What is the history and meaning of a cowboy skull??
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The skull with the cowboy hat is a symbol of the CSA or Confederate States of America....When you hear someone say "The South Shall Rise Again", this is generally the organization they're talking about, which has also been connected to the Ku Klux Klan and more than one group of fascist neo-Nazis.  Several bands have also used this image to sell albums including Lynard Skinard, Pantera and Guns & Roses.  Eventhough SOME of their music can be 'southern rock', they have not been connected to the CSA or any of the other groups mentioned. \nHope I helped!
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it symbolizes wearing a ring on your thumb.... why make it something more than what it is.... I have never heard of it meaning anything.
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Is called The Chupacabras which means the goats sucker.  It is a legendary modern character still very alive. Many goats cows and chicken ha been found bloodless in Puerto Rico and other countries and many people; adults and young, have claimed seeing a strange creature with extraterrestrial and anthropomorphic features, more like prehistoric monsters, being around the places where animals had been found dead. Serious researchers and many police departments has checked out the stories . Terrified people and whole towns had been objects of the Chupacabra terror. It is worse than Bin Laden and Sadam toghether. I believe it is a flying almost extinct pre historic specie that hides in caves and dark places underground and comes out peridically as climatological changes take place. It is not exclusive of Puerto Rico. some people claim it is an allien. Others a demon and others a creation of imaginative people, but how can all those animals including very beloved pet dogs are found dead with very specific orifices and no blood in the open fields and sometimes as a massacre to the awe of owners and mentaly stable people and scintific profesionals in charge of agricultural programs and universities.
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Copied from the referenced website:\n\nFor the answer, we have to go a bit further back in time. Since the 17th century, "bull's-eye" has been used as a term for almost anything small and circular, especially if it protrudes slightly, forming a hemispherical bump resembling the protruding eye of a bull or cow. Thus, at various times, "bull's-eye" has been used to designate a thick piece of glass set into the deck of a ship to illuminate the lower decks, a one-crown coin of British currency, a globular piece of candy, and a small circular window, among other things. So although the spot in the center of a target doesn't protrude like a real "bull's eye," it is small and circular and thus fit the popular definition of "bull's-eye."
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The Legend\nThe Jackalope (Lepus-temperamentalus) is one of the rarest animals in the world. A cross between a now extinct pygmy-deer and a species of killer-rabbit, they are extremely shy unless approached. None have ever been captured alive and this rare photo (often criticized as fake) shows a mighty buck about to strike.\n\nKnown by the ancients as "deerbunnies", it wasn't until the early 1960's that the modern more fearsome name of "jackalope" was adopted (see True Stories below).\n\nIt is written that you can extract the Jackalope's milk as it sleeps belly up at night. The milk is belived to be medicinal and can be used to treat a variety of afflictions. The truth is these creatures are aggressive and unpredictable, and should not be provoked for any reason!
