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The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus, or the wild horse. It is an odd-toed ungulate mammal belonging to the taxonomic family Equidae. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, single-toed animal of today. Humans began to domesticate horses around 4000 BC, and their domestication is believed to have been widespread by 3000 BC. Horses in the subspecies caballus are domesticated, although some domesticated populations live in the wild as feral horses. These feral populations are not true wild horses, as this term is used to describe horses that have never been domesticated, such as the endangered Przewalski's Horse, a separate subspecies, and the only remaining true wild horse. There is an extensive, specialized vocabulary used to describe equine-related concepts, covering everything from anatomy to life stages, size, colors, markings, breeds, locomotion, and behavior.
Horses' anatomy enables them to make use of speed to escape predators and they have a well-developed sense of balance and a strong fight-or-flight instinct. Related to this need to flee from predators in the wild is an unusual trait: horses are able to sleep both standing up and lying down. Female horses, called mares, carry their young for approximately 11 months, and a young horse, called a foal, can stand and run shortly following birth. Most domesticated horses begin training under saddle or in harness between the ages of two and four. They reach full adult development by age five, and have an average lifespan of between 25 and 30 years.
Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson (born October 25, 1984), known by her stage name Katy Perry, is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Perry grew up with gospel music, and during her first year of high school she pursued a music career as Katy Hudson, releasing her first studio album called Katy Hudson which failed to chart. She recorded a solo album later, which was never released. After signing with Capitol Music Group in 2007, her fourth record label in seven years, she adopted the stage name Katy Perry.
She first gained recognition with the release of her first mainstream album, One of the Boys in 2008, which spawned three Billboard Hot 100 top-ten songs—"I Kissed A Girl", "Hot n Cold" and "Waking Up In Vegas". Perry supported the album with her Hello Katy Tour. In 2010, her third studio album, Teenage Dream (2010), which topped the Billboard 200 chart, and spawned five number one singles—"California Gurls", "Teenage Dream", "Firework", "E.T." and "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)"—Teenage Dream was the only album (after Michael Jackson's Bad)—to do so, and the first female in history to achieve this milestone. She embarked on the California Dreams Tour, which grossed nearly $60 million worldwide. Perry re-released the album under the name of Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection on March 26, 2012, and the re-release has already spawned the number-one single "Part of Me".
Dark horse is a term used to describe a little-known person or thing that emerges to prominence, especially in a competition of some sort or a contestant that seems unlikely to succeed.
The term began as horse racing parlance. A dark horse is a race horse that is not known to gamblers and thus is difficult to place betting odds on.
The earliest-known use of the phrase is in Benjamin Disraeli's novel The Young Duke (1831). Disraeli's protagonist, the Duke of St. James, attends a horse race with a surprise finish: "A dark horse which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph."
The term has been used politically in such countries as Peru, Philippines and United States.
Politically, the term reached America in the nineteenth century when it was first applied to James K. Polk, a relatively unknown Tennessee Democrat who won the Democratic Party's 1844 presidential nomination over a host of better-known candidates. Polk won the nomination on the ninth ballot, and went on to win the presidential election.
Actors: Renee Knipe (writer), Renee Knipe (producer), Renee Knipe (writer), Renee Knipe (editor), Renee Knipe (writer), Renee Knipe (producer), Renee Knipe (director), Teo Commons (producer), Anna McKibben (miscellaneous crew), Anna McKibben (actor), Matt Gwinn (producer), Matt Gwinn (miscellaneous crew), Brad Knipe (producer), Brenda Ratliff (actress), Sarah Faix (costume designer),
Plot: Princess Ivanna returns home from adventures abroad to find her kingdom trapped in the grip of a supernatural winter. When her horse is killed by a hungry wolf, Ivanna gives chase...and finds herself in the lair of a nightmarish creature. Can she and Wolf overcome their differences and survive the night? Inspired by Russian folktales, Ivanna And The Wolf evokes an old world sense of wonder through its use of marionettes, beautifully detailed sets, and a minimalist approach to digital effects.
