The cow, unlike a bull or steer, kept her eyes open and her mind on her business when chargin', and a cow `` on the prod '' or `` on the peck '' was feared by the cowhand more than any of his other charges.

The first undoubted instance is the bull by which Alexander II in 1063 granted the use of the mitre to Egelsinus, abbot of the monastery of St Augustine at Canterbury.

This approval of slavery was reaffirmed and extended in the Romanus Pontifex bull of 1455 ( also by Nicholas V ).

In 1589, by the bull Cum pro nostri temporali munere, Pope Sixtus V re-organised the choir of St Peter's, Rome specifically to include castrati.

The procedure initiated by the text of Alexander III, confirmed by a bull of Pope Innocent III in the year 1200, issued on the occasion of the canonization of Saint Cunegunde, led to increasingly elaborate inquiries.

Earth is represented in the Aztec religion by a house ; to the Hindus, a lotus ; to the Scythians, a plough ; to the Greeks, a wheel ; and in Christian iconography by a bull.

After Pope Pius II, in his bull Execrabilis ( 1460 ) and his reply to the University of Cologne ( 1463 ), set aside the theory of the supremacy of general councils laid down by the Council of Constance

This petition was complied with by Pope Pius IV, January 26, 1564, in the papal bull, Benedictus Deus, which enjoins strict obedience upon all Catholics and forbids, under pain of excommunication, all unauthorized interpretation, reserving this to the Pope alone and threatens the disobedient with " the indignation of Almighty God and of his blessed apostles, Peter and Paul.

The so-called Cimbrian bull (" Cimbrertyren "), a sculpture by Anders Bundgaard, was erected 14 April 1937 on a central town square in Aalborg, the capital of the region of North Jutland.

The Tridentine Creed was initially contained in the papal bull Iniunctum Nobis, issued by Pope Pius IV on November 13, 1565.

These new lands were divided between the Portuguese Empire and Spanish Empire, first by the papal bull Inter caetera and then by the Treaty of Tordesillas and the Treaty of Zaragoza ( 1529 ).

She joined the Maenads disregarding her pregnancy, and got into labor when she was dragging a sacrificial bull by the horns.

* Regimini militantis Ecclesiae was the papal bull promulgated by Pope Paul III on September 27, 1540, which gave a first approval to the Society of Jesus, also known as the Jesuits, but limited the number of its members to sixty.

The papal bull provoked legislative initiatives against Catholics by Parliament, which were however mitigated by Elizabeth's intervention.

In the myth of Inanna's descent, Inanna, in order to console her grieving sister Ereshkigal, who is mourning the death of her husband Gugalana ( gu, bull, gal, big, ana, sky / heaven ), slain by Gilgamesh and Enkidu, sets out to visit her sister.

The Fourth Council of the Lateran was convoked by Pope Innocent III with the papal bull of April 19, 1213, and the Council gathered at Rome's Lateran Palace beginning November 11, 1215.

Although the belief was widely held since at least Late Antiquity, the doctrine was not formally proclaimed until December 8, 1854, by Pope Pius IX in his papal bull Ineffabilis Deus.

The bull recounts that the Fathers interpreted the angel's address to Mary, " highly favoured one " or " full of grace ", as indicating that " she was never subject to the curse and was, together with her Son, the only partaker of perpetual benediction "; and they " frequently compare her to Eve while yet a virgin, while yet innocence, while yet incorrupt, while not yet deceived by the deadly snares of the most treacherous serpent ".

" Ignatius ' plan of the order's organization was approved by Pope Paul III in 1540 by the bull containing the Formula of the Institute.

This being was depicted in two major forms: firstly, as a 4-legged bison with a human head, and secondly, as a being with a man's head and torso attached to the rear legs and tail of a bull or bison.

Among the creatures that a draugr may turn into are a seal, a great flayed bull, a grey horse with a broken back but no ears or tail, and a cat that would sit upon a sleeper's chest and grow steadily heavier until the victim suffocated.

The Minotaur is commonly represented in Classical art with the body of a man and the head and tail of a bull.

This was a stuffed, headless animal skin, often a feline or bull, which was tied by the tail to a pole terminating in a lotus bud, inserted into a stand.

