Why are some cowboy hats called 10-gallon hats when they obviously can't hold 10 gallons?
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Different theories I've seen:\n\nNamed for the Spanish coin, the galleon, ten of which could fit around the brim of a ten gallon hat.\n\nNamed for the braids Spanish vaqueros wore around their hats, since the Spanish word for braid is galon.
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The term was originally used in cricket, and was connected with the custom of giving a hat or cap to a bowler who achieved the feat of taking three wickets in a row. It may be connected with the concept of giving someone their "cap", i.e. acknowledging them as a regular member of a representative team. Another school of thought mentions that a bowler was challenged if he could take three in three. Hats were passed around to collect the odds. The bowler succeeded and collected the large amount of cash. Thus the term hat-trick could have been also derived from this event.
330893
If it is brimless, it is no longer a baseball cap. Has to have a brim to be a baseball cap.
631025
$4.10 per gallon despite being "nearly self-sufficient."
338800
Maybe about 10 pints.
1015656
bush doesn't have enough brains to support a ten gallon hat on his head.
49373
When you put an object in water--or any other fluid that is minimally compressable, like milk or oil or alcohol--the object takes up space.  Especially for fluids that are very runny--like water, in contrast to, say, old crank-case oil--the fluid will fill every nook and cranny available.  Since the water, or other non-compressable fluid, has to move out of the way for the object put in it, the apparent rise in the total volume of water-plus-object is due to the volume of the object.\n\nOf course, if the object FLOATS in water, you're in a whole new situation: the object will displace (move aside) exactly the amount of water that weighs what the object does.  That's a whole different discussion!
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Apparently, men stopped wearing hats, when the roofs of the cars got smaller.  I guess they got tired of taking them off all the time and having someone sit on them.  I think those old hats are coming back in style now, but with more color.  I see a few brave guys wear them.  I think some of them look pretty cool if done right
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I don't think there is an explanation currently.Despite other person's the answer below , you have to realise that , cerntainly in the UK , farmers use dowsers ( water diviners) to find wells.Farmers do not pay out good money if it doesnt work.\nThere is some movement towards an understanding at the web site below.If water has some sort of regular structure to it , then maybe there is a low frequency radiation that comes from it and , again , maybe , some people are sensitive to it.(Lots of maybes!)\nhttp://www.livescience.com/forcesofnature/041201_water_bonds.html
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I think its from cowboys...the things they wear on cowboy boots are called spurs. They were renamed by Angelo Drossos and Red McCombs. Spurs...cowboys i guess its supposed to be synonymous to Texas? \n\n\n"A spur is a metal instrument composed of a shank, neck, and prick, rowel (sharp-toothed wheel), or blunted end fastened to the heel of a horsemans boot for the purpose of goading the horse"(from wikipedia)
429084
I would say it means Rural-Minimum lot size 10 acre. That would mean one home on ten acres.
858849
Easy. You heated the can, which means the air inside the can, including steam, was at a high temperature. That means it occupied more space. When you dunked it into cold water, the steam turned back into water, and the air in the can became more dense. The can crumpled because you basically created a vacuum effect. You decreased the volume suddenly by reducing the temperature.\n\nEnough?
151746
Weigh it.  Each gallon weighs 10 pounds.
1122743
That's when one collects rain water in  large containers or pond for latter use in irrigation, toilet flushing, showering, car washing, etc.  It saves natural resources.  In fact it doesn't take much investment of effort...depending, however, on the complexities of the system.
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I don't think there really are any rules, especially when it comes to relationships.  Cowboys are just like any guy, some treat you with respect and some are real jerks.  The ideal is that a cowboy would treat you, along with his mother, his horse, children, and animals with kindness and respect.  But not all cowboys go by this.  As far as his hat goes, if he gives it to you to wear, fine, but don't jerk it off his head.  That makes them mad, fast!
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In 1981, a brewery in Washington poured 500,000 gallons of beer into Capital Lake; a week later, 50,000 fish were dead.\n\nIn recent times it has become proper to write long numbers using a space instead of a comma: 500 000 gallons; 50 000 fish.  You can ask for your teacher's preference.
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A BUNCH OF REDNECKS BOUGHT THEM AT AN AUCTION. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY DID WITH IT:-)