Bands like Black Oak Arkansaw, Foghat and ZZ Top altered boogie to new, sometimes, ridiculous heights.

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The curled horns of a buck are caught in a black oak.

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Small, but well-designed rooms offer unique touches like black washed oak flooring, colourful headboards that are swapped out by the season, and bright, functional bathrooms sheathed in marble mosaic tile.

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It is made of Australian Black Bean Wood - everything else is oak.

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Aged in 25-year Irish whiskey barrels from Teeling Whiskey Company, Kindred Spirit was a smokey black beer with a subtle hint of oak and whiskey.

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To understand, one must first go back thousands of years to Phoenician times, when black-hooved pigs (another name for the breed is pata negra, or black hoof) were introduced to an oak-grove ecosystem in southwestern Spain known as the dehesa.

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Local-based skipper Charles Taylor of Hearts of Oak played a captain's game to inspire the Black Stars to earn Ghana's first win in the qualifiers.

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Aged in oak barrels for at least two years, Chianti Classico wines are identified by a black rooster within a red circle on the neck of the bottle, signaling membership of the Chianti Classico Consortium.

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In September 2006, as the school year kicked off, a black Jena High School student asked the vice principal if he and some friends could sit under an oak tree where the white students typically congregated.

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