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7 unusual facts about elk


Elk-Foot of the Taos Tribe

The painting was purchased for the United States national art collection by the well-known art collector William T. Evans and is now displayed in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

A coup stick would be carried by North Americans, but not by the Taos tribe.

Elk-Lake Serenade

It was released on 18 May 2004 in Canada (on Hayden's own record label, Hardwood Records) and in the U.S.A. (on the Badman Recording Co.).

Elk's Run

It was published in book form on March 27, 2007 by Villard.

Muggy-Doo

The comic also included stories starring other characters, such as Elmer the Elk, Orry the Orangutan, and the porcine Stuffy Derma.

Pennsylvania Route 120

While much of the land is state owned and part of the Elk and Sproul State Forests, there are also many tracts of privately owned land within the official boundaries of the park.

Rune Bratseth

Nicknamed Elk due to his stature, he is best known for his spell with Werder Bremen, also having appeared in the 1994 World Cup with Norway.


Aldo Leopold Wilderness

The Wilderness area has fauna typical of the American Southwest: Mule deer, Elk, Wild Turkey, Peccary, Black bear and Cougar.

Alnus rubra

Twigs and buds of alder are only fair browse for wildlife, though deer and elk do browse the twigs in fall and twigs and buds in the winter and spring.

Andreas Rudman

They subsequently arrived at the Swedish settlement located at the Head of Elk (present Elkton, Maryland).

Anne Elk's Theory on Brontosauruses

The plot of the sketch is that the interviewee, Anne Elk, cannot bring herself to describe the actual basis of her supposed new palaeontological theory on dinosaurs, specifically Brontosauruses.

Betty Adkins Bridge

The northbound bridge was built in 2001, replacing a plate girder bridge that was originally built in 1967 as a two-lane bridge for Minnesota State Highway 101 when the highway was rerouted around Elk River.

Black Elk Speaks

The Indiana University professor Raymond DeMallie, who has studied the Lakota by cultural and linguistic resources, published a book in 1985 including the original transcripts of the conversations with Black Elk, plus his own introduction, analysis and notes.

British Columbia Highway 43

Highway 43, the Elk Valley Highway, is the easternmost spur off of the British Columbia segment of the Crowsnest Highway, in the Regional District of East Kootenay.

Buescher Band Instrument Company

The company was founded by Ferdinand August "Gus" Buescher (born Elk Township, Noble County, Ohio 26 April 1861; died Elkhart, Indiana 29 November 1937).

Charleston Civic Center

In 1953, the first in a series of general obligation bonds was approved by city voters for the construction of a civic center in the downtown area of Charleston, West Virginia between Lee Street and Quarrier Street on the banks of the Elk River just before the Elk River empties into the Kanawha River.

Cicerbita alpina

In Finland this plant is known as "bear-hay" because the Eurasian brown bear feeds on it, as do elk and reindeer.

Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation

The Confederated Tribes' traditional territories were along the Black, Chehalis, Cowlitz, Elk, Johns, Newaukum, Satsop, Shookumchuck, and Wynoochee Rivers, and near Grays Harbor and on the lower Puget Sound of Washington.

Dan Barreiro

Gerbschmidt used to run an Ice Bowl exhibit and a Packers wax museum at his house in Elk Mound.

David Jacques Way

Born in Elk Creek, Nebraska, Way was educated at Black Mountain College in North Carolina in its earliest days, where he gained his lifelong interest in graphic design and typography.

Elk City, Oklahoma

Today, Interstate 40 serves the city, with 60,000 consumers traveling through Elk City each day, and connects the city with Oklahoma City to the east and Amarillo, Texas to the west.

Elk Forest, West Virginia

Originally built in the late 1950s-early 1960s, it is a part of Mink Shoals, originally willed for development by Amanda Pitzer at her death, now buried at a small cemetery across the road from Elk Forest along Ventura Acres Rd.It is directly opposite Dutch Road which is a part of the Old German Settlement at Mink Shoals.

Elk Park, North Carolina

In 1882, the East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad ("Tweetsie") linked Cranberry and Johnson City, Tennessee with a stop at Elk Park; three years later, Elk Park was incorporated.

Elk River, Idaho

Elk River was formerly the site of a Potlatch sawmill, phased out after several decades during the 1930s.

EXCITING

In 2009 the code has split into two branches – “exciting”, primarily developed at the University of Leoben, and “elk”, primarily developed at the Free University of Berlin and at the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics.

Fetterman Fight

White Elk said there were more Indians present than at the Battle of the Little Bighorn which would indicate an Indian force of considerably more than 1,000.