Genres: Adventure, Animation, Fantasy, Short,Actors: Harri J. Rantala (actor), Harri J. Rantala (editor), Harri J. Rantala (writer), Harri J. Rantala (producer), Harri J. Rantala (director), Kalevi Haapoja (actor), Oskari Katajisto (actor), Eerik Kantokoski (actor), Anna Alkiomaa (actress), Panu Mikkola (actor), Kauko Salo (actor), Oskari Korenius (editor), Hannu Rantala (actor), Atso Pärnänen (producer), Juha Koistinen (actor),
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Plot: The Local follows Noname, an enigmatic man running from a tortured past. He is trapped in a violent Brooklyn underworld as the lowly drug runner for a gang of crazed veterans. There, Noname is approached by a wealthy out-of-towner who offers him a large sum of money to "rescue" the man's heroin-addicted daughter from his employer's drug lair. Noname soon realizes that saving the girl is more than a payday. It will grant him a way out of his purgatory after a lifetime of wrongdoing, and open a path toward personal redemption.
Keywords: drugs, existentialism, fight, future, kidnapping, nudity, post-war, violenceActors: Melissa George (actress), Carson Kressley (actor), Delta Goodrem (actress), Kate Ritchie (actress), Sonia Kruger (actress), Jennifer Hawkins (actress), Bruce McAvaney (actor), Shelley Craft (actress), Sandy Roberts (actor), Daniel MacPherson (actor), Johanna Griggs (actress), Monique Wright (actress), Matthew White (actor), Tommy Woodcock (actor), Tommy Woodcock (actor),
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Genres: Sport,Actors: Melissa George (actress), Carson Kressley (actor), Delta Goodrem (actress), Kate Ritchie (actress), Sonia Kruger (actress), Jennifer Hawkins (actress), Bruce McAvaney (actor), Shelley Craft (actress), Sandy Roberts (actor), Daniel MacPherson (actor), Johanna Griggs (actress), Monique Wright (actress), Matthew White (actor), Tommy Woodcock (actor), Tommy Woodcock (actor),
Genres: Sport,Actors: David Holt (actor), Benoît Poelvoorde (actor), Alexander Armstrong (actor), Vincent Tavier (writer), Vincent Patar (writer), Vincent Patar (director), Vincent Patar (actor), Vincent Patar (actor), Stéphane Aubier (director), Stéphane Aubier (actor), Stéphane Aubier (writer), Stéphane Aubier (actor), Alan Marriott (actor), Guillaume Malandrin (writer), Anne-Laure Guégan (editor),
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Plot: Six unemployed steel workers, inspired by the Chippendale's dancers, form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for "the full monty" - total nudity.
Keywords: 1980s, abandoned-warehouse, arrest, attempted-suicide, audition, band, bar, bare-butt, bare-chested-male, best-friendActors: Vincent Gardenia (actor), Michael Moriarty (actor), Robert De Niro (actor), Danny Aiello (actor), Patrick McVey (actor), Barton Heyman (actor), Marshall Efron (actor), Ann Wedgeworth (actress), Tom Signorelli (actor), Richard Marks (editor), Barbara Babcock (actress), Hector Elias (actor), Phil Foster (actor), Nicolas Surovy (actor), Alan Manson (actor),
Plot: Henry Wiggen (Author to his friends) and Bruce Pearson are members of the New York Mammoths major league baseball team - Author the star pitcher, Bruce the catcher who never quite lived up to his potential - friends, and roommates when they're on the road. During the off season, Bruce is diagnosed with a terminal case of Hodgkin's disease. Author is the only person on the team who knows of Bruce's illness, with neither planning on telling anyone. Author takes extraordinary measures to ensure that he is playing ball with Bruce during what will probably be Bruce's final season before he can no longer play. Author looks after Bruce in part because Bruce is mentally a simple man who can easily be taken advantage of, especially by his opportunistic girlfriend Katie. As the season progresses, the team isn't quite gelling, despite being the best team on paper. But as information comes to light, the dynamic on the team changes to make it a memorable end of the season especially for Bruce, who finishes on his own terms.
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Genres: Comedy,