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Cast: A horse situated on its side or back, and wedged in the starting stalls, such that it cannot get up. [2] Cast a plate: Lost a racing plate. Ch.: An abbreviation for a chestnut horse, as it appears in race books, pedigrees and stud books. Chaff bandit: a derogatory term for a horse with little hope of winning; as in "stealing" its food.
A NOVA showing the extraordinary discoveries of X-ray astronomy. This new science has revealed that our universe is much stranger and more violent than ever imagined, filled with neutrons , stars , exploding galaxies , quasars and black holes —a universe seething with energy, bursting across vast distances of space and time.
Caucasians with makeup to try to make them appear Asian were typically cast in Asian roles until the 1960s. By the 1970s and 1980s, Japanese people started being portrayed as a "fusion of tradition and high tech", with the historical references being to ninja and samurai , which are both "part of the 'mysterious East'" (e.g. Gung Ho [ 64 ] (1986)).
The series stars O'Carroll as Agnes Brown, with several of O'Carroll's close friends and family members making up the rest of the cast. The show adopts an informal production style often breaking the fourth wall ; material that would normally be outtakes are intentionally left in broadcast episodes, along with intentional tomfoolery, mostly ...
In South African mythology, Betelgeuse was perceived as a lion casting a predatory gaze toward the three zebras represented by Orion's Belt. [ 212 ] In the Americas, Betelgeuse signifies a severed limb of a man-figure (Orion)—the Taulipang of Brazil know the constellation as Zililkawai, a hero whose leg was cut off by his wife, with the ...
Balatro is a 2024 poker-themed roguelike deck-building game developed by LocalThunk and published by Playstack. It was released on Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S on February 20, 2024, with a port to macOS on March 1.
— Lawrence Oates, British army officer and Antarctic explorer (17 March 1912), prior to walking out of tent and into blizzard on Terra Nova Expedition "Last Entry — For God's sake look after our people" [53] — Robert Falcon Scott, Royal Navy officer and Antarctic explorer (c. 29 March 1912); final diary entry on doomed Terra Nova Expedition