Wega (horse)
Wega (b. 2001) is a Swedish Warmblood mare who won the individual silver medal at the eventing competition at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, with Sara Algotsson Ostholt as the rider. Wega was by the stallion Irco Mena, and out of La Fair (by the Swedish stallion Labrador), who was on the 4th place-finishing 2012 Olympic team with her daughter. Wega was also was a member of the Swedish team at the 2011 European Championships
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WEGA (AM)
WEGA (1350 AM) is a radio station licensed to Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, USA, the station serves the Puerto Rico area. The station broadcasts Spanish News/talk programming, and it is part of the WAPA Radio News Network. WEGA is on the air since the 1970s. WEGA is owned by Ricardo Alfonso Angulo; who is the son of the late owner of The San Juan Star, Gerry Angulo, through licensee A Radio Company, Inc.
On November 10, 2014, WEGA is off the air. Starting October 7, 2015, Rev. Hector Delgado relaunched WRRE 1460 AM in Juncos, Puerto Rico & WEGA, with a Religious Ministry format, and with this new format WRRE & WEGA will begin its new branding, known as Maranatha Radio Ministries. WRRE & WEGA are now broadcasts under the management of Rev. Hector Delgado (station vice president), Pablo Reyes (general manager) & Ricardo Alfonso Angulo (station administrator).
On November 1, 2015, WEGA will sell $50,000 to NotiRadio Broadcasting (Eng. Wifredo G. Blanco-Pi, owner & his son Eng. Jorge Blanco, news director). On November 2, WEGA is simulcasting with WAPA 680 AM, and broadcasts news/talk programming, until it's sold to NotiRadio.
Horse
The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus. 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, Hyracotherium, 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 response. 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.
Horse (disambiguation)
A horse is a hoofed mammal of the species Equus ferus caballus.
Horse or Horses may also refer to:
Animals
- Equus (genus), the horse genus, including horses, zebras, donkeys, and others
- Equidae, the horse family
Arts and entertainment
Horse (1941 film)
Uma (馬, also known as Horse) is a 1941 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Kajiro Yamamoto and starring Hideko Takamine, whom Yamamoto had directed in his film Composition Class (Tsuzurikata Kyōshitsu) three years before. Uma was actually completed by assistant director Akira Kurosawa. It follows the story of Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, who raises a colt from birth and comes to love the horse dearly. When the horse is grown, the government orders it auctioned and sold to the army. Ine struggles to prevent the sale.
Overview
The film is a tale about a young girl and the colt she raises from its birth. But it is also about the struggle of farmers existing on the edge of poverty. Akira Kurosawa is credited as the film's production coordinator, which is equivalent to first assistant director. But Kurosawa's signature is all over this work and is the last film he was to work on as an assistant before starting his own directing career. The film took three years to plan and a year to film. Kajiro Yamamoto had to commute to the far mountainous location but had to turn his attention to his money making comedies in Tokyo and so he left production in the hands of his assistant, Kurosawa.
