In mid-1917 ten-year-old Frances Griffiths and her mother – both newly arrived in the UK from South Africa – were staying with Frances ' aunt, Elsie Wright's mother, in the village of Cottingley in West Yorkshire ; Elsie was then 16 years old.

In a 1985 interview on Yorkshire Television's Arthur C. Clarke's World of Strange Powers, Elsie said that she and Frances were too embarrassed to admit the truth after fooling Conan Doyle, the author of Sherlock Holmes: " Two village kids and a brilliant man like Conan Doyle – well, we could only keep quiet.

* The village of Elsie is located within the township.

Elsie is a village in Clinton County in the U. S. state of Michigan.

The only remaining resident of the village is Elsie Eiler.

During the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 2 ; only one married couple, Rudy and Elsie Eiler, lived there.

Elsie is a village in Perkins County, Nebraska, United States.

The launderette in the centre of the village, opposite The Royal Oak pub was opened by the actress Pat Phoenix c1966, who played Elsie Tanner in the popular soap Coronation Street.

* Elsie, Michigan, a village in Clinton County

* Elsie, Nebraska, village in Perkins County

The CTCA program of activities was profuse: William Farnum and Mary Pickford on the screen, Elsie Janis and Harry Lauder on the stage, books provided by the American Library Association, full equipment for games and sports -- except that no `` bones '' were furnished for the all-time favorite pastime played on any floor and known as `` African golf ''.

However, Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sussex said Kanzō Umehara considered the Ainu and some Ryukyuans to have " preserved their proto-Mongoloid traits " According to anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons physical features of the Proto-Mongoloid were characterized as, " a straight-haired type, medium in complexion, jaw protrusion, nose-breadth, and inclining probably to round-headedness ".

In 1917, when the first two photographs were taken, Elsie was 16 years old and Frances was 10.

In the early 1980s Elsie and Frances admitted that the photographs were faked using cardboard cutouts of fairies copied from a popular children's book of the time, but Frances maintained that the fifth and final photograph was genuine.

Because Frances and Elsie insisted that the fairies would not show themselves if others were watching, Elsie's mother was persuaded to visit her sister's for tea, leaving the girls alone.

To protect the girls ' anonymity, Frances and Elsie were called Alice and Iris respectively, and the Wright family was referred to as the Carpenters.

By now Elsie and Frances were tired of the whole fairy business.

Elsie and Frances were interviewed by journalist Austin Mitchell in September 1976, for a programme broadcast on Yorkshire Television.

" In the same interview Frances said: " I never even thought of it as being a fraud – it was just Elsie and I having a bit of fun and I can't understand to this day why they were taken in – they wanted to be taken in.

" Rather, remember that Elsie, Ena and Co. were the first of their kind ever seen on British television.

William and Elsie were husband and wife.

Elsie and " Rudy's Library " were shown on the Today show on May 31, 2005.

Elsie and the " Monowi Tavern " were featured on CBS Sunday Morning on October 29, 2006, and again on August 12, 2007.

There was one other cut made after Gilbert's death: Separate lyrics for Elsie and Point, not found elsewhere, were cut during the " All frenzied, frenzied with despair they rave " section of the Act I finale.

Their son William Goodsell Rockefeller married Elsie Stillman, daughter of National City Bank president James Stillman, and they were the parents of James Stillman Rockefeller.

His sisters Elsie and Doris Waters were well-known comediennes who usually performed as " Gert and Daisy ".

Only two of the party's 295 candidates were elected — Charest and Elsie Wayne.

Marino married the rich American Mary Elsie Moore ; they were the parents of Don Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince di Civitella-Cesi, who married the Infanta Beatriz of Spain, the daughter of King Alfonso XIII — and of Donna Marina Torlonia di Civitella-Cesi, the wife of American tennis player Francis Xavier Shields and grandmother of the American actress Brooke Shields.

In May 1914, when James Deering, the International Harvester heir, and his travelling companion and long-term artistic advisor Paul Chalfin, a decorative painter and interior decorator who once worked for Elsie de Wolfe, were lent one of the smaller casinas at La Pietra, Acton commissioned Suarez to take them around and show them some villas they would not otherwise have had access to.

They were owned by such arbiters of fashion as Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom, and Elsie de Wolfe, popular American interior decorator.

It was published in book form in November, though its sales were half that of Elsie Venner.

Among the many unique exhibits was the Borden's exhibit, that featured 150 pedigreed cows ( including the original Elsie ) on a " Rotolactor " that allowed bathing them, drying them, and milking them in a highly mechanized way.

He was featured in both Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ) and Intolerance ( 1916 ) both directed by D. W. Griffith, and starred opposite leading ladies such as Florence Turner, Gloria Swanson, Lillian Gish, Elsie Ferguson, and Geraldine Farrar en route to becoming one of Hollywood's major heartthrobs.

A spin-off series, Bracken was launched around Pat Barry ( Gabriel Byrne ), and which featured Irish actor Niall Toibin, Mick Lally and former Coronation Street actor Joe Lynch ( who had played a lover of the Street's Elsie Tanner ).

The arrows between the gerund SITTING and the nouns agent and location express the diagram's basic relationship ; " agent is SITTING on location "; Elsie is an instance of CAT.

Two months later the girls borrowed his camera again, and this time returned with a photograph of Elsie sitting on the lawn holding out her hand to a gnome.

The second, Fairy offering Posy of Harebells to Elsie, shows a fairy either hovering or tiptoeing on a branch, and offering Elsie a flower.

In 1976, Pat Phoenix returned to her role as Elsie Tanner and, after a spate of ill health, Violet Carson returned on a more regular basis as Ena.

Castellaneta was born in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, on October 29, 1957, to Elsie and Louis Castellaneta.

Sixty people, forty six adults and fourteen children, settled on the townsite that is now Duchesne and called it by its first name " Elsie "( Glen ).

Wilfred leads Elsie back from her anonymous meeting with the priest and the prisoner and leaves her to reflect on her impending widowhood.

), and he undertakes to instruct Point in this art, following this up with a most effective demonstration on Elsie.

* October 8 – Patricia Phoenix leaves the role of Elsie Tanner on Coronation Street after thirteen years, when she felt that specific length of time was enough to play one character continuously.

Lesser Crested Terns normally nest on islands off the coast of Libya and migrate to West Africa for the winter ; it is thought that " Elsie " took a wrong " tern " at the Straits of Gibraltar on spring migration.