Elephant hunters have historically been one of the most prestigious occupations among the Nyamwezi, since the elephant hunters could get very rich from ivory trade.

The broadway musical Seussical centers largely around Horton the Elephant, as his attempt to protect the Whos on their dust speck is de-railed by many factors, including the animal obstacles presented in Horton Hears a Who!

Often dubbed an eyesore or a " White Elephant ", an attempt to increase its attractiveness was made when blue " UFO style " neon strip lights were added to the perimeter of the tower in 1994 ( later removed upon refurbishment ).

In chess, the Elephant Trap is a faulty attempt by White to win a pawn in a popular variation of the Queen's Gambit Declined.

Shooting an Elephant is a possibly autobiographical account by George Orwell in which he describes how an elephant in Burma had an attack of musth and went on to kill an Indian, leading the story's narrator to shoot it.

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

* 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.

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

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.

He drew on his experiences in the Burma police for the novel Burmese Days ( 1934 ) and the essays " A Hanging " ( 1931 ) and " Shooting an Elephant " ( 1936 ).

This project has been designed to create awareness and raise vital funds for the protection of the critically endangered Asian Elephant.

Male Southern Elephant Seal s fighting on Macquarie Island for the right to mate

* 1937 Robert J. Flaherty and Zoltan Korda for Elephant Boy

Despite the fact that this was a fairly transparent hoax, McGonagall would refer to himself as " Sir William Topaz McGonagall, Knight of the White Elephant, Burmah " in his advertising for the rest of his life.

The first single for Silvertone, " Elephant Stone ", made little impact, and in early 1989 the band's performances outside the north-west were still attracting small audiences.

Though some joined in the profitable vice trade ( to run, for instance, the Black Elephant Saloon ), many others found legitimate work and bought homes.

In 2002, Burton was nominated for Best Actress in Play for Hedda Gabler and Best Featured Actress in a Play for The Elephant Man.

After Blackadder, Robinson became the narrator and one of the lead actors for the British animated series Nellie the Elephant, based on a song of the same name.

The competitive category was created in 1981 as the Academy Award for Best Makeup, after the Academy received complaints that the make-up work in The Elephant Man ( 1980 ) was not going to be honored.

No award was given to The Elephant Man however, but an entire category dedicated to honoring make-up effects in film was created for subsequent ceremonies.

In 1981, he released Elephant Parts, the first winner of a Grammy for music video, directed by William Dear.

Elephant Butte Dam was built in 1910 on the Rio Grande, creating a large reliable irrigation source for the county.

* Events for Truth or Consequences, Elephant Butte, and all of Sierra County

Beginning in the early 1970s he became a prolific illustrator for many anarchist, radical, alternative and mainstream publications, organisations, groups and individuals including Freedom Press, Undercurrents, Respect for Animals, BIT Newsletter, Arts Lab Newsletter, Idiot International, 1977 Firemans Strike, Libertarian Education, The Idler, Radical Community Medicine, Anarchy Magazine, Black Flag, Anarchy Comix, Common Ground, Industrial Worker, Aberlour Distillery, Country Life, Graphical Paper and Media Union, The Times Saturday Review, Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival, New Scientist, Oxford University Press, Penguin Books, Times Educational Supplement, London Anarchist Bookfair, Public and Commercial Services Union, The Sunday Times Magazine, Catholic Worker, Soil Association, The Bodleian Library, New Statesman, Cienfeugos Anarchist Review, Headline Books, The Financial Times, Resurgence, Scotland on Sunday, Town and Country Planning Association, Movement Against A Monarchy, Nursing Times, John Hegarty, The Listener, Zero, McCallan Whisky, Solidarity, New Society, News from Neasden, House & Garden, The Tablet, Radical Science Journal, Royal Mail, The Co-ops Fairs, Picador Books, Pluto Press, Working Press, Anarchismo, Insurrection, Our Generation, Ogilvy & Mather, Vogue, Radio Times, National Union of Teachers, Faber & Faber, Pimlico, Trades Union Congress, Transport and General Workers Union, Serpents Tale, Compendium Books, Poison Girls, Yale University Press, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Elephant Editions, Intelligent Life, Landworker, Zounds, Honey, New Musical Express, Knockabout Comics, Trickett and Webb, The Times, See Sharp Press, Countryside Commission, Industrial Common Ownership Movement, BBC Worldwide, Stop the War Coalition, The Folio Society, Unison, Anarchist Studies, Country Standard, Fitzrovia News, Anarchist Black Cross and many others.

