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Colony Brands, Inc. (formerly, The Swiss Colony, Inc.) is a mail-order and electronic retail company known for its cheese, sausage, chocolate, fruitcakes, and other food products. The company also features extensive offerings in furniture, home decor, apparel, entertainment products, and electronics.
From the term "hobby horse" came the expression "to ride one's hobby-horse", meaning "to follow a favourite pastime", and in turn, the modern sense of the term hobby. [59] The term is also connected to the draisine, a forerunner of the bicycle, invented by Baron Karl von Drais. In 1818, a London coach-maker named Denis Johnson began producing ...
Leather for chaps is tanned and dyed, and the hide is usually "split" so that the leather is supple and can be made into a garment that allows easy movement. There is a rough side, what is today called suede or "roughout", and a smooth side. Chaps are made in both "roughout" and "smooth out" (smooth side out) designs.
The Swiss Breton Horse can be purchased for 22 FV$ in the FarmVille Market during the next 22 days only. This article. FarmVille introduced a new limited edition theme, the Swiss Alps theme, with ...
Hobby horse polo (German: Steckenpferdpolo) is a mixed team sport played on hobby horses. It is similar to other polo variants, such as canoe polo , cycle polo , camel polo , elephant polo , golfcart polo , Segway polo , auto polo , and yak polo [ citation needed ] in that it uses the basic polo rules, but it has its own specialities.
William Wallace Denslow's illustrations for a variant of Ride a cock horse, from a 1901 edition of Mother Goose. A hobby horse (or hobby-horse) is a child's toy horse. Children played at riding a wooden hobby horse made of a straight stick with a small horse's head (of wood or stuffed fabric), and perhaps reins, attached to one end.
The Freiberger is variable in type, from a riding horse to a light draught horse conformation. [12]: 467 Mares average 550 kg in weight and 147 cm in height at the withers; the average height and weight for stallions and geldings are 155 cm and 650 kg. [2] The usual coat colours are bay and chestnut, with only minimal white markings. [12]: 467
Hoodeners in Deal, Kent, in 1909. Hoodening (/ ʊ d. ɛ n ɪ ŋ /), also spelled hodening and oodening, is a folk custom found in Kent, a county in South East England.The tradition entails the use of a wooden hobby horse known as a hooden horse that is mounted on a pole and carried by a person hidden under a sackcloth.