File: Elephant crossing. jpg | Wild elephant zone-Surin, Thailand

File: Elephant_crossing_the_road_in_Kruger_National_Park. jpg | Elephant crossing the road in Kruger National Park.

The other side of the River Leam, on Priory Terrace features the " Elephant Walk " 19th-century slipway down to the river located near the suspension bridge in Jephson Gardens.

Roads south of the river were also improved, including the junction at the Elephant & Castle in Southwark.

Another local name for the mountain is Tisé () mountain, which derives from ti tse in the Zhang-Zhung language, meaning " water peak " or " river peak ", connoting the mountain's status as the source of the mythical Lion, Horse, Peacock and Elephant Rivers, and in fact the Indus, Yarlung Tsangpo / Dihang / Brahmaputra, Karnali and Sutlej all begin in the Kailash-Lake Manasarovar region.

In this story the tiger comes to drink from the river just after having killed a human purely for sport, prompting Hathi the Elephant to tell the story of why tigers, alone of all the animals in the jungle, are allowed to hunt humans for pleasure at certain times.

On 1 June 1864 the railway reached the City of London, when the line from Herne Hill to Blackfriars Bridge station ( south of the river ), was extended from Elephant & Castle.

Nothing is known of Istanzia, although it is a state big enough to send an Ambassador to Ankh-Morpork for Commander Vimes to frighten: when in The Fifth Elephant the Istanzian forces were reported to be making repeated armed incursions across the Slipnir river, Vimes's offer to arrange for the Istanzian Ambassador to "... go home in an ambulance " resulted in the Istanzian forces pulling back so far that they were "... nearly in the next country.

* The Elephant Savanna-Featuring Masai giraffes, reticulated giraffes, African elephants and red river hogs.

Many elephants were employed to transport the logs to the river for transport to Bangkok, hence a founding of the ' Elephant School ', the predecessor of the Thai Elephant Conservation Center.

Once Elephant Point was secured, minesweepers cleared a passage up the river, and landing craft began coming ashore in the early hours of the morning of 2 May, almost the last day on which beach landings were possible before the heavy swell caused by the monsoon became too bad.

African Elephant trying to reach leaves, in Kenya.

McKenna appeared in An Elephant Called Slowly, a travelogue of what it was like years ago in Kenya, Africa.

* Mwaluganje Elephant Sanctuary, Kenya

* 2000 – Second Battle of Elephant Pass: Tamil Tigers capture a strategic Sri Lankan Army base and hold it for 8 years.

* — the evolution of the Elephant Riddle that entered U. S. folklore in California in 1963

* 1916 – Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the ice-trapped ship.

It is an important refuge for many endemic forest species, including the Asian Elephant, the Sumatran Rhinoceros, the Bornean Clouded Leopard, the Hose's Civet and the Dayak Fruit Bat.

Bovril beef tea was the main warm drink that Ernest Shackleton's team had to drink when they were marooned on Elephant Island during the Endurance Expedition.

The basin and delta regions are rimmed with mountain ranges to the southwest by the Cardamom Mountains and the Elephant Range and to the north by the Dangrek Mountains.

The Elephant Range, an extension running toward the south and the southeast from the Cardamom Mountains, rises to elevations of between 500 and 1, 000 meters.

The Cardamom Mountains and Elephant Range form a separate drainage divide.

Toward the southern end of the Elephant Mountains, however, because of the topography, some small rivers flow southward on the eastern side of the divide.

In 797 ( or possibly 801 ), the Abbasid caliph of Baghdad, Harun al-Rashid, presented Charlemagne with an Asian Elephant named Abul-Abbas together with a " particularly elaborate example " of a water clock.

The most reputed clocks included the Elephant, Scribe and Castle clocks, all of which have been successfully reconstructed.

Using this essay as his guideline, Howard began plotting " The Tower of the Elephant ", a new Conan story that would be the first to truly integrate his new conception of the Hyborian world.

The publication and success of " The Tower of the Elephant " would spur Howard to write many more Conan stories for Weird Tales.

# " The Tower of the Elephant " ( novelette ; vol.

After Eraserhead became a cult classic on the midnight movie circuit, Lynch was employed to direct The Elephant Man ( 1980 ), from which he gained mainstream success.

