In turn, the Afghan camel teamsters followed the telegraph line, as did, soon after, the Central Australian Railway. |
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He tottered blindly towards the bar like a camel making for an oasis after a hard day at the office. |
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Then there is the classic, who aims for an understated look in camel, beige, cream and navy. |
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Young men tending camel herds during the rainy season may drink up to ten quarts of milk a day. |
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Also on his page are pictures of a large tenebrionid beetle and a camel spider. |
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I wish to draw everybody's attention to the great value of all established indigenous trees and of camel thorn trees in particular. |
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Since carbohydrates require water to make new muscle glycogen, many people assume that they have to drink like a thirsty camel to make glycogen. |
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That night, the carpetmaker closed his shop, piled his most precious wares upon a single camel, and left Baghdad. |
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One day, you're bouncing on top of a camel and climbing inside the Great Pyramid to eye the stone sarcophagus of Pharaoh Cheops. |
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We dodged past a camel walking by with a sandwich board advertising Cut-Price Jeans on either side of his hump. |
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Near Virginia City, Nevada, the spirit of a camel materializes, led by a dead man. |
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The prisoners were also made to cook and wash for the militiamen, who are mostly from nomadic tribes and who travel by horse and camel. |
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The two cannot go together, and is akin to yoking a horse and a camel together. |
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Crisis comes when a new camel colt is born and its mother rejects it after a long and painful birthing. |
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The conservation of bone artefacts mainly concerns objects made of ivory, camel bone, elephant tusks and horn. |
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Seeing the works in their permanent settings would have required numerous plane tickets, the rental of a car, and perhaps even a donkey or camel. |
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In the north we then saw full-up jumping goats, brick buck, bald buck, camel horses and also more cats. |
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Writers look to their quills, while painters care for horsehair and camel with as much care as palette and pigment. |
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Mohair, angora, wool, cashmere, camel, alpaca, etc. are all your allies against the wind and cold. |
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Our flat, above the camel market, was leased from Signora, an old Italian lady who lived downstairs. |
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For kids, the fun includes myriad rides, giant tubes, a mini train, quad bikes and camel and pony rides. |
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On both sides St. Menas is shown with his arms raised in benediction and a camel on either side of him. |
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She's wearing a red jacket, pink blouse with gold broach, rust coloured dress and shoes, large camel coloured coat and brief case. |
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One camel is rejected at birth by its mother and the family goes to great lengths to save its life. |
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It is an indescribably fast and furious combination of the slide, slop, funky chicken, mashed potato, camel walk, shimmy, applejack and quiver. |
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The one-humped Arabian camel, C. dromedarius, is also known as the dromedary. |
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There are soccer and basketball teams, and camel racing is a popular spectator sport. |
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Reindeer, llamas and Petra, the zoo's only camel, were the star attractions, but sadly the plan was abandoned because it was deemed impractical. |
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He lived in the wilderness, wore clothes made of camel hair, and ate locusts and wild honey. |
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The camel trains were also involved in the establishment of artesian bores. |
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There is more to Rajasthan than just its royal splendour or amazing camel rides through never-ending sand dunes. |
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It is best to apply this technique over natural colours such as cream, beige, camel and terracotta to achieve a quality authentic finish. |
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Aside from numerous scuba diving opportunities, camel expeditions, jeep safaris, and mountain treks, silk route boat trips are available. |
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Camel hair is from the extremely soft and fine fur from the undercoat of the camel. |
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That winter, the night we built our first big fire, we also hatched out about a million katydids, or as some folk call them, camel crickets. |
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Some of Kenya's bush homes also offer camel safaris up into the wilds of the far north. |
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In the 1920s an Asian elephant and a Bactrian camel were bought and put into service, taking visitors on rides around the zoo. |
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He's done everything from fishing to wool classing to outback camel trekking. |
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His current winter collection features slouch pants, lustrous shirt dresses, halter tops and knee-length dirndl skirts in a predominantly black, white and camel palette. |
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Chloe wavered dangerously on her camel as her face paled even more. |
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The invention of the north Arabian camel saddle between about 500 and 100 B.C.E. allowed tribally organized camel raisers to enhance their power and influence. |
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As they approached, looping a rope around its neck, the camel took off, dragging the pair with it. |
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Even in those straitened times, Hilal's family was reputed to have several thousand, although the sheikh was too old to ride a camel and rarely saw them. |
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King also journeyed by camel and Land Rover through the Sahara, retracing the stumbling meanderings of the mariners, and verifying historical and geographical details. |
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The camel species that lives today in the Middle East and North Africa is the Arabian camel, which is thought to have been domesticated thousands of years ago. |
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It's a bit like riding a camel, though the motion is a lot less regular. |
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Another animal newly classified is the wild Bactrian camel from China and Mongolia, which has been hunted because it competes with domestic camels for water and grazing. |
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In other words, I was as uncoordinated as a camel wearing roller skates. |
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The locals told me that it's normal to see camels walking through the desert and their guts fall out because camel spiders eat their intestinal walls. |
