Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads is an artwork by Chinese contemporary artist and political commentator, Ai Weiwei. The work comes in a small (gold) and large (bronze) version. Created in 2010, the zodiac heads (a Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Pig) are inspired by those which once comprised a water clock-fountain at the Old Summer Palace, which is a complex of palaces and gardens in Beijing that were constructed by the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing dynasty. The Old Summer Palace was eventually destroyed by French and British troops in
Abo (name) U.S. Census Abo is an uncommon first name but a fairly common last name for both men and women; ranking 53,205 out of 88,799. Abo (name) Abo is an Arabic and Hebrew male name and a variant form of Abbas. It is from "Abbas" that "Abo" takes its meaning of "stern" or "somber father". In Arabic, Abbas is a symbolic name referring to the lion, the king of beasts. The variant used in the Russian language as a Christian name is "" ("Abo"). It is possible that the Russian name was derived from the Biblical Hebrew word meaning "father", but