DRAFT HORSE

or work horse, any breed of horse that is suited to or used for drawing heavy loads. Draft horses originated in central Europe, where their domestication preceded the Roman invasion. Popular breeds include the Belgian, Clydesdale, Percheron, and Shire, all of which are extremely large and noted for their strength, endurance, and good disposition.

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books on: Draft Horse  - 24080 results

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Conscription and Democracy: The Draft in France, Great Britain, and the United States
Book by George Q. Flynn; Greenwood Press, 2002
Subjects: Draft--France--History--20th Century, Draft--Great Britain--History--20th Century, Draft--United States--History--20th Century
...Military leaders came to view short-tour conscription as a Trojan horse designed by the political left as a means of degrading the...collective discipline, and obedience for young French males. The draft was an occasion to turn French youth into a prop of conservatism...
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The New York City Draft Riots: Their Significance for American Society and Politics in the Age of the Civil War
Book by Iver Bernstein; Oxford University Press, 1990
Subjects: Draft Riot, New York, N.Y., 1863
The New York City Draft Riots The New York City Draft Riots Their Significance for American Society and Politics...in-Publication Data Bernstein, Iver. The New York City draft riots: their significance for American society and politics...
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Adam Smith as Student and Professor: With Unpublished Documents, Including Parts of the "Edinburgh Lectures", a Draft of the Wealth of Nations, Extracts from the Muniments of the University of Glasgow and Correspondence
Book by William Robert Scott, Adam Smith; Jackson, Son & Company, 1937
Subjects: Smith, Adam--1723-1790
...including Parts of the "Edinburgh Lectures", a Draft of The Wealth of Nations , Extracts from the Muniments...an annotated print of the manuscript of an early draft-probably the first draft--of The Wealth of Nations , as a separate work...
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A Draft of XXX Cantos
Book by Ezra Pound; New Directions Pub. Corp., 1990
Subjects: Poetry
...says "Were nine wounds, "Four men, white horse. Held on the saddle before him..." Hooves...month, fiorini di Camera. For 2,000 horse and four hundred footmen, And it rains...Rimini has won the palio at Milan with our horse and writes that he is now on the hotel...
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Fiction as Fact: The Horse Soldiers and Popular Memory
Book by Neil Longley York; Kent State University Press, 2001
Subjects: Grierson's Cavalry Raid, 1863, Grierson, Benjamin Henry--1826-1911, Historical Fiction, American--Film And Video Adaptations, Historical Fiction, American--History And Criticism, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Cavalry Operations, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Literature And The War, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Motion Pictures And The War
...called it. So I bought The Horse Soldiers and read the credits...kind enough to read my first draft and tactful enough to keep...the videotape version of The Horse Soldiers with every excuse...Iowa, was one of those many horse soldiers involved in this intermittent...
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Local Autonomy and Civil War Draft Resistance: Holmes County, Ohio
Journal article by Kenneth H. Wheeler; Civil War History, Vol. 45, 1999
Subjects: Draft resisters--19th century, Government, Resistance to--United States, Ohio--History, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865
...southwestern Holmes County, on French Ridge, registering men for the draft. As Robinson talked with a group of men of French descent, at...person probably discharged a pistol as Robinson rode away on his horse. The most extensive account of this incident comes from Peter...
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Galloping Thunder: The Story of the Stuart Horse Artillery Battalion
Journal article by Nat C. Hughes Jr.; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 69, 2003
Subjects: Galloping Thunder: The Story of the Stuart Horse Artillery Battalion (Book)
...grease heel," a malady affecting draft horses, Trout provides a hundred-word...When comparing the Stuart Horse Artillery Battalion with its...Beckham and Chew, however, the horse artillerists found themselves...cope with the improved Federal horse" (p. 355). NAT C. HUGHES JR...
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Responsibility to Protect or Trojan Horse? the Crisis in Darfur and Humanitarian Intervention after Iraq
Journal article by Alex J. Bellamy; Ethics & International Affairs, Vol. 19, 2005
Subjects: Darfur, Sudan (Region)--International aspects, Foreign intervention--Analysis, Foreign intervention--Ethical aspects, Genocide--International aspects
...the EU members watered down a draft resolution they were preparing...itself made a classic "Trojan horse" argument, even referring to...Trojan horse? Has this lofty humanitarian...mid-September 2004, it circulated a draft resolution finding Sudan to...
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Taking Stock in 2005: Getting beyond the Horse Race
Journal article by Marilyn Cochran-Smith; Journal of Teacher Education, Vol. 56, 2005
Subjects: Educational assessment--Analysis, Educational evaluation--Analysis, Mathematics--Study and teaching, Teachers--Practice
...science" as applied to research on teacher preparation policies. (2.) David Imig initially used the "horse race" metaphor in his review of an early draft of Cochran-Smith and Fries (in press), which is the introductory chapter to Studying Teacher Education...
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Tracing the Rational Choice Origins of Social Capital: Is Social Capital a Neo-Liberal "Trojan Horse"?
Journal article by Ben Spies-Butcher; Australian Journal of Social Issues, Vol. 37, 2002
Subjects: Australia--Social policy, Social policy--Australia, Welfare reform--Australia
...Acknowledgement The author wishes to thank Gabrielle Meagher and Alex Coram for their comments on an earlier draft of this article. (Footnotes) (1) The PD works for any combination of numbers so long as the order of payoffs remains the...
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Eat and Let's Eat: Change Is Imminent in the South African Mining Industry. A New Minerals Development Bill, Currently in Draft Form, Is Causing Consternation in the Old Power Block
Magazine article by Pusch Commey; New African, June 2001
Subjects: Mineral rights--Laws, regulations and rules, Mining industry--Laws, regulations and rules, Mining law--Interpretation and construction, South Africa. Mineral Development Bill (Draft), South Africa--Natural resources
...past when it circulated for comment the Draft Mineral Development Bill. Comments were...was given 500 sheep, 10 cattle and one horse. Van Niekerk sold the diamond to agents...doubt there will be changes made to the draft bill, before its inevitable passage into...
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National ID Trojan Horse Disguised as Immigration Reform
Magazine article; The New American, Vol. 21, March 7, 2005
Subjects: Immigration policy, Paul, Ron--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Real ID Act of 2005 (Draft)
National ID Trojan Horse Disguised as Immigration Reform. The...measure, says the legislation is a Trojan horse. "The bill does nothing to address immigration...problem. In reality, the bill is a Trojan horse. It pretends to offer desperately needed...
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Horse and Man in Early Modern England
Magazine article by Gervase Phillips; History Today, Vol. 57, August 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Horse and Man in Early Modern England (Book)--Book reviews
...the hunter; the charger and the draft horse; the story of the well-bred horse...national herd, both for riding and draft work, over the course of the sixteenth...or the race course, a finely-bred horse became the mark of social distinction...
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When Loggers Use Horse Sense to Help Protect Forests. (Modern Day Horse Logging)
Magazine article by Mark Cheater; National Wildlife, Vol. 36, April 1998
Subjects: Horse-drawn vehicles--Usage, Horses--Usage, Logging--Equipment and supplies
...kid, because my granddad did it," he says, stroking the neck of one of the 20 draft horses he keeps on his farm in Copper Hill, Virginia, near Roanoke. Originally horse logging was a means of sup- plementing his farm income, but in the past seven...
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Cart and the Horse
Magazine article by Matthew Rothschild; The Progressive, Vol. 59, February 1995
Subjects: Clinton, Bill--Public opinion, Liberalism--Forecasts, Presidential candidates--Political aspects
Cart and the horse by Matthew Rothschild...time in a quixotic effort to draft Ralph Nader for President...putting the cart before the horse." Certainly, we dont have...Presidency can help put the horse and cart in proper order...
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newspaper articles on: Draft Horse  - 334 results

