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		The elephant is the largest land animal, and also the nearest to man in intelligence.
		The elephant is greatly afraid of the Rhinocerate; for he always gores it whenever he meets an elephant.
		Elephants were supposedly cold-blooded and thus pursued by dragons in search of a cooling drink, Nosferatu-style, to slake their thirst.
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	Hanno the elephant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hanno (c1510- 8 June 1516)(in Italian, Annone) was the pet white elephant of Pope Leo X (born Giovanni de' Medici), and the subject of the book "The Pope's Elephant: An Elephant's Journey from Deep in India to the Heart of Rome" by Silvio A. Bedini.
		Hanno was said to be white in colour, and arrived by ship from Lisbon to Rome in 1514, aged about four years, and was kept initially in an enclosure in the Belvedere courtyard, then moved to a specially constructed building between St.
		Hanno was laid to rest in the Cortile del Belvedere, after just two years in Rome, and seven years of life.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hanno_the_elephant (473 words)

	List of historical elephants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Kandula - the most famous elephant in Sri Lanka was given to an infant prince Dutu Gemunu (or Duttagamini) in the 2nd century B.C. The king and his elephant grew up together.
		A Sri Lankan elephant born in 2000 at the National Zoo in Washington D.C. is named after Kandula.
		Lin Wang - a Burmese elephant that served with the Chinese Expeditionary Force during the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) and later moved to Taiwan with the Kuomintang army.
	www.mcfly.org /wik/List_of_historical_elephants (268 words)

	Hanno - Free net encyclopedia
		Hanno the Elder, Carthaginian general defeated in 207 BC, spain.
		Hanno the Great, Carthaginian statesman and general pro-roman in the Second Punic War and after.
		Hanno was also a very common name in Punic Carthage.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Hanno (156 words)

	White elephant
		In Thailand, white elephants are sacred and a symbol of royal power; all those discovered are presented to the king (usually this is ceremonial — they are not taken into captivity) and the more white elephants the king has, the greater his standing.
		A white elephant in Thailand is not necessarily albino, although it must have pale skin.
		According to one story, white elephants were sometimes given as a present to some enemy (often a lesser noble with whom the king was displeased).
	en.efactory.pl /White_elephant (387 words)

	WHITE ELEPHANT FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The term is often used to refer to an extremely tacky gift, or one that does not fit the tastes of the recipient, that is given by a friend or close relative (such as a mother-in-law) and therefore cannot be exchanged or thrown away.
		The term was coined after New York Giants manager John McGraw told the press that Philadelphia businessman Benjamin Shibe had "bought himself a white elephant" by acquiring the Philadelphia Athletics baseball team in 1901, A's manager Connie_Mack selected the elephant as the team symbol and mascot.
		Kansai_International_Airport, located on an artificial_island in Osaka_Bay, south of Osaka, Japan, is considered an example of a white elephant, as it was constructed largely as a matter of pride, and though at a fraction of nominal capacity, is being doubled in size.
	www.bellabuds.com /white_elephant (906 words)

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		For Romans, Hanno became the superior symbol of the seductive Orient; for Pope Leo's detractors, the elephant became a symbol of Roman corruption.
		Brought to Leo X 1514, Hanno the elephant was a symbol of Portuguese power and dominance in the outlying east, and particularly from India, where the elephant's journey began.
		In Rome, the elephant is finally, and formally, one-handed finished to the pope, and Bedini shows his extraordinary synchronous skill in sketching dead all aspect of the ceremony.
	www.myfinanceaid.com /the-pope+s-elephants,0140288627_i.htm (1295 words)

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		Hanno the elephant, the pet of Pope Leo X Pink elephant, a visual hallucination arising from heavy drinking.
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	Hanno - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hanno is a name that can refer to the following entities:
		Hanno von Sangerhausen, great master of the Teutonic Knights
		Hanno was also a very common name in Punic Carthage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hanno (117 words)

	Grade 6
		The African elephant lives in Africa, south of the Sahara desert in tropical forests, savannah areas, deserts and river valleys.
		Elephants drink water by sucking it up with their trunks and spraying it into their mouths.
		Elephants are ready to mate at the age of 15 to 16, usually with a bull that is able to fight with other bulls in the herd.
	www.tenan.vuurwerk.nl /reports/eversdal/grade6.htm (501 words)

	ipedia.com: White elephant Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A white elephant is a rare kind of elephant.
		In Thailand, white elephants are sacred and a symbol of royal power; all those discovered are presented to the king (usually this is ceremonial - they are not taken into captivity) and the more white elephants the king has, the greater his standing.
		Hence a "white elephant stall" is a stall of bargains.
	www.ipedia.com /white_elephant.html (482 words)

