GE#4 for non-ge users

[tuffytyson]

http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd186/tuffytyson/room.jpg







http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd186/tuffytyson/horse.gif



Where is it and what happens here? Not in the USA,naturally,lol

[Amie]

Oooh I know this one. :)

[tuffytyson]

That is wonderful Amie...I get worried when they drag on for days,lol
by the way did you see Gray asked you to post a Gigapan for him in my last one?
hope you can! :)

[Amie]

That is wonderful Amie...I get worried when they drag on for days,lol
by the way did you see Gray asked you to post a Gigapan for him in my last one?
hope you can! :)
Ooops, no sorry I missed Gray's request, I will go and look for one now. :)

[surferdude]

If that horse has anything to do with it, I'll let somebody else horse around:cjlol:

[tuffytyson]

lol surfer....taz is gonna love this one for sure! she is the horse expert for sure!! :)

[surferdude]

tuffy, see your PM for my reason:hi:

[Mountain Man]

As General Patton said during the WW II, these are the best horse flesh there is in the world.

[Taz]

http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd186/tuffytyson/room.jpg







http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd186/tuffytyson/horse.gif



Where is it and what happens here? Not in the USA,naturally,lol


Oh Tuffy girl....This is superb!!!!!!!! Gives me ahhhhhhhh's....it does!!! You are the best, Tuffy!!


MM....Patton did know his horse flesh...didn't he!

These awesome creations are the aristocrats...!!


I know the place.(at least I think I do!)..and it is gorgeous...........but it is all about what takes place inside..and on the grounds............:)

Amie/MM....you both have it..... One of you take it from here...or let it play a bit longer...


Tuffy gal....You certainly made my day!!! Big Big smiles .. :amie:


Yahooooo!!!!!!!! Somersaults....cartwheels even!!!!!!!!!! :thumbs: :thumbs: :thumbs:


... 'no idea how I overlooked this earlier....
Have to get off line......See y'all tomorrow... great night, all...


(...awesome post, Tuffy....)

[Taz]

eek...It is the day after..'tomorrow'...

Amie?.....MM?...... 'In your court, this is....:)

[Wrong Number]

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http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd186/tuffytyson/horse.gif



Where is it and what happens here? Not in the USA,naturally,lol

My $.02, this post should be in the What and Where thread. Not in the GE for non GE users, a guideline for a GE non GE user thread is "post a picture found on the internet using a search engine (Internet Explorer, Fire Fox, etc) then the winner posts a like picture"!! Not asking what happened here, etc., just search and find the like picture posted, with clues if necessary, to find the picture. Where is it and what happened here, are not clues.

Sorry, but that is the way I feel, this is a history 'What and Where', and I think the GE threads are not staying in their proper threads, that is why Gray has gotten into his problem.

[tuffytyson]

Thanks for the info Wrong#....I am trying to re-read and clarify the different games....in doing that I see your point but I guess I am confused on the What and Where games that are Bruce's....I may be wrong, but I think all of the What and Where are actually GE pictures.....by that I mean by using google earth totally and only......

Maybe the Search and Find and Non Ge are one in the same....will wait for others to help me out.....I assume search and find do not use google earth
non google earth searches clearly are that .......not google earth
be interested in doing whatever it takes to keep our games going and not encountering any problems as they are just that....games :thumbs:
hope everyone has a great Saturday!!!! :)

[surferdude]

tuffy, see your pm:hi:

[Bruce]

The What and Where were GE Only. As soon as I get other Problems Cured and Feel better I will post some more if Ok with Others.

[Wrong Number]

Thanks for the info Wrong#....I am trying to re-read and clarify the different games....in doing that I see your point but I guess I am confused on the What and Where games that are Bruce's....I may be wrong, but I think all of the What and Where are actually GE pictures.....by that I mean by using google earth totally and only......