Eisenhower suffered from a respiratory infection in December 1945 which prevented him from receiving the Order of the Elephant in person from King Christian X of Denmark.

As " Ashes to Ashes " hit number one on the UK charts, Bowie opened a three-month run on Broadway on 24 September, starring in The Elephant Man.

Bowie took the title role in the Broadway theatre production The Elephant Man, earning high praise for an expressive performance.

In 1977 Dutch-Hungarian composer Geza Frid wrote a set of variations on The Elephant from Saint-Saëns ' Le Carnaval des Animaux for scordatura Double Bass and string orchestra.

" The Elephant " from Camille Saint-Saëns ' The Carnival of the Animals is a satirical portrait of the double bass, and American virtuoso Gary Karr made his televised debut playing " The Swan " ( originally written for the cello ) with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein.

Elephant ivory has been the most important source, but ivory from many species including the hippopotamus, walrus, pig, mammoth, sperm whale, and narwhal has been used.

* TRAFFIC reports on the ivory trade including those on ETIS ( Elephant Trade Information System ) prepared on behalf of CITES.

Mughal Emperor Jahangir, on an Elephant Howdah.

There are for example fragments in ' Sapphic ' meter praising the Dioscuri, Hermes and the river Hebrus ( a river significant in Lesbian mythology since it was down its waters that the head of Orpheus was believed to have floated singing, eventually crossing the sea to Lesbos and ending up in a temple of Apollo, as a symbol of Lesbian supremacy in song ).

Through the treachery of some Lucanian exiles, he was compelled to engage under unfavourable circumstances near Padosia, on the banks of the Acheron, and was killed by the hand of one of the exiles, as he was crossing the river.

During the crossing, the river grew dry as soon as the feet of the priests carrying the Ark touched its waters, and remained so until the priests — with the Ark — left the river after the people had passed over ( Josh.

A ferry crossing the Daugava river in Vitebsk

Babur crossing river Son ; folio from an illustrated manuscript of ‘ Babur-Namah ’, Mughal, Akbar Period, AD 1598

Allied assault on the Schellenberg – taken by coup de main on 2 July – provided the Allies with an excellent river crossing.

The Allies, nevertheless, needed a base for provisions and a good river crossing.

The exact location for this crossing is the most debated element, as it could negatively affect a large number of environmental features and communities along the river.

Like the Douro bridge, the project involved a lengthy viaduct crossing the river valley as well as the river crossing, and Eiffel was given the job without any process of competitive tendering due to his success with the bridge over the Douro.

After the Huns in the 4th century invaded the territories of the Gothic King Ermanaric, which at its peak stretched between the Danube and the Volga river, and from the Black to the Baltic Sea, thousands of Goths fled into the Balkans, defeating the Romans at the Battle of Adrianople and sacking Rome in 410, while thousands of Germans were crossing the Rhine.

Valens permitted this, and even assisted the Goths in their crossing of the river ( probably at the fortress of Durostorum ).

They are part of the Mile of Sculptures which leads from Trammplatz, following the river bank and crossing Königsworther Square up to the entrance of the Georgengarten.

* 1981 – Bihar train disaster A passenger train travelling between Mansi and Saharsa, India, jumps the tracks at a bridge crossing the Bagmati river.

Jains compare the process of becoming a pure soul to crossing a swift river, an endeavour requiring patience and care.

" This theory is highly plausible, Paul the Deacon mentions an episode of the Lombards crossing a river, and the Lombards could have reached Rugiland from the Upper Oder area via the Moravian Gate.

The former river forms a gorge running through the middle of the city south of the old city centre, generally following the course of the present Rue Centrale, with several bridges crossing the depression to connect the adjacent neighbourhoods.

According to Roman tradition, Hannibal had been made to swear by his father never to be a friend of Rome, and he certainly did not take a conciliatory attitude when the Romans berated him for crossing the river Iberus ( Ebro ) which Carthage was bound by treaty not to cross.

Roman auxiliary infantry crossing a river, probably the Danube, on a pontoon bridge during the emperor Trajan's Dacian Wars ( 101 – 106 )

This dam has locks, but they have not always operated well, and the river has been little used from Khartoum to the port of Kusti, a railroad crossing 319 kilometers upstream.