So being blind they had to reach out and touch the elephant as their way of seeing the elephant.
The elephant got a bigger trailer, the elephant got four showers a day.
And then there is the elephant in the room, which is not an elephant at all but the greatest creative effort ever to happen on the Internet.
Officials say it was determined the owners of the Hyde Park business didn't have a DEC permit to sell the elephant products made before 1978, when the elephant was listed as an endangered species.
Because the proteins surrounding elephant ova are similar to those from pigs, these antibodies attack the elephant ova, too.
The name Elephant Rock, which refers to an elephant-shaped rock on the beach, came from actress Mary Astor when she bought the house in 1960.
This aquatic period could explain the evolution of the elephant's most characteristic feature—its trunk.
Here, you can sleep high above the ground, disturbed, apparently, only by the snoring of the elephant below.
But in some ways the changes ignored the elephant in the room: the changing nature of the patient population.
They were all gnats on the back of the elephant that was Yahoo!
It was a clear case of the flea swallowing the elephant by taking on billions in debt to accomplish the transaction.
In other words, the Internet is the elephant who never forgets.
Big and dark and looking slightly weary, his white tusks flashing in the sun, the elephant walked towards our table with a steady gait, moving with a dogged, fatigued determination.
In the early going, scientists placed a mirror on the ground outside the elephant's cage, but the mirror was (unsurprisingly) much smaller than the largest of land animals.
The fate of the elephant is once again in question.
By the way, the elephant didn't use a double either, .
The peninsula is connected to the rest of the island by the Elephant Pass, a narrow causeway that the government has controlled for more than a decade from a huge military base.
Otherwise, we are spending more and more money, talking about all of the problems accept the elephant in the room, and doing nothing about the one thing that would do the most good.
Robyn Meredith is Hong Kong bureau chief for Forbes and the author of The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What it Means for All of Us.
An elephant ride in India led to the elephant print (pictured above), while the idea for the beach chairs (pictured) struck her during one of her annual visits to the resort town Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic.
The trails are named the Elephant Walks in homage to the wild elephants that once lived here.
The man who has ridden the lead elephant through the entire parade is Bello the Clown.
The empire is the Indian elephant in the living room, the tiger under the dinner table.
Whether it's on the court or on the elephant, Murray makes it look like a good time.
The problem is that Drum displays a the same obliviousness to the elephant in the room that so many progressives seem to have.
But the case of Anne the Elephant has taken its toll.
Both stories cited experts and politicians who offered up various solutions to stem the tide, yet both papers ignored the proverbial elephant in the room: taxes.
Here is the thing: we haven't talked about the ginormous elephant in the room, which is that banks borrow most of their money in the form of deposits provided by you and me.
It's the one in which the elephant, again ridiculed by the rest of the jungle, agrees to babysit an egg while its mother, the reprehensible Mayzie bird, goes off to Palm Beach for the winter.
If there is a deal the most any deal could accomplish will be higher taxes and some cuts in entitlements, but nothing that will impact the pink elephant in the room that the administration keeps ignoring.
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科目：初中英语
来源：学年江苏徐州沛县第五中学八年级下期月考英语试卷（带解析）
题型：单选题
There will be an exhibition of the _____ of dictionary in our city next week. We can learn more about the dictionary’s history there.A．excitementB．advertisementC．developmentD．environment
科目：初中英语
来源：学年度重庆市西南师大附中初二下学期期中考试英语卷
题型：阅读理解
When I was walking down the street one day, I found a small bag on the ground. I picked it up and opened it to see if I could find out the owner’s name. There was nothing inside it except some dollars and an old photo--- a picture of a woman and a young girl about twelve years old. I put the photo back and took the bag to the police station. Before I left, the policeman wrote down my name and address. He thought the owner might want to thank me. That evening I went to have dinner with my aunt and uncle. They had also asked a young woman to have dinner with us. Her face was familiar, but I couldn’t remember where I had seen her. During our talk, the young woman happened to say that she had lost her bag that afternoon. At once I remembered where I had seen her. She was the young girl in the photo, though she was now much older. She was very surprised, of course, when I told her about the bag. After dinner we went to the police