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1.
Event Brings Draft Horse Fans Together
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), May 1, 2005
Event Brings Draft Horse Fans Together. Byline: The Register-Guard...three days every spring at the annual Draft Horse Horsedrawn Equipment Auction, the...event - is an enthusiastic proponent of draft-horse farming whose books and quarterly magazine...
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Horse Racing: Much More Than Run of the Mill; NEW THINKING HAS ALLOWED MURPHY TO DRAFT STOUT CHAMPION CHALLENGE in Association with EASTWOOD
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), March 12, 2007
Horse Racing: Much More Than Run of the Mill; NEW THINKING HAS ALLOWED MURPHY TO DRAFT STOUT CHAMPION CHALLENGE in Association...this season and he was a very sick horse when he was beaten at Leopardstown...youre of a mind to. The third placed horse, for example, hadnt won a race since...
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Savvy Presence at Arlington Blackhawks Coach/horse Owner Has Longtime Love of the Sport
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), August 8, 2007
Subjects: Horse racing, Horse-racing, Professional hockey
...Thats Proctor." And thats horse racing, a sport Savard fell...overall pick in the 1980 NHL draft has had the racing bug ever...1 overall pick in the 2007 draft. But he realizes that as the...Million. "Comparing hockey to horse racing, (Million Day) is like...
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Fire Chief Is a Breed Apart; Raises Rare Draft Horses
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 28, 2002
...breeders of the rare American Cream Draft horse as well as the longest-serving...came across the American Cream Draft horse. The breed, which traces its...recognized as the only breed of draft horse that originated in America. The...
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EU's Draft Constitution Sets Up Raucous Debate; Religion, Balance of Power at Issue
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 2, 2003
Subjects: European Union
...physics." But mathematical precision has given way to political horse-trading in a number of sensitive areas. Certain functions...Euroskeptics" in Britain and Scandinavia, appears nowhere in the draft text. The European Union, instead, will act "in the Community...
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encyclopedia articles on: Draft Horse  - 13 results

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Draft Horse
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
DRAFT HORSE or work horse, any breed of horse that is suited to or used for drawing heavy loads. Draft horses originated in central Europe, where their domestication preceded the Roman invasion. Popular breeds include the Belgian , Clydesdale...
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Percheron Horse
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
PERCHERON HORSE pur ch ron , breed of draft horse developed in NW France, originally of Flemish origin...extensive general freight work. Once the most popular draft horse in America, the breed is known for its beauty and is...
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Shire Horse
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
SHIRE HORSE a breed of draft horse native to central England. It is equal in weight to the Belgian horse and is usually slightly taller. Widely used as a war horse during the Middle Ages, it was well adapted...
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Clydesdale Horse
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
CLYDESDALE HORSE breed of draft horse developed in Scotland. It closely resembles the Shire horse , although it is not as heavy. The Clydesdale...commercial goods. It is still retained today by horse buffs and private patrons. It averages...
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Horse
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...the horseshoe and the rigid horse-collar (see harness ) made draft horses more useful for work. By the 19th cent. the draft horse had replaced the ox in N Europe...Shire , also the most common draft horse in England. Light Horses...
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