• With only 6% of the representation, those born in the year of the ox finished last.

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  • To begin with, the Chinese calendar does not traditionally number years continuously, but instead employs the cycle of 12 animals, (Year of the Rat, Year of the Ox, and so on).

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  • Further down we have mythical beasts with the trunk of an elephant, the head of an ox, and the feet of a sheep.

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  • The body of the baby, thought to be newborn, was found by walkers in the Ox Hey Lane area of Lostock, Bolton, on Thursday.

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  • Bring open eyes and an open mind, for if you cherish the ox of any aesthetic of ideological bias, de Kooning will gore it.

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  • Shoppers will find more than a dozen stores inside the hotel, including Baccarat crystal and Qiviuk , a shop that sells ultra-soft garments made from the insulating down of the Canadian Arctic musk ox.

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  • If you were born in the year of the Rooster, Dog or Ox (Cow), it is going to be a great year, says the report.

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  • Less successful was the cloning of the gaur, a species of ox found in south Asia, by researchers at Advanced Cell Technology, a biotech company in Worcester, Massachusetts: the clone died of infection days after birth.

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  • The regal Queens Hotel in Leeds was named as the Business Tourism Award winner while the Durham Ox at Crayke, near Easingwold, was named Pub of the Year.

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  • Its body parts are from nine animals, including the horns of a deer, mouth of an ox, nose of a dog, trunk of a snake, and claws of an eagle.

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  • By the 17th century, the walls of the court were painted with a noisome cocktail of ox-blood, ox-gall, lamp black and a bucket of urine: soon afterwards, tennis became unfashionable and all but disappeared to be revived as a modified, open-air sport, in the wake of the invention of the lawn-mower, by Major Wingfield in the 1870s.

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  • It was still the kind of place where a stray dog might deposit a human hand under the breakfast table, where an ox could burst into the dining room.

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  • Then there's that mysterious trucker who shows up at the campsite and looks straight out of "Deliverance, " that strange smell that could fell an ox, and their car, unaccountably on the fritz.

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  • In 2001, a gaur nicknamed Noah, a Southeast Asian threatened ox, was successfully created in the womb of Bessie, a cow, by scientists using a nuclear transfer process at Advanced Cell Technology in Massachusetts.

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  • Ox-drawn ploughs still power farming in much of the country, meaning agricultural output of rice, beans and other staples could grow immensely through mechanization.

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  • The plot is incomprehensible gibberish about a crystal skull, the lost Amazonian city of Akator, and a brain-fried archeologist named Ox (John Hurt, who is anything but an ox).

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  • The medicine is called She Xiang Bao Xin, a mixture of musk, synthetic ox gallstones, an enemy-repelling toad secretion and four herbs.

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  • The company's scientists have taken nuclei from an endangered wild ox called a guar and implanted them into the eggs, and uteruses, of domestic cows.

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  • Sometimes the walkers found themselves caught up in long lines of refugees, footsore like them, trudging alongside ox-carts and bicycles piled high with mattresses and pans and live chickens.

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  • In the wood-carving classroom, the heads of a tiger, leopard, boar, owl, snake, deer, dog, ox, rabbit, dragon and a mythical bird called a garuda all snarl down at onlookers.

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