station and she got back her bag. The policeman said to me, “It’s a wonderful thing. You not only found the bag, but also the owner of the bag.”1. In the bag there was _______. A. nothing&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& B. a new photo and some money C. an old picture and some money&&&& D. some dollars and a piece of paper2. The writer opened the bag because he wanted to________. A. find some money&&&&&&&&& B. find some letters&C. find the owner’s photo&&&&& D. find out whose bag it was3. The writer gave the bag to ________. A. a policeman& B. his uncle& C. his aunt&&& D. his friend4. How many people had the dinner that evening? A. Two&&&&&& B. Three&&&&&& C. Four&&&&&& D. Five5. The writer knew the young woman because _________.A. he had met her somewhere before&&&B. she looked like the girl in the pictureC.she often had meals with the writer & D. she was the old woman in the photo
科目：初中英语
来源：年度四川省岳池县城关中学七年级下学期月考英语卷
题型：阅读理解
A friend of mine named Paul received an expensive car from his brother as a Christmas present. On Christmas Eve when Paul came out of his office, a street urchin(顽童) was walking around a shining car. “Is this your car, Paul?” he asked.Paul answered,“Yes, my brother gave it to me for Christmas.”The boy was surprised.“You mean your brother gave it to you and it didn’t cost you anything. Boy, I wish…” He hesitated(犹豫).Of course Paul knew what he was going to wish for. He was going to wish he had a brother like that. But what the boy said surprised Paul greatly.“I wish,”the boy went on,“that I could be a brother like that.”Paul looked at the boy in surprise, then he said again,“Would you like to take a ride in my car?”“Oh, yes, I’d love that.”After a short ride, the boy turned and with his eyes shining, said，“Paul, would you mind driving in front of my house?”Paul smiled a little. He thought he knew what the boy wanted. He wanted to show his neighbors that he could ride home in a big car. But Paul was wrong again,“Will you stop where those two steps are?”the boy asked.He ran up to the steps. Then in a short while Paul heard him coming back, but he was not coming fast. He was carrying his little diabled brother. He sat him down on the step and pointed to the car.“There she is. Buddy, just like I told you upstairs. His brother gave it to him for Christmas and it didn’t cost him a cent. And some day I’m going to give you one just like it...then you can see for yourself all nice things in the Christmas window that I’ve been trying to tell you about.”Paul got out and lifted the boy to the front seat of his car. The shining-eyed older brother climbed in beside him and the three of them began an unforgettable holiday ride.【小题1】The street urchin was very surprised when_______.A．Paul received an expensive carB．Paul told him about the carC．he saw the shining carD．he was walking around the car【小题2】From the story we can see the urchin _______.A．wished to give his brother a carB．wanted Paul’s brother to give him a carC．wished he could have a brother like Paul’sD．wished Paul could be a brother like that【小题3】The urchin asked Paul to stop his car in front of his house_______.A．to show his neighbors the big carB．to show he had a rich friendC．to let his brother know about his wishD．to ask his brother a car like that【小题4】The best name of the story is ______.A．A Christmas PresentB．A Street Urchin C．A Brother Like ThatD．An Unforgettable Holiday Ride
科目：初中英语
来源：学年度连云港市灌南县堆沟港中学八年级第一次月考英语卷
题型：阅读理解
One day an old man is selling a big elephant. A young man comes to the elephant and begins to look at it slowly. The old man goes up to him and says in his ear, “ Don’t say anything about the elephant before I sell it. Then I will give you twenty dollars.” “All right,” says the young man. After the old man sells the elephant, he gives the young man twenty dollars and says, “ Now, can you tell me how you found the elephant’s bad ears?” “ I didn’t find the bad ears,” says the young man. “ Then why are you looking at the elephant slowly?” asks the old man. The young man answers, “Because I have never seen an elephant before, and I want to know what it looks like.”(&& )1. ______ the elephant. A. The young man sells&&&&& B. The old man sells C. The two men sell&&&&&&&& D. The old man buys(&& )2. The young man is looking at the elephant slowly. He wants to find out _______. A. which foot of the elephant is bad&&& B. how heavy it is C. which ear of the elephant is bad&&&& D. what it looks like(&& )3. The young man _______. A. knows the elephant has bad ears&& B. wants to buy the elephant C. looks after the elephant&&&D. gets some money from the old man (&& )4. The young man _______. A. is not interested in elephants B. knows what an elephant looks like C. has seen some elephants before D. has never seen an elephant before(& )5. Hearing what the young man said, the old man will probably(可能) be ______A. angry&&&&& B. happy&&&&& C. dangerous&&&& D. hungry
科目：初中英语
来源：2013届江苏省南京市联合体九年级中考一模英语试卷（带解析）
题型：阅读理解
