With oxen, the big problem is they don't go backwards.
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They crunch under the wheels of bullock carts, startling the oxen.
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The bull (oxen) symbolizes that relentless pushing forward toward contentment and harmony.
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I do still get unreasonably sad when oxen die; that hasn't changed.
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They sat on the floor eating hare soup and musk oxen meat.
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And tax reform, at its core, is pain, the goring of oxen etc.
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"All that people had were hands and oxen and a boat," he said.
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Then oxen would haul the heavy stones to the edge of the island.
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Dr. Berger suspects that's why winter rain leaves musk oxen struggling to eat.
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Dr. Berger has studied musk oxen in Alaska for nearly a decade, and on Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports, he and his colleagues reported a disturbing finding: Musk oxen are unexpectedly vulnerable to rapid climate change in the Arctic.
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In response, aggrieved farmers simply slaughtered their horses and oxen or stopped feeding them.
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The Chinese soon sent word that they wanted musk oxen instead, Ms. Winchester said.
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The scale of spending means this proposal gores more conservative oxen than liberal ones.
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Nixon reciprocated the gift, up to a point, by sending two musk oxen to China.
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Key to history is killing soldiers and kings and queens, and sometimes horses and oxen.
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It's home to polar bears and musk oxen, and is the calving ground for porcupine caribou.
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Since the sect's earliest days, members sold goods to outsiders and shared oxen and other equipment.
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To determine why, they also gathered data about the conditions in which the musk oxen lived.
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It was not uncommon for Holstein cattle raised as oxen to reach weights of 3,000 pounds.
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The raw ingredient is usually transported on horseback and often crushed by the power of oxen.
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José Gordon says his oxen are raised in peak conditions in order to produce the tastiest meat.
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Thousands of oxen replaced tractors that could not function due to lack of petroleum and spare parts.
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Since his release thousands have come to see him, some bringing oxen to slaughter in the festivities.
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Two farmers have become an internet sensation in India after performing the Kiki Challenge alongside their oxen.
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There were skilled flag tossers, severe-looking military-style drummers, oxen-pulling chariots, floats of ancient design.
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British rugby players grow up boshing into one another with all the subtlety of a herd of oxen.
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Babul is spending the morning plowing the field with two oxen, his body smeared in dark brown mud.
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"People have began using the skins from mules, horses, pigs and oxen to produce counterfeit tonics," Xinhua said.
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As they grew in size, it became difficult to lead oxen down the narrow staircase of his house.
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There were teams of men, teams of oxen, big ocean ships, flat river barges, inclement weather, monthslong delays.
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The money went to buy six teams of oxen, which are much faster than the traditional hand tilling.
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Dr. Berger cautioned that he and his colleagues followed musk oxen only until they were three years old.
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The video of the two farmers shaking their booties next to a team of oxen has proved irresistible.
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Hitch up your oxen and watch for dysentery as Fault Line Theater produces this play by Bekah Brunstetter.
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In response, the government cut bus services, suspended manufacturing and urged farmers to use oxen instead of tractors.
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She made money to buy oxen so she could plow fields and earn more money to liberate herself.
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Toxins, oxen, by the way I smell now, it's anyone's guess what is going on south of my shoulders.
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The version that most '80s kids remember was developed in 1985, with pixelated graphics, dysentery, and plenty of oxen.
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Normally, musk oxen survive each winter by pushing their snouts through snow to find lichen, moss and other plants.
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Student Opinion Two farmers have become an internet sensation in India after performing the Kiki Challenge alongside their oxen.
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Guiding a pair of oxen, he drew a wooden plow over his field, turning over thousands of shriveled carrots.
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Only one of them has to worry about whether or not her team of oxen can ford the river.
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There aren't even oxen strong enough to pull a plow, meaning that most farming is still done by hand.
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Unsurprisingly, most peanut oil is produced with machines, not oxen, but hsi zone millers are still used in remote villages.
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Back at his office, Dr. Berger and his colleagues examined the pictures to determine how young musk oxen were growing.
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And on Wrangel Island, he and his colleagues discovered, young musk oxen had significantly smaller heads than their Alaskan cousins.
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And in the late 19th century, massive political barbecues in New York were used to sway voters with oxen feasts.
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A few days before, he presided over the nation's Royal Plowing Ceremony, in which sacred oxen forecast the year's crops.