	The-Elephant-Man - Awesome movies, movie search engine, movie reviews and movie news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Elephant Man The Elephant Man is a 1980 biographical film which tells the story of the 19th century British deformed celebrity Joseph Merrick.
		Hanno the elephant Hanno (in Italian, Annone) was the pet white elephant of Pope Leo X (born Giovanni de'Medici), and the subject of the book "The Pope's Elephant: An Elephant's Journey from Deep in India to the Heart of Rome" by Silvio A. Bedini.
		Shooting an Elephant "Shooting an Elephant" is an essay by George Orwell written during the autumn of 1936.
	www.awesomemovies.info /The-Elephant-Man.html (258 words)

	wikien.info: White_elephant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In Myanmar two have been found and caught, the second one in 2002 after an elephant finding team had searched for one month [link].
		White elephants are also used as a metaphor for an unborn child in Ernest Hemingway's short story, "Hills Like White Elephants".
		Hanno the elephant, the pet of Pope Leo X
	wikien.info /index.php?title=White_elephant (427 words)

	List of historical elephants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Annabelle the painting elephant was an Indian elephant won in a contest, donated to be Anchorage, Alaska's Alaskan Zoo's first animal in 1964.
		Ruby - Famous Elephant artist, resided at the Phoenix Zoo, at least one painting was sold for $100,000.
		Ziggy - a 6.5 ton elephant that had been chained indoors for over 30 years in the Brookfield, Illinois zoo, and was unchained July 4, 1973.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/L/List-of-historical-elephants.htm (437 words)

	BookPage Nonfiction Review: The Pope's Elephant
		He was researching in the Vatican archives when someone suggested he find out "whatever happened to the rhinoceros at the Vatican." Not surprisingly, Bedini was intrigued.
		In the early 1500s, the King of Portugal sent a young white Indian elephant as a gift to Leo X, the decadent, pleasure-addicted Pope who said, "God has given us the papacy.
		Let us enjoy it." The Vatican menagerie was already impressive, but Hanno the elephant quickly became its star.
	www.bookpage.com /9810bp/nonfiction/popes_elephant.html (412 words)

	Hanno the elephant -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		He was the gift of King (Click link for more info and facts about Manuel I of Portugal) Manuel I of Portugal on the Pope's coronation.
		Hanno arrived by ship from Lisbon to Rome in 1514, aged about four years, and was kept initially in an enclosure in the (Click link for more info and facts about Belvedere courtyard) Belvedere courtyard, then moved to a specially constructed building between (Click link for more info and facts about St. Peter's Basilica) St.
		There are four sketches of Hanno, done in life with red chalk, in the collection of the (Click link for more info and facts about Ashmolean Museum) Ashmolean Museum at Oxford.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/ha/hanno_the_elephant.htm (477 words)

	List of historical elephants : List of famous elephants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Kandula - the most famous elephant in Sri Lanka was given to an infant prince some 2000 years ago.
		The king and his elephant grew up together.
		Mary the Elephant[?] - For reasons unknown, Mary, touring with Charles H. Sparks's World Famous Show, killed her inexperienced keeper Walter "Red" Eldridge on September 12, 1916, and was executed for that "crime" on September 13, 1916 in Erwin, Tennessee by being hanged by a railroad derrick car at the Clinchfield Railroad yard.
	www.factbase.info /li/list-of-famous-elephants.html (167 words)

	Leo Africanus Discoveries
		The pontiff often visited the elephant in its enclosure, intrigued by the high degree of intelligence demonstrated by the young beast, and its playful antics never ceased to delight him.
		Hanno died of a poorly diagnosed cold in 1516.
		Not literally of course, but the Pope's attachment to such an unusual persona, and such an 'exotic' man is not unlike his attachment to the famed elephant.
	www.leoafricanus.com /leo/Leo8_Elephant.html (398 words)

	Mail&Guardian: The long-running pope opera
		His elephant was named Hanno, a rare albino, given to Leo by Manuel I of Portugal.
		The Pope's Elephant is a charming and loopy story that survives the scholarly apparatus with which its author tries to weigh it down.
		The pope's white elephant was a better critic than he knew.
	server.mg.co.za /mg/books/sep97/27oc-papacy.html (1067 words)

	Pope Leo X - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Upon his return he settled at Rome, withdrawing himself from notice as much as possible, and disarming the jealousy of Alexander by his unaffected devotion to literary pursuits.
		When he became pope on March 11, 1513, Leo rejoiced; he is reported to have said to his brother Giuliano "Since God has given us the papacy, let us enjoy it." And he did, traveling around Rome at the head of a lavish parade featuring panthers, jesters, and Hanno, a white elephant.
		He served dinners with sixty-five courses at which little boys jumped out of puddings.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Leo_X (548 words)

	DDG090999
		The Rhinoceros was not a success but Hanno the Elephant was adored by Leo personally and by Rome in General.
		The centrality of Hanno in all this is not thoroughly convincing however.
		Leo's profound affection for Hanno effectively illustrated both his humanity as an individual and his ludicrousness as a prelate.
	www.ddgbooks.com /ddg090999.htm (442 words)

	HANNO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Search the HANNO Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
		Search the HANNO Family Resource Center at RootsWeb.com (if available).
		Find graves of people named HANNO at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know).
	www.worldhistory.com /surname/US/H/HANNO.htm (73 words)

