The characteristics and personality of people born in the Chinese Year of the Goat. What are the strengths of people with the Chinese zodiac sign of the Goat? Which famous people were born in the Year of the Goat?
Anguish is an 1878 oil painting by the artist August Friedrich Schenck. Perhaps Schenck's most famous painting, it is held by National Gallery of Victoria, in Melbourne, Australia. The painting was an early acquisition by the gallery, just a few years after it was founded, and has been voted the most popular of the gallery's 75,000 works on two occasions, in 1906 and 2011. The painting depicts a ewe bleating in grief, her breath freezing in the cold air. The mother sheep is standing over the dead body of her lamb, a trickle of blood running from its mouth into the white snow, in a scene reminiscent of a pietà. The pair of sheep are encircled by a murder of black crows that crowd ominously around under a dull grey cloudy winter sky, waiting for an opportunity to scavenge the carcass. Print: A premium quality heavyweight (200gsm) fine art print material with a smooth, clean finish. This museum quality paper is extremely consistent and works perfectly with large, full colour graphics or illustrations. The matte finish emphasizes different highlights and tones in the source artworks; helping to create stunning works of art. - All prints include a small 0.25 inch white border to ensure space for framing. Our Eco Credentials Include: FSC approved or sustainably sourced paper Printed using water based inks Local fulfilment reduces carbon emissions Contains no plastic Sizes: 12’’ x 8’’ Inches = 30.5 cm x 20.3 cm 18’’ x 12’’ Inches = 45.7 cm x 30.5 cm 24" x 16" Inches = 61 cm x 40.6 cm
Years of the Goat: 2027, 2015, 2003, 1991, 1979, 1967, 1955, 1943, 1931... People born in a year of the Goat are generally believed to be gentle, mild-mannered, shy, stable...
Oliver, an adorable three-year-old boy, is the star of a heartwarming video that's gone viral. The video captures him happily using his toy tractor to feed the farm animals on his family's property. His infectious enthusiasm and unwavering focus make this ordinary chore feel extraordinary. The video begins with Oliver waiting eagerly beside the closed
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Try saying that 3 times fast :) Seriously though, Herdwick sheep are the most amazing of creatures and every time we visit the Lake District I’m always thrilled to see these little smiley faces peeping at me through the bracken. Or - more usually - standing stubbornly in the middle of a single-trac
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The location and approximate date of the domestication of goats, pigs, sheeps and cattles. Years in BCE.
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BBC News investigates the confusion over whether the Lunar New Year is dedicated to the sheep, ram, or goat.
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Photographer Rob MacInnis gathers barnyard animals that we selected for consumption and production, and turns them into majestic portrait subjects. Everything started when Rob came back from a long journey through South America. Taking photos in places that suffered from extreme poverty made him rethink photography's role in his life and society: "I had a tough time dealing with my relationship to photography after this trip," Rob told Bored Panda. "I felt it irresponsible to ignore the exploitative aspects of photography, especially when making artwork in such a privileged position. I found that photographing animals enabled me to critique both myself and the photographic field."
