Clever Hans

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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In collections

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What Wikipedia says

Clever Hans (German: der Kluge Hans; c. 1894 – c. 1916) was a horse that appeared to perform arithmetic and other intellectual tasks during exhibitions in Germany in the early 20th century.

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