Editing Great Dane (section)

== Cultural significance ==
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'''Animation'''
* Animation designer [[Iwao Takamoto]] based the character [[Scooby-Doo (character)|Scooby-Doo]] on a Great Dane. He derived his design from sketches given to him by a [[Hanna-Barbera]] employee who bred Danes, and then endeavoured to make Scooby the opposite of a perfect pedigree, with a longer tail, bowed legs, small chin and a sloping back.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/10/arts/television/10takamoto.html?ex=1326085200&en=621fc868fcd67df1&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss "Iwao Takamoto, 81, the Animation Artist Who Created Scooby-Doo, Dies"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220190138/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/10/arts/television/10takamoto.html?ex=1326085200&en=621fc868fcd67df1&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss |date=20 December 2016 }}, by Susan Stewart, 10 January 2007, ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref><ref>[https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/iwao-takamoto-cartoonist-who-created-scooby-doo-dies-at-81-1.632989 "Iwao Takamoto, cartoonist who created Scooby-Doo, dies at 81"], [[The Associated Press]], 9 January 2007, ''[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]]''</ref>

'''Crime'''
* On 24 October 1975, Rinka, a Great Dane belonging to [[Norman Josiffe|Norman Scott]], was shot in a bungled attempt to murder Scott, in what became known as the [[Thorpe affair]]. In 1996, Scott Freeman and Barrie Penrose published ''Rinkagate: Rise and Fall of Jeremy Thorpe''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ingham |first1=Robert |title=The Jeremy Thorpe Story |journal=Journal of Liberal Democrat History |date=1999 |volume=23 |issue=Summer |pages=22–23 |url=http://www.liberalhistory.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/23_reviews_the_jeremy_thorpe_story.pdf |access-date=1 June 2018 |archive-date=10 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180710163742/https://liberalhistory.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/23_reviews_the_jeremy_thorpe_story.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

'''Mascots'''
* The Great Dane was named the [[List of U.S. state dogs|state dog]] of [[Pennsylvania]] in 1965<ref>[http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/Pennsylvania/Dog_Great_Dane.html State Symbols USA] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080409142547/http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/Pennsylvania/Dog_Great_Dane.html |date=9 April 2008 }}, www.statesymbolsusa.org</ref> and the [[University of Iowa]] had Great Danes, Rex I and Rex II, as mascots before the Hawkeye was chosen.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uiowa.edu/~fyi/issues/issues2003_v41/10032003/quiz.html|title=Pop quiz: How well do you know the UI campus? - fyi&nbsp;— University Relations Publication&nbsp;— The University of Iowa|work=uiowa.edu|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130630092636/http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Efyi/issues/issues2003_v41/10032003/quiz.html|archive-date=30 June 2013|access-date=3 May 2014}}</ref>
* "Great Danes" is the nickname of the [[University at Albany, SUNY|University at Albany]].  Their mascot is the Great Dane.<ref>{{Cite web|title =Symbols of UAlbany|url =http://www.albany.edu/spirit/symbols.shtml |website = www.albany.edu|access-date = 2015-12-02|url-status = live|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150918003054/http://www.albany.edu/spirit/symbols.shtml|archive-date = 18 September 2015}}</ref>

'''Military'''
* [[Just Nuisance]] was the only dog to be officially enlisted in the Royal Navy. Done mainly as a morale booster for [[World War II]] enlisted troops, Nuisance proved to be a lasting legacy of the small [[Cape Town]] suburb of [[Simon's Town]].

'''Philosophy'''
* An unnamed Great Dane knocks [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] to the ground in ''[[Reveries of a Solitary Walker]]''; he describes the singular feeling of peace and suspended identity that the shock of the collision brings about in him.<ref>Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. ''Reveries of a Solitary Walker''. Trans. Charles E. Butterworth. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing (1992), pp. 15–18.</ref>