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Noticing the young woman nearby as he plows a field, he worries his oxen will see how rattled he is.
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Eating beef is enough to warrant execution, since oxen often do the work of machinery, which is limited in the state.
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Horses and oxen greatly improved farm productivity—but livestock were mainly owned by the rich (who could also rent them out).
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According to Historian Glenn Richard, over 3,000 sheep and lambs, 800 calves, and 300 oxen were slaughtered by the engorged horde.
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Since Dolly was born, researchers have cloned 23 mammal species, including cattle, cats, deer, dogs, horses, mules, oxen, rabbits and rats.
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In a warming landscape, pregnant female musk oxen may struggle to find enough food for their unborn calves, the researchers found.
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At the start of the festivities, more than 7,000 people join musicians and farm animals — predominantly horses and oxen — in the streets.
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It's home to polar bears, musk oxen, and migratory birds from six continents, and is the calving ground for the porcupine caribou.
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A few days before his big day, he presided over the Royal Plowing Ceremony, in which sacred oxen forecast the year's crops.
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She assays such varied pursuits as making a mattress out of rush, fermenting grain for ale, and plowing a field with oxen.
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The oxen that the presidency buys to feed them every month ought to be enough to satisfy even the hungriest of them.
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In a world where live oak leaves fall "like pennies" and teams of oxen move in "a ponderous waltz," everything is news.
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"This year, the royal oxen ate rice, predicting bountiful grains and fruits," said farm ministry official Meesak Pakdeekong, as he read the interpretation.
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Just beyond the city limits of Pyongyang, farmers are still ploughing fields with oxen; women carry big bundles of firewood on their backs.
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The wake of histories crooked and quaking, although the king's crown vanished long ago with the horses and the oxen, and the king.
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Colo's own choreographed procession comes alive with actors, dancers, oxen, donkeys, and goats to demonstrate a contemporary exodus deeply rooted in the past.
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Every spring, the thawing earth would have pushed more rocks to the surface, for farmers and oxen to drag away to the periphery.
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Dr. Berger started collaborating with Russian scientists to study a population of musk oxen on Wrangel Island, off the coast of northeastern Siberia.
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If winter rains become more common in places like Siberia and Alaska, Dr. Berger warned, the range of musk oxen may drastically shrink.
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The society's first livestock competition in 1811 had 383 sheep, seven bulls, 109 oxen, nine cows, three heifers, two calves and one boar.
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It also has one of the largest cattle populations in the state of Amazonas, with eight oxen per every person who lives there.
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PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia's royal oxen predicted a plentiful harvest of rice, the country's biggest crop, at an ancient plowing ceremony on Wednesday.
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While she is at work, her sister manages the household, taking care of their oxen and rice farming their land for extra food.
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In October 2003, a severe rain-on-snow event killed 20,000 musk-oxen on Banks Island in northern Canada, reducing the herd by 25%.
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The craft distillery has added ingredients to its aquavits such as Indonesian hot peppers, smoked bacon and even the jawbone from an Angus oxen.
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The countryside looks like a lot of places in northern Asia — dry and brown in April — with oxen pulling carts, and few motorized vehicles.
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Thailand's royal oxen predicted a good harvest at a plowing ceremony this month presided over by newly crowned King Maha Vajiralongkorn and his queen.
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One of her workshops incorporated sheets of the stone into two matching oak tables, carved with diamond patterns and arches that resemble oxen yokes.
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The Halo Smart's major architectural feature is a collar that sits on the back of the wearer's neck, not entirely unlike an electric oxen yoke.
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In 1876, Republicans in Brooklyn invited crowds of voters to a campaign barbecue after parading through the streets of New York with two massive oxen.
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All in all, cows and their ruminant cohorts (goats, sheep, and oxen) pump a staggering 80 million metric tons of gas into our fragile atmosphere.
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Head-On, Tapio Kaisla, Finland Photographer Tapio Kaisla took a trip to Dovrefjell–Sunndalsfjell National Park, Norway, to find these magnificent oxen amid their natural habitat.
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Buy this book Buy this book Buy this book Buy this book For generations my ancestors had been strapping skillets onto their oxen and walking west.
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The venture brought new life to the economically depressed area, employing hundreds of quarrymen, squarers, sled men, stone cutters and cart drivers, who guided oxen trains.
