10 POLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ONAGER»
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onager in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
onager and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in Polish literature.
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Onager. Wybrał, przełożył i wstepem opatrzył Ludwik Flaszen
Ona- ger ma na sobie białą atłasową kamizelkę w ciapki, błękitny frak świeżo spod igły, zdobny w guziki z brązu wielkości piętaka; złote łańcuchy od zegarka i od szkieł; u koszuli rubinowe spinki; Onager ma głowę ufryzowaną; od stóp do ...
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The Donkey Companion: Selecting, Training, Breeding, Enjoying & ...
The onager was the wild ass ofthe Old Testament. It was found in Palestine and the surrounding countries for about two thousand years after the events of the Old Testament but was almost extinct in the area by the 18505. A few lived on in Iraq ...
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Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture - Strona 34
ASS Iranian and Tocharian movements by c 2000 BC if not somewhat earlier. ?*mu(k)skos ~ 'muksltis 'ass/donkey (Equus hydruntinus)' or 'onager/kulan (Equus hemionus)'! Lat mulus (< *mukslo-) 'mule', Late Lat muscellus 'young he-mule', ...
J. P. Mallory, Douglas Q. Adams, 1997
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The Domestication and Exploitation of Plants and Animals - Strona 485
DUNCAN NOBLE The Mesopotamian onager as a draught animal The Mesopotamian onager is an extinct member of the family of half-asses now represented by the common or Persian onager and the Indian onager. It became extinct in the ...
Peter John Ucko, G. W. Dimbleby, 2007
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Animals in the Ancient World from A to Z - Strona 137
onAger onAger throughout the Near East and around the Black Sea. In fact, Strabo (12.6.1) calls the area of inner Asia Minor “onager grazing land.” Varro (Rust. 2.6.3) and Pliny (below) say they are numerous in places such as Phrygia and ...
Kenneth F. Kitchell Jr., 2014
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A Natural History of Domesticated Mammals - Strona 118
The Asiatic asses Equus hemionus hemippus, the Syrian onager, is now extinct. It was the smallest of the hemiones and it inhabited the alluvial plains of the Near East from the Levant to Iraq. The subspecies is known from the descriptions of ...
Juliet Clutton-Brock, 1999
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A Central Asian Village at the Dawn of Civilization: Excavations at ...
Although herding domestic animals was the core of the local economy, hunting still important at Anau, a pattern found at other Early Village Period sites along the Kopet Dag. Hunting of onager (Equus hemionus onager) was particularly ...
Fredrik Hiebert, Kakamurad Kurbansakhatov, Hubert Schmidt, 2003
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The Art of the Catapult: Build Greek Ballistae, Roman Onagers, ...
ONAGER. CATAPULT. Adult supervision required Use protective eyewear Swinging arm alert: watch out for moving arms or levers Sharp and/or heavy tool advisory: Project requires use of saw or hammer Flying object alert: Use care when ...
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Artillery: An Illustrated History of Its Impact - Strona 17
(Josephus, 650) THE ONAGER The onager, meaning “wild ass,” derived its name from its powerful recoil, or kick, upon discharge; it was built in a number of sizes. Although possibly originating as early as the third century bc, it was most ...
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The Origin and Influence of the Thoroughbred Horse - Strona 46
In colour it is rufous-bay, whilst its voice is said to differ from the strident bray of the onager. (6, 7, 8) The Onager (E. onager), the Onager In- dicus, and the Hemippus (E. onager hemippus) differ so slightly in habit1 that they may be described ...
Sir William Ridgeway, 1905
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ONAGER»
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The social network: Dynamic lives of Grevy's zebras and wild asses …
A side-by-side comparison of the activity of Grevy's zebras and onagers. Graphic: Tanya Berger-Wolf, Chayant Tanitpathananandh, Daniel Rubenstein and Siva ... «Horsetalk, Oct 15»
Dynamic social-network analysis reveals animal social behaviors
Two such closely related species are the endangered Grevy's zebra of Africa—the largest surviving wild equid—and the onager, a wild ass of Asia. A new ... «Phys.Org, Oct 15»
Chester Zoo welcomes two rare newborn Onager foals
The onager is an Asiatic wild ass and belongs to the equid family of hoofed animals, once found in abundance across the deserts of Mongolia, China and Iran. «Liverpool Echo, Jul 15»
V ostravské zoo se narodilo mládě vzácného asijského osla onagera
Mládě vzácného asijského osla onagera přišlo na svět v Zoologické zahradě Ostrava. Je to samička a narodila se v úterý přímo v jednom z výběhů části safari ... «Moravskoslezský denik, Jul 15»
Thursday news briefing — July 9, 2015
A young onager, an endangered Asiatic wild ass, has been born in the Ostrava zoo, its spokeswoman Šárka Nováková told ČTK today, adding that the rare ... «Prague Post, Jul 15»
Rare pictures of Sophie the onager basking in sunshine at Chester …
Related to the domestic donkey, onagers are the rarest species of equid in the world, and with spring finally sprung and Sophie jumping at the chance to shed ... «ChesterChronicle.co.uk, Apr 15»
Kick ass! Donkeys get into a scuffle at Chester Zoo - with one …
A feisty female onager - a species related to the donkey - is pictured kicking a would-be ... A female onager kicks a would-be-suitor in the face as part of their ... «Daily Mail, Feb 15»
Tote Raubkatze und Onager-Nachwuchs - Gepard Tibati im Kölner …
Erneut ein Todesfall im Kölner Zoo: Gepard Tibati ist verstorben. Zwei Tiere hat der Tierpark in diesem Monat schon einschläfern müssen, Orang-Utan Bornie ... «Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, Jan 15»
Wildesel - Kleiner Onager-Hengst im Kölner Zoo geboren
Der Kölner Zoo freut sich über Nachwuchs: Onager-Stute „Lisa“ hat Fohlen „Lanzelot“ zur Welt gebracht. Neugierig erkundet der junge Hengst nun das ... «Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, Dec 14»
Into the Wilds
A Bactrian camel, a rhinoceros and an onager walk into a bar… well, not ... the northern Indian peninsula and a group of Persian onagers, wild asses from Iran. «Penn State News, Oct 14»
