Finland's Hobbyhorse Girls, Once a Secret Society, Now Prance in Public For years, a subculture of teenage hobbyhorse enthusiasts flourished under the radar.
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Its meaning — hobbyhorse — was, meaningless in this context.
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"A veterinarian lectured girls on hobbyhorse vaccination schedules, saying 'check that the eyes are clear and there is no nasal discharge,' " the Times said of a recent hobbyhorse event in Helsinki.
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Voter fraud has long been a hobbyhorse of conservative media.
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Snapshot: Above, a hobbyhorse competition in Helsinki, Finland, last month.
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In "Finland's Hobbyhorse Girls, Once a Secret Society, Now Prance in Public," Ellen Barry writes: It is impossible to say exactly when the Finnish hobbyhorse craze began, because it spread for years under the radar before adults became aware of it.
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HELSINKI DISPATCH For years, a subculture of teenage hobbyhorse enthusiasts flourished under the radar.
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One possible way — and I know this is my hobbyhorse — is to pay the players.
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Here are 22020 of our favorites, including one about young hobbyhorse enthusiasts in Finland, above.
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The make-believe world of the hobbyhorse girls extended as far as the eye could see.
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Students, read the entire article, then tell us: — What are your thoughts on the hobbyhorse craze?
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There is a figure of a woman on a hobbyhorse, which has been a terrible obsession.
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In 2012, a filmmaker, Selma Vilhunen, stumbled across internet discussion boards used by hobbyhorse enthusiasts and was enraptured.
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When Ms. Vilhunen's documentary film, "Hobbyhorse Revolution," was released in 2017, it captured its subjects in long spells of raucous joy.
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"The normal things, that normal girls like, they don't feel like my things," 11-year-old hobbyhorse enthusiast Fanny Oikarinen told the Times.
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Asked which types of girls are drawn to hobbyhorses, Maisa Wallius, a Finnish girl training for a hobbyhorse competition, thinks for a while.
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Like my nemesis Mike Isaac, I'm going to write a book about my hobbyhorse — how Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google are conquering the world.
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Read more " _____ • Christine Emba in The Washington Post: "Affirmative action is a consistent hobbyhorse on the right because it combines real anxieties with compelling falsehoods.
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Just recently I added a male figure to the painting of the woman – who evolved into being seated on a barrel, rather than a hobbyhorse.
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One of the girls she sought out as a guide to the hobbyhorse scene was Alisa Aarniomaki, a teenager from a city on Finland's west coast.
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The story had been a hobbyhorse on the right for a long time, but Andrew and I and our director, John Curran, are all dyed-in-the-wool liberals.
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At the meeting, Veselnitskaya instead discussed what she said were unjust U.S. sanctions on Russia — a hobbyhorse of the Kremlin since the passage of the Magnitsky Act in 2012.
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Polling shows majority support for universal health care and taxing the rich, while almost no one thinks the national debt, Schultz's hobbyhorse, is the most important problem in America.
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The Facebook founder's address started boilerplate enough, with Zuckerberg centering his talk around the importance of purpose, which, for him, is the nonthreatening concept of "connecting the world," his longtime hobbyhorse.
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Teenage girls had invented a form of hobbyhorse dressage, in which the rider's lower body pranced and galloped like a horse, while her upper body remained erect and motionless like a rider.
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The closing statement said it all — when Sanders was determined to pivot to his anti-billionaire hobbyhorse even in the face of a public health crisis not seen in over 100 years.
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The Attorney General had no business volunteering such a judgment about an investigation he did not conduct, but, when it came to obstruction of justice, he could not resist riding a favorite hobbyhorse.
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In putting the blame on foreign enemies—rather than focusing on issues of gun control and our treatment of LGBTQ people of color—McCain is using the tragedy to ride his well-worn hobbyhorse.
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And there is a wider, worldwide heritage of ritual animal disguise, including the similar practice of hoodening in Kent, England, which features a hobbyhorse on a pole held by a person under a sheet.
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He retweeted a retired psychology professor whose hobbyhorse is the idea that Jews are destroying America, and made an odd reference to the media "warming up the gas chambers" if Trump matched Hillary Clinton's alleged misdeeds.
