Why did Margaret Chase Smith collect glass elephants?
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lets keep stuff on topic.
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Only half the weight of 2 full grown elephants.\n\n:)
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She has something to do with gorillas
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Elephant. Directed by Gus Van Sant. I liked that movie. Although the killers weren't really lovers. They were just the only ones who thought they understood each other.
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Many centuries ago deep in the African jungle an elephant and a snake were walking along. The elephant was taking a bath and the snake was looking for something to eat. The snake couldn't find anything to eat and the elephant couldn't stand up anymore. The snake went into a pile of hay. The village people thought the snake was hay because it was camouflaged in the yellow hay. So they brought it back to the village to make a hut. They were trying to use mud so the roof would stick together and not fall off. So the snake turned a shade of grey and the snake ran off. \n\nThe elephant found the snake and the elephant was very afraid of the snake so he stood up and escaped. The snake kept following the elephant until the elephant got tired. Even though the elephant was tired it still tried to escape from the snake. Finally when it was exhausted it faced its fears and tried to fight the snake. The elephant ears were tied in a knot and the snake was tied in a bow. So finally the snake jumped on the elephant. It got stuck right on the elephants face because of the mud that dried. The snake tried and tried but it could not get off the elephant's face. That is the legend of how the elephant got its trunk.
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http://bboard.scifi.com/bboard/browse.php/3/7/619/1?\nNote the site is SCIFI.com. Take it for what its worth.\n\nThe animal you are referring to is not actually a deer. It is a semi-aquatic antelope, cetaformia anthalopus. Although sightings are rare, they are not unprecedented. This shy and beautiful animal inhabits the rapidly disappearing rain forests of Cambodia and has only once been collected. A partially devoured carcass was obtained from a Khymer Rouge commander by zoologist and former member of Students For A Democratic Society, Dr. J. Walden Pond (yes, his real name)in 1975. The preserved remains can be seen at the Berkeley Museum of Natural History by appointment with the Director of Special Collections, Dr. Stephanie Alderton. You can contact her at salderton@ucberkeley.edu.
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Oh, Dragon understands.  She always examines the presents her nose gives her to see if any of them might be worth something.  Unfortunately, she has found that even the really wicked nasty looking ones that she'd think would be worth some sort of monetary compensation end up only eliciting an "Eeeeeeeew!" from the store clerk.\n\nWhat good is that stuff if it can't be used as money?\n\nRAWR!!!!
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Maybe they ate unicorns and heffalumps and murmaids and that's why there aren't any now. :o)\n\nIn my opinion, the whole story is a parable, so it's pointless to ask about such details.
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The connection is humans.\n\nHumans find large fossilized bones and reassemble them into the likeness of museum dinosaurs (sometimes making mistakes, like putting the wrong head on the "brontosaur").  These creatures were dead long before man's first story.\n\nHumans also made written lists and drawings of creatures told but unseen but most: Elves, Dwarfs, Unicorns, Griffins, Centaurs, Dragons.  These creatures became alive with the telling of man's first story.
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Under the law, the finder of the dog is entitled to the reward.  Thus, Mickey should be paid the finder's reward because he was the one who found the dog.  Tom is supposed to receive only a commission from Mickey since he also contributed to the location of the dog.
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I don't collect Barbies, but I have my childhood Barbie, Midge and Ken basically because I don't throw anything out.  (I collect Breyer horse models.)\n\nHowever, I interviewed for a new job last week with a 41 year old man, and HE collects vintage Barbies.  He inherited some from his aunt, and other women with no one to leave the dolls to gave them to him, and he has quite a collection.\n\nAnd one of my former neighbors has a Holiday Barbie collection he mom started for her, a new Barbie every Christmas (which is what Mattel wants to hear).
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it left it shoes outside the temple \nthe shoes were very shinny thats why elephants saw it otherwise it would be too small...
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she said she was pregnant with elephant's child......\n\nmuahahahahahahhahaha
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Elephants never forget, ask him.
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Why not just take a swab of the teats and put them in a petri dish, I'm sure the cow really misses them, or maybe they are teats from some other mammal?\n\nSorry, I just couldn't resist!