Maybe the Search and Find and Non Ge are one in the same....will wait for others to help me out.....I assume search and find do not use google earth
non google earth searches clearly are that .......not google earth
be interested in doing whatever it takes to keep our games going and not encountering any problems as they are just that....games :thumbs:
hope everyone has a great Saturday!!!! :)

See your PM on this...

[Taz]

Ahhhh...It is a great day....:)


The games are games....with general..not concrete ..'guidelines'.... May they simply continue to be just that.....enjoyable games of overall search and find................Some in accordance with the GE format...some without...and even combinations therein... What does it matter?

The games are doing just fine... Tuffy's is in just the right place...:)

A great one it is, too!!!:thumbs:

[Bruce]

As I stated in Post #14 what I do is up to other users.

[Gray]

the Spanish Riding School of Vienna, Austria

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p257/grayfrier/used%20GE%20game%20pictures/800px-Spanische_Hofreitschule12C_Vi.jpg
and here you see it in use
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p257/grayfrier/used%20GE%20game%20pictures/SpanishRidingschoolinVienna.jpg

[Taz]

Wonderful Gray......... Just Majestic...these specimens are..... and the School is utterly beautifully maintained....to this day...............

ahhhh ahhhhh ahhhhh...... You going to share some hx....on these creative masterpieces?????:thumbs:


They are so graced in form and beauty....... Dance with the Angels..........they do. :)

A symphony in motion....!

[Gray]

The riding school was established during the Austrian Empire in 1572, long before the French manege of Antoine de Pluvinel, and is the oldest of its kind in the world[1]. Records show that a wooden riding arena was first commissioned in 1565, but it wasn't until 1729 that Emperor Charles VI had the architect Fischer von Erlach build the white riding hall used today. For a time, the riding hall was used for various ceremonies, but it is now open to the public, who may witness the training and performances by the stallions.

The Spanish Riding School was named for the Spanish horses that formed one of the bases of the Lipizzan horse exclusively used at the school. Today the horses delivered to the Spanish Riding School are bred in a court stud in Piber in western Styria, Austria, though they originally came from a stud in Lipica (Italian: Lipizza), near Trieste in modern Slovenia, which also gave name to the race.

Aside from the rare solid-colored horse (usually bay or black), all Lipizzans are gray. As with all gray horses, they are born dark—usually bay or black—and become lighter each year as the graying process takes place. Other than the rare individual who does not carry the gray gene, Lipizzans usually gray quickly and develop a completely white hair coat. They are usually completely white by the average age of seven, though the range varies from as young as six to as old as ten.

Until the 18th century, Lipizzans had other coat colors, including dun and bay. However, gray is a dominant gene, and in a small breed population and also deliberately selected as a desirable feature, it came to be the color of the overwhelming majority of Lipizzan horses. However, today, it is still traditional for the Spanish Riding School to have one bay Lipizzan in residence, showing respect to an old belief that doing so will prevent bad luck.

The ancestors of the Lipizzan can be traced to approximately A.D. 800.[3] The predecessors of the Lipizzan included desert horses that were brought into Spain from North Africa and crossed on native Spanish horses, creating breeds such as the Andalusian and other Iberian horses.

By the 16th Century, when the Hapsburg Empire ruled both Spain and Austria, a powerful but agile horse was desired for both military uses and for use in the fashionable and rapidly-growing riding schools for the nobility of central Europe. Therefore, in 1562, the Hapsburg Emperor Maximillian II brought the Spanish horse to Austria and founded the court stud at Kladrub. In 1580, his brother, Archduke Charles II, established a similar stud in 1580 at Lippiza (now spelled Lipica), located in modern-day Slovenia), whence the breed obtained its name.