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There's no particularly good reason for Trump to ensnare himself in a contentious fight with veterans groups in order to pursue a conservative ideological hobbyhorse — and, in fact, he initially appointed Shulkin precisely to avoid doing that.
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Mr. Cruz's hobbyhorse is the administration's plan at the end of the month to transfer its oversight of domain name registrations to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a multinational private organization based in Los Angeles.
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Greenland has recently been a hobbyhorse among some cognoscenti and the Davos crowd given the threat of a warming planet and the vast real estate, to say nothing of its other resources, the territory administered by Denmark possesses.
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As a Trump hobbyhorse, the anthem protests pack all the key elements: They provide a grand spectacle, undercut an institution that Trump feels personal spite toward and highlight an issue that he believes he can exploit for political gain.
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While it may seem like the girls are simply pretending to ride their horses, it becomes as genuine as it can get at competitions, where they'll learn how to care for their hobbyhorse just as if it were a real animal.
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The turds who would make this story about them or their stupid hobbyhorse hashtags will always be with us, but also we have built sewers expressly for turds, and reasonable people generally don't spend much time talking sports down there.
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But I know I bring baggage to every single piece of writing I produce, whether the writing is personal narrative, historical fiction, literary criticism or reportage: I bring the specifically deforming influence of my own history, my hobbyhorse theories and my fascinations.
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Pero en Finlandia grupos de niñas han encontrado refugio a esas presiones con una afición particular: hobbyhorse, la equitación con caballos de palo que ha cobrado mucha popularidad en los últimos años y hasta se ha vuelto una exportación finlandesa destacada [en inglés].
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After all, one longtime Trump hobbyhorse (cutting off aid to the countries where most current migrants are coming from) has finally turned into State Department policy; another idea that most in the administration opposed, closing ports of entry at the border, came dangerously close to reality last week.
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By the end of Mr. Thiel's speech on Thursday night, it's possible he will have succeeded in showing off an ideology that is rarely encountered in public — the hands-off-my-stuff, techno-libertarian vision that is a hobbyhorse of Mr. Thiel and a few other Silicon Valley bigwigs.
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Right now, almost all the discussion of our meritocracy's vices assumes the system's basic post-WASP premises, and hopes that either more inclusion (the pro-diversity left's fixation) or a greater emphasis on academic merit (the anti-affirmative right's hobbyhorse) will cure our establishment's all-too-apparent ills.
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The economy was in dismal shape in the fall of 2010, and while the administration was doing what it could to improve the economy, they had also clearly spent a lot of time and energy on a longtime liberal hobbyhorse — giving health insurance to the uninsured — that had only a limited relevance to most people.
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He also told friends that the N.F.L., particularly Goodell, was intent on freezing him out, on account of his history with the U.S.F.L. When I interviewed Trump — now a presidential candidate — for an article a year later, he was still nursing a grudge, and on a particular hobbyhorse about how unfairly the league had treated his "great friend" Tom Brady.
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Schumer and Booker, perhaps recognizing the increasing popular support for a $15 minimum wage among the Democratic base, have changed their tune on this and other economic issues since the 2016 election The Center for American Progress, the most important think tank in the Democratic Party, recently came out and endorsed a federal job guarantee program — a longtime progressive hobbyhorse.
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The president's response was a word salad that included denunciations of the Democratic National Committee not giving its physical server to the FBI (a frequent hobbyhorse of his), a conspiracy theory about a separate case involving a Pakistani American who was working for House Democrats before being embroiled in scandal and pleading guilty to making a false statement on a loan application, and those famous "missing emails" of Clinton's.
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He tells how Socrates one time made a hobbyhorse out of reed for his sons. He would then play with the hobbyhorse with them showing Socrates' personal parental side.
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The most famous and elaborate case for resemblance modified by reference, is made by art historian Ernst Gombrich.Gombrich, E. H. (1960) Art and Illusion (Oxford: Phaidon Press).Gombrich, E. H. (1963) Meditations on a Hobbyhorse (Oxford, Phaidon Press).Gombrich, E. H. The Image and the Eye (Oxford and New York: Phaidon Press).
