At 5, 500 years old, the well preserved cow-hide shoe pre-dates Stonehenge by 400 years and the Pyramids of Giza by 1, 000 years.
This month Hamilton College in rural, cow-country Clinton NY, opened such a museum: The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art.
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And just last week, she was working on a nearby farm, walking outside -- apparently, chasing after a cow -- (laughter) -- when she collapsed.
Another unique touch: The cheese course arrives on a cow-shaped cart.
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Cow-occupied Vermont is touted for its ice cream so if you want to lower your core body temperature, it runs a close second to swimming holes.
Damien Hirst's sheep in formaldehyde won in 1995, Chris Ofili's cow-dung paintings took the prize in 1998 and Tracey Emin's unmade bed made last year's shortlist.
"It could also be some strange, quasi-elaborate hoax meant to embarass Zuck with Eminem references and a silly game called 'Cow-a-bungee, '" Adam Clark Estes wrote for Motherboard.
Modern ranchers face increasing hostility, and not just from cow-haters.
The dwellers around him in the hamlet had also finished their dinners, and the smoke from cow-dung fires hung over the darkening roofs, a harsh spicy smell, like rough tobacco.
Denver's suburban cow-watchers often object to branding as cruel.
Defra officials gently pointed out that perhaps the "kill-a-cow, save-the-world" policy might have a few flaws.
After several hours of this, learning the difference between a four-day-old horse and a cow carcass - the colour, smell, and muscle tone - the kind lady who showed us round, led us to a warm room where we could remove our hair nets and overalls and take comfort in a bowl of vegetable soup.
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In December 1995, Mr Hogg tried to reassure the public about the safety of beef by attempting to get experts from the Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee (SEAC) -- the government's advisory committee on mad cow disease -- to back his statements.
That, combined with the poor attendances for the first two days, means this match will be no cash-cow for the ECB - though they have the consolation of staging international cricket on an almost non-stop basis until 20 September.
And there's a warning to both London and Edinburgh politicians: while the public finances are in a lot of trouble, "The temptation to regard the industry as a cash-cow to meet short-term needs will be strong, but should be resisted".
Some of the more out-there runway shows, like Etro's "friendly cow"-themed hide-fest, are, beneath the production values, statements about talent and dexterity.
And Desperate Dan and his cow pie-eating gang may well have the last laugh.
Really what it had offered investors what this cash-cow aspect, this large cash-earning and little-maintenance-capex-requiring asset class.
The story of the city cow houses - run by young farmers who moved from their family farms in Yorkshire to Liverpool - is told in a new book, Urban Cowboys, by Cheshire author Duncan Scott.
Meanwhile, the company's traditional, lower-end cellphone business, a steady cash cow in high-growth emerging markets, is under growing threat from less-expensive Asian handsets.
Maybe mad-cow disease and its human analogues are merely the unfortunate by-products of some crucial, but as yet unperceived, mechanism.
In the wake of mad-cow disease, many student cafeterias and even a few mid-priced restaurants are joining gourmets in the switch to organic fare.
Mad-cow disease is clearly no respecter of national boundaries: cattle and cattle-feed are traded (and cows sometimes actually walk) across borders in the Union.
She was put in charge of consumer and food safety in the wake of the mad-cow debacle.
Doctors in Kentucky say eating squirrel brains is linked to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (better known as mad-cow disease).
The company cut its full-year copper production outlook in response to continued disruptions in its cash-cow, the Grasberg mine.
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The new law is a success for Carla del Ponte, Switzerland's federal prosecutor, who rails against the banks' sacred-cow status.
And this came against a backdrop of the mad-cow disease scare in the US, which put many consumers off eating beef.
BSE, or mad-cow disease, no longer posed a problem, though Germany disagreed.
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