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18 unusual facts about Elephant


Elephant's Graveyard

Elephant's Graveyard is a special collection of B-sides and rarities from singer-songwriter Ed Harcourt.

Elephant's trunk

Elephant Trunk Hill, a landmark and tourist attraction in Guilin, Guangxi, China.

Elephantine Colossus

It was the second of three elephants built by Lafferty, preceded by Atlantic City's Lucy the Elephant and followed by The Light of Asia in Cape May.

Etropole Monastery

In the late 19th century, during the last decades of the Ottoman rule of Bulgaria, Elephant the time of Bulgaria's struggle for independence, the monastery provided shelter to national hero Vasil Levski and other anti-Ottoman revolutionaries.

Flag and coat of arms of Pahang

The tusks represent the abundance of elephants (specifically, Asian Elephants) in the state and its importance in Pahang's economy in the distance past through its trade of elephant tusks.

James Howard Williams

But in October 1942 he joined the staff of the Eastern Army (later the Fourteenth Army as Elephant Advisor to the Elephant Company of the Royal Indian Engineers.

Jūsō Kikō Dancouga Nova

Like its predecessor, Dancouga Nova is a combining robot type of Super Robot, which have four separate units with each unit having its own pilot; the Nova Eagle, Nova Rhino, Nova Liger, and Nova Elephant, that form the Super Robot Dancouga Nova.

The Dancouga Nova is a combination of four separate machines, which are the Nova Eagle, Nova Rhino, Nova Liger, and the Nova Elephant.

Martinsyde G.100

It gained the name "Elephant" from its relatively large size and lack of manoeuvrability.

Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park

Elephants are sometimes seen in the park when they cross the river in the dry season from the Zimbabwean side.

Old Man Willow

A song called "Old Man Willow" by the band Elephant's Memory describes the anger, frustration, and resentment resulting from the curse of being rooted in one spot while the world goes on all around.

Oojah

Oojah was an Elephant comic strip character as featured in the Daily Sketch Newspaper and various children's books.

Palaeoloxodon

P. antiquus (Europe, Middle east, Asia), was a bit larger than modern African elephant

Palaeoloxodon chaniensis

The genus Palaeoloxodon is related to the living Asian Elephant.

Strudyna

Project Title: Male Elephant Building Location: Sydney, Australia Owner: Taronga Zoo Architect: Jackson Teece Year of construction: 2009 Taronga Zoo features Structural Dynamic’s ‘Strudyna’ 16.0mm 1 X 19 stainless wire strand together with AM swage toggles and PBI rigging screws.

Underworld: Red in Tooth and Claw

Following the track, Koro comes across the pack of Lycan, who have brought down an Elephant.

Weather Underground

Rumors also circulated that the funds were donated by an internationally known female folk singer in Los Angeles or by Elephant's Memory, which was John Lennon's backup band in New York City and was a factor with the attempted deportation of Lennon, who had donated bail money for radical groups.

Yanam Śrī Rājarājeśwara Kalyāṇōtsavam

Vāhanam of the day will be Gaja Vāhanam (గజ వాహనము), i.e., The Elephant Chariot.


2:37

Other critics have claimed that the film is too similar to Gus Van Sant's 2003 film Elephant.

African bush elephant

The North African elephant (L. a. pharaohensis), also known as the Carthaginian elephant or Atlas elephant, was the animal famously used as a war elephant by Carthage in its long struggle against Rome.

Benjamin the Elephant

Benjamin the Elephant (original German name: Benjamin Blümchen; "Benjamin Blossom") is an animated children's television show produced by Kiddinx Studios in Berlin.

Big five game

There are two distinct species of African elephant: African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) and the African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana).

Blackboard Jungle

When shown at a South London Cinema in Elephant and Castle in 1956 the teenage Teddy Boy audience began to riot, tearing up seats and dancing in the aisles.

Brachystegia glaucescens

The name is for instance found in a paper concerning the degradation of woodlands by elephant predation and fire in the northern part of the Gonarezhou National Park in SE Zimbabwe.

Chronica Johannis de Oxenedes

Highlights of the chronicle also include the reign of Edgar, the treatment of Jews in England at the time of the Norman Conquest, the Purgatory of St. Patrick, the reign of Henry III and the first elephant in England in 1255.