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Banana rib hobbyhorse riding (, , ), is a Thai game for children. It incorporates a banana rib, as banana trees are found easily in Thai neighborhoods. One banana rib is cut from the tree, about a meter long, and a banana leaf tip is carved off using a sharp knife. This becomes part of the horse's body.
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Ngaio Marsh's detective story Off with His Head (1957) is set around a particular version of the Guiser play / Sword Dance, the fictional "Dance of the Five Sons", performed on the "Sword Wednesday" of the Winter Solistice. The characters used in that dance are describes in great detail, in particular "The Fool", "The Hobbyhorse" and "The teaser" (called "Betty").
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In chronostratigraphy, the British sub-stage of the Carboniferous period, the 'Arundian' derives its name from Hobbyhorse Bay in the Castlemartin communityarundo being the Latin for hobby horse.Harland, W.B. 1990 A Geologic Time Scale 1989, Cambridge University Press, p43 Castlemartin has of coastline, much of it consisting of spectacular limestone cliffs characterised by large sea caves, natural arches and stacks.
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Writing and editing articles for 243x243px In the 16th century, the term "hobyn" had the meaning of "small horse and pony". The term "hobby horse" was documented in a 1557 payment confirmation for a "Hobbyhorse" from Reading, England. The item, originally called a "Tourney Horse", was made of a wooden or basketwork frame with an artificial tail and head. It was designed for a child to mimic riding a real horse.
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Karl Drais c. 1820, then still a baron Karl von Drais on his original Laufmaschine, the earliest two-wheeler, or hobbyhorse in 1819 A Draisine from around 1820, built with cherry tree wood and softwood. Displayed at the Kurpfälzisches Museum in Heidelberg, Germany. Karl Freiherr von Drais (full name: Karl Friedrich Christian Ludwig Freiherr Drais von Sauerbronn) (29 April 1785 in Karlsruhe – 10 December 1851 in Karlsruhe) was a noble German forest official and significant inventor in the Biedermeier period.
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The Liver and Cancer by Kasper Blond. The Indian Journal of Medical Research 50 (4-6): 666. He cited cases of cancer patients being successfully treated with vegetable juices, yoghurt, raw vegetables and fruit. Pathologist J. H. O. Earle in The British Medical Journal noted that: Physician Louis Lasagna negatively reviewed the book, stating that it promoted his theory that cancer is due to a sick liver but that was about all and it was "rather a disjointed and unconvincing bit of hobbyhorse riding".
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Painting of the Lajkonik celebrations from 1818 by Michał Stachowicz Whatever the origin, the city continues the tradition with a festival that has taken place every June for the past 700 years. The Lajkonik is a man dressed up as a warrior from the East. He rides a prancing white hobbyhorse through the city streets from the Premonstratensian (Norbertine) Convent in Zwierzyniec to the Main Market Square. People in traditional folklore dress accompany him while others are adorned in oriental garments and hold horsetail insignia in their hands.
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In October 2019, Shapps, a keen pilot then recently made transport secretary, wrote to the Civil Aviation Authority urging it to prioritise the protection of aerodromes and cut red tape for pilots. He was accused of "putting his hobbyhorse aviation ahead of the greater good" at a time when the CAA was involved in Brexit planning, Heathrow expansion and dealing with the collapse of Thomas Cook Group. In September 2020, he was accused of undermining the CAA by registering his private, UK-based plane in the USA instead of UK, still while transport secretary.
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The Legend of the Witch, Moll Dyer was choreographed by St. Mary's Ballet founder Jane Caputo and set to the music of Loreena McKennitt in 1999. The ballet was performed at St. Mary's Ryken High School and at the College of Southern Maryland's Leonardtown campus as part of the county's yearly Halloween celebration from 1999 to 2003 and again in 2006. The ballet recasts the legend in the mold of a morality tale of feminism and tolerance. The song "Fire and Snow" (2007) by folk/rock duo Hobbyhorse of San Francisco is about Moll Dyer.