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Young, who is 54, spent his early childhood in rural Mississippi, where he saw his father using the whip to direct teams of mule and oxen.
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By the time Thor finally makes off with it, oxen have been punched, giants have been slaughtered, and sea serpents have been caught on a fishing trip.
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Who to pick: Blake, master of oxen and dancing, or Garrett, who, in the bloopers, rubbed her hat with pom-poms and said, "I like your balls"?
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In 1876, in advance of a local election, Republicans in Brooklyn held a barbecue for the locals that involved roasting two oxen for sandwiches for 50,000 people.
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But Treasury has no business championing the cause of multinational tax avoiders, whether it is the United States or our European counterparts whose oxen are being gored.
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He explored the role of camels, zebras and oxen as means of transportation, and sketched the participation of Arab, Berber and Turkish regimes in the slave trade.
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"Close follower of a team?" could refer to a fan, but today it hints at the PLOW that follows closely behind a team of oxen or horses.
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A few years later, in 1811, the society's first livestock competition had 383 sheep, seven bulls, 109 oxen, nine cows, three heifers, two calves and one boar.
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Some have now swapped oxen and goats for "Meatmaster" sheep, bred by crossing desert-hardy but scrawny native sheep with breeds better known for packing on weight.
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It is home to imperiled polar bears, the porcupine caribou herd, musk oxen, wolves and nearly 200 species of migratory birds that migrate to all 50 states.
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So just like the PC game, you might want to save poor Bobby and two drowning oxen from a flooding river, but doing so would exhaust your supplies.
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CAPE TOWN (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In the parched, mountainous hills of Leliefontein, in South Africa's northwest Namakwa district, farmers have long made a living raising oxen and goats.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's royal oxen predicted a good harvest in an annual ploughing ceremony on Thursday, as the world's second-largest rice exporter heads into a new growing season.
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With little fuel for trucks or tractors, state-paid farmers had to start growing vegetables close to cities, using oxen and other animals to till the fields, Koont said.
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He and his colleagues were able to photograph only young musk oxen that had survived each winter, so it is possible that they missed runts that died between visits.
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Don't let the bushy coats fool you: The stars of this documentary, arctic wolves, are shrewd and dangerous hunters who prey on musk oxen, animals much bigger than them.
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Dressed in ornate robes and colorful headdresses, the oxen ate 85% of the rice and beans on offer and 90% of the corn in decorated bowls - indicating a bountiful harvest.
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In a demonstration project he calls Pleistocene Park, he's already introduced other big herbivores adapted to cold climates: moose, Yakutian horses, Finnish reindeer, North American bison, elk, musk oxen, yaks.
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"I was a bit scared when I did this for the first time," crane operator Mohammad Hanif said this week as he swung Ahmad's seven cows and oxen to the ground.
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Some of the deep depressions remain dry while others, a testament to the ingenuity of the villagers, serve as watering holes for the oxen that farmers harness to till their fields.
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A 38-second video of the two men splashing around to a hip-hop song while trailing behind their mud-splattered oxen has been viewed around the world millions of times.
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The 13th-century Icelandic historian/poet Snorri Sturluson described Odin's berserkers as being "mad as dogs or wolves" and "strong as bears or wild oxen," killing people with a single blow.
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During his visit, Mr. Beasley said, he saw men and women working in the fields with minimal farm machinery, toiling with their hands, hoes and shovels and using oxen to pull plows.
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It's also full of a great many anonymous protagonists: kids dancing, factory workers, street performers, peddlers, idle loiterers, families, phantom sitters, tourists, sharks and camels, horses and oxen, a choice iguana, soldiers.
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The ruling was issued with immediate effect, on the ground of preventing cruelty to a class of animals that defines oxen and even camels, as well as water buffalo and cows, as "cattle".
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She often returned to subjects that seemed to strike a chord with customers who purchased her paintings for just a few dollars: long-lashed oxen, wide-eyed cats, boats idling in the harbor.
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Gopal is a no-kill farm where, under Pandit's guidance, the cows will graze freely into old age, newborns will drink from their mother's teat, and male calves will grow into strong oxen.
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The name, however, has a longer history because the location once housed the Cuban restaurant Victor's Cafe; near the front door there's still a mural of oxen pulling a wagonload of sugar cane.
