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  2. Hag ha-Gez - Wikipedia

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    Hag ha-Gez or Re´shit ha-Gez was the biblical festival or celebration of the shearing of the sheep.. Hag ha-Gez took place once a year, at the beginning of the spring, once the winter cold was gone.

  3. Domestication of the sheep - Wikipedia

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    Sheep grazing on the south lawn of the White House, c. 1918. No ovine species native to the Americas has ever been domesticated, despite being closer genetically to domestic sheep than many Asian and European species. The first domestic sheep in North America—most likely of the Churra breed—arrived with Christopher Columbus' second voyage ...

  4. Nabal - Wikipedia

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    The account states that Nabal lived in the city of Maon, and owned much land in the town of Carmel, as well as many sheep and goats. [4] The account is set at the time of sheep shearing, [5] which in Israelite culture was a time for great festivities, owing to the importance of the wool trade. [6] At this time David sent ten men to Nabal.

  5. Sheep shearing - Wikipedia

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    The largest group of Linear B tablets is the great archive principally of shearing records though also of sheep breeding. [4] The medieval English wool trade was one of the most important factors in the English economy. The main sheep-shearing was an annual midsummer (June) event in medieval England culminating in the sheep-shearing feast.

  6. Shepherd - Wikipedia

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    European exploration led to the spread of sheep around the world, and shepherding became especially important in Australia and New Zealand where there was great pastoral expansion. In Australia squatters spread beyond the Nineteen Counties of New South Wales to elsewhere, taking over vast holdings called properties and now stations .

  7. Shearing sheep - Wikipedia

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  8. Medieval English wool trade - Wikipedia

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    Sheep pen (Luttrell Psalter) Sheep shearing as depicted in Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry.Subsistence-level production of wool continued, [8] but was overshadowed by the rise of wool as a commodity, which in turn encouraged demand for other raw materials such as dyestuffs; the rise of manufacturing; the financial sector; urbanisation; and (since wool and related raw materials had a ...

  9. Ossetian mythology - Wikipedia

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    Fælværa was the protector of sheep and his festival was celebrated before sheep-shearing in September. [1] He only has one eye. He is often the enemy of Tutyr. Æfsati (Ossetian: Æфсати, romanized: Æfsati). Possibly named after Saint Eustace, he is a male hunting god. [2]