A year ago，I paid no attention to English idioms (习语), though my teacher told us the importance again and again. But soon, the importance of English idioms was shown in an amusing experience.One day, I happened to meet an Englishman on the road, and soon we began to talk. As I was talking about how I was studying English, the foreigner seemed to be surprised. Gently shaking his head，shrugging his shoulders, he said，“You don’t say!” “You don’t say!” I was puzzled. I thought , perhaps this is not a right topic. “Well, I’d better change the topic.” So I said to him. “Well, shall we talk about the Great Wall? By the way, have you ever been there?” “Certainly, everyone back home will laugh at me if I leave China without seeing it. It was wonderful.” He was deep in thought when I began to talk like a tourist guide. “The Great Wall is one of the wonders in the world. We are very proud of it.” Soon I was interrupted (打断) again by his words: “You don’t say!” I couldn’t help asking, “Why do you ask me not to talk about it?” “Well, I didn’t ask you to do so,” he answered, greatly surprised. I said, “Didn’t you say ‘you don’t say’？” Hearing this, the Englishman laughed to tears. He began to explain, “ ‘You don’t say’ actually means ‘really!’ It is an expression of surprise. Perhaps you don’t pay attention to English idioms.” I realized I had made a fool of myself. Since then I have been more careful with idiomatic expressions. Remember: what the English teachers said is always right to us students.【小题1】A year ago, I paid no attention to English idioms because &&&&&&.A．I had no interest in themB．English idioms were very difficultC．I did not realize the importance of themD．my teacher didn’t tell us the importance of them【小题2】At first, on hearing “You don’t say,” I thought the foreigner meant &&&&&&.A．I had talked too muchB．I had to stop talkingC．he was not interested in the topicD．he was only interested in the Great Wall【小题3】“… was shown in an amusing experience.” The word “amusing” probably means &&&&&&.A．interestingB．importantC．terribleD．unlucky【小题4】Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?A．The Englishman wanted me to act as his guide.B．The Englishman left China without seeing the Great Wall.C．The Englishman wanted to see the Great Wall after I talked about it.D．The Englishman visited the Great Wall and thought it worth visiting.【小题5】After the Englishman explained the idiom, ___________.A．I felt very sillyB．the Englishman became a real foolC．I became more carefully in everythingD．I thought the Englishman had made me a fool
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The elephant was stolen from her home, secretly smuggled into America, and called Topsy, after the slave girl featured in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. That says it all.
Warning: This story brought tears to my eyes, and was very difficult to write. However, I believe it’s an important story to tell in order to show how far we’ve come in America when it comes to treating both animals and humans, how far we still need to go, and how important it is for us to ensure that other countries catch up and keep pace with us.
Our sad story begins around 1875, when a 200-pound baby elephant was captured by elephant traders in Southeast Asia. Adam Forepaugh of the Forepaugh & Sells Circus smuggled the elephant into America and falsely billed her as the “first American born elephant.”
Topsy quickly became the star of the circus and a fan favorite.
Like many circus animals at the time, Topsy was subject to harsh treatment and torture during her training and performances. Trainers often prodded her with sharp hooks between the eyes and in the head or used hot pokers to make her obey their orders.
Naturally, Topsy’s temper became shorter and shorter, and she turned on her trainers. She attacked several handlers and reportedly killed two circus workers in Texas (no records exist to prove this accusation). And then in May 1902 she killed a spectator in Brooklyn who went too far.
According to published reports, James Fielding Blount allegedly offered her whiskey, threw sand in her face, and then put a burning cigarette into her trunk. The man met his end when Topsy wrapped her trunk around him, tossed him into the air, and then smashed and trampled him on the ground. Payback is a bitch, as they say.
Frederic Thompson and his business partner, Elmer “Skip” Dundy acquired Topsy in 1902 when they took over the long-term lease on Paul Boyton’s Sea Lion Park.
Following this highly-publicized incident, Topsy was sold to Captain Paul Boyton, the proprietor of Sea Lion Park at Coney Island. When his park went bankrupt a year later, Paul Boyton turned the elephant over to the new owners, Frederic Thompson and Elmer “Skip” Dundy, who were constructing Luna Park on the site.
Life before Luna Park was horrible for Topsy, but it was about to get much worse. For the rest of her short pathetic life, she was put to use hauling building and construction materials. Frederic and Elmer called it her penance for being so aggressive.
One of Topsy’s biggest jobs was moving the massive “Trip the Moon” structure from Steeplechase to Luna Park.
