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The Truth About Equestrian Statues and Whether Their Leg Positions Mean Anything (2015x39)

: 18, 2015

→Subscribe for new videos every day! http://bit.ly/todayifoundoutsubscribe →Why Do Superheroes Wear Their Underwear on the Outside?: http://bit.ly/1Ow7J0K Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from Today I Found Out: Why Toilet Paper is White http://bit.ly/1SE87uL The Salem Witches http://bit.ly/1SE8wxf Why Superheroes Wear Their Underwear On The Outside https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8Q699A6egU In this video: This gives a pretty good account of the myth as it is generally stated, but leaving out the third commonly said option of the horse having both front legs in the air, implying the soldier died in battle. Another caveat is that if the rider died of complications from wounds received in battle, but at a later date from the battle, most versions of this myth have it that just one leg should be up as with the people who were wounded but didn’t die of complications from the wound. Want the text version? http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/02/the-way-a-soldiers-horse-is-portrayed-in-an-equestrian-statue-has-nothing-to-do-with-how-the-soldier-died/ Resources/Further Reading: http://europeanhistory.about.com/od/europeasawhole/a/histmyths5.htm http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1093/in-statues-does-the-number-of-feet-the-horse-has-off-the-ground-indicate-the-fate-of-the-rider http://www.washingtonian.com/blogs/capitalcomment/washingtoniana/washingtoniana-whats-up-with-those-horse-statues.php http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equestrian_sculpture http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=equestrian http://www.centralparknyc.org/visit/things-to-see/south-end/william-tecumseh-sherman-grand-army-plaza.html http://www.loganmuseum.org/biography/item/19-biographyhttp://www.loganmuseum.org/biography/item/19-biography http://www.gettysburg.stonesentinels.com/Individuals/Sedgwick.php http://ikangaroo.com/2008/09/02/tour-myth-buster-the-equestrian-statue