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Horn combs were common in the era before replacement by plastic, and are still made. Horn needle cases and other small boxes, particularly of water buffalo horn, are still made. One occasionally finds horn used as a material in antique snuff boxes. Horn strips for inlaying wood are a traditional technique.
Cornucopia of a Roman statue of Livia as Fortuna, 42-52 AD, marble, Altes Museum, Berlin.. In classical antiquity, the cornucopia (/ ˌ k ɔːr n (j) ə ˈ k oʊ p i ə,-n (j) uː-/; from Latin cornu 'horn' and copia 'abundance'), also called the horn of plenty, was a symbol of abundance and nourishment, commonly a large horn-shaped container overflowing with produce, flowers, or nuts.
Antler comes from the Old French antoillier (see present French : "Andouiller", from ant-, meaning before, oeil, meaning eye and-ier, a suffix indicating an action or state of being) [3] [4] possibly from some form of an unattested Latin word *anteocularis, "before the eye" [5] (and applied to the word for "branch" or "horn" [4]).
The interior of the Hotel El Capitan is a comfortably air conditioned trip into the distant past of Van Horn, with architecture and interior design that speaks to Van Horn’s origins as a stop in ...
A unicorn horn, also known as an alicorn, [1] is a legendary object whose reality was accepted in Europe and Asia from the earliest recorded times. This "horn" comes from the creature known as a unicorn , also known in the Hebrew Bible as a re'em or wild ox. [ 2 ]
Hopes of cutting through Central America to connect the world’s oceans date back to the early 16 th century, when Spanish explorers surveyed routes along the Chagres River and deemed any path ...
The great hornbill was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae.He placed it with the rhinoceros hornbill in the genus Buceros and coined the binomial name Buceros bicornis.
During the first month after Election Day in November, the S&P stock index rose a nifty 5.3%.Investors cheered incoming President Donald Trump, who promised fiscal stimulus in the form of tax cuts ...