Rupert Grint revealed he keeps a collection of weird antiques.The «Harry Potter» star's collection boasts
of giant elephant - bird eggs and even the X...
Just about the only thing that hasn't been added is the Hindu creation myth that the Earth sits on top
of the giant elephant that rests on the shell of a enormous turtle.
The film opens in grand fashion as King Uther Pendragon (Eric Bana) defends Camelot from an army
of giant elephants under the control of the evil sorcerer Mordred (Rob Knighton).
Not exact matches
If you doubt the accuracy
of the Bible, then how was a man named Job able to say with precision that «the earth hung upon nothing» (Job 26:7) some 3,600 years ago, since the most learned men even a thousand years later held to the belief that the earth was held up by
elephants standing on the back
of a
giant turtle?
It's been a while since I've been to a game, and I confess that the vast sea
of people, the music and singing and food, the
giant elephant statue making it's way down the boulevard in the back
of a pickup truck, and general religious fervor
of the whole enterprise reminded me a bit
of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in India, which honors the
Elephant deity.
What the religious never understand is that it makes as much sense to believe in the
giant elephant in the sky as it does that some mystical all - knowing creature is actually paying attention to all
of this.
A team
of Barcelona's talent doesn't simply stop playing great football and stop scoring goals because
of one singular factor, though there is one
giant elephant in the room regarding Lionel Messi and his teammates» inability to step up when he isn't at his best.
My doula came over Sunday afternoon to give this
giant pregnant
elephant a pep talk to help get me out
of the headspace I had ended up in.
Even a
giant of the political world like Prezza shouldn't take on this Asian
elephant, though.
SOME 13,000 years ago, on a tropical island at the heart
of the Indonesian archipelago, an extraordinary group
of dwarf - sized people lived alongside dwarf
elephants and
giant lizards.
There were also fairly large losses in Europe and Asia, including a number
of elephants, rhinoceroses and
giant deer.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has set fire to 11
giant pyres
of elephant tusks to show his country's resolve to stamp out the illegal ivory trade and save
elephants.
The extinction
of the large animals took place in virtually all climate zones and affected cold - adapted species such as woolly mammoths, temperate species such as forest
elephants and
giant deer, and tropical species such as
giant cape buffalo and some
giant sloths.
The
giant wave had caught only a very small number
of large mammals, like wild boars, and not a single
elephant or leopard was found dead.
Dozens
of species disappeared altogether, including 17
giant lemurs, three pygmy hippopotamuses, two aardvarklike mammals, a
giant fossa (a catlike carnivore), eight
elephant birds, a
giant crocodile and two
giant tortoises.
Many
of the species Darwin discovered in the fossils were previously unknown to science, including several
giant ground sloths, compact car — sized relatives
of armadillos called glyptodonts (SN Online: 2/22/16) and ancient kin
of horses and
elephants.
Elsewhere in the Indonesian archipelago, a similar array
of pressures conspired to produce huge lizards like the Komodo dragons,
giant rats, and tiny
elephants.
Rounded with smooth floors and claw marks along the wall, the caves may have been dug out by
elephant - sized
giant ground sloths or maybe a species
of enormous armadillos, both now long extinct, Discover Magazine reports.
One
elephant, Kelly, was even able to retrieve tortilla chips intact — using one - thirtieth the weight
of the trunk to do so, proving these
giants can grasp and suck up objects far beyond the researchers» imaginations, they say.
Giant Ice Age species including
elephant - sized sloths and powerful sabre - toothed cats that once roamed the windswept plains
of Patagonia, southern South America, were finally felled by a perfect storm
of a rapidly warming climate and humans, a new study has shown.
The researchers found hippo fossils at the Pakefield site, as well as fossils
of other warmth - loving species such as lion, an extinct
giant deer called Megaloceros dawkinsi and Palaeoloxodon antiquus, an extinct straight - tusked
elephant.
Northern Central African Republic historically supported some the most pristine wilderness and intact and abundant wildlife assemblages in Africa, including species
of global importance such as
elephant, Kordofan giraffe, hippopotamus, lion,
giant eland, and more.
They also hunted the native megafauna to extinction centuries ago, including the tratratratra, a gorilla - size lemur that weighed up to 400 pounds, and the
elephant bird, which weighed nearly half a ton and may have been the inspiration for a 13th - century tale
of a
giant bird that carried Sinbad the Sailor to safety.
Regarding your ultimate guide to the multiverse (26 November 2011, p 42), it looks like Terry Pratchett was right: somewhere in the multiverse there is Discworld, supported on the backs
of four
elephants, standing on a
giant turtle swimming through space.
Mammoth bones were first thought to be the remains
of biblical
giants, until the physician Hans Sloane identified them as the remains
of elephants in 1728.
NGxTsum has the look and feel
of a concept store with plastic wrapped furniture, coffee tables covered with piles
of Assouline books and niche fashion magazines such as System and special installations such as Loewe's
giant pink
elephant standing next to the brand's popular
elephant - shaped totes.
