The hand-colored scenes are treated in a light manner, the suit symbols are ingenious, and the cards begin with the Creation of Adam and end with a battle scene that has an elephant carrying a castle.

Many of the coins produced up to 1699 have an elephant and castle beneath the monarch's head, indicating that the gold was provided by the Africa Company.

Many of the coins produced up to 1694 have an elephant and / or castle beneath the monarch's head, indicating that the gold was provided by the Royal African Company.

The coin was produced each year between 1663 and 1684, with the elephant appearing on some coins each year from 1663 – 65 and 1668, and the elephant and castle on some coins from 1674 onward.

Coins of each year were issued both with and without the elephant and castle mark.

The guineas of this reign weighed 8. 5 grams, were 25 – 26 mm in diameter, and were the work of James and Norbert Roettier and were produced in all years between 1689 and 1694 both with and without the elephant and castle ; in 1692 and 1693 the mark of the elephant alone was also used.

The guinea coin was produced in all years from 1695 to 1701, both with and without the elephant and castle, the design probably being the work of Johann Crocker, also known as John Croker, since James Roettier had died in 1698 and his brother Norbert had moved to France in 1695.

The elephant and castle can appear on the coins of 1708 and 1709.

George I's guinea coins were struck in all years between 1714 and 1727, with the elephant and castle sometimes appearing in 1721, 1722, and 1726.

During the reign of King Charles II, the elephant and castle logo of the Africa Company appeared on some coins from 1676 to 1684, although the denomination was produced in all years between 1669 and 1684.

The elephant and castle mark was only used on some coins in 1686, which are particularly scarce.

Half guineas were produced in all years between 1689 and 1694 with the elephant and castle appearing in 1691 and 1692.

The half guinea coin was produced in all years from 1695 to 1701, with the elephant and castle appearing on some coins from 1695, 1696, and 1698, the design probably being the work of James Roettier and John Croker.

George I's half guinea coins were struck between 1715 and 1727 except 1716, with the elephant and castle sometimes appearing in 1721.

The " elephant and castle " from the 14th century choir stalls at Chester Cathedral

Previously the site was occupied by a blacksmith and cutler – the coat of arms of the Worshipful Company of Cutlers features an elephant with a castle ( possibly meant to be a howdah ) on its back, which in turn was used because of the use of elephant ivory in handles.

The current elephant and castle crest was granted in 1622 ; this features two elephants and three crossed-swords, a helmet and a smaller elephant and castle.

The elephant and castle crest gave rise to a pub of the same name on the site of an old cutler's inn at Newington, south London which in turn gave its name to the entire area Elephant and Castle.

The clubs ' badge features an elephant with a castle on its back, this represents Dumbarton Rock with Dumbarton Castle upon it, Dumbarton Rock, a volcanic plug is said to resemble an elephant & the teams nickname ' The Sons ' is derived from the phrase ' Sons of The Rock ' a term used for those born in the town of Dumbarton.

General limitations about the structure and philosophy of CITES include: by design and intent it focuses on trade at the species level and does not address habitat loss, ecosystem approaches to conservation, or poverty ; it seeks to prevent unsustainable use rather than promote sustainable use ( which generally conflicts with the Convention on Biological Diversity ), although this has been changing ( see Nile Crocodile, African elephant, South African white rhino case studies in Hutton and Dickinson 2000 ).

Variants include having rings along the length of the straight back edge as found in the nine-ring guan dao for use as distractions or entanglements for incoming enemy weapons, having the tip curl into a rounded spiral as in the elephant guan dao, or featuring a more ornate design as exemplified by the dragon head guan dao.

The provincial seal is an image of Indra atop his celestial white elephant, Airavata which is based on the design found on a famous Khmer temple in the province.

* Toronto Zoo is currently ( Feb 2008 ) starting the initial design phases for an expanded elephant complex, including a large indoor space where the herd can be together and on display year-round, and an expanded outdoor paddock.

Some men have incorporated genital tattooing into the creation of a tattoo design in such a way that the penis becomes a part of the overall design motif ( for example, as a " nose " in a tattooed face, or as the " trunk " of an elephant ).

Before their design was eventually simplified, some of the earlier coins of king Apollodotus directly associate the elephant with Buddhist symbolism, such as the stupa hill surmounted by a star, also seen, for example on the coins of the Mauryan Empire or those of the later Kuninda kingdom.

The novel's main character meets an elephant made of stone carrying an obelisk, and the accompanying woodcut illustration in the book is quite similar to Bernini's design for the base for the obelisk.