Cole Museum of Zoology

Specimens include a male Indian circus elephant skeleton, a 5 metre Reticulated Python skeleton containing 400 vertebrae, a fossil of the largest spider to ever have lived, and a False Killer Whale skeleton.

Devi

The hymn also associates her with lotus and elephant – an association, which has not changed in subsequent history.

Early history of Kedah

Early sea traders from the west, upon reaching the coast, engaged porters to transport goods by raft, elephant and man-carry along the rivers (Kelantan River, Pattani River, Pahang River, Muda River, Bernam River, Muar River, and others) to the opposite coast.

Ellen Tarry

Tarry published four picture books: 1940's Janie Belle (illustrated by Myrtle Sheldon), 1942's Hezekiah Horton (illustrated by Oliver Harrington), 1946's My Dog Rinty in collaboration with Caldecott Medal winner Marie Hall Ets (photographs by Alexander and Alexandra Alland), concerning a Harlem family and their mischievous pet, and 1950's The Runaway Elephant (again illustrated by Harrington), which continued the relationships started in Hezekiah Horton.

Ellora Caves

It got the appellation "Indra Sabha" probably it is significantly ornate and also because of the sculpture of the yaksha (dedicated attendant deity) Matanga on an elephant, which was wrongly identified as that of Indra.

Face

Caricatures often exaggerate facial features to make a face more easily recognized in association with a pronounced portion of the face of the individual in question—for example, a caricature of Osama bin Laden might focus on his facial hair and nose; a caricature of George W. Bush might enlarge his ears to the size of an elephant's; a caricature of Jay Leno may pronounce his head and chin; and a caricature of Mick Jagger might enlarge his lips.

First Battle of Elephant Pass

The First Battle of Elephant Pass was a battle fought in July 1991 for the control of the Sri Lankan military base of Elephant Pass, which was of strategic importance as it linked the northern mainland known as Wanni with the Jaffna Peninsula.

Gillian Avery

Characters from The Warden's Niece reappear in The Elephant War (1960), about the attempt to prevent sale of Jumbo by the London Zoo to P. T. Barnum, and in The Italian Spring (1962).

Gregory Colbert

Elephants, whales, manatees, sacred ibis, cranes, eagles, gyrfalcons, Rhinoceros Hornbills, cheetahs, leopards, African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus), caracals, baboons, eland, meerkats, gibbons, orangutans, penguins, pandas, polar bears, lions, giant Pacific manta rays, and saltwater crocodiles are among the animals he has filmed and photographed.

Hans Janitschek

During his time at the United Nations, he became involved in the Bulgarian artist Mihail Simeonov’s "Cast the Sleeping Elephant Project" for which he gained the full support of the United Nations as well as the governments of Namibia, Nepal and Kenya.

Jeremy Price

In the film Free Jimmy, a Norwegian animated feature film with an ensemble international voice cast, Price himself provided the voice (or grunts) of the central character, an elephant named "Jimmy", as well as the character "The Moose".

John Bagford

He asserted that the elephant was probably introduced by Claudius but that the tool had been made by human workmanship.

John Merrick

Joseph Merrick (1862–1890), the Elephant Man; early biographies inaccurately give his first name as "John", and this name was used in the 1980 film The Elephant Man

Joint Services Expedition to Elephant Island

The expedition was sponsored by the Joint Services Expedition Trust with the aim of climbing, exploring and carrying out a preliminary scientific survey of islands in the Elephant group for the Directorate of Overseas Surveys.

Kabumpo

Kabumpo, the Elegant Elephant of Pumperdink, is a fictional character in the Oz books of Ruth Plumly Thompson.

Karamürsel

The station, containing a huge 500-foot-diameter antenna array AN/FLR-9, called Elephant Cage, was there from 1957 until 1979.

Kev Hawkins

Kev's regiment was once loaned to the Indian government, and the mission saw his friend Danny killing an elephant.

LENNONYC

Interviewed in film are Yoko Ono, members of the Elephant's Memory band that played with Lennon and Ono in New York, Elton John, Dick Cavett, photographer Bob Gruen and Geraldo Rivera, who talks about a news report of his that inspired Lennon and Ono to stage the One to One benefit concert in 1972.