But lo, to bring a whiff
of excitement into their lives, a werewolf is terrorizing their little hamlet, leading to the arrival
of werewolf - hunter extraordinaire Father Solomon (Oldman), who has, among his ornaments and trinkets (like a silver sword and a mute Chinese guy played by ace stuntman Paul Wu), a
giant bronze oven forged in the shape
of an
elephant.
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They reminded me
of those
giant war
elephants Colin...
September also marks the release
of Sara Gruen's follow - up to the smash hit Water for
Elephants, Ape House, (Sept. 7), Ken Follett's first part in a new trilogy, Fall
of Giants (Sept. 28), another love story from Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven (Sept. 14) and Michael Cunningham's first novel since Specimen Days, By Nightfall (Sept. 28).
I'm just an interior decorator, pointing out the
elephant (stores lack e-commerce websites, and thus face competition from a store six states away which does have an online store) and the rotting
giant squid (digital comics sales will quicken the demise
of print comics dominance).
Of course, the
giant elephant in the room I am not talking about is your debt.
Of course, there's the giant elephant in the room — tons of research indicates almost nobody can consistently beat the marke
Of course, there's the
giant elephant in the room — tons
of research indicates almost nobody can consistently beat the marke
of research indicates almost nobody can consistently beat the market.
St. Francis Wolf Sanctuary: September 2012: 64 - 65 Houston Zoo, Saving the Orangutan: October 2012: 64 - 65 Saving the Lions: November 2012: 62 - 64 Saving Lives in Central America: December 2012: 60 - 61 Saving Sea Turtles: Jan / Feb 2013: 62 - 63 Saving the Borneo
Elephants: March 2013: 64 - 65 Conservation Corner: April 2013: 64 - 65 Lowland Tapir Conservation Initiative: May 2013: 62 - 63 Conservation Corner: June 2013: 64 - 65 Protecting the Ethiopian Wolves: July 2013: 66 - 67 Saving Rhinos from Extinction: August 2013: 62 - 63 Saving Animals from Extinction: September 2013: 64 - 65 Conservation
of the African Painted Dog: October 2013: 64 - 65 Conservation
of Chimpanzees: November 2013: 64 - 65 Conserving Attwater's Prairie Chickens: December 2013: 64 - 65 Traveling to See Animals in the Wild with the Houston Zoo: Jan / Feb 2014: 64 - 65 Blue Billed Curassow Conservation: March 2014: 62 - 63 Houston Toad Conservation: May 2014: 60 - 61 Lion Conservation: June 2014: 58 - 61
Giant Armadillo Conservation Project in Brazil: July 2014: 58 - 59 Conserving the Gorillas: August 2014: 58 - 59
Giant elephant seals haul out in huge colonies on beaches near Piedras Blancas Lighthouse, north
of Cambria.
Enjoy dinner with the gentle
giants of the jungle - the Sumatran
elephant at Bali Zoo.
In the watery tomb, divers also found many bones
of creatures that were later identified as puma, sabertooth,
giant tapir, boar, coyote, bear and gomphothere — a distant
elephant relative.
Most
of the dive sites are pristine coral reefs with colorful soft corals and crinoids, vast staghorn coral fields and huge table corals in the shallow parts,
giant elephant ears in the deeper parts,
giant sponge barrels along the slopes.
Saldaha Bay is the most prolific source
of fossils thus far uncovered anywhere in Africa — bones speak
of another world in which there were both fresh water animals and land animals like
giant otters,
giant pandas, short - necked giraffes and sabre - toothed cats, a rhino from which the white rhino is descended and the «true
elephant», an ancestor
of the woolly mammoth.
Come up close and personal with the gentle
giants of the sea -
elephant seals - at Piedras Blancas.
Somalisa Camp is set in the heart
of the Hwange National Park which is known as the land
of the
giants because
of the big
elephant herds that inhabit it.
Helping
Elephants in Need Tour Volunteer or just visit these gentle
giants at Friends
of the Asian Elephant Hospital in Lampang.
- Timber sundeck at one end
of the pool furnished with sunbeds and an umbrella - Pool is bordered by high walls and an array
of tropical shrubs including including a sweet scented frangipani tree and
giant elephant ears.
Flying
elephants,
giant teacups... there's no debating that after for more than 60 years, this magical world
of make - believe is still the...
At the very least, they are attacking a
giant male nude made
of found materials and
elephant turds.
An eclectic lineup includes John Russell's
giant backlit digital collage that stretches across the space and literally places a (sightless)
elephant in the centre
of the room; American artist Cecile B Evans» miniature recreation
of the study
of a fictional architect whose severed head sits on his desk chair while ectoplasmic smoke billows from a corner; and several filmed episodes from the life
of American artist and sound designer E Jane's online avatar (who also has a successful musical career and clothing range).
It is, after all, a
giant marketing exercise for the Tate, and the institution has benefited rather than otherwise from the barrage
of indignation it has engendered over animals in formaldehyde, lights switching on and off, and
elephant - dung paintings.
To wit, Argentinian artist Adrián Villar Rojas created a site specific installation which includes a
giant elephant, red brick tiles and an imagined archive facility filled with remnants
of contemporary culture.
«Play Dead, Real Time,» which is now in MoMA's permanent collection, consists
of two
giant projectors and a smaller monitor displaying a silent video
of a circus
elephant.