An ox / ˈ ɒ k s / (PL: oxen, / ˈ ɒ k s ə n /), also known as a bullock (in BrE, AusE, and IndE), is a male bovine trained and used as a draft animal.Oxen are commonly castrated adult male cattle; castration inhibits testosterone and aggression, which makes the males docile and safer to work with.Cows (adult females) or bulls (intact males) may also be used in some areas.

A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Its name in English is a (pronounced / ˈ eɪ /), plural aes. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar.

The Ox is the alias of two fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.The original incarnation, Raymond Bloch, is one of the founding members of the Enforcers, a team usually in the employment of crime bosses like the Kingpin, Mister Fear, or Hammerhead, and a recurring threat of the superheroes Spider-Man and Daredevil.

The OX postcode area, also known as the Oxford postcode area, is a group of 26 postcode districts in south-central England, within 17 post towns.These cover most of Oxfordshire (including Oxford, Banbury, Abingdon, Bicester, Witney, Didcot, Carterton, Kidlington, Thame, Wantage, Wallingford, Chipping Norton, Chinnor, Woodstock, Watlington, Bampton and …

In cryptography, a block cipher mode of operation is an algorithm that uses a block cipher to provide information security such as confidentiality or authenticity. A block cipher by itself is only suitable for the secure cryptographic transformation (encryption or decryption) of one fixed-length group of bits called a block. A mode of operation describes how to repeatedly apply a cipher's ...

Origin. There are several beliefs about the origin of the Lantern Festival. However, its roots trace back more than 2,000 years ago and is popularly linked to the reign of Emperor Ming of the Han dynasty at the time when Buddhism was growing in China. [citation needed] Emperor Ming, an advocate of Buddhism, noticed Buddhist monks would light lanterns in temples on the fifteenth …

Double or pigtail buns are often called odango (お団子), which is also a type of Japanese dumpling (usually called dango; the o-is honorific).. The term odango in Japanese can refer to any variety of bun hairstyle.. In China, the hairstyle is called niújiǎotóu (牛角头). It was a commonly used hairstyle up until the early 20th century, and can still be seen today when traditional ...

Xbox es una videoconsola doméstica y la primera entrega de la serie de videoconsolas Xbox fabricada por Microsoft.Salió a la venta como la primera incursión de Microsoft en el mercado de las consolas de videojuegos el 18 de octubre de 2001 en Norteamérica, seguida de Australia, Europa y Japón en 2002.Está clasificada como consola de sexta generación, compitiendo con …

Bucephalus or Bucephalas (/ b juː ˈ s ɛ f ə l ə s /; Ancient Greek: Βουκεφάλας; c. 355 BC – June 326 BC) was the horse of Alexander the Great, and one of the most famous horses of classical antiquity.. Ancient historical accounts state that Bucephalus' breed was that of the "best Thessalian strain", and that he died in what is now Punjab, Pakistan, after the Battle of the ...

Vorkommen Vorkommen in Pflanzen. Als Produkt des unvollständigen Kohlenhydrat-Abbaus kommen Oxalate in fast allen Pflanzen vor.. Bekannte Pflanzen mit einem sehr hohen Anteil an Oxalaten sind Weißer Gänsefuß und der Wiesen-Sauerampfer.Auch die Wurzeln und Blätter des Rhabarbers und des Buchweizens enthalten sehr hohe Konzentrationen an Oxalaten.. Andere …