Camel Racing With A Robot Jockey

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Camel Racing Blends Centuries-Old Traditions and Modern Technology By Sam Borden From the New York Times ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Not long after sunrise one recent morning, a camel race here began, as they all do, with two starts. First, there was the expected opening: About a dozen…

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Cowboys and Cattle Drives

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    From The Reader’s Companion to American History. Eric Foner and John A. Garraty, Editors. “When you call me that, smile,” the hero said to the bad man in that first of thousands of cowboy novels, Owen Wister’s “The Virginian.” Even before that book’s publication in 1902, the cowboy…

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