Where did the donkey originate from??
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Hi;\nThe donkey is a member of the horse family and is also known as "Ass","burro" and "Asinus". The scientific name is: Equus Asinus. It is the Nubian subspecies of African wild ass. It was first originated in Nubia and was used for work and carry load. there are diffrent types of donkeys and also different names for them in different pat of the world. Their names mostly comes from the language and the work they do. for example the domestice donkey is known as the beast of burden.\n\nyou can read more about the donkey at this website: http://www.imh.org/imh/bw/donkey.html#hist\n\nHope this helps.
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The donkey. The Democratic Party was first pictured as a donkey by the political cartoonist Thomas Nast.
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staart from how and where they originated or why they left wherever they came from
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"Where did the name ‘dragonfly’ originate? \nAnswer: We have not been able to find a definitive answer to this question. One interesting theory about its origin, however, can be found in a book written by Eden Emanuel Sarot in 1958 entitled Folklore of the Dragonfly: A Linguistic Approach. He theorized that the name dragonfly actually came about because of an ancient Romanian Folktale. In the folktale, the Devil turned a beautiful horse ridden by St. George (of St. George and the dragon fame) into a giant, flying insect. The Romanian names the people supposedly refed to this giant insect (when translated into English) mean ‘St. George’s Horse’ or, more commonly, ‘Devil’s Horse.’ According to Sarot, the peasantry of that time actually viewed the Devil’s Horse as a giant fly and that they may have started referring to it as the ‘Devil’s Fly’ (instead of Devil’s Horse). He stated that the Romanian word for Devil was "drac," but that drac was also the Romanian word for dragon. He thought that eventually the Romanian name for the Devil’s Fly was erroneously translated to the English Dragon Fly and this eventually evolved into the "dragonfly!"  "
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donkey, monkey and turkey
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i have no idea what the whole donkey thing means but yes i saw the game GO CANES!!!!
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From where did u get that??
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Holstein cows came from Europe, what is now the Netherlands.  Guernsey cows came from the Isle of Guernsey, England.  I believe there is a place called Jersey where that breed originated from.\nThey could survive without us as long as they had access to grass and water.
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It appears to me to signify the Democrats victory over the Republicans. The size of the two animals is in direct proportion to the size of power each party possessed before the election. \n\nIt also reminds of Virginia's State seal. It too is a picture of someone (Liberty) standing over a fallen foe (Tyranny), holding a flag. \n\nhttp://www.hometownusa.com/va/images/Virginia_Seal.png\n\nIn case you didn't know, the donkey represents the Democrats and the Elephant the Republicans. That dates back to the 19th century political cartoons of Thomas Nast.
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originally, it came from the pagan/druidic belief system and evolved from there. It is NOT a form of satanic worship or any of that crap!
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The origins of the name 'elephant' are as follows :\n'Elephant' is derived from 'olyfaunt' (c.1300), from Old French 'oliphant', from Latin 'elephantus', from Greek 'elephas' (gen. 'elephantos') - probably via the Phoenician (Hamitic) 'elu'- the source of the word for 'elephant' in many Semetic languages, or possibly from the Semetic 'ibhah'. \nRe-spelled after 1550, on the Latin model. \n'White elephant' (1851) supposedly arose from the practice of the King of Siam of presenting one of the sacred albino elephants to a courtier who had fallen from favor : the gift was a great honor, but the cost of proper upkeep of one was ruinous. \nTo 'see the elephant' meaning 'be acquainted with life, and gain knowledge by experience' is an American English colloquialism from 1835.
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Wikipedia gives a few possibilities about where the name came from.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_horse
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The terms "jackass" and "mule" refer to the same animal.  This crossbreed is created by mating a horse and a donkey.  I am not sure of the timing of when this was first done.  It was done in order to create a larger pack animal that was more biddable than a horse.\nThe Donkey and the Burro are closely related and simply evolved (as did the horse) from the small horse-like mammals that existed even during the time of dinosaurs (although they were much smaller than) in different climates and geological conditions.  The main difference between these two animals is size.  The donkey is much larger and developed in europe and asia.  The burro comes from mexico and the americas in general and is smaller due to the harsher conditions in which it developed.
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@$$, butt, glutious maximus, donkey, ohh there's more where that came from.....
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Actually, it was the fruit. It originated in China and worked its way around the world until it was introduced in Europe, where its name was derived from the Persian word for the fruit. The town of Orange in France was also named for the fruit and the color was derived from the color of the skin.
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where do you people come from ????
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Many countries claim to have invented the chess game in some incipient form. The most commonly held belief is that chess originated in India, where it was called Chaturanga, which appears to have been invented in the 6th century AD. Although this is commonly believed, it is thought that Persians created a more modern version of the game after the Indians. In fact, the oldest known chess pieces have been found in excavations of ancient Persian territories.\n\nAnother theory exists that chess arose from the similar game of Chinese chess, or at least a predecessor thereof, existing in China since the 2nd century BC. Joseph Needham and David Li are two of many scholars who have favored this theory.