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No ID on woman who died after being found on Rodeo Beach - Marin Independent-Journal
No ID on woman who died after being found on Rodeo Beach Marin Independent-Journal, CA - By Jim Staats Investigators have ruled out foul play in the death of a woman found ailing on Rodeo Beach Sunday morning, and have been unable to confirm her ... Cutbacks possibly to blame for death of woman on Rodeo Beach ... |
Lone Star State Kicks Off 2009 Rodeo Season - PR Newswire (press release)
Lone Star State Kicks Off 2009 Rodeo Season PR Newswire (press release), NY - With high stakes professional rodeo, concert performances by top name entertainers, carnivals, barbecue cook-offs, live auctions, trail rides and more, ... |
About Rodeo
Rodeo is a sport which arose out of the working practices of cattle herding in Spain, Mexico, and later the United States, Canada, South America and Australia. It was based on the skills required of the working vaqueros and later, cowboys, of what today is the western United States, western Canada, and northern Mexico. Today it is a sporting category that consists of several different timed and judged events that involve cattle and horses, designed to test the skill and speed of the human cowboy and cowgirl athletes who participate.
Rodeo, particularly popular today within the Canadian province of Alberta and throughout the western United States, is the official state sport of Wyoming and Texas, and the iconic silhouette image of a Bucking Horse and Rider is a federal and state registered trademark of the State of Wyoming. The Legislature of Alberta passed a non-binding private member's bill making rodeo the official sport of that province, however the Conservative government chose not to enact it.
In North America, the traditional season for competitive rodeo runs from spring through fall. The traditional peak time for the largest number of rodeos is the July 4th weekend. The modern professional rodeo circuit runs longer, and concludes with the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas, Nevada which is now held in December.
Rodeo has provoked protest and opposition from animal rights advocates who argue that various competitions constitute animal cruelty. In some cases, these groups have succeeded in having a number of local municipalities ban or restrict certain events.
The American English word "rodeo" is taken directly from Spanish "rodeo" . The most common English translation is "round up."
The Spanish word is derived from the verb rodear, meaning "to surround" or "go around," used to refer to "a pen for cattle at a fair or market," derived from the Latin rota or rotare, meaning to rotate or go around.
In Spanish America, the rodeo was the vaqueros' procedure for gathering up cattle for various purposes such as moving them to new pastures or to slaughter . The term was also used to refer to exhibitions of skills used in the working rodeo, and it is this latter usage which was adopted into the cowboy tradition of the United States and Canada.
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