One of her biggest jobs was moving the massive “Trip the Moon” structure from George Tilyou’s Steeplechase Park to Luna Park. The 80-foot tall, 40,000 square foot structure was placed on heavy timbers with big wooden rollers, and Topsy was put to work. She put her forehead against the building, and, with the help of only a few poor horses, pushed it nearly a mile down Surf Avenue to its new location.
Whitey the Elephant Beater
William Ault, better known as Whitey, was Topsy’s keeper and slave driver for over a decade. He was the only one who could handle her – but apparently he could only handle her if he tortured her. He often used a pitchfork on her, and was arrested at least one time after police observed “excessive” prodding. One time the ASPCA prosecuted Whitey for wounding Topsy’s eye, but unfortunately he was acquitted of animal cruelty because the abuse was deemed acceptable at that time.
The “Trip to the Moon” attraction at Luna Park featured a 30-passenger airship resembling a giant red canoe with wings. The “Airship Luna” was suspended from the ceiling by steel cables, permitting the ship to rock and swing lightly. Hundreds of lights and sound effects added to the experience.
The final nail in Topsy’s coffin came at noon on a December day when an intoxicated Whitey tried to ride the elephant down Surf Avenue. After about a half mile, Tospy stopped, causing Whitey to slide off. This angered him, and he began prodding her trunk in a savage manner as a crowd watched and cheered (Yes, if there were smart phones in those days, a video of this violent act would have gone viral).
Policeman Conlin of the Coney Island police force arrested him, whereupon Whitey said he would turn the elephant loose upon the crowd. Conlin in turn threatened to shoot the trainer if he let Topsy charge the crowd. Whitey acquiesced — temporarily. They made their way to the police station on West 8th Street, where Topsy mounted the broad granite steps and got wedged in the front door.
Topsy tried to enter the new Coney Island police station and magistrates’ court, but got wedged in the door. Located on West 8th Street, the 1897 building was known as the Little Brown Jug at Coney Island. The court was shut down in 1958 and the building was torn down. A new station for the police (60th Precinct) was erected on the site in 1971.
Sergeant Levis begged Whitey to drive the animal back, but it took him a while to obey the order (Levis should have used a pitchfork on him!). Finally, Fred Thompson showed up, paid the bail, and ordered Ault to return Topsy to Luna Park. Whitey was ordered to appear in court on charges of disorderly conduct.
Whitey was immediately fired, but with no one left to handle Topsy, Fred and Elmer had to get rid of her. They tried to raffle her off and give her away for free, but no zoo would take her. With no other options left, the men decided to euthanize Topsy.
First the men announced they would kill Topsy by hanging her from the new Electric Tower, which was being constructed in the middle of the former park’s Shoot the Chute lagoon (the tower was only 75 feet high by this time). ASPCA president John Peter Haines quickly quashed that idea.
The ASPCA would not allow Fred and Elmer to hang Topsy from the Luna Tower in Coney Island. However, 13 years later an elephant was hanged to death in Erwin, Tennessee.
Next, they discussed charging a 25-cent admission to publicly electrocute the elephant. The backup plan was to feed her cyanide-laced carrots and strangle her with large ropes hung from the tower and tied to a steam powered winch.
For some asinine reason, Haines said no to the admission fee, but he was fine with a public execution.
On December 13, 1902, Luna Park press agent Charles Murray released a statement to the newspapers that Topsy would be euthanized within a few days by electrocution.
A “First-Class Execution”
“The affair is expected to be one of the most brilliant society features of the Coney Island season.”—New York Tribune, January 3, 1903
The execution was set for January 4, 1903. Expecting a large crowd due to all the publicity, Fred and Elmer hired a caterer and a brass band for the event. They told the press it would be a “first-class execution.”
Fred and Elmer turned to Thomas Edison, who was then competing with Nikola Tesla’s alternating current (AC) method and trying to preserve his direct current (DC) method as the electricity standard for the United States. In his attempt to discourage the use of AC, Edison had been staging public demonstrations of its danger by electrocuting stray and unwanted animals, including cats, dogs, horses, and cows. Apparently he just couldn’t resist the opportunity to demonstrate the “dangers” of AC one more time.
Edison agreed to electrocute Topsy, and as an added bonus, he said he would document the event using a movie camera, another one of his inventions. (I guess you could say he got two bangs for the buck — major sarcasm). The electrocution was supervised by P. D. Sharkey, chief electrician with the Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Brooklyn.