In the Dictionnaire Infernal by Collin de Plancy, Asmodeus is depicted with the breast of a man, a cock leg, serpent tail, three heads ( one of a man spitting fire, one of a sheep, and one of a bull ), riding a lion with dragon wings and neck, all of these animals being associated with either lascivity, lust or revenge.

He " is strong, powerful and appears with three heads ; the first is like a bull, the second like a man, and the third like a ram ; the tail of a serpent, and from his mouth issue flames of fire.

There is a possible confusion between the mapinguari with another type of reported cryptid, the Lobo-Toro or Capelobo, literally the Bull-Wearing-the-Skin-of-a-Wolf, thought to be a description of the groundsloth as a creature the size of a bull but with the coarse pelt and long thick tail of a wolf.

The heaviest bull elephant recorded was shot by the Maharajah of Susang in the Garo Hills of Assam, India in 1924, and weighed, stood tall and long from head to tail.

During a fight on May 13, 1959, in Aranjuez, Ordóñez is badly gored but remains in the ring and kills the bull, a performance rewarded by trophies of both the bull's ears, its tail, and a hoof.

The trophy was the tail of a bull awarded each year to a last place sailor.

He is a winged dragon with the head of a sparrow, the horns of a bull, body and legs of a stag and the tail of a snake.

Unless the intruder showed submission by lowering his head, the bull kept his ears erect, and waved his tail or tucked it between his legs, and a clash of horns and head-butting would take place.

The Benny the Bull suit consists of a whole-body bull costume made of bright red fur with large white eyes, a tan snout, a long red tail and black gloves with red fur on the back.

With his brother Tauriscus, he executed the marble group known as the Farnese Bull, representing Zethus and Amphion tying the revengeful Dirce to the tail of a wild bull.

Appears as a humanoid bull with jet wings and a large cannon on its back that fires cannon balls, a launchable mace for its tail, and two smaller particle cannons on its shoulders that fire beams of electricity that destroys enemies on an atomic level and rivals the Moon Attack.

Fei Lian is a fearsome spirit who generally took the form of a one-eyed bull with the tail of a serpent ; he resides in Mount Tai.

Famous people from Junín include Argentine supermodel Yesica Toscanini, Tour de France cyclist Juan Antonio Flecha, football greats such as coach Osvaldo Zubeldía, forward Atilio García and goalie Federico Vilar, and the " wild bull of the pampas ," boxer Luis Ángel Firpo ; Junín was also where Eva Duarte was raised until an opportunity in radio took her to Buenos Aires, in 1935.

As evidence of these movements, bull sharks tagged inside the lake have later been caught in the open ocean ( and vice versa ), with some taking as little as 7 – 11 days to complete the journey.

The very citadel of spoils politics, the hitherto impregnable fortress that had existed unshaken since it was erected on the foundation laid by Andrew Jackson, was tottering to its fall under the assaults of this audacious and irrepressible young man .... Whatever may have been the feelings of the ( fellow Republican party ) President ( Harrison ) — and there is little doubt that he had no idea when he appointed Roosevelt that he would prove to be so veritable a bull in a china shop — he refused to remove him and stood by him firmly till the end of his term.

The emperor continued giving little or no resistance against papal interference with his power ; he even ignored a bull by Innocent which stated that the emperor's authority derived from him.

El torico ( The little bull ), Teruel's totem.

One of Teruel's best known monuments is very small statue of a bull on top of a tall column, known as El Torico (" the little bull ").

Alice rides a bull which has little trouble throwing the little girl off his back.

" Still, little changed, as most local authorities ignored the bull.

A little inside is the four-pillared Nandimantapa, which has a fine large stone bull.

Alabama editor Ray Jenkins described the alleged McGovern-Sparkman connection as " just a little too much bull ... for the most unsophisticated Alabama voters, It was an insult to them in a way.

El Torito ( Spanish for " the little bull ") is a Mexican restaurant chain, consisting of 69 restaurants which are located primarily in California.

Ray Mungo, in his classic account of the American underground press, Famous Long Ago, gave a cynical account of the origins of the typical underground newspaper: " Lots of radicals will give you a very precise line about why their little newspaper was started and what needs it fulfills and most of that stuff is bull.

While these papal bulls initially did little more than confer the privileges of a specified university such as Bologna or Paris, by the end of the 13th century universities sought a papal bull conferring on them ius ubique docendi, the privilege of granting to masters licences to teach in all universities without further examination ( Haskins, 1941: 282 ).