what general crossed the alps with a herd of elephants?
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The Carthaginian general Hannibal (247-182 BCE)
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he told them to switch camels
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Genghis Kahn.\n\nSure, he was a psychotic bastard, who's wars killed several million people, but he was a strategic genius.
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The first zoos were private menageries, usually belonging to monarchs. King Charles I of England established a zoo with a large python as the main attraction. The first public zoo was established in Vienna in 1752, when the Habsburg emperors decided to grant public access to the former privately-owned Schönbrunn Palace menagerie, now called Tiergarten Schönbrunn Zoo Vienna. After the French Revolution, the Paris Zoo was opened to the public.
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Driving through a small town in the West Virginia Appalachians I passed an elephant standing in the middle of a field alongside the road.  I thought I was hallucinating, but when I reached the other side of town a small circus was camped for the night.
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For every kilometer of the distance from Rome, Sam spent a total of 36 minutes in travel:  30 minutes riding out on the elephant (it takes 30 minutes to go one kilometer at 2 kilometers per hour) and 6 minutes riding back on the chariot (the time it takes to go 1 kilometer at 10 kilometers per hour).  \n\nThere is 1080 minutes in 18 hours (18*60=1080).  Divide 1080 by 36 and you get 30 kilometers.\n\nCheck your answer:\n\nTo go 30 kilometers out by elephant at 2 kilometers per hour takes 15 hours.\n\nTo go 30 kilometers back by chariot at 10 kilometers per hour takes 3 hours.\n\n15 hours + 3 hours = 18 hours.
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Grey Elephant from Denmark.
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An elephant's shadow.
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General of the Armies
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Goes back to the ancient days when elephants were used to move a lot of things. One elephant ,one day, refused and its owner went behind the elephant and smacked him in the jewels with a log. After that the elephant was fine. The next day another elephant did the same thing. Its owner asked the elephant if he remembered yesterday. The elephant nodded. The owner then asked the elephant if he wanted to get hit and the elephant shook his head vigorously and behaved himself..We been shaking and nodding the same way ever since.
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I love cats and elephants. Werid combo, but I like em both.
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Largest mammal on land is the male African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana) standing on average 3-3.7 m (9-12 ft) high at the shoulder and weighing 4-7 tonnes. The largest specimen ever recorded was shot in Mucusso, Angola, on November 7, 1974. Lying on its side, this elephant measured 4.16 m (13 ft 8 in) in a projected line from the highest point of the shoulder to the base of the forefoot, indicating a standing height of about 3.96 m (13 ft). Its weight was worked out to be 12.24 tonnes.
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Suddenly and totally unexpectedly.\n\nFor example, in the Civil War Union General John Sedgwick who, was patrolling a trench line and yelling at soldiers who were crouching and staying low because of the confederates on the other side. Sedgwick, walked tall, commenting:\n\n"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--"
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elephants are amazing\nand to think that they can find their way to their ancestral graves without ever having been there just tops it off
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mostly sheep and horses
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Opposing factions in German and Italian politics during the Middle Ages. The terms Guelph (see Welf dynasty) and Ghibelline (from Waiblingen, the castle of the Welfs' Hohenstaufen opponents) first acquired significance in Italy during the reign of the Hohenstaufen emperor Frederick I Barbarossa, who tried to assert imperial authority over northern Italy and was opposed by Pope Alexander III. The split between the Guelphs, who sided with the papacy, and the Ghibellines, who were sympathetic to the Holy Roman emperors, contributed to chronic strife in the cities of northern Italy in the 13th–14th century,
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Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)(Napoleon I) was Emperor of the French (1804-1815) born in Corsica.  One of the greatest military leaders of modern times, he become a brigadier(1793) after driving the British out of Toulon.  In 1796 he married Josephine de Beauharnais and gained command in Italy, where he defeated the Austrians and Sardinians.  In 1798 on his way to Egypt he captured the island of Malta from the Order of Saint John.  In Egypt was defeated by Nelson at the Battle of Abukir bay.  In 1799 he returned to Paris where his coup of 18 Brumaire set up the Consulate.  As First Consul he enacted domestic reforms such the Code Napoleon while defeating the Austrians at Marengo(1800) and making peace with the British at Amiens(1802).  Efforts to extend French power led to the Napoleonic Wars(1803-1815).  After the Battle of Trafalgar(1805) Britain controlled the seas but Napoleon's Grand Army continued to score notable land victories at Austerlitz(1805) and Jena(1086).  The Continental System attempted to defeat Britain by a commercial blockde that led indirectly to the Peninsular War.  In 1810, after obtaining a divorce from Josephine, Napoleon married Maria Louise who bore him a son the future Napoleon II.  In 1812, Napoleon invaded Russia with a million man army.  Forced to retreat by hunger more than 400000 soldiers perished in the Russian winter.  In 1813, Napoleon was routed by a European coalition at Leipzig.  In March 1814, Paris was captured and he was exiled to Elba.  In March 1815, he escaped and returned to France, overthrowing the Bourbon King Louis XVIII.  The Hundred Days of his return to power ended with defeat at the battle of Waterloo(June 1815).  Napoleon was exiled to St. Helen where he died.