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About The Black Sheep His elegantly-crafted tale of sibling rivalry, Honoré de Balzac’s The Black Sheep is translated from the French with an introduction by Donald Adamson in Penguin Classics. Philippe and Joseph Bridau are two extremely different brothers. The elder, Philippe, is a superficially heroic soldier and adored by their mother Agathe. He is nonetheless a bitter figure, secretly gambling away her savings after a brief but glorious career as Napoleon’s aide-de-camp at the battle of Montereau. His younger brother Joseph, meanwhile, is fundamentally virtuous – but their mother is blinded to his kindness by her disapproval of his life as an artist. Foolish and prejudiced, Agathe lives on unaware that she is being cynically manipulated by her own favourite child – but will she ever discover which of her sons is truly the black sheep of the family? A dazzling depiction of the power of money and the cruelty of life in nineteenth-century France, The Black Sheep compellingly explores is a compelling exploration of the nature of deceit. Donald Adamson’s translation captures the radical modernity of Balzac’s style, while his introduction places The Black Sheep in its context as one of the great novels of Balzac’s renowned Comédie humaine . For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Open The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities and you’ll find both a word and a day to remember, every day of the year. Each day has its own dedicated entry, on which a curious or notable event—and an equally curious or notable word—are explored. On the day on which flirting was banned in New York City, for instance, you’ll discover why to “sheep’s-eye” someone once meant to look at them amorously. On the day on which a disillusioned San Franciscan declared himself Emperor of the United States, you’ll find the word “mamamouchi,” a term for people who consider themselves more important than they truly are. And on the day on which George Frideric Handel completed his 259-page Messiah after twenty-four days of frenzied work, you’ll see why a French loanword, literally meaning “a small wooden barrow,” is used to refer to an intense period of work undertaken to meet a deadline. The English language is vast enough to supply us with a word for every occasion—and this linguistic “wunderkammer” is here to prove precisely that. So whatever date this book has found its way into your hands, there’s an entire year’s worth of linguistic curiosities waiting to be found. Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780226646701 Media Type: Hardcover(First Edition) Publisher: University of Chicago Press Publication Date: 10-14-2019 Pages: 384 Product Dimensions: 5.80(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.10(d)About the Author Paul Anthony Jones is a writer, etymologist, and language blogger. He is the author of several books on language, including, most recently, The Accidental Dictionary. He shares his linguistic discoveries via the Twitter account @HaggardHawks, which was named one of Twitter’s best language accounts by Mental Floss. He lives in Newcastle upon Tyne.Read an Excerpt Read an Excerpt CHAPTER 1 January 1 quaaltagh (n.) the first person you meet on New Year's Day * * * Proving there really is a word for everything, your quaaltagh is the first person you meet on New Year's Day morning. If you think that word doesn't look even remotely English, you're right: quaaltagh (pronounced 'quoll-tukh', with a rasping 'gh' like the sound in loch) was borrowed into English from Manx, the Celtic language of the Isle of Man, in the early nineteenth century. Its roots lie in a Manx verb, quaail, meaning 'to meet' or 'to assemble', as it originally referred to a group of festive entertainers who would come together to gambol from door to door at Christmas or New Year singing songs and reciting poems. For all their efforts, these quaaltagh entertainers would be invited inside for food and drink before moving on to the next house on their route. If, as was often enough the case, all of that happened early on the morning of 1 January, then there was a good chance that the leader of the quaaltagh would be the first-footer of each household. As a result, a tradition soon emerged that the identity of the quaaltagh could have a bearing on the events of the year to come: dark-haired men were said to bring good luck, while fair-haired or fair-complexioned men (or, worst of all, fair-haired women) were said to bring bad luck – a curious superstition said to have its origins in the damage once wreaked by fair-haired Viking invaders. Eventually, the tradition of door-to-door New Year's Day gambolling disappeared (presumably because everyone is feeling far too delicate the morning after the night before), but the tradition of the quaaltagh being your luck-bringing first encounter on the morning of New Year's Day, either inside or outside your house, has remained in place in the dictionary. fedifragous(adj.) promise-breaking, oath-violating * * * If you made a New Year's resolution only to ditch the gym for a box of chocolates or an afternoon in the pub on 2 January, then the word you might be looking for is fedifragous – a seventeenth-century adjective describing anything or anyone that breaks an oath or a promise, or reneges on an earlier agreement. Fedifragous combines two Latin roots: foedus, meaning 'treaty' or 'contract', and frangere, meaning 'to break'. Foedus is a common ancestor of a clutch of more familiar words like confederate, federal and federation, while it is from frangere that the likes of fragment, fragile and fraction are all descended – as well as an entire vocabulary's worth of more obscure and equally broken words: • confraction (n.) a smashing or crushing, a breaking up into small pieces • effraction (n.) a burglary, a house-breaking • effractive (adj.) describing anything broken off something larger • irrefrangible (adj.) incapable of being broken • ossifragous (adj.) powerful enough to break bone Along similar lines, ossifrage – literally 'bone-breaker' – is an old name for the lammergeyer, an enormous mountain-dwelling eagle known for its habit of smashing bones by dropping them from a great height and then devouring the shards. And even the humble saxifrage plant can take its place on this list: its name derives from the Latin saxum, meaning 'rock' or 'stone', and literally means 'stone-breaker'. The Roman scholar Pliny the Elder would have you believe that this refers to the plant's supposed effectiveness in treating kidney stones but, alas, it's more likely to be a reference to the plant's habit of growing in cracks and fissures in rocks. eucatastrophe(n.) a sudden and unexpected fortuitous event * * * If a catastrophe is an unexpected disaster, then a eucatastrophe is its opposite: using the same positive-forming prefix found in words like euphoria and euphonious, J. R. R. Tolkien coined the word eucatastrophe in 1944, defining it as 'the sudden happy turn in a story which pierces you with a joy that brings tears'. As well as being the author of The Hobbit (1937) and the Lord of the Rings trilogy (1954–55), Tolkien – born on 3 January 1892 – was a professor of English at Oxford University and an expert philologist and etymologist. Alongside his fiction, he compiled a dictionary of Middle English, completed his own translation of the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf and, following active service in the First World War, worked for a time on the very first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. As an expert in Germanic languages, Tolkien was tasked with researching a clutch of Germanic-origin words falling alphabetically between waggle and warlock at the OED – waistcoat, wake, walnut, wampum and wan among them. The verb want ended up being the longest entry he assembled (Tolkien eventually identified more than two dozen different definitions and sub-definitions of it) but oddly it was the walrus that proved the toughest etymological challenge. He discovered that the walrus's original and long-forgotten English name, morse, is entirely unrelated to the word we use today, while the name walrus itself represents a metathesised (i.e. reordered) form of an Old Norse word, hrosshvalr, literally meaning 'horse-whale'. Why replace one word for the other? And why rearrange the Norse word we ended up using? No one is entirely sure, and in fact the word posed such a problem that Tolkien continued to study and lecture on its origins long after he left the OED in 1920. spike-bozzle(v.) to sabotage; to ruin or render ineffective * * * The longest workers' strike in history ended on 4 January 1961, when a band of disgruntled barbers' assistants in Copenhagen, Denmark, finally returned to work after thirty-three years. By 5 January, presumably, every man in Copenhagen was imberbic (that is, beardless). The act of downing tools has been known as striking since the mid 1700s, when supposedly dissatisfied sailors would show their refusal to go out to sea by lowering or 'striking' their sails. Strikes have also been known as steeks, stickouts, turn-outs and rag-outs down the centuries, while those who cross the picket lines have been known by an array of depreciative nicknames including dungs, scabs, ratters, snobs, knobs and knobsticks. Disgruntled workers have been sabotaging their equipment in protest since the early 1800s: the word comes from sabot, a type of French wooden boot, and although linguistic folklore will have you believe that the original saboteurs threw their shoes into their machinery in protest, sadly there's little evidence to back that story up. But why sabotage anything at all, of course, when you can spike-bozzle it? A term originating during the First World War, spike-bozzling originally referred to the practice of scuppering or completely destroying enemy aircraft or equipment. In that sense, it probably derives from the practice of 'spiking' a gun – that is, driving a nail into its mechanism to render it useless – perhaps combined with bamboozle or bumbaze, an eighteenth-century Scots word meaning 'to confound' or 'to perplex'. By the mid 1900s, however, spike-bozzling was being used more broadly to refer to any attempt to ruin or render something ineffective, or else to upset another's work or plans. pontitecture(n.) the building of bridges * * * If etymological legend is to be believed, both pontiff and pontifex – titles held by and used of the Pope – derive from the Latin word for 'bridge', pons. If that's the case, then the pontiff is literally a 'bridge-builder' or 'bridge-maker', perhaps a figurative reference to his task of building spiritual bridges between heaven and earth, or else perhaps a literal reference to the papal blessings supposedly once bestowed on newly constructed bridges. That Latin root, pons, crops up elsewhere in the dictionary in a handful of obscure words like pontage (a toll paid for the use or upkeep of a bridge), ponticello (the bridge of a stringed instrument), pont-levis (a drawbridge, or a term for a horse unseating its rider) and both transpontine and cispontine (adjectives describing things located on opposite sides of a bridge – flick ahead to 30 June for more on that). Pons is also at the root of pontitecture, a term for the construction of bridges coined by a nineteenth-century Scottish scholar and businessman na
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