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King Norodom Sihamoni presided over the televised annual ritual in which two oxen are given offerings after plowing a field, marking the start of the rice-growing season in the Southeast Asian country.
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Cambodia's ceremony mirrors similar traditions in nearby Thailand and Myanmar in which oxen ceremonially plow the ground and then choose between eating bowls of rice, beans, corn water, grass, sesame seeds or alcohol.
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This morning alone I lost two oxen during a river crossing, a thief stole some of our rations during the night, and my loved ones were slowly wiped out by dysentery, cholera, and typhoid.
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"This has become my main source of income," said Mwenda, who now can operate all the hand-held and ox-driven equipment, from rippers and jab planters to oxen-driven planters and shallow weeders.
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The 44-year-old farmer guided the oxen to a fallow field, where he was preparing to plant peanuts in a tiny patch of land he owns outside Paicho, a village in northern Uganda.
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He wrote a book of children's tales that celebrate a way of life rooted in isolated hamlets where even today, on windswept mountainsides, people till fields of buckwheat with yoked oxen and wooden plows.
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"We have adopted measures like including around 4,000 yoke of oxen in the sugar cane work and production of food," Julio García Pérez, president of state-run sugar monopoly Azcuba, told state-run media.
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"We have adopted measures like including around 4,000 yoke of oxen in the sugar cane work and production of food," Julio García Pérez, president of state-run sugar monopoly Azcuba, told state-run media.
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Most North Koreans live in rural areas where over three-quarters of farmland is still ploughed by oxen, so any interruption of oil supplies would hurt urban areas, Pyongyang in particular, and the armed forces.
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A short video of the two men grooving in a rice paddy to a Drake song, "In My Feelings," as their mud-splattered oxen lumber on ahead of them, has been viewed millions of times.
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The cutoff routed them southward of the established trail, through the Wasatch Mountains and the Great Salt Lake Desert, where they were forced to build a road, suffered terribly from thirst and lost many oxen.
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Maybe now that the FBI director has gored the oxen of both political parties in his insistence that everyone know how virtuously careful and nonpartisan he is, we can exercise our capacity for self-correction once again.
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A pressing question lies at the heart of this exploration of pottery-making, yarn-spinning, hedge-pleaching, roof-thatching, plowing with oxen, and other traditional crafts: Was it wise of us to abandon skills honed over millennia?
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According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the size of an acre — 43,560 square feet — was originally derived from the amount of land that could be plowed in a day with a yoke of oxen pulling a wooden plow.
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Paicho Journal PAICHO, Uganda — Just after dawn, Patrick Ogik placed a wooden yoke over the bulging necks of his two oxen and attached a metal plow behind them, the ropes, fraying from wear, tied to the animals.
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"Here is the largest land mammal of the polar zones, but we hardly know anything about musk oxen," said Joel Berger, a wildlife biologist at Colorado State University and a senior scientist at the Wildlife Conservation Society.
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Reichardt is on the faculty at Bard College, and after class one day, we chatted on the phone about her love of short stories, her obsession with road movies, and why she'll never, ever work with oxen again.
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Myanmar Dispatch TWANTE, Myanmar — When the bullock carts lugging passengers and produce pulled into Yangon, coated in the umber dust of the countryside, the people on board, if not the oxen, used to be able to count on refreshment.
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Draped in red and gold, a pair of light-skinned royal oxen, named "Perm" and "Poon", which together form the word "multiply" in Thai, pulled a plough round a ceremonial field nine times, accompanied by court Brahmins and government officials.
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Among other things, it expands the world of the prison planet Fiorina 161 by reinserting a series of exteriors intended to appear at the beginning of the film, showing the residents using oxen to pull wreckage through a bleak industrial landscape.
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Besides the Pony Express, they had stagecoach companies, a bank, an insurance company, ox delivery companies — which would be the equivalent today of heavy-freight eighteen-wheelers; six or eight or 12 oxen with a big wagon, delivering really heavy stuff.
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HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba is deploying oxen to replace tractors, using wood instead of gas at many state bakeries and advising citizens to save electricity by making the most of daylight as it grapples with an acute fuel shortage amid U.S. sanctions.
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" On the slaughter of cows, considered sacred for Hindus, in the most populous Indian state, Uttar Pradesh (UP): "A river of cow, buffalo, and oxen blood has flown in UP. We will create a river of milk and ghee in the state.