Martinsyde G.100

The Martinsyde G.100 "Elephant" and the G.102 were British fighter bomber aircraft of the First World War built by Martinsyde.

Mickey Vann

Mickey was the son of Hal Denver (a friend of Elvis Presley)-who once threw knives at John Major's mother-and the grandson of The Silver King, a showman with The Elephant Man among his sideshows.

Muggle-Wump

In doing this he angers the Enormous Crocodile into wanting to eat more children, only to be thwarted by the Roly-Poly Bird (another recurring character in Dahl's books) and Trunky the Elephant.

Myopia in animals

In Central Park Zoo, New York, several myopic animals have been reported, including a 39-year-old elephant, a Cape buffalo, and some monkeys.

Northern elephant seal

Elephant seals do not have a developed a system of echolocation in the manner of cetaceans, but their vibrissae, which are sensitive to vibrations, are assumed to play a role in search of food.

NorthRiver Yacht Club

It boasts several original Basil Ede prints, the largest bronze statue of an elephant in the world, and one of the world's largest brass chandeliers.

Pop Ivan

On the peak of Pop Iwan, Polish government built in the years 1936-1938 an impressive construction - Astronomical and Meteorogical Observatory, which was commonly called “Biały Słoń” (“White Elephant”).

Punyalan Agarbattis

His new business venture 'Punyalan Agarbattis' involves manufacturing agarbattis from elephant dung.

Pygmy elephant

Recent claims have been made from the southern end of the Western Ghats (in the southern Indian state of Kerala) concerning a dwarf species of elephant called "Kallana," a team of elephant experts have not yet found evidence of their existence in the area.

Rogue elephant of Aberdare Forest

The next day, the elephant was seen in a village three miles from Hunter’s location, devastating a crop of Shamba trees.

Samuel Boileau Goad

Goad was the father of Horatio Boileau Goad and grandfather of Sir Frederick Treves, the surgeon associated with the Elephant Man, Joseph Merrick.

Samuel Oschin

He was a noted adventure traveller, retracing Robert Peary's voyage to the North Pole, paddling up the Amazon in a dugout canoe, and crossing the Alps on an elephant following the model of Hannibal.

Shocking Blue

1970 Scorpio's Dance (Pink Elephant) also known as "Sally Was A Good Old Girl" (Japanese title)

Stacey DePass

Recently, she has voiced Aldous on the television series What It's Like Being Alone, Mags on Turbo Dogs, Edweena The Elephant on My Friend Rabbit, Kati on Wunderkind Little Amadeus and Mandy Struction on Sidekick.

Stan Stammers

Stammers teamed up again with Kirk Brandon in 1990 for 4 years doing a number of tours and a couple of albums under the Spear of Destiny, Theatre of Hate, Elephant Daze and 10:51 banners.

Stilos

Ioannis Theologos, the fossilized remains of a Cretan dwarf elephant Palaeoloxodon chaniensis can be seen.

Tarzan II

Harrison Fahn as Tantor - A germophobic, panic-prone elephant, loyal to his friends, Terk and Tarzan, despite these impediments.

The Coronet

In 1966, with the onset of twinning, the Elephant and Castle Cinema was acquired by ABC Cinemas and split into a complex of three cinemas and also a luxury lounge was introduced.

The Elephant Vanishes

The British theatre company Complicite collaborated with Japan's Setagaya Public Theatre to produce a stage adaptation also entitled The Elephant Vanishes.

The Madras Regiment

The elephant crest symbolizes its gallantry in the Battle of Assaye under Arthur Wellesley, later Duke of Wellington.

The Takshashila Institution

The Vedas and the Eighteen Silpas or Arts, which included skills such as archery, hunting, and elephant lore, were taught, in addition to its law school, medical school, and school of military science.

Vanga Kingdom

Many foremost of combatants skilled in elephant-fight, belonging to the Easterners, the Southerners, the Angas, the Vangas, the Pundras, the Magadhas, the Tamraliptakas, the Mekalas, the Koshalas, the Madras, the Dasharnas, the Nishadas united with the Kalingas (8:22).