Why is a hatrick called a hatrick?
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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 is said that the hat would then be passed around the crowd who would put some money in the hat.
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According to www.military-net.com, the ball on top is called a TRUK it represents the shot fired 19th April 1775 fired at Lexington Mass. \n\nThere are some myths about ornaments used at the head of a flag pole. Some crazies started a myth in the 1950s that the round ball commonly found on the head of outdoor flag poles in the United States contained a razor, lighter, or flare to be used in the event of a Soviet takeover to destroy the flag. This is of course sheer fantasy. The balls were in use long before there was a Cold War. Besides that, getting at the ball would have required considerable effort. Another myth is that the flat headed finials were designed to provide landing guidance for Alien space vehicles. The fact that those caps had been used long before Alien vehicles were contemplated is explained by saying that individual aliens were commonly sent ahead of the main wave by several generations so that humans wouldn't think any thing unusual about flat headed flag poles. \nPhil Abbey, 7 October 1998 \n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nOne myth, apparently created during the Cold War, is that the ball at the top of a U.S. flagpole contains three items, all intended to keep the communists from capturing the flag. These are most commonly said to be a razor blade (to cut the flag from the halyards), a match (to light it), and a bullet (to shoot the attackers).\n\nAlthough this is absurd on the face of it, there seems to be no end to the line of morons who believe it. I'm not calling anyone else who questions this myth a moron -- they're to be applauded for having the good sense to question it. It's those who believe it without questioning it that need to be put away. So the following points are intended for use by those who are confronted with this idiocy in answering the true believers:\n\nThere have been balls on flagpoles for centuries, long before there were communists or, for that matter, self-contained bullets or friction matches. They're there because someone discovered that flagpoles look better with a ball on top. (No, not to keep birds from perching--birds have no trouble at all perching on the ball on a flagpole.) \nIf you want to destroy the flag, why not just lower it by the halyards the normal way and use materials readily available on the ground to destroy it, or better yet take it with you? As opposed to trying to cut it apart and burn it while hanging from the top of the pole like a monkey. \nOK, so you don't want to lower the flag because that would signify surrender. How on earth would you retrieve what's in the ball in the face of an enemy assault? Assuming you don't have a ladder(if you do, why can't you find some matches?), there are only two ways up -- climb the pole or have oneself hoisted up on the halyard. Maybe a professional acrobat could do the former, given time; we're talking about shinnying up a smooth metal pole or pulling yourself up a narrow rope 50 feet (15 meters) or higher, all with enemy troops shooting at you. \nLet's suppose you're going up by being hoisted on the halyard. As you do that, the flag comes down--whoops, you've just surrendered. Anyway, the flag is now at ground level, so your friends can detach it using the clips and escape with it or destroy it as described above. You don't have any friends on the ground? Then how did you get to the top of the pole? Just try pulling yourself up a flagpole some time and see how easy that is. \nWhy the bullet? Are your friends on the ground just standing around watching, or are they fighting back? Oh, right, you're all alone and you're a world-class gymnast who can just climb up the pole or halyard 50 feet or more under fire. OK, well then, if you have a gun with you (that coincidentally is of the right caliber for the bullet), why didn't you load it before you started up? And a single bullet to deal with the Red h
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Because that is the color of the National Team, called "Azzurri".\nThat is an historical tradition: before the creation of the Italian Republic, the Italian Regal Family (Savoia) had color "azzurro" (kind of blue) in their flag and that color was adopted by the soccer National Team to respect the Regal tradition.\nSince then the color has been kept in the Italian shirt, even though it is not a color present in their National flag.
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Legend has it that the nickname dates back to the American Civil War. Supposedly, during a battle in Virginia, the North Carolinian troops held their ground while supporting troops retreated. After the battle, supporting troops asked the victorious North Carolinians: "Any more tar down in the Old North State, boys?" and they replied: "No, not a bit; old Jeff's bought it all up." The supporting troops continued: "Is that so? What is he going to do with it?" The North Carolinian troops' response: "He is going to put it on you'ns heels to make you stick better in the next fight."
