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2. Lucy the Elephant - Wikipedia

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   Lucy the Elephant is a six-story elephant-shaped wood frame and tin clad building, constructed in 1882 by James V. Lafferty in Margate City, New Jersey. Lucy was built with the purpose of promoting real estate sales and attracting tourists to the area. Today, Lucy remains the oldest surviving roadside tourist attraction in America. [4]

3. Ancient furniture - Wikipedia

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   Concurrently, a low table or a free-standing shelf needed to be set in place. The byōbu is a multi-paneled screen covered in paintings. Each panel is called an andon. The name byōbu means "wind-shelter." It appeared in Japan at an unknown point in time.

4. Elephantine Colossus - Wikipedia

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   Lafferty received a patent for his Zoomorphic Architecture in 1882. U.S. patent 268,503. At 122 feet (37 m) tall, the Coney Island Elephant was approximately twice the dimensions of Lucy the Elephant, which had pre-dated it by four years; with the exception of the designs of their respective howdahs and the numbers and relative sizes of the windows, externally it was a nearly exact scaled-up ...

5. Cultural depictions of elephants - Wikipedia

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   Ever since the Stone Age, when elephants were represented by ancient petroglyphs and cave art, they have been portrayed in various forms of art, including pictures, sculptures, music, film, and even architecture. Elephant scalp worn by Demetrius I of Bactria (205–171 BC), founder of the Indo-Greek Kingdom, as a symbol of his conquest.

6. History of wood carving - Wikipedia

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   The texture of wood often proves challenging when trying to create an expression and features of the face. However, the rough texture of the wood can lend itself to the more rugged features of the aging face. Examples exist of the "beetling" of brows, furrows, and lines, all enhanced by the natural defects of the grain of the wood. [citation ...

7. 35 white elephant gift ideas people will actually want ... - AOL

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   BUTEFO 8 in 1 Kitchen Tool Set Bottle, $9.99 Avocado Toast Christmas Ornament, $10 Holiday Flask Hot Sauce Set, $9.99 Mean Girls Mini Burn Book + Magnet Set, $9.95 Gentlemen's Hardware The Right ...

8. Ivory carving - Wikipedia

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   A set of ivory table and chairs, displayed at Victoria Memorial, Kolkata is an exquisite example of carving done by Murshidabad carvers. This is a five legged arm chair, where three legs culminate into a tiger's claw while the remaining two culminate into an open mouthed tiger's head.

9. Machines of the Isle of Nantes - Wikipedia

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   The Great Elephant (2007) is a mechanical elephant, 12 metres (39 ft) high and 8 metres (26 ft) meters wide, made from 45 tons of wood and steel. It can take up to 49 passengers for a 45-minute walk. [2]