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Wolf's Head is a brand of motor oil. The company that first manufactured Wolf's Head was founded in Reno, Pennsylvania in 1879, when crude oil was being distilled into lamp oil. The company later began producing engine lubrications and numerous blends of motor oil. [ 1 ]
Wolf's Head is a senior secret society at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The society is one of the reputed "Big Three" societies at Yale, along with Skull and Bones and Scroll and Key. [1] It was establihsed in 1883. [2] Originally an all-male organization, women have been tapped for membership since the spring of 1992. [3]
Wolf's Head Society, founded at Yale University in 1883 Wolfs Head is a mountain in Wyoming's Wind River Range Wolf's Head (motor oil) , company founded in 1879
Caput lupinum (transl. wolf's head) or caput gerat lupinum (transl. may he wear a wolfish head) are terms used in the English legal system and its derivatives. The terms were used in Medieval England to designate a person pronounced by the authorities to be a dangerous criminal, who could thus be killed without penalty.
Wolf's Head Society [1] is a senior secret society at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The society is one of the "Big Three" societies at Yale, along with Skull and Bones and Scroll and Key. [2] Active undergraduate membership is elected annually with sixteen Yale University students, typically rising seniors. Honorary members are ...
Wolfs Head is a (12,165-foot (3,708 m)) mountain located in the southern Wind River Range in the U.S. state of Wyoming. [3] Wolfs Head is on the northwest side of the Cirque of the Towers , a popular climbing area.
When his mother dies, Asta's Son is left alone, as he has no other known relatives. Shortly afterwards, Aycliffe falsely accuses him of theft, and declares him a Wolf's Head, which means he is not considered human anymore and anyone may kill him. Aycliffe also offers a large reward (twenty shillings) for his death.
In the common law of England, a "writ of outlawry" made the pronouncement Caput lupinum ("[Let his be] a wolf's head"), equating that person with a wolf in the eyes of the law. Not only was the subject deprived of all legal rights, being outside the "law", but others could kill him on sight as if he were a wolf or other wild animal.