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Happy Woodlawn Pet Cemetery.
Aurora, Ontario

Happy Woodlawn Pet Cemetery

Canada's first pet cemetery is now abandoned.
A group of "book women" on horseback in Hindman, Kentucky, 1940.
libraries

The Women Who Rode Miles on Horseback to Deliver Library Books

Librarians are amazing.
Anika Burgess August 31, 2017
Wild horses couldn't drag me away.
horses

Wild Horses Caught Frolicking Beneath a Seaside Rainbow

Because life, sometimes, is a Lisa Frank sticker.
Eric Grundhauser August 2, 2017
A 19th-century anatomical study of Eclipse attempts to show what made him so powerful.
horses

One 18th-Century Horse Eclipsed All the Others

The temperamental, spirited, fast steed that changed horse racing forever.
Natasha Frost August 2, 2017
Abaco Barb horses on Great Abaco Island. The breed is now extinct.
horses

The Extinct Horses of Great Abaco Island May Live Again

Nunki, the last Abaco Barb horse, died in 2015.
Stacey McKenna July 31, 2017
Corolla, North Carolina

Corolla Wild Horses

One of the best places to see wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.
The Osmington White Horse, which depicts King George III, is the only carving to feature both horse and human.
monuments

England’s Centuries-Old Fascination With Carving Giant Horses Into Hillsides

The country's unbridled enthusiasm for the trend even inspired the creation of the term “leucippotomy.”
Kerry Wolfe July 20, 2017
Cherhill White Horse, Wiltshire.
Cherhill, England

Cherhill White Horse

The geoglyph once sported a glass bottle eye.
Dartmoor
Yelverton, England

Hollowcombe Bottom

The site of a mysterious pony massacre is rich with extraterrestrial conspiracy theories.
The front of the marker.
Sacramento, California

St. George Hotel Marker

Where the first "expert riders, willing to risk death daily" for the Pony Express were recruited.
The Middlegate Station roadhouse in Nevada has existed since the Pony Express era
Fallon, Nevada

Middlegate Station

This Old West eatery along America's Loneliest Road was originally a stop on the Pony Express.
Marengo's skeleton, at the National Army Museum.
napoleon bonaparte

Found: The Hoof of Napoleon’s Horse, Hiding in a Cottage Drawer in England

It was in a plastic bag.
Sarah Laskow May 1, 2017
Horses in marble stalls
Wuxi Shi, China

Hailan Horse Culture Museum

A palatial horse museum outside Shanghai is home to the most pampered horses in the world.
Mister Ed's grave marker
Tahlequah, Oklahoma

Mister Ed's Grave

The granite monument is engraved with the image of the talking horse's head coming through a barn door.
Look out, alligator.
animals

Horse vs. Alligator

A battle was caught on tape.
Eric Grundhauser April 13, 2017
Khustain Nuruu National Park
Mongolia

Khustain Nuruu National Park

The grassy landscape is home to the world's last truly wild horses.
For obvious reasons, it's tough to eat horses.
food

Why We Have Such Complicated Feelings About Eating Horses

Horse meat has rarely gone down easy.
Eric Grundhauser March 16, 2017
Go, ponies, go!
horses

A Pair of Staten Island Ponies Escaped to Frolic in the Blizzard

The storm set them free in more ways than one.
Eric Grundhauser March 14, 2017