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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.
The Pack of Ragamuffins: Also known as: Das Lumpengesindel, The Adventures of Chanticleer and Partlet: How They Went to the Mountains to Eat Nuts, The Pack of Ragamuffins, The Vulgar Crew, A Pack of No-goods, Riffraff, The Pack of Scoundrels: Aarne–Thompson grouping: ATU 210 (The Traveling Animals and the Wicked Man) Country: Germany ...
Porongos Massacre or Porongos Betrayal was the penultimate confrontation of the Ragamuffin War (1835-1845) [1] [2] and occurred on November 14, 1844. The battle was primarily responsible for ending the longest of Brazil's revolutions.
There are numerous folktales about the Manx cat, all of them of "relatively recent origin"; [15]: 7 they are focused entirely on the lack of a tail, and are devoid of religious, philosophical, or mythical aspects found in the traditional Irish–Norse folklore of the native Manx culture, and in legends about cats from other parts of the world.