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This has been taken from Amazon.com. The first link.\nEditorial Reviews \n\nBook Description\n\nAn extraordinary saga of the trail-blazing cowboys who made their fortune \ndriving cattle from Texas to the Great Frontier.\n\nThey left Missouri and were headed to Santa Fe. Standing in their way was a parched desert, a land of outlaws and enemies-and one man's dangerous past.\n\nHe was a wealthy englishman with two beautiful daughters. They were five dusty texans and a gambling man. And they were all on the ride of their lives.\n\nThe only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million maverick longhorns and the brains, brawn and boldness to drive them north to where the money was. Now, Ralph Compton brings this violent and magnificent time to life in an extraordinary epic series based on the history-making trail drives.\n\nThe Santa Fe Trail\n\nGavin McCord and his brawling cowboys came to Missouri with a problem: 3,500 longhorns and not one buyer. That's where Gladstone Pitkin came in. A man with money and a dream of ranching in New Mexico, Pitkin bought McCord's cattle and hired his Texans for a trail drive from Independence to Santa Fe. But with an ill-fated gambler on the drive, the courageous, hardened riders weren't just a thousand brutal miles from Santa Fe-they were heading into a death trap.\n\n--This text refers to the Paperback edition. \n\nFrom the Back Cover\n\nHe was a wealthy Englishman with two beautiful daughters. They were five dusty Texans and a gambling man. And they were all on the ride of their lives. \n\nThe only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million maverick longhorns and the brains, brawn and boldness to drive them north to where the money was. Now, Ralph Compton brings this violent and magnificent time to life in an extraordinary epic series based on the history-making trail drives.\n\nThe Santa Fe Trail\n\nGavin McCord and his brawling cowboys came to Missouri with a problem: 3,500 longhorns and not one buyer. That's where Gladstone Pitkin came in. A man with money and a dream of ranching in New Mexico, Pitkin bought McCord's cattle and hired his Texans for a trail drive from Independence to Santa Fe. But with an ill-fated gambler on the drive, the courageous, hardened riders weren't just a thousand brutal miles from Santa Fe-they were heading into a death trap.\n\n--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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The single riderless horse that followed the caisson with boots reversed in the stirrups is called the "caparisoned horse" in reference to its ornamental coverings, which have a detailed protocol all to themselves. By tradition in military funeral honors, a caparisoned horse follows the casket of an Army or Marine Corps officer who was a colonel or above, or the casket of a president, by virtue of having been the nation's military commander in chief.\n\nThe custom is believed to date back to the time of Genghis Khan, when a horse was sacrificed to serve the fallen warrior in the next world. The caparisoned horse later came to symbolize a warrior who would ride no more. Abraham Lincoln, who was killed in 1865, was the first U.S. president to be honored with a caparisoned horse at his funeral.
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It doesn't really have a meaning, it's more of an exclamation of excitement or a way to say 'big deal' depending on how you use it.  It originated in Old West movies, real cowboys never actually said it.
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In the 1870's and 1880's, tough Longhorn cattle were called "little doggies" with wary affection by the cowboys who herded them. The word "doggies" in the cowboy lyric " ... get along little doggies," stems from the African word kidogo, which means "a little something," or "something small." \n\nHow did this African word become part of the American language? Part of the explanation is that one in every five American cowboys was black in the 1880s, and much of what we think of as "cowboy culture" is rooted in African cattle herding. Some historians believe that the trail-driving practices of American cowboys (such as the open grazing of cattle) were based on the ways Fulani cattle herders in Western Africa had tended their animals for centuries. So, we should not be surprised to find African words as part of our cowboy culture. The word bronco (probably of Efik/Ibibio and Spanish origins) was used by the Spanish and by enslaved Africans to indicate the horses rode in herding cattle. Buckra, comes from mbakara, the Efik/Ibibio word for "white man," and buckaroo, also coming from mbakara. These words described a class of whites who worked as "broncobusters."
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Punisher uses a skull on the front of his costume so that the evildoers have a target to shoot at; right where the armor's the toughest.  It's the same reason why Bats have that bat symbol in front.  Punisher chose the skull to instill fear in his enemies....  again, like Batman.
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It's a memorial for fallen riders. \n\nThe statue was donated by the Portolas, a riding club formed in memory of California's first governor, who led theSpanish  missionairies into the area, and pioneered the settlement of the Alta region. Check the article I've linked in sources for more information about the tradition of the group, and the statue itself.
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The Pituco. I guess Pituco is some kind of nick name or something like that. Be Blessed!
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Although I really have no idea what you mean, the occipital bone is the infero-posterior bone of the cranial vault, aka the bone that covers the bottom and the back of the skull. The maxilla or maxillary bone is the bone in which the upper teeth are held and form the lower part of the cheek. The cheek bones are the zygomatic or malar bones. Is this what you mean?? The occipital and maxilla do not touch.