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The origin of the Clippers' name is very obscure, but I know how it came about.  A group of male hairdressers from SF joined a local BB league.  They wanted a name that sounded strong and intimidating but still reflected their roots in hair styling - hence Clippers.  Unfortunately they never won a game and were forced to move to LA.  They also had to give up the pink and yellow jerseys.\n\nOK seriously, they're named after a type of sailing boat.  The clipper is a fast and nimble boat, usually used by merchants.  The LA Clippers were formally the SD Clippers.  Since SD was right on the ocean and was (at the time) the biggest port in CA, it only made since to name them after a familiar object.  Besides, how could you name a BB team the San Diego Missions or the SD Zoologists.
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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.\n\nThe term was first used to describe H.H. Stephenson's feat of dismissing three batsmen with consecutive deliveries in 1858 and was used in print for the first time in 1878.
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My guess would be that it symbolizes the old saying "my hats off to you". Which someone says as a kind of respect or when they are impressed with something someone did. Then again it might just be  done in celebration or as tradition. Below is link to the only thing i could find on the subject.
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I suppose their could be kippahs in that color, but not square hats.  Also they have the same meaning as normal kippahs.
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An unusual name for the button on a baseball cap is, squatcho.\n\nThe plastic tip on the end of a shoelace is called an aglet.
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A hat-trick in sports is associated with succeeding at anything three times in three consecutive attempts. In North America it is often rendered as hat trick, with no hyphen. (The Oxford English Dictionary has it unhyphenated and gives a variety of examples published in the 19th and 20th centuries both with and without the hyphen.)\n\nThe 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.
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Because that is the color of the National Team, blue, called "Azzurri".\nThat is an historical tradition: before the creation of the Italian Republic, the Italian Regal Family (Savoia) had color "azzurro" (kind of blue) in their flag and that color was adopted by the soccer National Team to respect the Regal tradition.\nSince then the color has been kept in the Italian shirt, even though it is not a color present in their National flag.
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Hathor\n\nSymbols: cow, lioness, falcon, cobra, hippopotamus, sistrum, musical instruments, drums, pregnant women, mirrors, cosmetics\n\nDepiction: Hathor was depicted as a woman with the head of a cow, as a cow, or as a woman wearing cow horns and holding a solar disk. The Hathors, who served a similar role as the Fates in ancient Greek mythology, were depicted as seven young women who wore the headdress of Hathor, horns and the solar disk. The women played tambourines.\n\nMythology: In some myths, Hathor is the mother of Horus and thus each queen of Egypt was identified with her. The name Hathor means “house of Horus.” \n\nIn Dendera, her cult center, Hathor was considered the goddess of fertility and childbirth and in Thebes she was considered the goddess of the dead.
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Well, considering the Scots invented it, and called it FOOTball, cos you kick the ball with your FOOT, it kind of makes sense to me.  Less of the language please.
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Sir Topham Hat\nI think thats how its spelt
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The cricket term hat trick appeared first in British print in 1858. It refers to one player scoring three times in a row. In cricket jargon, one bowler takes three wickets with three balls in a row. That player was then permitted to pass around his hat and collect a few modest "rewards" such as pennies. So runs one story. Another says the cricket club bought the hat-tricking player a new hat. There are many versions of how the hat trick became connected to hockey, most of which don't have supporting evidence.  The most common, however, says that a Toronto haberdasher presented a new hat to any player who scored three goals. It was also claimed that the Biltmore Hat Company, who sponsored the Guelph Biltmores of the Ontario Hockey League, began the free hat trick.
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I had always thought the word was "mitre" but another spelling is "miter".  You see it spelled different ways in different places.  It actually comes from the Greek word "mitra", meaning "turban".  \n\nI hope this helps.
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There are so many urban legends about why the team is referred to as the Habs that is hard to believe which one is true. Habs, in and of itself, is a shortened version of Les Habitants, a French word.\n\nIt seems that during the 1920s, Madison Square Garden owner Tex Rickard was falsely told by someone that the "H" on Montreal's uniform stood for "habitant", a French word that in those days was used to denote the farmers of Quebec. Rickard was told that the French players on the team came from the farms and they were therefore "habitants" or "habs". \n\nAt the time, the Canadiens were recognized as the French team of Montreal as opposed to the Montreal Maroons, the English team. In reality, the "H" in the Montreal crest, which is inside a "C," stands for Club de Hockey Canadien. Hope that helps.