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7 unusual facts about Jumbo


E. W. Swanton

He was a large baby and known as Jim, a diminutive of "Jumbo", from his earliest years.

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).

Jumbo Glacier, British Columbia

The stakeholders hoped it would be a large, productive mine, and named it after Jumbo, P. T. Barnum's popular performing elephant.

Jumbo's Clown Room

The front of Jumbo's Clown Room building is also shown on Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, season 4, episode 8, entitled "Manners".

Mount Jumbo

Miners christened a nearby copper mine 'Jumbo Lode' in honor of Barnum and Bailey's most famous attraction Jumbo, the largest elephant in the world, which Barnum acquired in 1882.

Pixart

Pixart began being sold as pre-installed in Argentina, in numerous wholesale channels, including Garbarino, Fravega, Carrefour, Jumbo, Megatone, Sicsa, Pcarts, New Tree, and Compumundo.

Theophilus Johnson

This was the "first accurate history of the Zoo" and included never before published information concerning the "true story of Jumbo", the "fiasco of the white elephant" and the "fiction of the intellectually-gifted chimpanzee, Sally".


1992 Topps

The 1992 Bowman set has 705 cards and was issued in plastic, jumbo, and retail carton packs.

1992–2012 The Anthology

1992–2012 is notable for including an extended version of "Jumbo", which was previously only available on select promotional copies of Underworld's previous greatest hits collection, 1992–2002.

Bend, Texas

At the 1904 World's Fair, Jumbo Hollis pecans won the bronze medal for being the largest displayed.

Cribb

The series portrayed life in Victorian England, and the programmes included many real historical events such as the publication of Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat and the sale of London Zoo's famous elephant, Jumbo, to Barnum and Bailey's Circus.

Ed Cartwright

Edward Charles "Jumbo" Cartwright (October 6, 1859 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania – September 3, 1933 in St. Petersburg, Florida) was a Major League Baseball First baseman from 1890 to 1897.

Elite Stratocaster

This guitar model featured an alder body, a maple neck featuring a rosewood or maple fingerboard with 21 jumbo frets, 12" radius, Schaller die-cast tuners with pearloid buttons, BiFlex truss-rod system with MicroTilt neck adjuster, Schaller Straplock Ready locking strap buttons, two hardened steel EasyGlider string trees, side-mount jack socket and a Freeflyte vibrato system, as well as three serrated "rubber insert"-style control knobs.

Joe Pavelski

Pavelski earned the sobriquet "Little Joe" from Sharks announcer Randy Hahn, a reference to Pavelski's teammate and San Jose superstar "Jumbo Joe", Joe Thornton.

Jumbo Kingdom

Over 30 million visitors have visited Jumbo Kingdom, including Queen Elizabeth II, John Wayne, Tom Cruise, and Gong Li.

Jumbo Milton

His older brother Cecil was awarded a single cap against Ireland in 1906, in a match that Jumbo did not play in.

Kuroneko no Tango

The song got a Hebrew version by Tzipi Shavit, called "Kulam Halkhu LaJumbo" (Everybody Went to the Jumbo).

Lifesavas

Lifesavas is a hip hop group from Portland, Oregon composed of Vursatyl, an MC; Jumbo, a Producer/MC; and Rev Shines, a DJ.

Manu Chhabria

Dubai was at that time an obscure backwater, and in 1974, Chhabria was able to bag a contract with Sony, the Japanese electronics manufacturer, for Jumbo Electronics to become the sole distributors of Sony in the UAE.

Komal Wazir now runs Chhabria's most famous takeover, Shaw Wallace; Bhavika Godhwani runs Hindustan Dorr Oliver, another takeover, while Kiran Chhabria runs Jumbo, the original Chhabria venture, in Dubai.

Noisettes

Drummer Morrison (formerly of Living With Eating Disorders, Willis, Six Toes, Jaywalk Buzz, Loden Jumbo and others) was recruited after Smith saw him performing on the UK television show 'Later... with Jools Holland' with his then band, Willis.

Oko Jumbo

In 1887 Ja-Ja was arrested and exiled to Teneriffe, dying there in 1891, and Oko Jumbo died around the same time.

Oko Jumbo (died 1891) was an important chief in the Kingdom of Bonny, a state in the Niger Delta, now part of Rivers State, Nigeria.

Osmani International Airport

After the project any foreign airlines' jumbo jets like Airbus A330, or Boeing 777 could land easily.

Peter Feller

His father got him a job with Vail Scenic where he worked on Jimmy Durante's show "Jumbo" at the Hippodrome.

Pito Pérez

They played festivals such as: Musica por la Tierra, Vive Latino, El Tortazo Festival (Bogota Colombia) and Slam Fest and have palyed with bands like: Maná, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jaguares, El Tri, Molotov, Maldita Vecindad, Jumbo, Kinky and more.

Recife metropolitan area

Its extension permits operations with jumbo jets, such as the Boeing 747-400, which can carry 290 passengers and 62 tons of cargo or Airbus A330/340.

Rich Ferguson

Some prominent events and performances include touring with Full Tilt Poker in Europe doing workshops and performing magic for 10,000 fans on jumbo screens as well as numerous high profile events for a wide range of celebrities such as Jay Leno, Chuck Liddell, Jack Hanna and Weird Al.

The Miracle Violence Connection

The Connection would hold the titles for four months, making two successful title defenses against Mitsuharu Misawa and Toshiaki Kawada & Jumbo Tsuruta and Akira Taue.

Truelove's Gutter

#* Richard Hawley – vocals, Atkin acoustic parlour guitar, Atkin jumbo guitar, Gretsch 6196, Burns Nu-Sonic, cymbals

William Gilly

Gilly's current research program on squid concentrates on the behavior and physiology of Dosidicus gigas, the jumbo or Humboldt squid.


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