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Motorcycle club members meet at a run in Australia in 2009. An outlaw motorcycle club, known colloquially as a bikie gang (in Australia), biker gang or motorcycle gang, is a motorcycle subculture generally centered on the use of cruiser motorcycles, particularly Harley-Davidsons and choppers, and a set of ideals that purport to celebrate freedom, nonconformity to mainstream culture, and ...
Color symbolism in art, literature, and anthropology refers to the use of color as a symbol in various cultures and in storytelling. There is great diversity in the use of colors and their associations between cultures [1] and even within the same culture in different time periods. [2] The same color may have very different associations within ...
The ushabti (also called shabti or shawabti, with a number of variant spellings) was a funerary figurine used in ancient Egyptian funerary practices. The Egyptological term is derived from ๐ ฑ๐๐๐๐ญ๐พ wลกbtj, which replaced earlier ๐ท๐ฏ๐๐๐ญ๐พ ลกwbtj, perhaps the nisba of ๐๐ฏ๐๐ญ ลกw๊ฃb " Persea tree ...
When a person or subject is "Cooked" (As an adjective), it's the state of being in any sort of danger, physical, emotional, of failure, or of reputation. Can be used in a similar fashion to "Doomed." It can also mean to have been humiliated, embarrassed, or messed up in some way. Popularized on Twitter in early 2023.
September 14: Westminster Hall. For a procession that brought the coffin from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Hall, the late monarch's casket was draped in the Royal Standard, or a flag that ...
Another term for a clear signal, derived from the days of steam where a station operator would hoist a large wooden ball up a standard, signaling that the engineer was authorized to proceed; A slang term used among railroad employees to convey to the crew of a train that they were clear to proceed; High cube (US)
6. Hoosegow. Used to describe: Jail or prison Coming from the Spanish word "juzgado" which means court of justice, hoosegow was a term used around the turn of the last century to describe a place ...
A shop window display of coffins at a Polish funeral director's office. A casket showroom in Billings, Montana, depicting split lid coffins. A coffin is a funerary box used for viewing or keeping a corpse, either for burial or cremation . Coffins are sometimes referred to as a casket, particularly in American English.