	★ Reviews of books about portugal
		A verse of Pasquino heralds the arrival of the great elephant Hanno to Rome, where it is presented to Pope Leo X. And so begins Silvio Bedini's delightful story of the pope's elephant.
		Brought to Leo X 1514, Hanno the elephant was a symbol of Portuguese power and dominance in the far east, and particularly from India, where the elephant's journey began.
		In Rome, the elephant is finally, and formally, handed over to the pope, and Bedini shows his remarkable descriptive skill in sketching out every aspect of the ceremony.
	portugal.vacationbookreview.com /portugal_26.html (3614 words)

	The Quarter #3 -- A Bit of Animal History
		Hanno, the elephant given by King Manual of Portugal to Pope Leo X in 1514, became the most popular animal in Rome.
		In the act of supreme irreverance, the elephant filled its trunk with perfumed water and sprayed the pope and Church dignitaries three times just as the church bells began to ring and cannons were fired.
		The world's most dangerous creatures (excluding man) are the malarial mosquitoes which, if we exclude wars and accidents, have probably been responsible directly or indirectly for 50% of all human deaths since the Stone Age.
	www.thequarter.org /issue03/page05.php (201 words)

	Phoenicia, Phoenician Ships, Navigation and Commerce
		The trade of the Phoenicians with the west coast of Africa had for its principal objects the procuring of ivory, of elephant, lion, leopard, and deer-skins, and probably of gold.
		Scylax relates that there was an established trade in his day (about B.C. 350) between Phoenicia and an island which he calls Cerne, probably Arguin, off the West African coast.
		[112] The savagery of the ancient inhabitants of the mainland is strongly marked in the narrative of Hanno (/Periplus/, passim).
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	Hanno the elephant - Wikpedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Hanno (in Italian, Annone) was the pet white elephant of Pope Leo X (born Giovanni de'Medici), and the subject of the book "The Pope's Elephant: An Elephant's Journey from Deep in India to the Heart of Rome" by Silvio A. Bedini.
		And provost of the custody of the elephant,
		This page was last modified 03:52, 9 Apr 2005.
	www.bostoncoop.net /~tpryor/wiki/index.php?title=Hanno_the_elephant (421 words)

	Elephant Stone Records
		These days he is running the Elephant Stone label and has released the first ever Delta recording to be widely available in the USA (you should still be able to get it over here too, one of the record shops in Birmingham had it).
		This is a compilation of all the tracks from Delta's singles on Ché and Dishy, plus two demo tracks which have never before been available.
		This UK based band has released three fantastic full-lengths (well, I have two of them so I can tell you they are awesome but I have only heard their 2002 record Hard Light is killer).
	www.elephantstonerecords.com /delta_reviews.html (3790 words)

	Pope_Leo_X
		Upon his return he settled in Rome, withdrawing himself from public life as much as possible, and disarming the jealousy of Alexander by displaying an unaffected devotion to literary pursuits.
		And he did, traveling around Rome at the head of a lavish parade featuring panthers, jesters, and Hanno, a white elephant.
		He was also lavish in works of charity: hospitals, convents, discharged soldiers, pilgrims, poor students, exiles, cripples, the sick, the unfortunate of every description were generously remembered, and more than 6,000 ducats were annually distributed in alms.
	www.tuxedo-shop.com /search.php?title=Pope_Leo_X (641 words)

	NameTraq \| Last Name: Hanno
		The 16th-century Pope Leo X so doted on the elephant Hanno, a gift from the king of Portugal, that the elephant’s decline heralded that of the pope.
		Hutchison's Dutch subsidiary bought one of the port's last independent terminal operators, Hanno Rotterdam, for an undisclosed sum last week, the South China...
		Two midfield players with the world at their feet are Hanno Balitsch and Bastian Schweinsteiger, plying their trades at Bayer 04 Leverkusen and Bayern...
	nametraq.com /genealogy_jan04/H/Hanno.shtml (381 words)

	Powell's Books - The Pope's Elephant by Silvio A Bedini
		It was also the city of Pope Leo X, the pleasure-loving pontiff whose court was infamous for its excess, frivolity and impropriety, as well as for its newly-arrived white elephant Hanno.
		Hanno became a star feature in processions and festivals, and the subject of countless paintings, sculptures and fountains.
		Charmingly written with dozens of accompanying photographs and illustrations, The Pope's Elephant will delight readers just as Hanno delighted the people of Rome five centuries ago.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0140288627-9 (194 words)

	Coimbra
		Chronicle of D. Manuel I by Damião de Góis, 1566, describing the portuguese embassy to the Pope Leo X. The embassy sent by Manuel to the pope Leo X, in 1513, was one of the most significant episodes of Portuguese diplomacy towards the Holy See.
		Among the magnificent present send by the Portuguese king to the Pope were china porcelain, Mexican manuscripts, pearls and gems and specially the exotic animals, like the elephant Hanno, a panther and a Persian horse.
		The embassy enacted the theatricalization of royal power centered around the symbols of the Empire and achieved the materialization of Manuel grandeur, the king who named himself: “King of Portugal and Algarves, inland and overseas, lord of the navigation and commerce of Ethiopia, Arabia, Persia and India”.
	www.stm.unipi.it /Clioh/coimbra.htm (677 words)

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