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ram's horn

Ram's horn (aircraft yoke) with a placard holder.

Another version of ram's horn.

The pilot- or flight-control yoke, or the control column resembling a ram's horn. Except for combat aircraft and some light and training aircraft, the control column in most aircraft is of the ram's horn type.

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The North Star began, like the Ram's Horn, in 1847, and despite financial troubles and a name change, it lasted until 1860.

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The mass of a ram's horn is heaviest near the base and tapers down in size toward the tip.

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All of the strength of Jubilee 2000 was found in the eloquence of readings from the Koran, the joyful noises of cappella hymns, a rabbi blowing on a ram's horn and Hindu prayers punctuated by a conch shell.

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So they started crusading newspapers of their own, such as Freedom's Journal, founded in 1827, and Ram's Horn and Frederick Douglass' The North Star, both founded in 1847.

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A ram's horn is blown to remind Jews of Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son Isaac.

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Ram's Horn, a Canadian newsletter, reports that Monsanto informed the Canadian government that it was recalling 60,000 bag units of two types of canola seeds -- enough to plant 600,000 to 750,000 acres of land -- because one or both types contained the wrong gene.

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At inaugural ceremonies in 1995, a Jewish rabbi was brought in from Jerusalem to blow a shofar, a ram's horn sounded on ceremonial occasions.

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Soon after, the ram's horn, called el cacho, sounds again, and I ask the horn-blower if he could repeat the blow so we can film him.