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    The Elephantine Colossus (also known as the Colossal Elephant or the Elephant Colossus, or by its function as the Elephant Hotel) was a tourist attraction...
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    Paris Elephant, a real-life large elephant structure inspired by “Elephantine Colossus”, (a larger version of Lucy, built by Lafferty in 1885 on Coney Island)...
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    shape of a lion's paws The sphinx from Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex" Elephantine Colossus, a hotel Aslan in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is a lion...
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    Landmark. Lafferty also made other Jumbo-shaped structures, including Elephantine Colossus, on Coney Island. Jumbo has been lionized on a series of sheet-music...
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    Lafferty in the 1880s. The largest, seven-story, thirty-one room Elephantine Colossus served as a hotel, concert hall, and attraction on Coney Island before...
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    inventor, most famous for his construction of Lucy the Elephant, the Elephantine Colossus and The Light of Asia (also known as "Old Dumbo"). Born to Irish...
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    related to Éléphant_de_la_Bastille. Cultural depictions of elephants Elephantine Colossus Lucy the Elephant Elephant and Castle Charles Ribart, a French architect...
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  • Westchester County, New York. Elephant hotel may also refer to: Elephantine Colossus, Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York Lucy the Elephant, Margate City...
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    LaMarcus Adna Thompson at West 10th Street in 1884. Nearby was the Elephantine Colossus, a seven-story building (including a brothel) in the shape of an...
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  • House Terry-Ketcham Inn Concourse Plaza Hotel Opera House Hotel Elephantine Colossus Half Moon Hotel Hotel Bossert Hotel St. George 1717 Broadway 6 Times...
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    business. Thompson and Dundy also leased the adjacent site of the Elephantine Colossus Hotel, which had burned down in 1896. This gave them 22 acres (8...
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    newly opened Luna Park in 1903, on land formerly occupied by the Elephantine Colossus. The first version of the ride involved a simulated trip for thirty...
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  • sheeting Similar novelty buildings built at Coney Island, New York (Elephantine Colossus) and Cape May, New Jersey do not survive. NRHP listed. Brontosaurus...
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    temple records that: When King Psammetichus (i.e., Psamtik II) came to Elephantine, this was written by those who sailed with Psammetichus the son of Theocles...
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    Khaemwaset Apis Bull Bas-reliefs from the Temple of Satet at Elephantine Base and feet of a colossus of Amenophis III Bastet Bead net for a mummy Beaker from...
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    mercenaries and placed them in key garrisons at Daphnae in the East and Elephantine in the South to prevent a possible Kushite attack and to control trade...
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    III Djoser Buried Layer Lepsius I Athribis Elephantine Edfu South el-Kula Naqada Zawyet el-Maiyitin Sinki IV Seila Meidum Bent Red Khufu Djedefre Unfinished...
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    wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill." Farlow & Brett-Surman 1997, pp. 675–697, chpt...
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    area of about 20 km2 (7.7 sq mi) on the west bank, and the islands of Elephantine and Seheil. One of the known directors of the Aswan sites was Hori during...
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    papyrus thicket, offering before Khnum, Satis, and Anuket, the triad of Elephantine, and offering to Mut and Hathor. The tomb of Nefertari, QV66 is one of...
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    195. Temple of Wady Kardassy, Nubia. 196. Asouan and the Island of Elephantine. 197. Obelisk of On. 198. Oblique view of the Hall of Columns, Karnac...
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    a City of Hawks; Apollonospolis 48 Syenê; Elephantinê; nilometer 49 the First Cataract, above Elephantinê; settlement Philae, holding an Aethiopian bird...
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  • minds of human beings. Changelings Centauria Centaurio Centauron Dovina Elephantine Fury Leoninus Minotaurus Neptunus Pantherus Siren Viperus Woodgod Circus...
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    including a small temple with a colonnade (dedicated to Thutmose III) at Elephantine, a rock temple dedicated to Amun "Lord of the Ways" at Wadi es-Sebuam...
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  • engineers under coercion by the Tha' Roon's acting military force, the elephantine Obblinox. The Tha' Roon accomplished their subjugation of the Obblinox...
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