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I found this on line,\n\n"Devious Derivations: Popular Misconceptions -- and More than 1,000 True Origins of Common Words and Phrases" by Hugh Rawson (toExcel, Iuniverse.com, 1994, 2000). This reference has some new information on the origins listed here (new information in parenthesis), new origins and what could be the actual origin. \n\n: : 1. Orrin Kendall biscuits, which soldiers ate during the Civil War. \n: : 2. Short for Aux Cayes, a Haitian port that American sailors praised for its rum. \n: : 3. Old Keokuk, a Native American tribal chief who was said to have signed treaties with his initials. \n: : 4. OK stands for "all correct" or the illiterate phrase "Orl Korrect." \n: : 5. U.S. President Martin Van Buren's nickname "Old Kinderhook" -- OK for short. He was a native of Kinderhook, N.Y.\n: : 6. Choctaw word "okeh," (or "hoke") meaning "indeed" (or "It is so.")\n: : 7. Scottish "auch aye", meaning "ah yes." (Or "och aye," meaning "okay.")\n: : 8. From the French maritime phrase "au quai" meaning "at dock", and therefore at last safe from the ravages of the open sea.\n: : 9. '0 killed' - the report of the night's death toll during the First World War. \n: : 10. All clear after the shoot-out at O.K. Corral. \n: : 11. Instruments calibrated at an Observatory at Kew had, affixed to them, a stamp, or impression, to authenticate that calibration. This stamp was O K - Observatory Kew. \n\n: : New origins from Mr. Rawson's book:\n: : 12. The abbreviation is for Oberst Kommandant, German for "Colonel in Command," used by either -- take your pick -- a General Schliessen or Baron von Steuben when initialing letters and orders during the American Revolution.\n: : 13. It comes from the name of a freight agent, Obadiah Kelly, whose initials were widely disseminated on bills of lading.\n: : 14. The abbreviation is for Open Key, popularized by telegraphers in the 1860s.\n: : 15. It comes from the names of Lords Onslow and Kilbracken, who initialed bills after they were read and approved in England's House of Lords. \n: : 16. From a misreading of "Order Recorded" on official documents.\n: : 17. Or from Finnish "oikea," correct.\n: : 18. From the Greek "olla," all, plus "Kalla," good.\n\n: : Professor Allen Walker Read of Columbia University, "finally unveiled its (O.K.'s) origins in a series of magisterial articles in 'American Speech' in 1963 and 1964.What Professor Read discovered was that the abbreviation arose in a humorous manner at a time when Americans were indulging in a great deal of wordplay, including abbreviations, acronyms, puns and intentional mispronunciations and misspellings. The earliest example of O.K. that he unearthed (and it is so far still the oldest known specimen) is from the Boston 'Morning Post' of March 23, 1839. It appears in connection with a note by the paper's editor, Charles Gordon Greene, about a visit to New York of some members of the local Anti-Bell-Ringing Society. (The A.B.R.S., as it was usually known, was itself something of a joke, having been formed the previous year to oppose -- its name to the contrary -- an ordinance of the Boston Common Council against ringing dinner bells.) In an aside, Mr. Greene suggested that if the Bostonians were to return home via Providence, they might be greeted by one of his rivals, the editor of that city's 'Journal,' who 'would have the 'contribution box,' et ceteras, o.k. -- all correct -- and cause the corks to fly, like sparks, upward.'.Thus, it appears that O.K. was invented, possibly by Greene, as an abbreviation of the jocular 'Oll' or perhaps 'Orl korrect,' meaning "All right.' This explanation would seem farfetched, except for Read's finding that it dovetai
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craniology is the study of skulls.\n\nSkull, term applied to the rigid cartilaginous or bony structure located anterior to the spinal column in all vertebrate animals, and serving to encase and protect the brain and to provide attachment for the muscles of the face and mouth. In lower vertebrates, such as cyclostomes and elasmobranchs, the skull is composed of cartilage throughout the lifetime of the organism; in teleost fishes and in more highly developed vertebrates, including humans, the skull is cartilaginous during embryonic and fetal life, becoming ossified early in postnatal life.