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74–75, 98, 143, 206, 214–215, 219–220 Vinea's hobbyhorse was defending cosmopolitanism against traditionalist nationalism: he publicized the formative contribution of Greeks, Jews and Slavs to old and new Romanian literature, and ridiculed the conservative antisemitism of critics such as Ilarie Chendi, Mihail Dragomirescu, and Nicolae Iorga. Luminița Marcu, "Incendiarul ziarist Ion Vinea", Observator Cultural, Nr. 154, February 2003Cernat (2007), pp. 35, 65–66 Other noted targets were moderate "academic" Symbolists, including Anna de Noailles, Dimitrie Anghel, and especially Ovid Densusianu; and modernists of uncertain convictions, among them Eugen Lovinescu—to whom Vinea reserved some of his more bitter sarcasm.Cernat (2007), pp. 62–65, 108, 134 In a 1916 piece, he imagined Lovinescu as "a youth, already a bourgeois, already bloated and probably soft".
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In recognition of this, Murphy's client list was kept private, and a comprehensive list of clients is probably lost to history. But long before facilities such as the Betty Ford Clinic made celebrity rehabilitation more public and acceptable, the Bellows Farm Sanatorium treated clients including, according to rumor and legend, celebrities from the sporting and entertainment worlds of Boston and further afield, such as Jackie Gleason. Popular Boston newspaper columnist Howie Carr would occasionally reference Dropkick Murphy's sanatorium, sometimes in jeering reference to the Kennedy family, a particular bête noire and hobbyhorse of Carr's. The facility closed in 1971, Murphy died in 1977, and the sanatorium farmhouse has been converted to professional offices Some of the land around the sanatorium's former location has been developed into the Briarbrook Apartments and other properties.
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Others maintain > that it originates from the Romanian artists Tristan Tzara's and Marcel > Janco's frequent use of the words "da, da," meaning "yes, yes" in the > Romanian language. Another theory says that the name "Dada" came during a > meeting of the group when a paper knife stuck into a French–German > dictionary happened to point to 'dada', a French word for 'hobbyhorse'. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature, poetry, art manifestos, art theory, theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-war politics through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works. The creations of Duchamp, Picabia, Man Ray, and others between 1915 and 1917 eluded the term Dada at the time, and "New York Dada" came to be seen as a post facto invention of Duchamp.
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The film, which follows the heroic work of North Sea herring fishermen, was a radical departure from anything being made by the British film industry or Hollywood. A large part of its innovation lies in the fierce boldness in bringing the camera to rugged locations such as a small boat in the middle of a gale while leaving relatively less of the action staged. The choice of topic was chosen less from Grierson's curiosity than the fact that he discovered that the Financial Secretary had made the herring industry his hobbyhorse. It premiered in a private film club in London in November 1929 on a double-bill with Eisenstein's -then controversial- film The Battleship Potemkin (which was banned from general release in Britain until 1954) and received high praise from both its sponsors and the press.
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Off with His Head is a detective novel by Ngaio Marsh; it is the nineteenth novel to feature Roderick Alleyn. It was first published in the USA (by Little, Brown of Boston) in 1956, under the title Death of a Fool, and in the UK (by Collins) in 1957. Set in the freezing, snowbound Winter of a small English village, Mardian (based on the Kent village of Birling, where Marsh had recently stayed with her old friends, the Rhodes family), the plot concerns the annual performance in the courtyard of the local crumbling castle of an historic folkloric ritual, "The Dance of the Five Sons", containing elements of Morris dancing, sword dance and Mummers play. This fictional version of the English Guiser/Mummers play, performed on "Sword Wednesday" of the Winter Solstice, includes carefully detailed characters: "The Fool", "Crack" The Hobbyhorse and the half-man/half-woman "Betty".
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Stockhausen's former assistant Richard Toop wrote for the Sydney Morning Herald, > Clearly, there's something here to drive virtually everyone with a political > correctness hobbyhorse into a frenzy: this is probably one reason why > Leipzig is so far the only German opera house to commit itself to the LICHT > cycle. German critics in particular, many of whom still seem ideologically > ensnared in post-'68 nostalgia, and for whom Stockhausen clearly exists only > as something to be offended by, regularly get steamed up about the > "renunciation of reason" in the LICHT cycle, to a degree that itself seems > irrational. > This seems to me to involve a certain hypocrisy, or at very least a double > standard. It's quite clear what the function of music is for Stockhausen > these days: it's not just art (that too) but a means of raising human > consciousness to a cosmic level, through stage presentations which > synthesise old myths and seek to create new ones.
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