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The wild Bactrian camel, a two-humped ancestor of domesticated camels, is now critically endangered in its native habitat in the harsh deserts of Northwest China and Mongolia. |
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There is a marvellous scene in which Mongolian musicians play and sing to the mother camel in an attempt to improve her mood, leading to an uplifting ending. |
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Lucrative cash prizes began to be doled out to winning owners, in order to keep camel racing popular. |
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When they arrived at Charlotte Waters it was time to shear the sheep, resulting in 200 bales of wool which were sent back by camel to Port Augusta. |
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Formichetti presented a collection of tight-fitting trousers and jumpsuits in shades of camel that called to mind Tarzan-couture. |
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Meanwhile, interrupting the shadow play performance was the bellowing sound of a camel, the soft cooing of a turtle dove and the neighing of a horse. |
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Later, I fell asleep to the sound of Lhoucine gently coaxing his camel and faint ululating from a distant stone cottage. |
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Well, he started off as a young camel boy with Bill Wade, going into the centre of Australia counting Aboriginals to see how many lived out there. |
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Majid Trading Enterprises has been selling rocking horses for the last decade or so, but this is its first rocking camel. |
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The camel is specially adapted to its hostile desert habitat. |
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Whoever concluded that a camel is a horse designed by a committee could have similar thoughts about taxicabs. |
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If a camel is a horse designed by a committee, what is a materials policy statement prepared by seven study teams? |
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And we all know the saying, which is true as well as witty, that a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee. |
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The government thinks these stupid camel jockeys are going to come to America and take revenge. |
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Getting George to wake up before 7 o'clock is harder than getting a camel through the eye of a needle. |
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It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. |
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Qatar was described as a famous horse and camel breeding centre during the Umayyad period. |
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Domesticated animals include the legendary Arabian horse, Arabian camel, sheep, goats, cows, donkeys, chickens etc. |
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More traditional sports such as horse racing and camel racing are also popular. |
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Henry also kept a menagerie at the Tower, a tradition begun by his father, and his exotic specimens included an elephant, a leopard and a camel. |
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Edward kept a camel as a pet and, as a young man, took a lion with him on campaign to Scotland. |
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Cows and antelopes were successful, and some camel species crossed into Asia from North America. |
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Camels were domesticated soon after this, with the Bactrian camel in Mongolia and the Arabian camel becoming beasts of burden. |
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Goat, sheep, and camel husbandry is widespread elsewhere throughout the rest of the Peninsula. |
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He left the capital in February accompanied by a local Malian merchant and journeyed overland by camel to Timbuktu. |
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Likewise, the arts scene in Indio, California consists of both ostrich and camel racing. |
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When the camel exhales, water vapor becomes trapped in their nostrils and is reabsorbed into the body as a means to conserve water. |
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The kidneys and intestines of a camel are very efficient at reabsorbing water. |
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These two major anatomical characteristics enable camel to conserve water and limit the volume of urine in extreme desert conditions. |
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Camel urine comes out as a thick syrup, and camel feces are so dry that they do not require drying when the Bedouins use them to fuel fires. |
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The cama has ears halfway between the length of camel and llama ears, no hump, longer legs than the llama, and partially cloven hooves. |
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Desert tribes and Mongolian nomads use camel hair for tents, yurts, clothing, bedding and accessories. |
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By at least 1200 BC, the first camel saddles had appeared, and Bactrian camels could be ridden. |
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The first saddle was positioned to the back of the camel, and control of the Bactrian camel was exercised by means of a stick. |
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Bedouins believe the curative powers of camel milk are enhanced if the camel's diet consists of certain desert plants. |
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Additionally, camel milk has been made into ice cream in a Netherlands camel farm. |
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From chemical composition to meat quality, the dromedary camel is the preferred breed for meat production. |
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The Abu Dhabi Officers' Club serves a camel burger mixed with beef or lamb fat in order to improve the texture and taste. |
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Oman's traditional sports are dhow racing, horse racing, camel racing, bull fighting and falconry. |
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Although early writers compared llamas to sheep, their similarity to the camel was soon recognized. |
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One of the main reasons of the explorations was to get gold using the camel to transport it. |
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Another possibility is that it depicted a camel, the Semitic name for which was gamal. |
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More rarely, yarn may be spun from camel, yak, possum, musk ox, cat, dog, wolf, rabbit, or buffalo hair, and even turkey or ostrich feathers. |
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The Bedouins traveled by camel and used explosives to demolish a portion of track. |
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Traffic mugs, may your wheel-nuts turn into camel dung and your car into a kibbe. |
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Also in the top ten is Google Maps exploring the isolated Liwa region by camel and a spectacular base jump from the Burj Khalifa. |
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And, apart from the camel rides and a nudist beach, you really could believe you are in a scene from Beau Geste. |
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And, apart from the inevitable tourist camel rides and a nudist beach, you could believe you're in a scene from Beau Geste. |
