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Ram fighting is a blood sport between two rams (large-horned male sheep), held in a ring or open field. It is commonly found in sheep or goat husbandry culture in Africa, Asia and Europe. [ 1 ] In Nigeria , Uzbekistan and Indonesia , ram fighting gains popularity among locals. [ 2 ]
The ram of Olympias, a reconstruction of an ancient Athenian trireme. In warfare, ramming is a technique used in air, sea, and land combat. The term originated from battering ram, a siege engine used to bring down fortifications by hitting it with the force of the ram's momentum, and ultimately from male sheep. Thus, in warfare, ramming refers ...
Priangan sheep. The Priangan (also known as Garut) is a breed of sheep found in West Java, Indonesia.The breed is used primarily for ram fighting and meat.It is a variety of the Javanese Thin-tailed.
Basque ram-fighting in the square of Eibar in 1937. Ram fights, also variously called ahari apustuak (ram bets) and ahari talka (ram bump) are very popular around the Urola basin in towns like Azpeitia (between October and June) and Arroa. They test the strength and endurance of the rams, using their natural inclination to fight other rams.
The Rise Above Movement (RAM) is a militant alt-right Southern California-based street fighting group which has variously been described as "a loose collective of violent neo-Nazis and fascists", white nationalists, [1] white supremacists, [2] [3] and far-right persons.
In the early stages of World War II the tactic was employed by Soviet pilots, who called it taran (таран), the Russian word for "battering ram". A ramming pilot could use the weight of the aircraft as a ram, or they could try to make the enemy lose control of their plane, using the propeller or wing to damage the enemy's tail or wing.
A naval ram is a weapon fitted to varied types of ships, dating back to antiquity. The weapon comprised an underwater prolongation of the bow of the ship to form an armoured beak, usually between 2 and 4 meters (6–12 ft) in length.
A Henrique Alvim Corrêa illustration from a 1906 edition of the book.. HMS Thunder Child is a fictional ironclad torpedo ram of the Royal Navy, destroyed by Martian fighting-machines in H. G. Wells' 1898 novel The War of the Worlds whilst protecting a refugee rescue fleet of civilian vessels.