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The incident ended with the shooting of the elephant by local police. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Provoked by the growing crowd, her rampage took her through the menswear, sporting goods and gift departments of a local Arlan's discount store, before leading police on a two-mile chase in which Rajje knocked down and injured a 67-year-old man, tried to move a ...
Elephant Run is a young adult historical novel by Roland Smith, first published in 2007. It takes place mainly in Burma in the midst of World War II.The main character is Nicholas Freestone, a 14-year-old boy, tamed and simple, who is sent to live by his mother with his father on the family teak plantation, which requires toughness and strength, to escape the bombing in London.
They are facing a cruel reality. Although they had managed to get the menagerie shuttle with the animals that had survived following the sabotage down, one ironclad circus rule is only female elephants troupe with a show due to the danger of a male elephant going into musth and becoming uncontrollable. Without a male elephant to serve as a stud ...
The phrase seeing the elephant is an Americanism which refers to gaining experience of the world at a significant cost. It was a popular expression of the mid to late 19th century throughout the United States in the Mexican–American War, the Texan Santa Fe Expedition, the American Civil War, the 1849 Gold Rush, and the Westward Expansion Trails (Oregon Trail, California Trail, Mormon Trail).
Modoc is a book written by American writer Ralph Helfer and published in 1998. It tells the true story of a boy and an elephant, and their fight to stay together across three continents. It tells the true story of a boy and an elephant, and their fight to stay together across three continents.
[3] [4] As in Mycenaean Greek, Homer used the Greek word to mean ivory, but after the time of Herodotus, it also referred to the animal. [1] The word elephant appears in Middle English as olyfaunt in c. 1300 and was borrowed from Old French oliphant in the 12th century. [2]
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