The White Boar was the personal device or badge of the English King Richard III of England (1452–1485, reigned from 1483), and is an early instance of...
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Ricardian (Richard III) (redirect from Society of the White Boar)
Liverpool surgeon Samuel Saxon Barton (1892-1957) as The Fellowship of the White Boar, Richard's badge and a symbol of the Yorkist army in the Wars of the Roses...
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The wild boar (Sus scrofa), also known as the wild swine, common wild pig, Eurasian wild pig, or simply wild pig, is a suid native to much of Eurasia and...
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The wild boar and boar's head are common charges in heraldry. The boar was used as an emblem in some instances during antiquity and the Early Middle Ages...
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canton gules, supported by a blue boar. As sovereign, he used the arms of the kingdom undifferenced, supported by a white boar and a lion. His motto was Loyaulte...
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The Japanese boar (Sus scrofa leucomystax), also known as the white-moustached pig, nihon-inoshishi (ニホンイノシシ), or yama kujira (山鯨, lit. "mountain whale")...
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described by George Orwell in his 1945 novel Animal Farm. An elderly Middle White boar, his "purebred" of pigs is a kind, grandfatherly philosopher of change...
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Badges of England Wars of the Roses Red Rose of Lancaster Tudor Rose White boar White rose of Lithuanian town Alytus Culture of Yorkshire "The Edward IV...
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British Large White or Yorkshire breed was imported and cross-bred with local animals to supply the bacon trade. The cross of a Large White boar with a sow...
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L'era del cinghiale bianco (transl. The era of the white boar) is an album by Italian singer-songwriter Franco Battiato. It was released in 1979 by EMI...
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named Joseph Tuley presented pigs bred by crossing Large White sows with Small White boars. The judges ruled that they could be shown as neither breed...
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of a white boar for the investiture of his son Edward as Prince of Wales, a huge number given the population at the time. Other grades of boar badges...
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That night, the animals gather in a meeting where Old Major, the Middle White boar, explains that humanity is their enemy and that they can overthrow the...
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Panjurli: A boar spirit that is worshipped to ward off the menace of wild boars in order to protect the crops. According to Tulu mythology, a wild boar died...
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called White Hart White stag White boar Fox-Davies, Arthur=location=London (1909). A Complete Guide to Heraldry. TC & EC Jack. "Pub names: 5.White Hart"...
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longer distinguish between the two. Old Major – An aged prize Middle White boar provides the inspiration that fuels the rebellion. He is also called Willingdon...
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mentions Catesby among the three aides to King Richard, whose emblem was a white boar: The Catte, the Ratte and Lovell our dogge rulyth all Englande under a...
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White Boar Banner of King Richard III on Ambion Hill...
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dragon, while the Yorkist army used Richard III's personal device of a white boar. While the names of the rival houses derive from the cities of York and...
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The Chester White was first developed around 1815–1818, using strains of large, white pigs common to the Northeast U.S. and a white boar imported from...
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Battiato. [citation needed] L'era del cinghiale bianco ("The Era of the White Boar", 1979) was followed in 1980 by Patriots, which reached the No 30 on the...
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Anthony. 1981 (ed.). The Arden Shakespeare: King Richard III, Routledge. "Boar mount belonging to Richard III detected". The Daily Telegraph. London. 3...
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Longworth (section Blue Boar RFC)
White Boar pub signs were quickly repainted as Blue Boar, to signify that the white boar was dead and blue had prevailed.[citation needed] Blue Boar Rugby...
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a boar's head, signifying where the animal market was during the 15th century as well as representing Richard's personal standard, the white boar. Each...
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series Wild Bill was set around Boston, Lincolnshire. Richard Armitage’s White Boar Films and Sprout Pictures have acquired the film and TV rights to Joy...
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Returning to Dyfed, Manawydan and Pryderi go hunting and follow a magical white boar, to a newly built tower. Against Manawydan's advice, Pryderi enters it...
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returned to Dyfed. One day, Manawydan and Pryderi, while out hunting, saw a white boar which they followed. It went into a mysterious fort. Pryderi followed...
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by King Richard III of England in fustian cloth with his emblem of a white boar for the investiture of his son Edward as Prince of Wales, a huge number...
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renew hostilities. The location of Edward's burial is unknown. A mutilated white alabaster cenotaph ("empty tomb") in the Church of St Helen and the Holy...
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the Yorkist collar of suns and roses, with the white lion of March, the Clare bull, or Richard's white boar for a pendant device. Henry VIII brought back...
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