2002, on the No Death label in the UK. There were four singles off this album: "Celebrate Your Mother", "Psychosis Safari", "Chicken", and "Morning Has Broken" respectively.
Horse opera Horse opera refers to a western movie or television series that is extremely cliched or formulaic (in the manner of a soap opera). The term, which was originally coined by silent film-era Western star William S.
Horse Palace The Horse Palace in Toronto was built in 1931 and use to host the bulk of the annual Royal Agricultural Winter Fair. The Art Deco building was considered the best equestrian facility in Canada when it was built.
Horse racing Horse racing is an equestrian sport which has been practiced over the centuries; the chariot races of Roman times are an early example, as is the contest of the steeds of the god Odin and the giant Hrungnir in Norse mythology. It is often inextricably associated with gambling.
Horse showmanship Showmanship is an event found at many horse shows. The class is also sometimes called "Fitting and Showmanship", "Showmanship In-Hand", "Showmanship at Halter" or "Halter Showmanship" It involves a person leading a horse on the ground through a series of maneuvers called a pattern.
Horse stance Horse Stance, also called "mabu" (馬步) in Chinese, "kibadachi" in Japanese, and "kuda kuda" in Indonesian, is an important posture in martial arts and takes its name from the position assumed when riding a horse (hence the formal name "horse riding stance"). This stance can not only be integrated into fighting, but can also be used during exercises.
Horse tack Tack is a term used to describe any of the various equipment and accessories worn by horses in the course of their use as domesticated animals. Saddles, stirrups, bridles, halters, reins, bits, harnesses, martingales, and breastplates are all forms of horse tack.
Horse training Horse training refers to a wide variety of practices that teach horses to perform certain behaviors when asked to do so by humans. Horses are trained to be manageable by humans for everyday care as well as for equestrian activities from horse racing to therapeutic horseback riding for people with disabilities.
Horse Tamers The colossal pair of marble "Horse Tamers", often identified as Castor and Pollux, have stood since Antiquity near the site of the Baths of Constantine on the Quirinal Hill, Rome, too large to be buried or to be moved very far, though Napoleon's agents wanted to include them among the classical booty removed from Rome after the Treaty of Tolentino, 1797 (Haskell and Penny 1981 p 136). They are fourth-century Roman copies of Greek originals.
Horse To The Water "Horse To The Water" is a song by Jools Holland and His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra, from Holland's album Small World, Big Band. The song is notable for being George Harrison's last performance on a record, George having recorded lead vocals and slide guitar mere months before his death in November 2001.
Horse whisperer A horse whisperer is a horse trainer who adopts a sympathetic view of the motives, needs, and desires of the horse, based on modern equine psychology. The term goes back to the early nineteenth century when an Irish horseman, Daniel Sullivan, made a name for himself in England by rehabilitating horses that had become vicious and intractable due to abuse or accidental trauma.
Horse worship Horse worship is a pagan practice that may be demonstrated in Europe in the Iron Age, and perhaps in the Bronze Age. The horse may be seen as divine, or may be seen as a sacred animal associated with a particular deity.
Horse With No Name (America album) Horse With No Name is the fourth live album by American folk rock duo America, released by MasterTone Records in Germany in 1995 (see 1995 in music). The concert was recorded (without a live audience) for a German television program called Musikladen in early 1975.
Horse-collar tackle The horse-collar tackle is an American football tackle in which a defender grabs the back inside of an opponent's shoulder pads from behind and yanks the ball-carrier downwards, a technique which has been used for decades. The tackle was banned from the NFL during the 2005 offseason.
Horse-drawn vehicle Horse-drawn vehicles were once prominent throughout the world, but they have mostly been replaced by automobiles and other forms of self-propelled transport. These are some of the horse-drawn vehicles which exist or once existed.
Horse-fly Horse flies (family Tabanidae) are among the world's largest flies. These flies are often considered pests because of the painful bites that many, though not all, of the species can inflict on animals and humans.
Horse-monkey The Horse-monkey is a mythological beast resembling both a monkey and a horse. The extreme uncommon usage of this beast is partially due to its fictitious roots stemmed from Obar, the great and vicious Ovimbundu god of speed.
Horsea are one of the fictional species of Pokémon creatures from the multi-billion-dollar Pokémon media franchise—a collection of video games, anime, manga, books, trading cards, and other media created by Satoshi Tajiri. The purpose of Horsea in the games, anime, and manga, as with all other Pokémon, is to battle both wild Pokémon—untamed creatures encountered while the player passes through various environments—and tamed Pokémon owned by Pokémon trainers.
Horseback archery Horseback archery is an equestrian martial art that has been in existence since the early Scythian cultures. it is thought that the Ancient Greeks invented the mythical Centaurs in reaction to the seemingly impossible union of an archer and a fast moving horseman.
Horsefeathers "Horsefeathers" is a term used to say that something is nonsense, often used as an exclamation after hearing something which one totally disagrees with. It is supposed to imply that an idea is as silly or as unbelievable as horses having feathers.
Horsefly River The Horsefly River is a river in the Cariboo district of British Columbia, Canada. Originating near the Wells Gray Provincial Park, it is a tributary to the Quesnel River, which in turn is a major tributary of the Fraser River.
Horsehay railway station Horsehay railway station is a station on the former Wellington and Severn Junction railway in Shropshire, England. It consisted of one platform with a signal box at the end of the platform controlling access to the goods yard.
Horsehead Nebula The Horsehead Nebula (also known as Barnard 33 in bright nebula IC 434) is a dark nebula in the Orion constellation. The nebula is located just below Alnitak, the easternmost star of Orion's Belt, and is part of the much larger Orion Molecular Cloud Complex.
Horseheads High School Horseheads High School is a public institution for secondary education (grades 9-12) in the rural town of Horseheads, New York. In terms of the geographic size of the district, it is the second largest in the state.
Horseland HorseLand is an online virtual pet game where players create and raise horses and dogs. Begun in 1994 by a 14 year old girl in the United States, HorseLand has grown to now have over 3 million users who play from all over the world.
Horseleap Horseleap is a small village in Ireland straddling the counties of Westmeath and Offaly, on the main Dublin to Galway road. The village itself contains a church, primary school, garden centre, pub and a petrol station.
Horseley Heath Horseley Heath is a residential area of Tipton, in the West Midlands of England. It is situated around the main A461 road which links the major townships of Dudley and Walsall, and stands on the banks of the River Tame.
Horsemeat March The Horsemeat March of 1876, also known as the Starvation March, was a military expedition led by General George Crook in pursuit of a band of Sioux fleeing General Custer's defeat at the Battle of Little Big Horn. The Sioux burned the grass behind them, and the American cavalry travelled with reduced rations to allow faster pursuit.

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