(notes on) biology, a short stop-motion animation (5.39) by ornana films, features a robot elephant. You have to wait a bit, but it's worth it. Stuff gets good at about 2.25.
posted by bwg
on Apr 25, 2011 -
8 comments
During the first world war, thousands of
horses were drafted into the War Effort and sent to the Front.
Faced with a horse shortage, the Thomas Ward steelworks in Sheffield acquired an
elephant and her handler from a passing circus.
Lizzie Ward worked at
Thomas Ward's for a number of years, getting up to various
pranks before she retired with sore feet.
posted by emilyw
on Dec 8, 2010 -
6 comments
Why is the elephant the symbol of the GOP? In large part, we can thank cartoonist
Thomas Nast, who, on November 7 of 1874, published
this cartoon, showing Republicans as a rampaging elephant tearing up the flimsy planks of the Democratic Party. He wasn't just a man who made elephants though; considered to be the father of political cartooning, Nast's illustrations helped bring down
Boss Tweed, argued for the
abolition of slavery, and hated the
Irish.
posted by Astro Zombie
on Oct 8, 2006 -
20 comments
Peale’s Mastodon by Paul Semonin. "The skeleton preoccupied American patriots for another reason less scientific in nature–one which helps to explain why its bones were eagerly sought after by the Founding Fathers during and after the Revolutionary War. For many Americans, the great beast had become a symbol of the new nation’s own conquering spirit–an emblem of overwhelming power in a psychologically insecure society." An interesting article about Americans trying to understand mammoths, from
Common-Place, the web magazine of early American history. Semion wrote a book on the topic,
American Monster.
posted by LarryC
on Oct 8, 2006 -
4 comments
