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Visions of Judgment: The Horsemen of Revelation The "four horsemen of the Apocalypse"— this latter term being the Greek name for the book of Revelation—have intrigued Bible readers for centuries. What do they represent? The implications for mankind are staggering. In this first article of a series, we introduce the overall prophecy and look in detail at the first horseman. By Darris McNeely Few sights are as stirring as a scene of horsemen galloping across a landscape. Moviemakers use such scenes to add drama, mystery and power to their stories.In Revelation 6, Christ uses four horsemen to represent the first...

This is a first, and it's not something to be proud of, but I have to be honest: I didn't actually ingest this week's "I'm Eating What?!?" products. Yes, the whole aim of this column is to chomp down on unusual things, swallow, research and report. But when something smells so gawd-awful that it makes me want to wretch -- no gig is worth that. (My friend and fellow taster, a particularly vociferous bacon-lover, even pulled the Jew card as an excuse for not trying the products, claiming they weren't kosher. Girl, puuuuhhhlleeease.) However, we are pleased to report that...

Andrew O'Hehir of Salon is a critic I admire, but he has nevertheless written a review of "Secretariat" so bizarre I cannot allow it to pass unnoticed. I don't find anywhere in "Secretariat" the ideology he discovers there. In its reasoning, his review resembles a fevered conspiracy theory. In this example , we do not find proof that Obama is a Muslim Communist born in Kenya. No, the news is worse than that. It involves Secretariat, a horse who up until now we innocently thought of as merely very fast. We learn the horse is a carrier not merely of...

This article is about a young teen, a sophmore at a private school near Philadelphia, PA, who rides his horse, a 12-year old Percheron gelding, to school everyday. This is an interesting story. He seems quite able to handle the responsibilities of arranging to do this activity by getting out of bed before sun-up just to get to school, four miles away, on time every day. From getting permission to keep his horse at the school during the day, to building the corral there and doing the maintenance himself, and still managing to participate in after-school activities, I found this...

LEON—An Amish teen who tried to flee police faces charges of alcohol possession and “overdriving an animal” after he crashed his getaway vehicle— a horse and buggy.

Video: Kathy Griffin, on the July 13 edition of her Bravo TV show, trashed Senator Scott Brown's daughters as "prostitutes." CNN's John King and Dana Bash also appeared on the program. Bash can be seen laughing at Griffin's joke.

Mystery surrounds a man wearing a horse's head who has been captured on Google's Street View in Aberdeen. The man - who has become known as "horse-boy" - can be seen in the Hardgate area of the city. The sighting has become a popular attraction on Google's service, which offers a photographic map of streets. The man is wearing dark trousers, a purple shirt - and a brown and white horse's head. Dozens of BBC news website users have e-mailed from across Europe to say they know who horse boy is. Others have sent in images of the mystery horse-head...

LLANWRTYD WELLS, Wales, - As has happened almost every year since 1980, a horse won the annual Man vs. Horse race Saturday in Wales. Sly Dai covered 22 miles of mixed terrain on the edge of the Brecon Beacons in 2 hours and 7 minutes, The Daily Telegraph reported. The fastest human in the race was 10 minutes slower. "It's great to have won," said Llinos Jones, who rode her own horse past the finish line. "I'm a local girl and I've been coming to see the race since I was a little girl but this was the first time...

ELMONT -- You weren't going to get Sarah Palin to talk politics on Belmont Stakes Day. The former Republican vice presidential candidate was at Belmont Park to watch First Dude, a horse which was named after her husband Todd, run in the Belmont Stakes.

Liberty flourished and those who would defeat her pressed their wills on distant shores. Wherever Liberty was oppressed, “Free Men” rose and ruined the yoke that would constrain them; the world saw America as the shining star of freedom and its defender at all cost. Despot after despot dashed their oppressive wills against the walls of Freedom and time after time, continent after continent, they were defeated. With direct assault failing the oppressors of men would need a new tactic, if Liberty could not be controlled from without it must be stolen from within. Thus began the construction of the...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Cathy Moreland was in Dallas when her Pennington Bend home was submerged to the gutters by floodwaters over the weekend. Her only thought was that her animals be saved. Her brother, Judge Casey Moreland, and her son, Casey Weaver, made a desperate attempt: They got a dog out first, then moved on to Cathy Moreland's six horses. Three horses were saved, two died and one was missing. Casey Moreland and Casey Weaver battled off snake after snake in the pitch-black, chest-high water, Nashville TV station WSMV reported. Then, an old high school friend called Cathy Moreland and...

Apr. 28 - A newborn horse 14 inches tall and weighing just six pounds could be the world's smallest

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." — Abraham LincolnBarb Wire Johnny and I had a great adventure planned; we would ride East to the Alaska Highway, turn South and ride through Fort St John to Dawson Creek. There was a lady who had ridden in the Olympics or something who was going to do a riding exhibition. We knew this for a fact; a flyer had come to the main ranch and we had studied it for hours. Now this was a big deal in the Peace River...

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Prominent trainers Jeff Mullins and Doug O'Neill have been given suspensions and fines by state regulatory agencies after two of their starters tested in excess of the permitted level of total carbon dioxide.

I haven't figured out yet who will win the Kentucky Derby, but I have figured out how that horse will win -- by coming from way, way back. With the group that's set to line up at the starting gate Saturday at Churchill Downs, the pace for this Derby figures to be among the fastest in the history of the race. If so, any horse who gets anywhere near the lead is doomed to fail

New bill would make it near impossible to legally consume horse meat in FloridaEquine diners might find it hard to stomach the latest changes proposed to make it harder to buy and sell horse meat, but Mr. Ed is somewhere naying in approval. Additional restrictions on horse meat consumption have cleared the Florida House as part of an animal protection bill. The measure won unanimous approval Wednesday and will probably get similar support in the Senate. Current law bars the sale of horse meat for human consumption unless clearly stamped, marked, and described as being for that purpose. But that...

Driver Charged With Following Too CloselyThe man, whose horse-drawn carriage was smashed in downtown Atlanta when a car ran into it and sent multiple people to an area hospital, wants the driver of that vehicle to apologize to his horse. "I felt like I was shot out of a cannon," Donald Borchardt told Channel 2 Action News Action News reporter Linda Stouffer. Borchardt said the crash left him with seven broken bones and a chipped neck. Driving the carriage was something he did part-time because he loves horses and people. Now he needs weeks of full-time recovery. "I have a...

Paul Revere's Ride Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Listen my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year. He said to his friend, "If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light,-- One if by land, and two if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every...

Digger joins the Army http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article7082137.ece

Secretariat Foaled 40 Years Ago by David Schmitz (Secretariat, shown as a 2-year-old, was foaled March 30, 1970) March 30 marks 40 years since the birth of 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat at Christopher T. Chenery’s The Meadow near Doswell, Va. It’s a date well worth remembering by any racing fan but especially by those who were around during Secretariat’s racing days and more so by those lucky enough to see the strikingly handsome chestnut colt with three white stockings in action. Secretariat’s magnetism was evident soon after the colt’s birth. Chenery’s daughter, Penny, was so overwhelmed after getting her...