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The Elephant Rally, or Elefantentreffen, is a winter motorcycle rally, which takes place on the first weekend in February or on the last weekend in January annually in a valley between the towns of Thurmansbang and Solla in the Bavarian Forest in Germany. It is organized by the Federal Association of Motorcycle Riders in Germany.
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The growing reputation of the Elephant Rally led to the creation in 1962 of a British winter rally called the Dragon rally and is held each February in North Wales. One of the largest motorcycle rallies in Europe is the Thundersprint , held annually in May in Northwich , Cheshire , England and usually has notable motorcycle champions or ...
Elephant racing, though unusual as a sporting event, is held in many parts of the world but mostly in Asia. The earliest known such racing event as a tradition is reported from Vietnam . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In the 20th century, this became a major event (though it generated protests) in Germany in 1920, and an organized International Elephant Race in ...
Jenny (1899 – February 1941), was a 20th-century female Asian elephant probably born in Ceylon.Jenny was exported to Germany, between 1915 and 1917 she was put into a work service in the Imperial German Army being one of the very few elephants serving in the Central Powers armies in World War I.
The Elephant Man was a critical and commercial success with eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Actor. After receiving widespread criticism for failing to honour the make-up effects, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was prompted to create the Academy Award for ...
Tyke (1973 – August 20, 1994) was a female African bush elephant from Mozambique who performed with Circus International of Honolulu, Hawaii.On August 20, 1994, during a performance at the Neal Blaisdell Center, she killed her trainer, Allen Campbell, and seriously injured her groomer, Dallas Beckwith.
The Wupper river, between Schwebebahn stations Alter Markt and Adlerbrücke Painting of Tuffi on a house wall in Wuppertal facing the Schwebebahn. Tuffi (born 1946, India – died in 1989, Paris, France) was a female Asian elephant that became famous in West Germany during 1950 when she accidentally fell from the Wuppertal Schwebebahn into the River Wupper underneath.