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  • The Rhinoceros is a 2-ton transporter intended for crossing the tundra.

    Archive 2008-04-01 The Nag 2008

  • Old Rhinoceros is so busy brushing his tusk that he doesn't even look around to see who's going by, and they're all so busy they won't even talk to me!

    My Father's Dragon 1948

  • Rhinoceros sondaicus sondaicus, while the Vietnamese Javan rhinoceros was referred to as Rhinoceros sondaicus annamiticus.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Stevie Winwood's Traffic and a band of supposed superstar session-men called Rhinoceros were on the bill.

    Binky Philips: I Buy Eric Clapton's CREAM Guitar Case 2010

  • Why, for instance, should a creature that is found chiefly on the Nile, and never under any circumstances on the Rhine, be called a Rhinoceros?

    The Autobiography of Methuselah John Kendrick Bangs 1892

  • Until Dec. 30 www. juedisches-museum.muenchen.de London theater My memories of blacklisted Zero Mostel turning into a snorting beast (in 1961), in Eugène Ionesco's comment on fascism and the herd instinct, were a touch confused by Jasper Britton's playing of the obsessive dandy in Dominic Cooke's new production of "Rhinoceros" at the Royal Court Theatre, where the play was first done in English in 1960.

    Chagall's Fanciful Creatures 2007

  • On the last song "Rhinoceros" he attempted to rip the strings off the acoustic guitar, but stopped just shy of creating a scene.

    9/29/03 I am the perfect 2003

  • On the last song "Rhinoceros" he attempted to rip the strings off the acoustic guitar, but stopped just shy of creating a scene.

    9/19/03 I really do like 2003

  • They've opened for them, covered "Rhinoceros" on a tribute album -- even their name could be mistaken for a long-lost B-side.

    Pitchfork: Latest News 2009

  • They've opened for them, covered "Rhinoceros" on a tribute album -- even their name could be mistaken for a long-lost B-side.

    Pitchfork: Latest News 2009

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