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Ox cart with bajingan at Prambanan Temple Festival. In Indonesia, bullock carts are used in the rural parts of the country for transporting goods and people, but horse carts are more common. A bullock cart driver is known as a bajingan in Indonesian. In Javanese, the term bajingan holds dual meanings.
Oxcart or ox cart can mean: Bullock cart, a cart pulled by oxen; CIA codename for the program to produce the Lockheed A-12 reconnaissance aircraft; See also:
In 2014, over 200 sets of oxen and carts participated in the event. Oxcarts are not only used in Costa Rica but also all around Central America. But, the Costa Rican oxcart stands out due to its unique and colorful patterns and shapes many times including even flowers, stars, and animals.
Red River ox cart (1851), by Frank Blackwell Mayer. The Red River cart is a large two-wheeled cart made entirely of non-metallic materials. Often drawn by oxen, though also by horses or mules, these carts were used throughout most of the 19th century in the fur trade and in westward expansion in Canada and the United States, in the area of the Red River and on the plains west of the Red River ...
The Oxcart Story. Archived from the original on 13 December 2017 "History of the Oxcart Program" (PDF). SP-1362. Burbank, CA: Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. 1 July 1968. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 January 2017. Rich, Ben R.; Janos, Leo (1994). Skunk Works : a personal memoir of my years at Lockheed (1st pbk. ed.). New York: Back Bay ...
Axle repair on an ox cart in Pembina before setting out for Saint Anthony Falls. The typical carters were Métis descended from French voyageurs of the fur trade and their Ojibway spouses. Their conveyance was the Red River ox cart, a simple vehicle derived either from the two-wheeled charrettes used in French Canada, or from Scottish carts. [57]
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Ox-Cart Man is a 1979 children's book written by Donald Hall and illustrated by Barbara Cooney.It won the 1980 Caldecott Medal. [1] The book tells of the life and work of an early 19th-century farming family in New Hampshire.