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" Two men named John Burbank and Daniel Wycomb recounted how Scott magically stopped their oxen from moving; one named Thomas Nelson stated she killed one of his cows, "his neck under a plank at the barn side as if he were chok'd.
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Every American school student of the past 30 years has fond (traumatic?) memories of oxen dying, wagons catching fire, loved ones drowning in the Green River, and hunters shooting 1,200 pounds of food but only carrying 100 pounds back to the wagon.
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What's the point of working on a place like Oostvaardersplassen in Holland—where the Dutch government's trying to reintroduce this ancient version of oxen—while the governments of the Global North are unwilling to protect much more important areas in the south?
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The British sailed into Mandalay, and the 28-year-old King Thibaw Min, 11th in the Konbaung dynasty, was placed in an oxen cart, his stoic queen beside him, and pulled through the streets to the boat that would lead him to exile.
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"One of the most pristine areas left in America today, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is home to musk oxen, wolves imperiled polar bears, and nearly 200 species of migratory birds that migrate to six continents and all 50 states," they wrote.
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Every American school student of the past 21990 years has fond (traumatic?) memories of oxen dying, wagons catching fire, loved ones drowning in the Green River, and hunters shooting 21971,240 pounds of food but only carrying 20163 pounds back to the wagon.
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IMENTI, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - On a five-acre piece of land being prepared for planting, James Mwenda shouts at his two oxen, commanding them to move in a straight line as they pull a ripper that cuts a long slit into the unploughed ground.
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With bears, both brown and polar, musk oxen, Arctic foxes and the nests of birds from all 50 states, this place is a North American Serengeti, which is why it was first set aside in 1960 and protected by an act of Congress in 235.
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The two victims were leading oxen to be sold at an animal fair before dawn on Friday when they were spotted by Awadhesh Sahu, a Hindu man, said Purushottam Singh, a police officer in Latehar, a district in the eastern India state of Jharkhand.
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Still, after Trevor Noah named a clip of two guys in southern India dancing in the mud with some oxen the greatest "In My Feelings" challenge ever a few weeks back, a question remained: If that one was the best, which attempt is the worst?
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Although the tools of extraction have changed over the centuries — oxen and chisels have given way to tractors and diamond-toothed saws — the fact remains: Large pieces of white stone, cut and hauled to distant places, function as a sign of wealth and power.
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PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - As the worst drought in half a century delays rice planting in Cambodia, a pair of oxen on Tuesday delved into rice, corn and bean bowls at an annual plowing ceremony in an omen for good harvests for those crops in the year ahead.
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According to the study, the size of these boulders—as well as the fact that the nearest natural source of them was over a kilometer away—indicate that they could not have been moved alone, but rather in a concerted effort that may have included oxen.
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A few months later, on the Feast of the Ascension, a group of woodsmen walk more than 12 miles to the Montepiano forest to cut down an oak to portray the groom, or the maggio, which is then secured to pairs of oxen and walked back to the village.
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The city is all but choked, not only by motor vehicles, but with garbage, pollution, pedestrians, cattle, oxen and stray dogs; and it is still rebuilding, in great plumes of grit and dust, from the massive 23 earthquake that killed nearly 103,210 people and injured an additional 2000,230.
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On July 18703, 21870, Judge John Richardson, who was also a local contractor, officially broke ground with a ceremonial spade, then unleashed the team of oxen he had hitched to his plow in a nondescript field in upstate Rome, N.Y., to begin construction of what eight years later would become the Erie Canal.
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There is an impulse in these poems to inventory the natural world without the palliatives of conventional description; the paradox, as old as classical pastoral and georgic, is that our nature is to describe, an imperative that seems perfectly unnatural when measured against the unselfconscious work of bees or ants or oxen.
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When I sent back my own fitting photo she replied, "I can't tell if I love it or if it's your 'Big Love' Halloween costume," followed by a still of Chloë Sevigny from the HBO show about Mormon fundamentalists, wearing almost the identical ensemble, down to the ruffled collar and oxen tongue pink color.
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Beneath it was the Lascaux cave complex, the walls of which were covered with a painted, heaving cavalcade of oxen, horses, aurochs, and stags, which date back to around 15,000 BC. While these paintings have become famous, and act as a kind of shorthand for the sophistication of our early ancestors, this wasn't the only craft Lascaux's inhabitants were engaged in.
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