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Ram's Horn restaurant in Westland, Michigan. Ram's Horn is a family restaurant restaurant chain in the Detroit, Michigan metropolitan area. [1] [2] It was founded by three brothers, Gus, Gene, and Steve Kasapis, with the first location opening in 1967. [3] There are now 25 locations in Metro Detroit. Most stores are independently owned.
Initially, the blasts made by the ram's horn were blown during the first standing prayer on the Jewish New Year, but by a rabbinic edict, it was enacted that they be blown only during the Mussaf-prayer, because of an incident that happened, whereby congregants who blew the horn during the first standing prayer were suspected by their enemies of staging a war-call and were massacred. [2]
A shofar (/ ʃ oʊ ˈ f ɑːr / [1] shoh-FAR; from שׁוֹפָר , pronounced ⓘ) is an ancient musical horn typically made of a ram's horn, used for Jewish ritual purposes. Like the modern bugle, the shofar lacks pitch-altering devices, with all pitch control done by varying the player's embouchure.
Ram’s horn or ram horn usually refers to the spiral bony projection grown on the head of a male sheep (ram). It may also refer to: Ram's Horn (restaurant), a restaurant chain based in Detroit, Michigan, US; Ram's horn (shoe), or pigache, a type of shoe with a long, pointed, turned up toe; Bukkehorn, an ancient Scandinavian musical instrument ...
Proboscidea is a genus of flowering plant in the family Martyniaceae, some of whose species are known as devil's claw, devil's horn, ram's horn, or unicorn plant. The plants produce long, hooked seed pods. The hooks catch on the feet of animals, and as the animals walk, the pods are ground or crushed open, dispersing the seeds.
As the fruit dries and the flesh falls away, the hard beak splits into two horns. [3] The horns can be up to 30 centimeters long. [11] The fruit can contain black or white seeds; white-seeded plants are more common in cultivation. [11] The seeds can be over 43% oil. [11]
Planorbarius corneus, common name the great ramshorn, is a relatively large species of air-breathing freshwater snail, an aquatic pulmonate gastropod mollusk in the family Planorbidae, the ram's horn snails, or planorbids, which all have sinistral or left-coiling shells.
Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus described Nautilus spirula Linnaeus, 1758 in his book Systema Naturae. [4] In 1799, French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck described the genus Spirula and transferred this species to it, and Spirula spirula is the name still used today for the ram's horn squid.