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He announced a contest will be held for the most beautiful horse, camel, Saluki, ornamental bird and falcon. |
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One camel was fitted with a lying down cacolet capable of carrying two patients. |
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Tarantulas and the banana spider of South America and the giant camel spider from Iraq that can run at 15 miles an hour. |
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Care worker Lorraine Griffiths, 37, believes it is a camel spider, which has a nasty bite. |
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The day I got there all people were talking about was the camel spider and that ended up turning into a five minute routine. |
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The camel spider is as big as a human fist, can jump several feet in the air and will numb an arm or leg with one bite. |
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But as well as the unbelievable heat, I've been told the next big thing I have to worry about is camel spiders. |
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But dad used to write on email and tell us how hot it was out there and about the camel spiders that chase your shadow. |
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Sledge hammer licking, naked on a wrecking ball and what seems to be a camel toe. |
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Christmas shoppers can buy family and friends an unusual present such as a goat, donkey, camel or even a squat toilet. |
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It is known for using upmarket fabrics such as camel hair, alpaca and cashmere in its clothing. |
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You should not have published a comment by a 'Mr Kameltoe', as it is well-known to regular Internet surfers what a camel toe implies and the name was intentionally chosen. |
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The clearly visible Spanx shorts underneath with complimentary camel toe. |
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Every night all you hear is explosions and you have got big, rats, snakes, scorpions and camel spiders, so if I do get to close my eyes either way I'm always a bit on edge. |
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A UAE delegation, which arrived in Dhaka recently, handed over the money to be distributed among 879 children who had been trafficked to the UAE to serve as camel jockeys. |
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But he declined to say how the outlet tenderized the tough camel meat. |
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But he spent the next five years of his life as a camel jockey. |
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Munna Mia, who worked in Dubai as a camel jockey from the age of five to nine, welcomed the compensation but said he still suffered the emotional and physical scars. |
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Five camel jockey teenagers namely Yousuf Raza son of Haji Asad, Raja Munir son of Munir Ahmed, Irshaad son of Ibrahem, Mehboob Ali son of Nawaz and Kashif Munir son of Munir. |
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There were precious few camel drivers in the shtetls of Eastern Europe. |
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In Karachi, Pakistan, some restaurants prepare nihari from camel meat. |
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Yes, the camel was the main form of transportation in the desert, but the Arabian horse was bred for endurance and speed to carry someone swiftly across the harsh desert. |
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I had been the mistress of fourteen turtles over a number of years, and I could boast having been bitten by, along with the standard animals, a horse, a swoose, and a camel. |
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Other products on display included camel mortadella, fish mortadella and a range of shawarmas, comprising camel, turkey, chicken-turkey mix and fish shawarmas. |
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Locally, the relatives of the camel, the llama, and the alpaca continue to carry out important uses as pack animals, but this use has generally diminished in modern times. |
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Modern woven carpet illustrating camel caravan on Silk Road, from Kashgar. |
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The giraffe was also known to the Greeks and Romans, who believed that it was an unnatural hybrid of a camel and a leopard and called it camelopardalis. |
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In 2005 it organised a major campaign on child camel jockeys in the Gulf States, which influenced the UAE's decision to rescue and repatriate up to 3,000 child camel jockeys. |
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Camel meat is reported to taste like coarse beef, but older camels can prove to be very tough, although camel meat becomes more tender the more it is cooked. |
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On the other hand, camel milk and meat are rich in protein, vitamins, glycogen, and other nutrients making them essential in the diet of many people. |
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The slow encroachment of human activity has affected the migration routes and habitats of the Bactrian camel, Capra Ibex, Panthera Uncia and other endangered animals. |
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Until recently, camel milk could not be made into camel cheese because rennet was unable to coagulate the milk proteins to allow the collection of curds. |
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Pure camel hair is recorded as being used for western garments from the 17th century onwards, and from the 19th century a mixture of wool and camel hair was used. |
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The camel immune system differs from those of other mammals. |
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The male dromedary camel has an organ called a dulla in its throat, a large, inflatable sac he extrudes from his mouth when in rut to assert dominance and attract females. |
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All of the local buildings were made from slabs of salt by the slaves of the Masufa tribe, who cut the salt in thick slabs for transport by camel. |
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You are endeavouring to pass a bill that never can and that never will pass the House of Lords. Do you want to make a camel go through the eye of a needle? |
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He had recruited Palmyrene units into his army, including a camel unit, therefore apparently procuring Palmyrene support to his ultimate goal of annexing Charax. |
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It also made possible nomadic pastoralism in semi arid areas, along the margins of deserts, and eventually led to the domestication of both the dromedary and Bactrian camel. |
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Five eggs were carefully collected from the ovisac of each female with a camel hair brush within 24 h of oviposition at each treatment temperature. |
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But he wrote a message in the Himvar script with his knife on the saddle of a passing camel, and the message eventually reached his tribe in Hadhramaut. |
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She was advised to wear more appropriate loser-fitting clothes that hid all her bulges instead of wearing tight fitting items as the infamous camel toe trousers. |
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The comic, 68, had to be rushed to hospital after suffering what was thought to be an allergic reaction shortly after eating a foul meal of fermented egg and a camel toe. |
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