Osborne bull Osborne bull The Osborne bull () is a high black silhouetted image of a bull in semi-profile. Nowadays the conservation of the bulls is handled by the family of Félix Tejada. The Osborne sherry company (founded by Thomas Osborne Mann in 1772) erected large images of bulls starting in 1956 to advertise their "Brandy de Jerez". The images were black (with the brand ""Veterano"" in red on it) advertising boards located near major roads throughout Spain. The original image was smaller and slightly different in design. The current larger image was created to comply with a law that prohibited advertising
Roger Osborne (writer) and '60s. "Ohio Magazine" featured Osborne's writings in a 12-page article in its September 1997 issue. Osborne has been published in numerous local, regional and national periodicals throughout the country, and portions of "The Mountains Wept" were used in a Japanese television documentary. Osborne is a native of Wharton, West Virginia, a coal mine community located in the southern part of the state. Roger Osborne was born July 3, 1936, in Wharton, West Virginia. He died May 30, 2007, at 5:17 a.m. in Hospice of Dayton. He is buried in Byron Cemetery, Fairborn, Ohio. Roger Osborne (writer) Roger Solomon Osborne