The earliest trumpets, used as signaling or ceremonial instruments in many ancient cultures, were very natural: they were made of such things as ram's horns, ox horns, seashells, and elephant tusks.
Team Cow, whose motto is "Playing Well With Udders Since 2004, " hauls the group's gear in a revamped school bus, painted white with black spots, with a pair of bull's horns.
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The study, published in Biology Letters, backs previous theories which suggest male sheep's horns are curved to withstand head-on clashes, while female sheep's horns are spiked in order to push competitors away.
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Mr. JACK KEROUAC (Author, "On The Road"): Out we jumped in the warm, mad night, hearing a wild tenorman's bawling horns across the way going, ee-yah(ph), ee-ya, and hands clapping to the beat and folks yelling go, go, go.
But the truth is Hibs have not been challenging regularly for silverware since the early to mid 1970s when Eddie Turnbull's wonderful team locked horns with Jock Stein's Celtic, albeit finishing second more often than not.
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For Gress, it's an update of how horns intertwine in old New Orleans jazz.
The raucous buildup to the G-20 summit in Seoul this week may put some nationalist U.S. conservatives on the horns of a dilemma.
Chiurai's posters, which showed Mugabe in flames with horns on his head, raised the ire of Zimbabwe's ruling elite and got Chiurai into trouble.
The ITC's decision on Monday is the latest win for Apple, which has been locking horns with competitors in courtrooms around the world as they argue over whether their products infringe one another's patents.
The orchestral swells are still there, complete with strings and horns, and The Arcade Fire's signature sound hasn't changed much.
Painting with horns suits Oliver, because he's a visual artist himself.
Car drivers honk horns and wave flags bearing the country's national red and white colors.
It was not the distinctive white triangle between his horns that made Raton one of Spain's best known fighting bulls but the carnage he caused in the arena.
"Many of the demos and alternate tracks I heard when I first pulled the tapes were beautiful, stripped-down versions of the originals, which tended to bury the essence of his songs with overdubbed strings, choirs and horns, " said Cheryl Pawelski, Omnivore's founder and the set's producer.
And he's recorded with his own group, Fred Wesley and the Horny Horns.
The two companies have since locked horns in courtrooms around the world, attempting to slow one another's sales or take some share of their profits.
Previn's score for his first opera is most successful during its jazzier moments, when horns and the clarinet take prominence and give the boozy, detached feel of Blanche.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Justice Department have launched "Operation Crash" using undercover agents and electronic surveillance in an effort to stop the black market trade in rhino horns, which has led to poaching and has reduced the world's rhino population by more than 90 percent since 1970.
Vigne says that strong demand for horns from China and the Far East has created a lucrative poaching market that's attracted organized criminals who are increasingly using more sophisticated methods in their illegal activities.
The first orchestral music calling specifically for valve horns dates from 1835, and the first important solo work for valve horn was Robert Schumann's Adagio and Allegro for horn and piano, written in 1849.
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