Fly tying

Rabbit, mink, muskrat, fox, bear, squirrel and other furs, deer, elk, moose hair and chicken, pheasant, turkey, duck, goose and partridge feathers were and still are commonly incorporated into artificial flies.

Forest View High School

After the school closed on Friday June 13, 1986, students attending Forest View switched to Rolling Meadows High School, Elk Grove High School or Prospect High School.

Frank Crow

Frank Fools Crow (died 1989), Oglala Lakota spiritual leader, Yuwipi medicine man, and the nephew of Black Elk

Harry Gandy

He worked his remaining years until retirement in executive advisory roles for the Elk River Coal & Lumber Co. and Buffalo Creek & Gauley Railroad Co. in Widen, West Virginia.

Hillside Beach, Manitoba

During the fur trading expeditions of the Voyageurs and Coureur des bois the lagoon was part of a portage for traveling between the Winnipeg River and Lake Winnipeg en route from French eastern Canada to the Red River Valley, avoiding the long often choppy route around Elk Island.

Home Security Store

Brands include GE Security, Visonic, Winland Electronics, Lorex, Optex, Sensaphone, SVAT, Dakota Alert, Rokonet, Cyre, Ademco, DSC, Linear Security, SkyLink, USP, Honeywell, ELK, Chamberlain, and Altronix.

Indian Lake Township, Nobles County, Minnesota

He had been renting a farm near Spirit Lake, Iowa and frequently came to the Indian Lake region to hunt elk.

Joseph-Émile Brunet

He was also granted commission for two large bronze doors depicting animals native to Canada: “The Young Bear” and Cubs,” “Canadian Moose”, “Otters”, “Elk with wolves”, “Polar Bear”, “Beavers”, American Bison”, “Deer” and a “Great white Whale”.

Kotagiri

Other places of interest are the St.Catherine waterfalls near Aravenu, the Uyilatty falls (also known as Elk falls), 8 km from Kotagiri town and the 1,785 m (5,856 ft) high Rangaswamy Peak.

Long-range reconnaissance patrol

The Danish Defence Forces had two long-range surveillance companies (LRSC) known as "Patrol-Companies" - one assigned to the Jyske Division in Jutland and one assigned to the Land Command Zealand (Corps-level) (abbreviated "SEP/ELK" and "SEP/VLK" for: "Specielle Efterretningspatruljer/Østre resp. Vestre Landkommando" i.e. Special Intelligence Patrols) - an all volunteer unit within the Danish Home Guard that is now called Special Support and Reconnaissance Company (SSR).

Maryland Route 279

MD 279 heads northeast as two-lane Elkton Road, passing the Elkton YMCA before crossing Little Elk Creek and entering the town limits of Elkton.

Merriam's elk

Elk from Yellowstone National Park were introduced to this area in 1913, and are reasonably common in the area today.

Mount Timpanogos Wilderness

Some common wildlife found in Mount Timpanogos Wilderness include Rocky Mountain goat in the Emerald Lake region, as well as mule deer, elk, moose, mountain lion, black bear, and several species of raptor.

Narva culture

One of the most famous artifacts is a ceremonial cane carved of horn as a head of female elk found in Šventoji.

Neecy Twinem

Her illustrations have been commissioned and licensed from companies such as, Innovative Kids, Nickelodeon, Penguin Putnam, Ravensburger, Rocky Mt. Elk Foundation, Scholastic, SunsOut and the U.S.D.A..

North Carolina Highway 184

The final part of the highway, from the stoplight in Banner Elk to the Town Hall on Beech Mountain, served as a major finish in the Tour DuPont Bike Race during the 1990s.

Of One Belief

The Group was established on December 7, 2007 at a general meeting in the Elk Restaurant in Toome, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, which was attended by over 400 people.

Riding Mountain National Park

The park is home to wolves, moose, elk, black bears, hundreds of bird species, countless insects and a captive bison herd.

Robert Atherton Edwin

He also served in the Pacific in the Elk, and on HMS Salamander and HMS Falcon on the Australia Station.

Snowmass

Snowmass Mountain, a mountain in the Elk Mountains in Colorado, U.S.

Tillamook Treasure

She seeks the wisdom and guidance of her grandfather (Max Gail) and his good friend, Standing Elk (Floyd Red Crow Westerman).

Township High School District

Township High School District 214 — the Cook County district of Elk Grove and Wheeling townships (and a part of Palatine Township), and containing Buffalo Grove High School, Elk Grove High School, John Hersey High School, Prospect High School, Rolling Meadows High School, and Wheeling High School, and formerly Arlington High School and Forest View High School

Tule elk

This herd may have interbred with the introduced Rocky Mountain elk which were introduced near Mount Shasta.


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