Kladrub and Lipizza stock were bred to the native Karst horses, and succeeding generations were crossed with the old Neapolitan breed and horses of Spanish descent obtained from Spain, Germany, and Denmark The studs also imported more Spanish horses, as well as Neapolitans from Italy, as the years went on. While breeding stock was exchanged between the two studs, Kladrub specialized in producing heavy carriage horses, while riding and light carriage horses came from the Lippiza stud.[4]

In 1735, Charles VI established the Spanish Riding School and recorded the bloodlines of the Lipizzans. He also built a winter riding hall in the imperial palace in Vienna, which is the home of the Spanish Riding School today.

The Spanish Riding School, though located in Vienna, Austria, takes its name from the original Spanish heritage of both its horses and its riding techniques.

Beginning in 1920, the Piber stud, near Graz, Austria, became the main stud for the horses used in Vienna. Breeding became very selective, only allowing stallions that had proved themselves at the Riding School to stand at stud, and only breeding mares who had passed rigorous performance testing.[5]

[Gray]

And for what Taz has been waiting i suspect :cjlol:

The Rescue of the Lipizzans
World War II presented perhaps the greatest threat ever faced by the Lipizzan breed. The breeding stock was taken by the Nazis from Piber to a German-run stud farm at Hostau, in what today is the Czech Republic. Threatened by bombing raids, the stallions later evacuated Vienna for St. Martin's, in upper Austria. Under the leadership of Alois Podhajsky, then the director of the Spanish Riding School, both the stallions and the equestrian traditions were preserved. However, there were still harsh challenges; while safe from aerial attacks, there was little food for human or animals, and starving refugees sometimes attempted to steal the horses, viewing them as a source of meat.[8]

In 1945, the United States Army took control of St. Martins. General George S. Patton, of the 2nd U.S. Cavalry Group, had been a fellow equestrian competitor with Podhajsky in the Olympic Games prior to the war. The two men renewed their acquaintance, and after an impressive performance by the remaining horses and riders of the school in front of Patton and Undersecretary of War Robert Patterson, the Americans agreed to place the stallions under the protection of the United States until they could safely be returned to the people of Austria after the war.

When Hostau fell behind Soviet lines, captured German officers, under interrogation by U.S. Army Captain Ferdinand Sperl, reported the Lipizzans' location and asked the Americans to rescue the horses before they fell into Soviet hands, because it was feared they would be slaughtered for horsemeat. Patton issued orders, and on April 28, 1945, Colonel Charles H. Reed, Sperl's superior officer, with members of Troops A, C and F of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, conducted a raid behind Soviet lines and accepted the surrender of the Germans at Hostau. Reed later said that the surrender was "more a fiesta than a military operation, as the German troops drew up an honor guard and saluted the American troops as they came in."[8] Although only 250 Lipizzans survived the war, the breed was saved.

In 2005, the Spanish Riding School celebrated the 60th anniversary of George S. Patton's rescue by touring the United States.

[surferdude]

You're awesome, gray:thumbs::thumbs::thumbs::thumbs::thumbs::hi:

[Taz]

Sufer said it..... :thumbs: :thumbs: :thumbs:

Gray...you bet..that is just what I'd hoped for.....both posts!!!! You do it so so well...and I am grateful....


That's the best part of our games....the learning...that can be gleaned from virtually any arena..................not just an Equestrian one!! Ha.....


Love it Love it Love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:thumbs:


Thanks Tuffy for posting this great place..and Gray...you topped it with pure rich cream.............Thank You.:)

[tuffytyson]

Thank you gray for finding this
Taz does not know it but this was posted in her honor for her love and her knowledge of horses and everything about that....so glad she enjoyed it and glad to see the history posted......
good job big bro!!!! :thumbs:

[Taz]

Thank you gray for finding this
Taz does not know it but this was posted in her honor for her love and her knowledge of horses and everything about that....so glad she enjoyed it and glad to see the history posted......
good job big bro!!!! :thumbs:

Tuffy..you are the dearest and best.... I am grateful..precious one... Thank you.............:linda:

[Gray]

So i guess that means i'm on the hook for the next one Huh? :eek:

[tuffytyson]

Yep big bro you are it!!!!!! :thumbs: