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Horses traveling from Mexico to the United States normally are subject to quarantine of at least 3 days, [11] but starting in 2006, a special 12-hour waiver was obtained for up to 100 horses (hence the limit of 100 Villistas). Before 2006, the Mexican horses were left behind in Mexico, and the Villistas rode American horses from the border to ...
An Indian Hindu wedding procession, baraat, with the bridegroom on a horse, led by a brass band, Pushkar, Rajasthan.. Baraat (Hindi: बरात, Urdu: بارات) (pronunciation ⓘ) or Varayatra (Sanskrit: वरयात्रा, romanized: Varayātrā) [1] [2] is a groom's wedding procession in the Indian subcontinent.
A Eucharistic procession is one in which the Host is carried in procession in a monstrance. It is often covered with a canopy and accompanied with candles. At the litaniae majores and minores and other penitential processions, joyful hymns are not allowed, but the litanies are sung, and, if the length of the procession requires, the penitential ...
The Fasnacht (carnival) procession in Sankt Lorenzen im Lesachtal, south-west Austria, features a large band of musicians, some in fancy dress, and is led by a large, rather frisky hobby horse. It has a hollow body, covered by a long white sheet that almost reaches the ground, with a long neck and head apparently made of cardboard or papier ...
Sorothus was a leading figure in his city, a Roman citizen whose cognomen is the only one known, and is very rare, [107] so it was unnecessary to indicate the tria nomina. [22] Louis Foucher considers him a "parvenu". [102] The owner belonged to "a class of large landowners and merchants" from Byzacene, many of whose domus disappeared in the ...
The Large Triumphal Carriage or Great Triumphal Car (in German, Triumphwagen) is a large 16th-century woodcut print by Albrecht Dürer, commissioned by the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I. The work was originally intended to be the central part of a 54 metres (177 ft) long print of a Triumphal Procession or Triumph of Maximilian , depicting ...
Each procession contains by an 'Obby 'Oss, a hobby horse consisting of an oval frame covered in black oilskin, which has a small horse's head in the front with a snapping jaw. [3] This is led by an individual known as the Teaser, who is dressed in white and carries a painted club. [ 3 ]
The Fürstenzug (English: Procession of Princes) in Dresden, Germany, is a large mural of a mounted procession of the rulers of Saxony. It was originally painted between 1871 and 1876 to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the Wettin Dynasty , Saxony's ruling family.