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The elephant is part of the Coat of Arms of Coventry.\n\nHere is the explanation as to why:\n\nMary Dormer Harris, the local historian thought that the elephant had a religious symbolism. The ancient 'Bestiaries' works of unnatural History, treat animals as religious types, and it is from these works that many of the animals and birds in church architecture derive. \n\nThe elephant is seen, not only as a beast so strong that he can carry a tower - Coventry's castle - full of armed men, but also as a symbol of Christ's redemption of the human race. The animal, according to one of the 'Bestiary' stories, is supposed to sleep standing, leaning against a tree. Hunters sever the trunk, and he falls helpless to the ground, until a small elephant approaches and pulls him up with his trunk. \n\nThe elephant, then, is a dragon slayer and is associated with a tree. There is a now forgotten tradition of dragon-slaying in the neighbourhood - Coventry is said to be the birthplace of St George, who slew the dragon. \n\nIn the medieval mind, the elephant suggested the eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and did not merely symbolise strength.
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Mastodons are extinct elephant-like mammals which began to roam the North American continent about 20 million years ago.  The meteorological changes  prehistoric earth underwent spelled the demise of the dinosaur; however, this was advantageous for the mastodon.  During the Pleistocene Epoch (1.5 million - 10,000 years ago), the surface world grew very cold.   Thick sheets of ice covered the ground, and resources became scarce.   Mastodons now were among the largest animals on earth, and fared well, certainly because larger animals are better at competing for the few available resources.   \n\nAlthough mastodons appeared on the scene about 20million years ago, a relative, the mammoth didn't appear until about 1 1/2 million years ago.\n\nBoth the mastodon and the mammoth lived throughout the current United States, many remains have been and are being discovered in the vicinity of the Great Lakes.\n\nThe order in which mastodons belong, and to which elephants also belong, is the order Proboscidea. From this class title comes a reference to the trunk possessed by both the mastodon and the elephant; "pro" meaning before and "boskein" meaning to feed. Of course the trunk is and was used for more than just feeding. Our modern elephant demonstrates the agility and strength of the trunk and proves its significance in day-to-day life.  Diseases that affect the trunk of the modern-day elephant have resulted in sickness and ultimately death for the animal.   In such cases, the magnitude of this unique appendage is evident.\n\nThe now-extinct mastodons were large, but were shorter than modern elephants and sported shorter, thicker legs. The earliest probscideans included some members that were pig to cow-sized, and are a distant relative to the manatee. These relatives were herbivores and lacked tusks.  The heavy, shaggy coats possessed by the ancient mastodons are not visible on our modern version, presumably due to climatic changes in out Earth's history.\n\nAnother notable and enlightening difference between the ancient mastodons and modern elephants is the shape of the teeth. Mammoths’ (now extinct, but not as ancient as the mastodons) and elephants’ teeth are flat with a ridged grinding surface. Mastodon teeth are rounded and pointed for clipping leaves and twigs, for they were primarily forest-dwelling creatures.  Research on the teeth gives clues to the lifestyle, habitat, and feeding habits of the ancient proboscideans.  Unlike the modern elephant, which is reserved to warmer climates, the ancient mastodon occupied a larger area which covered a wide sector of northern continents.  The link between the archaic mastodon and the modern elephant is the woolly mammoth, also an extinct mammal.   \n\nIt seems that the mastodons were the precursors to the bison in early North America in regard to their relationship with human inhabitants. It is believed that the early Indians spear-hunted the mastodons as they later did the easy-to-kill bison. Many recovered mastodon fossils bear evidence that man-made tools were the cause of death and butchery after death is evidenced by tool marks on the bones.  The slow-moving mastodon did not have a natural fear of man and made for an easy target for early hunters.  Some scholars believe in addition to spear-hunting, ancient hunters might have herded a great many of the animals over cliffs.\n\nOther predators of the mastodon (mammoth also) were the Dire Wolf, which is larger than the current wolf, and the famous Saber-toothed cats.\n \n\nMastodons disappeared at the end of the last ice age, about 10,000 years ago.  It is not known exactly what happened to them.  Two theories take center stage; due to climactic changes, the mastodon died out, or primitive hunters hunted them to extinction.  No conclusive proof exists.\n\nIt was believed early in the 20th century that, in the proper environment, mastodons and mammoths still lived.  Of course none were found still living.