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First and foremost, (this is my fantasy too)  The cowboy hat is symbolic of riding steer and rodeo's.  Ginuwine's song "pony" is an example of how sex is imagined when you use steer or an electric bull with the rocking back and forth.  The tight jeans show us a nice tight ass (and who wouldn't like that) and a fat penis.  This is just too hot......I want my cowboy to let me wear his hat while we giddyup to the bump bump bump.
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The History of Rodeo\n\nCowboy. Cattle. Horses. Leather. Dirt. Mud. Sweat. Blood. Guts. All of these words can only conjure up one image, one word. Rodeo. The word “rodeo” comes from the Spanish word rodear (to surround) and is pronounced “ro-day-oh”. Today it is a competitive sport in which riders display their skill in activities related to livestock raising, such as riding and roping cattle and horses. \nRodeo has come a long way from its roots in the 1860s and 1870s roundup camps when the annual roundup and branding of cattle encouraged informal contests among the working cowboys. These skills have a rich history tracing back to the great horsemanship traditions of the Spanish conquistadors. \nDuring the late 1700s and early 1800s, Spain held much of the land that is the American West. Established missions raised cattle for America’s flourishing market. The need grew for skilled horsemen to handle and manage the herds. Many of the men running the missions were of Spanish nobility, trained in skills of horsemanship and roping practiced in Spain for centuries. These skills were passed on to their workers, known as “vaqueros”. Once these lands were converted to privately owned ranchos during Mexico’s rule, the vaqueros found work running cattle and managing the rangelands. Even after the United States gained control in 1848, these vaqueros continued to work, alongside their American counterparts. \nThe ending of the Civil War, when cattle herds spread throughout the west, the numbers of American cowboys grew. Once or twice each year, cowhands rounded up the cattle on the open range and drove them through miles and miles of vast open land to various marketing centers (stockyards). There in celebration of their job completed, informal competition was common. Cowboys might issue challenges to each other to see who really was the best at cutting cattle or throwing a rope. Spectators would inevitably gather. \nTechnology arrives in the form of railroad stock cars, replacing the necessity of time-consuming cattle drives. Open rangeland becomes defined by barbed wire culminating in the dwindling demand for cowboy. Many cowboys had to seek a new way of making a living. \nThe first formal rodeo contest probably was held in Cheyenne, Wyoming in 1872. Between 1890 and 1910, rodeo emerged as public entertainment through various Wild West Shows and performances at Fourth of July celebrations and cattlemen’s conventions. \nNot until the first decades of the twentieth century did rodeo become recognized as a competitive sport. Annual stampedes, roundups and frontier day’s events attracted regional audiences and contestants through the West, often providing the only entertainment for miles. By the mid-1920's, with the help of early promoters, championship events at Boston Garden and New York City’s Madison Square Garden attracted nationwide focus. \nThe Rodeo Association of America (RAA), founded in 1929, combined a group of managers and promoters and structure to the rodeo. The RAA sanctioned events, selected judges and established purse awards and point systems to determine all-around champions. Since 1946, the organization has acted as the International Rodeo Association (IRA). \nUntil 1936, rodeo contestants themselves remained unorganized. Then an indomitable group formed the Cowboys Turtle Association (CTA) during a strike at the Boston Garden World Championship. The CTA’s goal was to offer cowboys larger purse awards, competent judges, uniform rules and regulations throughout the rodeo system for the safety of competitors and animals, and to protect their rights. The cowboys adopted the name “Turtles” because they were “slow” to organize, but had finally stuck their necks out for what they believed in. In 1945, the CTA became the Rodeo Cowboys Association (RCA), and was renamed in 1975 to the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA), located in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Most major rodeos fall