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A person in rage may also experience tunnel vision, muffled hearing, increased heart rate, and hyperventilation. Their vision may also become "rose-tinted" (hence "seeing red"). They often focus only on the source of their anger. The large amounts of adrenaline and oxygen in the bloodstream may cause a person's extremities to shake.
Ragging is the term used for the so-called "initiation ritual" practiced in higher education institutions in India, Pakistan, [1] and Sri Lanka.The practice is similar to hazing in North America, fagging in the UK, bizutage in France, praxe in Portugal, and other similar practices in educational institutions across the world.
Rag-and-bone man in Paris in 1899 (Photo Eugène Atget). In the UK, 19th-century rag-and-bone men scavenged unwanted rags, bones, metal and other waste from the towns and cities in which they lived. [8]
Raggedy Ann is a character created by American writer Johnny Gruelle (1880–1938) that appeared in a series of books he wrote and illustrated for young children. Raggedy Ann is a rag doll with red yarn for hair and a triangle nose.
A dirty, shabbily clothed urchin. A ragamuffin. An urchin - poor and often mischievous city child. A tattered or ragged person. Used by Ben Jonson in 1611, spelt as tatter-de-Malian. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Philhewitt (talk • contribs) 00:06, 25 December 2011 (UTC) MORE here at this write H T T P first to see page
A golliwog in the form of a child's soft toy Florence Kate Upton's Golliwogg in formal minstrel attire in The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg in 1895. The golliwog, also spelled golliwogg or shortened to golly, is a doll-like character, created by cartoonist and author Florence Kate Upton, which appeared in children's books in the late 19th century, usually depicted as a type of ...
Rags to riches (also rags-to-riches) refers to any situation in which a person rises from poverty to wealth, and in some cases from absolute obscurity to heights of fame, fortune and celebrity—sometimes instantly. This is a common archetype in literature and popular culture, such as the writings of Horatio Alger, Jr.
A Raggedy Ann doll. Annabelle is an allegedly-haunted Raggedy Ann doll, housed in the now closed occult museum of the paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren.Annabelle was moved there after supposed hauntings in 1970.