After folio 9 verso some leaves are missing which should have contained Antelope ( Antalops ), Unicorn ( Unicornis ), Lynx ( Lynx ), Griffin ( Gryps ) and part of Elephant ( Elephans ).

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

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.

* the Order of the Elephant, which may have been first founded by Christian I of Denmark, but was founded in its current form by King Christian V in 1693

Peake's play The Cave, which dates from the mid-1950s, was given a first public reading at the Blue Elephant Theatre in Camberwell ( London ) in 2009, and had its world premiere in the same theatre, directed by Aaron Paterson, on 19 October 2010.

An alternative tune is " Nellie the Elephant ", which has the same tempo.

He first appeared in " Bobo the Elephant " ( 1934 ) as the abusive owner of an elephant which Mickey later forced Squinch to sell him.

Homerton's links with popular music continued with the arrival of Toerag, an eight track recording studio which uses reclaimed 1960s analogue equipment, where notably the White Stripes ' acclaimed 2003 album Elephant was produced.

The 1981 movie Honky Tonk Freeway was filmed here with the Historical Lakeside Inn which was painted pink for the film, and an Indian Elephant was shipped in and taught to water ski on Lake

Irrigation of local farms is accomplished by water wells as well as irrigation ditches which divert water from the Rio Grande and two lakes approximately 20 miles north of Hatch named Caballo ( Spanish for " horse ") and Elephant Butte Reservoir ( named after a rock formation in the middle of the lake that looks similar to an elephant ).

Serial killer David Parker Ray lived in Elephant Butte, which is 5 miles from Truth or Consequences.

He is a two time nominee of the Academy Award for Best Director — for Good Will Hunting ( 1997 ) and Milk ( 2008 ), both of which were also nominated for Best Picture — and won the Palme d ' Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his film Elephant ( 2003 ).

It took Gerry over a year to make it to theaters, in which time Van Sant began production on his next film, the controversial Elephant.

A refurbishment of the Zoo's old Elephant house, which is scheduled to be completed in 2013.

The largest battle of the war was in July 1991, when the army's Elephant Pass base, which controlled access to the Jaffna Peninsula, was surrounded by 5, 000 LTTE cadres.

On 22 April 2000, the Elephant Pass military complex, which had separated the Jaffna peninsula from the Vanni mainland for 17 years, completely fell to the hands of the LTTE leaving 1, 008 soldiers dead.

CJ's Elephant Antics wasn't released as a standalone game at all but was part of the Quattro Arcade NES cartridge which contained three other games.

It covers an area of 170 acres ( 688, 000 m² ) and envisages restoring the Elephant and Castle to the role of major urban hub for inner South London which it occupied before World War II.

London's growing Latino population, which have been largely residing in Elephant and Castle since the 80's, are also taking part in the regeneration project.

Elephant and Castle was to have been served by the Cross-River Tram scheme, which was cancelled in 2008 due to budgetary constraints.

Elephant is the second film in Van Sant's " Death Trilogy " — the first being Gerry ( 2002 ) and the third being Last Days ( 2005 ) — in which all three are based on actual events.

The decision behind the selection of Rup chang nai thong nam, meaning Image of an Elephant in a Body of Water, as the provincial seal was because this was the origin of Mae Hong Son's founding, which first began with Lord Kaeo of Ma being sent to capture elephants for the Lord of Chiang Mai ( 1825 – 1846 ).

" Captain Alexander Hamilton, writing in 1727, described how the Mughal ruler Shah Jahan ordered an offending military commander to be carried " to the Elephant Garden, and there to be executed by an Elephant, which is reckoned to be a shameful and terrible Death ".