White horse

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White horse, White Horse, Whitehorse and variants may refer to:

White equines

White (horse), types of horses that are white
- Dominant white, the genetic mechanism that produces horses born white or mostly white
- Gray (horse), most common white horse hair coat color
- Lethal white syndrome, a fatal genetic condition
- Sabino horse, a genetic mechanism that sometimes produces a horse that is white from birth

Mythology and symbolism

White horse (mythology)
White Horse of Hanover, a military cap badge, first granted by King George in 1715 to the 101st Grenadiers
White horse of Kent, a heraldic symbol

People

White Horse (chief), died 1892, a chief of the Kiowa nation
Logan Fontenelle, 1825–1855, a.k.a. Chief White Horse, a chief of the Omaha nation
Chief White Horse (a.k.a. Whitehorse), Native American actor; portrayed Geronimo in Stagecoach (1939 film)

Places

Cities, villages, towns

Manderson-White Horse Creek, South Dakota, Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota, United States
White Horse, California, United States
White Horse, New Jersey, United States
White Horse, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States
Whitehorse, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States
White Horse, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States
White Horse, South Dakota, United States
Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England
Whitehorse, South Dakota, Dewey County, South Dakota, United States
City of Whitehorse, Victoria, Australia
Whitehorse, Yukon, capital city of Yukon, Canada
- Erik Nielsen Whitehorse International Airport
- Whitehorse (electoral district), former electoral district

Geography, landscape and architecture

White Horse Bluff (Whitehorse Bluffs), volcano in British Columbia, Canada
White Horse Bridge, Wembley, England
White Horse Mountains, Harney County, Oregon, USA
White Horse Stone, two megaliths near Aylesford, Kent, England
White Horse Tavern (disambiguation)
White Horse Temple, the first Buddhist temple in China

Hill figures

A hill figure is a large visual representation created by cutting into a steep hillside and revealing the underlying geology.

Alton Barnes White Horse, near Devizes, Wiltshire, England
Broad Town White Horse, near Broad Town, Wiltshire, England
Cherhill White Horse, near Calne, Wiltshire, England
Devizes White Horse, Wiltshire, England
Folkestone White Horse, Folkestone, Kent, England
Hackpen White Horse, near Broad Hinton, Wiltshire
Kilburn White Horse, near Kilburn, North Yorkshire, England
Marlborough White Horse, near Marlborough, Wiltshire, England
Osmington White Horse, near Osmington, Dorset, England
Pewsey White Horse, near Pewsey, Wiltshire, England
Uffington White Horse, Oxfordshire, England
Waimate White Horse, Waimate, New Zealand
Westbury White Horse, Wiltshire, England

Arts and entertainment

Literature

The Ballad of the White Horse, a poem by G.K. Chesterton
White Horse Dialogue, a philosophical dialogue by Gongsun Longzi
The White Horse in the Apocalypse (1758), a book by Emanuel Swedenborg

Music

White Horse (album), a 1974 album by Michael Omartian
Whitehorse (band), a Canadian folk rock band
Whitehorse (album), a 2011 album by Whitehorse
"Ride a White Horse", a 2005 song by Goldfrapp
"White Horse" (Laid Back song), a 1983 song by Laid Back
"White Horse" (Taylor Swift song), a 2008 song by Taylor Swift
"White Horse" (Jessica 6 song), a 2011 song by Jessica 6
"White Horse", a 1993 song by Kilo Ali
"White Horse", a 2008 song by Sarah McLeod

Statues

The White Horse at Ebbsfleet, Kent, England, a proposed gigantic sculpture

Theatre and screen

White Horse (film), a 2008 documentary film by Maryann DeLeo
The White Horse (series), a 1993 Russian television series
The White Horses, a 1960s television series, which had a theme tune of the same name sung by Jacky

Transportation

HMCS Whitehorse, a ship of the Canadian Forces
White Horse, one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915
U.S. Route 30 in New Jersey, locally known as the White Horse Pike

Other

White horses, wind-driven waves crowned with white foam in the sea or in other bodies of water; see wind wave
White Horse Prophecy, a Mormon prophecy
White Horse (military), nickname for the South Korean army's 9th Infantry Division
White Horse (whisky), blended in Scotland, UK
1923 FA Cup Final, known as the White Horse Final, a football match
Knight (chess), sometimes called white horse, a piece in the game of chess

See also

The White Horse Inn (disambiguation)
White knight (disambiguation)
When a white horse is not a horse, a paradox in Chinese philosophy

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