During the US bull market of the 1920s, there were numerous such vehicles offered privately to wealthy investors.

Sacrificial victims ( hostiae ) offered to Jupiter were the ox ( castrated bull ), the lamb ( on the Ides, the ovis idulis ) and the wether ( on the Ides of January ).

By the end of the year, a solution was offered by the new papal bull Etsi de statu, which allowed clerical taxation in cases of pressing urgency.

Historian Richard Raiswell sees this as a significant turning point because before this Canon Law had only sanctioned slavery in the context of a just war and un-baptized captives, but with the issuing of this bull the only protection offered was if the person became a Christian.

Finally Paris offered a golden crown to any bull that could defeat his champion.

He sailed to Crete, whereupon the King, Minos, gave Heracles permission to take the bull away and offered him assistance, which Heracles denied because of pride, as it had been wreaking havoc on Crete by uprooting crops and leveling orchard walls.

This character of the festival as well as the fact that Neptune was offered the sacrifice of a bull would point to an agricultural fertility context.

As rule over Ireland had been offered to the Plantagenets by the papal bull Laudabiliter in 1155, Edward's allies, led by Donall O ' Neill, sent a remonstrance to Pope John XXII in 1317.

In Pompeii, the Genius of the living emperor was offered a bull: presumably a standard practise in Imperial cult, though minor offerings ( incense and wine ) were also made.

The story tells that a Duke offered a reward for anyone who could capture it, so some young men tied a bull to a chain, and when the lindworm swallowed the bull, it was hooked like a fish and killed.

All merging clubs brought a piece of their old identity into the new club: Atlético Cuernavaca offered its name ; Celeste de Celaya offered their light blue colors and Atlético Español provided their mascot, the bull, engendering their nickname toros ( bulls ).

The Holy of Holies was entered once a year by the High Priest on the Day of Atonement, to sprinkle the blood of sacrificial animals ( a bull offered as atonement for the Priest and his household, and a goat offered as atonement for the people ) and offer incense upon the Ark of the Covenant and the mercy seat which sat on top of the ark in the First Temple ( the Second Temple had no ark and the blood was sprinkled where the Ark would have been and the incense was left on the Foundation Stone ).

** A. Eizehu mekoman shel z ' vachim Places for the zevachim korbanot to be offered: "... The slaughter of the bull and the he-goat of Yom Kippur is in the north the altar ..."

He sailed to Crete, whereupon the King, Minos, gave Hercules permission to take the bull away and offered him assistance ( which Hercules denied because of pride ,), as it had been wreaking havoc on Crete by uprooting crops and leveling orchard walls.

Here the first wine was offered to Dionysus and the now-growing vine ; a bull was sacrificed with a double axe, and its blood mixed with the wine.

Numbers 23: 14, NIV 2011 " So he took him to the field of Zophim on the top of Pisgah, and there he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

The winning house in athletics is awarded a bull which is slaughtered and offered for a party.

In the list of more important bulls issued by him the famous bull " In Coena Domini " ( 1568 ) takes a leading place ; but amongst others throwing light on Pope Pius V's character and policy there may be mentioned his prohibition of quaestuary ( February 1567 and January 1570 ); the condemnation of Michael Baius, the heretical Professor of Leuven ( 1567 ); the reform of the breviary ( July 1568 ); the denunciation of the " dirum nefas " ( August 1568 ); the banishment of the Jews from the ecclesiastical dominions except Rome and Ancona ( 1569 ); the injunction of the use of the reformed missal ( July 1570 ); the confirmation of the privileges of the Society of Crusaders for the protection of the Inquisition ( October 1570 ); the dogmatic certainty of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary ( November 1570 ); the suppression of the Fratres Humiliati for profligacy ( February 1571 ); the approbation of the new office of the Blessed Virgin ( March 1571 ); the enforcement of the daily recitation of the Canonical Hours ( September 1571 ); and the purchase of assistance against the Turks by offers of plenary pardon ( March 1572 ).

