Briefly, I would define meta-culture as a systems approach to the problem of human culture, both generally defined as a theoretical and central anthropological concept, and defined in an applied and methodological sense in the various forms that metacultural application might take.
General Tom Thumb. Charles Sherwood Stratton (January 4, 1838 â July 15, 1883), better known by his stage name General Tom Thumb, was a little person who achieved great fame as a performer under circus pioneer P.T. Barnum. 1 Childhood and early life.
Often mistakenly called a Tom Thumb snaffle due to its broken mouthpiece, this device is really a short shanked leverage bit. Folks today think the name Tom Thumb suggests the bit is mild however the bit was named after a locomotive on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad with the same name; a small locomotive that was for it's time the most powerful engine of its size in existence.