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1.
Killing Game: International Law and the African Elephant
Contributors:
Publisher:
Praeger Publishers 1994
Subjects:
African Elephant--Law And Legislation
Endangered Species--Law And Legislation
Environmental Law, International
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Until recently, models of elephant-woodland interaction have suggestedthat...suggestsa more complex dynamic in which elephant marauding may cause coppiceregrowth...complex relationship be­tween elephant population density and surrounding...
2.
Alexander the Great and the Mystery of the Elephant Medallions
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Publisher:
University of California Press 2003
Subjects:
Alexander, the Great, 356-323 BC--Numismatics
Coins, Ancient
Elephants in Numismatics
Coins, Greek
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In the Vulgate tradition, this elephant defended Porus to the death, actU...circus actsand neighborhood zoos, the elephant has become all too tame and fa­miliar...could aston­ish us more than an elephant. The Greeks knew of ivory (elephasU...
4.
Taming the Elephant: Politics, Government, and Law in Pioneer California
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Publisher:
University of California Press 2003
Subjects:
Frontier And Pioneer Life--California
Law--California--History--19th Century
Legislation--California--History--19th Century
California--Politics And Government--1846-1850
California--Politics And Government--1850-1950
California--Social Conditions--19th Century
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1 Taming the Elephant An Introduction to California'sStatehood and Constitutional...2014something as unique as actually see­ing an elephant was at that time. The reality of seeing the elephant sometimes didnot match the anticipation of the event...
5.
Seeing the Elephant: The Many Voices of the Oregon Trail
Contributors:
Publisher:
Texas Tech University Press 2003
Subjects:
Oregon National Historic Trail--Description and Travel--Juvenile Literature
Pioneers--Oregon National Historic Trail--Diaries--Juvenile Literature
Frontier and Pioneer Life--Oregon National Historic Trail--Juvenile Literature
Overland Journeys to the Pacific--Juvenile Literature
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...20131992 (R1997). Frontispiece: Dancing elephant from Gold Rush lettersheet. [Seeing the elephant] became a popularphrase for describing...the overland trails. To have[seen the elephant] and survived became a mark of great accomplishment...
6.
Managing Complexity during Military Urban Operations: Visualizing the Elephant
Contributors:
Publisher:
Rand 2004
Subjects:
Urban Warfare
Street Fighting (Military Science)
United States. Army--Operational Readiness
Military Planning--United States
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VISUALIZING THE ELEPHANT: MANAGING COMPLEXITY DURING MILITARY...of the six blind mencoming across an elephant for the first time.Thought to have...Saxe,“The Blind Men and the Elephant. ” The piece is available from...
7.
Elephant and Castle, a Reconstruction
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Publisher:
Rinehart 1949
Subjects:
Fiction
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...student daysin a concern of some repute. The tawdry patchwork of shops along theCauseway and the thresh of traffic about the Elephant's grotesquefaçade, pigeons waddling slowly out of the way of buses and the LionBrewery growing from a river fog...
8.
Tales from a Troubled Land | Life for a Life | Sponono | Ha'penny | The Waste Land | The Worst Thing of His Life | The Elephant Shooter | Debbie Go Home | Death of a Tsotsi | The Divided House | A Drink in the Passage
Contributors:
Publisher:
Charles Scribners Sons 1961
Subjects:
South Africa--Social Life And Customs--Fiction
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...for he had idled his time away at school. Thenhe became an elephant shooter for the PortugueseEast Government. He was gay, serious...must have been about twenty-five."Why did you give up elephant shooting?" I asked."I got sick of it, meneer," he said...
9.
The Living Elephants: Evolutionary Ecology, Behavior, and Conservation
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Publisher:
Oxford University Press 2003
Subjects:
Wildlife Conservation
African Elephant
Asiatic Elephant
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recent genetic evidence from African elephant populations (see chapter 1) alsosuggests...F. H. Ansell.The efficacy of the elephant, African or Asian, in the Mediterranean...00ADpared to other powers, on the elephant may be a reflection of the relativeproximity...
10.
Diplomacy and Trade in the Chinese World, 589-1276
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Publisher:
Brill 2005
Subjects:
China--Commerce--History
China--Foreign Relations--To 1644
China--History--Sui Dynasty, 581-618
China--History--Tang Dynasty, 618-907
China--History--Song Dynasty, 960-1279
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1201: 2 elephants from Chen-li-fu. 1205: one elephant from Chen-li-fu. 1261: 2 elephants from Chiao-chih. Elephant tusks 627–649: elephant tusks from T'ou-ho. 647: elephant tusks from To-p'o-teng...
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