Variations include having rings along the length of the straight back edge as found in the nine-ring guan dao, having the tip curl into a rounded spiral as in the elephant guan dao ( literally elephant Knife ), or featuring a more ornate design as exemplified by the dragon head guan dao.

2007 also had the " Flips " which moved the elephant print from the trim to the entire shoe and replacing it with white leather, indeed " Flipping " the original design of white leather with elephant print trim.

For many years the bridge was considered something of a white elephant given its elaborate design yet relatively low traffic levels compared to the congested Kingston Bridge further upstream.

Analyzing Albrecht Dürer's famous 1515 woodcut, it is possible that the liberties taken with the rhino's design were in fact designs for a suit of armour created for the rhinoceros's fight against an elephant in Portugal.

The word ultimately derives from the Ancient Egyptian âb, âbu " elephant ", through the Latin ebor-or ebur.

The tradition derives from tales which associate a white elephant with the birth of the Buddha, as his mother was reputed to have dreamed of a white elephant presenting her with a lotus flower, a common symbol of wisdom and purity, on the eve of giving birth.

A more probable and prosaic explanation is that the name derives from the arms of the Worshipful Company of Cutlers, a London trade guild ; an elephant carrying a castle-shaped howdah can also be seen on the arms of the City of Coventry.

He states that the humour of elephant jokes derives in part from the contradiction between " the logical and expected schema-driven answer " to the riddle, and the actual absurd punchline.

The name " Anaimalai " derives from the Tamil / Malayalam word ' Anai ' meaning elephant and ' Malai ' meaning hill, thus Elephant Hill.

" Without a clear Sinhala connection, they suggest one from the Tamil language instead: anai-kondra ( anaik-konda ), meaning " which killed an elephant .” Per National Geographic, the word anaconda comes from the Tamil word anaikolra, which means elephant killer.

* 1796 – The first elephant ever seen in the United States arrives from India.

File: 2012-kruger-albino-elephant. jpg | A wild albino elephant from Kruger National Park

Carnivorans are the most diverse in size of any mammalian order, ranging from the least weasel ( Mustela nivalis ), at as little as and, to the polar bear ( Ursus maritimus ), which can weigh up to, to the southern elephant seal ( Mirounga leonina ), whose adult males weigh up to and measure up to in length.

Severe historical penalties include breaking wheel, boiling to death, flaying, slow slicing, disembowelment, crucifixion, impalement, crushing ( including crushing by elephant ), stoning, execution by burning, dismemberment, sawing, decapitation, scaphism, necklacing or blowing from a gun.

On 15 July 2008, the Committee that oversees the administration of the convention between meetings of all the Parties granted China and Japan permission to import elephant ivory from four African government stockpiles, the ivory being sold at a single auction in each country.

An elephant clock in a manuscript by Al-Jazari ( 1206 AD ) from The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices. In the 13th century, Al-Jazari, a Kurdish Muslim engineer from Mesopotamia ( lived 1136-1206 ) who worked for Artuqid king of Diyar-Bakr, Nasir al-Din, made numerous clocks of all shapes and sizes.

Aside from elephants, the word has been used to refer to ivory, elephant tusks, musical horns made of elephant tusks, or a musical instrument resembling such horns.

Adult phocids vary from in length and in weight, in the ringed seal, to and in the southern elephant seal.

Lactation ranges from 28 days in the northern elephant seal to just three to five days in the hooded seal.

The postweaning fast ranges from two weeks in the hooded seal to 9 – 12 weeks in the northern elephant seal.

These hankos can be carved out in a matter of seconds using machinery and were partly responsible for massive African elephant decline in the 1980s when the African elephant population went from 1. 3 million to around 600, 000 in ten years.

In the ten years preceding a decision in 1989 by CITES to ban international trade in African elephant ivory the population of African elephants declined from 1. 3 million to around 600, 000.

Other African countries oppose this position stating that renewed ivory trading puts their own elephant populations under greater threat from poachers reacting to demand.

* 971 – In China, the war elephant corps of the Southern Han are soundly defeated at Shao by crossbow fire from Song Dynasty troops.

In a 1979 article, California biologist Dennis Power and geographer Donald Johnson claimed that the Surgeon's Photograph was in fact the top of the head, extended trunk and flared nostrils of a swimming elephant, probably photographed elsewhere and claimed to be from Loch Ness.

He claimed to have heard from multiple independent sources about a creature living in the Congo region which was described as " half elephant, half dragon.

* Mary ( elephant ), an elephant from the Sparks World Famous Shows circus