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  • NFL history has repeatedly demonstrated the power of meaner mascots: The Denver Broncos won Super Bowls in 1998 and 1999 after unveiling a sleek horse-head logo.

    Beware a Cat Attack 2009

  • These plush horse-head pillows -- complete with bloody neck-stump -- recall the best scene in The Godfather, and would make a great addition ot any bedroom's decor.

    Boing Boing 2006

  • The choir, which has performed at the Sydney Opera House, will be accompanied by the Mongolian horse-head fiddle, or chor,

    Time Off 2008

  • Now Allen faces accusations from three college football teammates that he was a racist, who was overly fond of the "N" word and placed a severed deer head in an African-American family's mailbox, supposedly inspired by the famous horse-head scene in the then just-released first Godfather movie.

    Katrina vanden Heuvel: Foot-Long Hot Dog in Mouth Disease 2008

  • When photos were published of the horse-head nebula where stars were forming, the picture etched into our minds the realization that we are on a tiny rock in a tiny region of space.

    The Impact of the Hubble Space Telescope Julianne 2008

  • "You bet it is, horse-head," the peeve said with satisfaction.

    Stork Naked Anthony, Piers 2006

  • Of note is the fact that an actual horse-head was used for this scene.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Cliff Pickover 2006

  • Of note is the fact that an actual horse-head was used for this scene.

    Khartoum (fictional horse) Cliff Pickover 2006

  • It is the same thing with playing Mongolian music or trying a new instrument, horse-head fiddle, or playing with Alim Kasimov from Azerbaijan, the classical music of Azerbaijan called mugam.

    CNN Transcript Jul 3, 2002 2002

  • One of the men pulled his horse-head hood back and walked toward him.

    The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990

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