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The most obvious difference between typical Ragamuffins and Ragdolls is the required point coloration in Ragdolls, where as the Ragamuffin is allowed any color and pattern. The Standard of Perfection describes the Ragamuffin as requiring a 'sweet' overall expression with large, rounded with pinch at the corner, walnut-shaped eyes versus the ...
It had its origins with Ragamuffin Day (known in some jurisdictions as Beggars Day), a celebration as part of Thanksgiving, which involved children going door-to-door seeking candy, dressed as beggars and homeless residents of New York. Ragamuffin Day was a predecessor to Halloween, which rose in popularity in the 1940s and 1950s.
Ragamuffin, a 2007 novel by Tobias S. Buckell; Ragamuffin cat, a breed of domestic cat; Ragamuffin, a series of Australian racing yachts run by Syd Fischer; Ragamuffin, a character in the comic book series Lenore, the Cute Little Dead Girl; Ragamuffins, an English term for the farrapos in the Ragamuffin War in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 1835–1845
Ragamuffins and ragdolls go hand in hand, with their history closely intertwined as the ragamuffin stems from the ragdoll. Ragamuffins retain the ragdoll’s long hair and mellow nature but with a ...
The term "raggamuffin" is an intentional misspelling of "ragamuffin", a word that entered the Jamaican Patois lexicon after the British Empire colonized Jamaica in the 17th century. [citation needed] Despite the British colonialists' pejorative application of the term, Jamaican youth appropriated it as an ingroup designation.
By the beginning of the 20th century, these mobs had morphed [citation needed] into Ragamuffin parades consisting mostly of children dressed as "ragamuffins" in costumes of old and mismatched adult clothes and with deliberately smudged faces, but by the late 1950s the tradition had diminished enough to only exist in its original form in a few ...
The Ragamuffin War, also known as the Ragamuffin Revolution or Heroic Decade, [a] was a republican uprising that began in southern Brazil, in the province (current state) of Rio Grande do Sul in 1835. The rebels were led by Generals Bento Gonçalves da Silva and Antônio de Sousa Neto with the support of the Italian fighter Giuseppe Garibaldi ...
(There’s some Darryl’s history in this story about the death of its co-founder, Charles Winston.) But the menu looks nothing like it did during its Raleigh and Durham heydays.