You can watch Edison’s video here, but it is disturbing.
On January 4, 1903, a crowd of about 1,500 spectators and 100 photographers gathered in the Luna Park construction zone to witness the hours-long spectacle. First, elephant “expert” Carl Goliath and other handlers loaded her with chains and tried to coax her over the lagoon bridge using apples, carrots, and hay. (The men had offered Whitey 25 dollars to help with the execution, but he turned it down, saying he wouldn’t kill her for a thousand dollars.)
Days before the event, press agent Murray arranged media coverage and posted banners around the park and on all four sides of the makeshift gallows advertising “OPENING MAY 2ND 1903 LUNA PARK $1,000,000 EXPOSITION, THE HEART OF CONEY ISLAND”.
You can see these signs on the unfinished “Electric Tower” in this press photograph of the electrocution.
After two hours, they finally got her in place, but then she wouldn’t stay still on the metal plates. She shook the copper-lined wooden sandals off her feet and refused to eat the cyanide-laced carrots. They say elephants are smart – she definitely knew what was happening to her.
Thomas Alva Edison, around 1903, was often associated with the death of Topsy. Edison was not present at Luna Park and it’s unclear what impact he had on the execution or its filming.
Eventually Topsy ate the carrots and Sharkey signaled for Joseph Johansen, the superintendent at Coney Island station nine blocks away, to pull the switch. At the same time, Luna Park chief electrician Hugh Thomas closed another switch at the park, sending 6,600 volts from Bay Ridge through Topsy’s body for 10 seconds.
There was a flash of fire and the odor of burning flesh. Her body shook violently and she fell to the ground. Then the steam-powered winch tightened two nooses placed around her neck for 10 minutes as an added precaution. An autopsy showed that that the poison did not have time to take effect.
Originally intended to serve as a hotel, the elephant contained a cigar store in the front legs, a gallery in the “Stomach Room,” a grand hall through the diaphragm and liver, and a museum in what would be the elephant’s left lung. The elephant’s eyes in the “Cheek Room” had telescopes and served as an observatory.
Johansen was knocked out and nearly electrocuted himself, but he sustained only small burns from the power traveling from his right arm to his left leg. When you look at these photos, it’s amazing more people weren’t injured. (Let’s see: metal plates, 6,600 volts, a 5-ton elephant on a rickety bridge over a body of water — OSHA would have had a field day with this one.)
Topsy was about 35 years old at the time of her death, which is about half the expected life span for an elephant with a decent life in the wild.
The fire also destroyed Lorenzo Shaw’s Channel Chute, a wooden roller coaster built in 1895 that encircled the hotel and was often called the Elephant Scenic Railway.This ride featured cars that were taken by elevator to the top and then circled back down around the Elephant. The nearby Toboggan Slide survived the fire.
The Elephantine Colossus
Ironically, Topsy was electrocuted on the very spot that was once occupied by the iconic Elephantine Colossus, otherwise known as the Elephant Hotel. The 12-story pachyderm designed by James V. Lafferty stood above Surf Avenue and West 12th Street from 1885 until 1896, when it was destroyed in a spectacular fire.
A Coney Island Tragedy: Burning of the Historic Elephant:
The prophetic cover from the October 10, 1896, issue of The Illustrated American.
Built two years before the Statue of Liberty, the Elephant Hotel was said to be the first artificial structure visible to immigrants arriving to America. Its manager often exaggerated the view, telling visitors they would be able see places like Yellowstone Park, Niagara Falls, and Paris from the elephant’s back.
In the 1890s, the giant elephant served as a brothel (male patrons would say they were “seeing the elephant”). However, when the structure caught fire on September 27, 1896, it had not been used for several years.
When the smoke cleared, all that remained standing was a part of the elephant’s foreleg. At least this elephant was not a living, breathing creature when it fried.
In recent years, several former employees of Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus have gone public by speaking out against the way elephants continue to be mistreated. Like Topsy, these animals are abused with sharp metal bull hooks and are kept on chains for most of their lives.
On March 5, 2015, the Feld family, which owns Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus, announced that it would phase out its 13 performing Asiatic elephants by the beginning of 2018. These elephants will join the more than 40 pachyderms already resident at the Feld family-owned in Florida.
Luna Park opened on May 16, 1903, just four months after Topsy’s murder. The park was quite spectacular at night, with all the towers and minarets lit up by more than 250,000 incandescent lights. It’s more than ironic that Topsy was executed by electricity at the base of the park’s iconic Electric Tower.