Shortly after assuming office, Celestine issued a papal bull granting a rare plenary indulgence to all pilgrims visiting Santa Maria di Collemaggio through its holy door on the anniversary of his papal coronation.

He also tried to convince Pope Alexander VI to issue a crusading bull against the Russians and get some indulgence money, but his efforts were in vain.

The Holy Brotherhood was supported by the collection of taxes and by a special ability to collect wartime funding, called servicios which were granted by a papal bull as a crusading indulgence.

This order is known from a bull of Pope Gregory XI addressed to the monks of the church of St Ambrose outside Milan.

In traditional depictions, such as paintings, evangelist portraits and church mosaics, St. Luke is often accompanied by an ox or bull, usually having wings.

The bull greatly disturbed the peace of the Gallican ( French ) church.

The church retroactively declared the Beauforts legitimate by way of a papal bull the same year, confirmed by an Act of Parliament in 1397.

In religion, a papal bull authorized the use of torture in the Medieval Inquisition, and the Roman Catholic church clarified the concept of purgatory.

It was begun in 1174 by William II, and in 1182 the church, dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, was, by a bull of Pope Lucius III, elevated to the rank of a metropolitan cathedral.

When Gaunt and Swynford married in 1396 ( some 25 years after the birth of their first child ), the church rewarded them by legitimising their offspring through a papal bull.

There are a few businesses at the cross roads of State Highway 177 and State Highway 199 including a bank, gas station, day care, church, and bull dozer service.

In 1408 the townsmen attempted to get a papal bull to authorise the consecration of their church and cemetery but did not achieve this so they continued without the rights of baptism or burial.

In 1373 he declared in convocation that he would not contribute to a subsidy until the evils from which the church suffered were removed ; in 1375 he incurred the displeasure of the king by publishing a papal bull against the Florentines ; and in 1377 his decided action during the quarrel between John of Gaunt and William of Wykeham ended in a temporary triumph for the bishop.

Louis XIV wanting peace in the church, the elementary schools were forcibly closed by papal bull in 1660, following the formulary controversy.

Established by papal privilege ( papal bull ) the University in Freiburg actually was-like all or most universities in the Middle Ages-a corporation of the church body and therefore belonged to the Roman Catholic Church and its hierarchy.

Clericis laicos was a Papal bull issued on February 5, 1296 by Pope Boniface VIII in an attempt to prevent the secular states of Europe, in particular France and England, from appropriating church revenues without the express prior permission of the pope.

The town is first mentioned in historical records in 1158, in a bull of pope Adrian IV, with which the abbey of Monte Sacro obtained privileges on the church of St. Peter e St. Mary near the " castellum capralis ", a location identifiable as the municipality, as subsequently confirmed from historical documents.

In Toulouse, the earliest church dedicated to Notre-Dame du Taur (" Our Lady of the Bull ") still exists, though rebuilt ; though the 11th century Basilica of Saint Sernin, the largest surviving Romanesque structure in France, has superseded it, the church is said to be built where the bull stopped, but more credibly must in fact be on a site previously dedicated to a pre-Christian sacred bull, perhaps the bull of Mithras.

On November 20, 1965, by papal bull, Pope Paul VI elevated the church to the dignity of the basilica.

In response to Michael's refusal to address the issues at hand, the legatine mission took the extreme measure of entering the church of the Hagia Sophia during the Divine Liturgy and placing a bull of excommunication on the altar.

They are seruiceable against the Foxe and the Badger, to drive wilde and tame swyne out of Medowes, pastures, glebelandes ( church lands ) and places planted with fruite, to bayte and take the bull by the eare, when occasion so requireth.

* May 14, 1541: A papal bull of Pope Paul III, Illius Fulciti Praesidio, designated the church a Cathedral, by creating the diocese of the City of the Kings.

Following additional prayers of intercession directed towards the Apostles Peter and Paul and the " whole church of the saints " to defend Catholicism against Luther, the bull proceeds to list the forty-one propositions previously selected by the committee.