Sentences with word «oxcart»

The Tehran Conference in 1943 moved the Soviet Union and Poland each 200 miles to the west, condensing Germany, and approximately 10 million Germans fled on foot or by oxcart westward before the Red Army, voting with their feet to make Germany a western country.

Fisher walked to the nearest village and woke up the headman, who organized a caravan of oxcarts hauled by zebus, the local cattle.

Day said he's also wondered about a photograph taken at Area 51 showing a line of A-12 OXCART spy planes, probably from 1964.

They spoke of pull - ups on banana trees for strength and oxcart trips to teach the poor.

On a blistering hot October day last year, the air thick with impending rain, Myaing Myaing Nyunt and I lurch in a wooden oxcart toward Sa - ka - pin, a small village in the rich agricultural lowlands about 20 kilometers northeast of Mandalay, Myanmar.

En route to La Fortuna, stop for approximately 30 minutes in the artisan town of Sarchi, where you'll have an opportunity to admire the colorful oxcarts or shop for souvenirs.

San Jose Enjoy an orientation tour in the capital city of Costa Rica and explore Sarchi, the arts and crafts capital, famed for its intricately painted oxcarts

The town is perhaps most widely recognised for its colourful and decorative oxcarts that have been made here for over a century.

Along with rainforests hikes, river cruises, and sandy Pacific Coast beaches, your senior and family Costa Rica tour also includes a beautiful butterfly garden, a wildlife rescue center, a coffee plantation tour, a tour of the country's largest oxcart factory, and a visit to Costa Rica's world famous topiary garden.

It is difficult for the United States to lecture the Chinese peasant or Indian oxcart driver on the virtues of energy conservation from the seat of its metaphorical SUV.

Flynn concludes that it is, and the caravan continues slowly through the bush, negotiating trails usually traversed by oxcart.

OXCART was the label given to the CIA's A-12 program, meant to come after the U-2 to perform reconnaissance flights over the Soviet Union.

They work incredibly hard for just the necessities of life: they carry water; they travel by foot, by horse, by oxcart; they eat rice, beans and bananas.

Instead of trying to justify the behavior of modern people in terms of the beliefs of people who lived thousands of years ago, it would be more useful to accept that their fears and prejudices are about as relevant to the modern world as the oxcart is to air travel.

A worker is paid $ 2.33 for each ton of cane he cuts and loads on an oxcart.

A small sailboat is only a little faster, with sufficient wind, than an oxcart, and this is a time of jet planes and rockets.

It's an oxcart compared to what we can do.»

Everything I've been led to believe about this Japanese super sports car is that it rides like an oxcart and punishes its occupants for not dutifully avoiding potholes.

It's got the highway manners of an oxcart, but character out the wazoo.

Assuming the R - Design model doesn't ride like an oxcart (an affliction of its stablemates), it could be a very strong contender at its $ 35,000 starting point.

Journeys by train and by oxcart.

With publishers handing out signed ARCs right and left, I should have brought an oxcart.

La Digue has few motorized vehicles, which are often eschewed in favor of bicycles, foot traffic or oxcarts.

For something really different, rent an oxcart for transport.

Did you guys come here on an oxcart?

While I might have been prepared to consider taking judicial notice of the exceptional rarity of commercial bulk transport of chemicals by oxcart or horse, at least in the City of St. Catharines, the admission by the applicants that motor vehicles are used by Aquatech in the delivery of pool chemicals avoids that issue and strikes me as just the sort of non-controversial matter that the Court of Appeal... was referring to.