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Eleonore Hodys
Eleonore Hodys (Hoyds, Hodis), Austrian political prisoner at Auschwitz from 1942, worked in commandant Rudolf Höss's household; her 1944 sworn statement to SS judge Konrad Morgen, surviving only as a back-translation at the Institut für Zeitgeschichte, grounded an abortive SS case against Höss.
Éléonore Mine
The Éléonore Mine is an underground gold mine in the James Bay region of northern Quebec, on the Roberto deposit, in production since 2015 under Goldcorp.
Eléonore Simonet
Eléonore Simonet is a Belgian politician of the Mouvement Réformateur who serves as federal Minister of Small Businesses, the Self-Employed, and SMEs, appointed unexpectedly in early 2025.
Elephant
Elephant: the largest living land animal, family Elephantidae, order Proboscidea. Three species survive, African savanna, African forest, and Asian elephant; trunk with ~150,000 muscle units, 22-month gestation, all threatened with extinction.
Elephant (1989 film)
Elephant (1989) is Alan Clarke's BBC Northern Ireland short film showing eighteen motiveless sectarian shootings in Belfast, without dialogue or explanation; title from Bernard MacLaverty's 'elephant in the living room' remark; produced by Danny Boyle; inspired Gus Van Sant's 2003 film of the same name.
Elephant (2003 film)
Elephant (2003) is Gus Van Sant's 81-minute drama about an ordinary American high school day ending in a Columbine-like shooting; it won the 2003 Cannes Palme d'Or and Best Director, grossed about $10 million, and scored 70 on Metacritic.
Elephant (album)
Elephant (2003) is the fourth studio album by The White Stripes, also called Elephant by The White Stripes, recorded on pre-1963 analogue gear at Toe Rag Studios, London; it gave the duo their first UK No. 1, sold 3.5 million copies, and won the 2004 Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album.
Elephant 6
Elephant 6, formally the Elephant 6 Recording Company, is an American musical collective Robert Schneider started in Denver in 1991, best known for launching Neutral Milk Hotel and Of Montreal.
Elephant and Castle
Elephant and Castle, or "the Elephant", is a Southwark, London road junction named for a 1765 coaching inn. Known for its 1965 shopping centre, Heygate estate, Latin American community, and large-scale regeneration.
Elephant bird
Elephant birds, also known as Vorompatra, were giant extinct flightless birds of Madagascar that stood over 9 feet tall, weighed more than 1,500 pounds, and laid the largest eggs of any bird.
Elephant Butte Reservoir
Elephant Butte Reservoir is an irrigation and hydropower reservoir on the Rio Grande in New Mexico, begun in 1915 as the centerpiece of the federal Rio Grande Project.
Elephant Camp (Myanmar)
Elephant camps (ဆင်စခန်း) in Myanmar: 22 state-run facilities, mostly under Myanma Timber Enterprise's Elephant Conservation-Based Tourism, housing captive Asian elephants shifted from logging to rides, bathing, and ecotourism after timber decline.
Elephant cognition
Elephant cognition: mental abilities of Asian and African elephants (Loxodonta, Elephas), covering memory, mirror self-recognition, vocal naming in rumbles, olfactory decision-making, and conservation applications.
Elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus
Elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus (EEHV), genus Proboscivirus, is a DNA herpesvirus of Asian and African elephants causing often fatal hemorrhagic disease, chiefly in juvenile Asian elephants.
Elephant gun
The elephant gun, also called an elephant rifle, is a large-bore rifle for stopping elephants and dangerous game, evolving from 19th-century muzzle loaders into Nitro Express doubles.
Elephant herding optimization
Elephant herding optimization (EHO) is a swarm-based metaheuristic algorithm for continuous global optimization, introduced in 2015, that mimics elephant herds led by a matriarch, with males separating from the group.
Elephant Hospital
Elephant Hospital: FAE Elephant Hospital (มูลนิธิเพื่อนช้าง) in Lampang, Thailand, the world's first elephant hospital, opened 1994 by Friends of the Asian Elephant; treats landmine and traffic-injured elephants, distinct from the government NEI hospital nearby.
Elephant in the room
The elephant in the room is an English idiom, also phrased 'elephant in the living room', for an obvious problem everyone sees but avoids discussing. American in origin; the OED dates the modern sense to a 20 June 1959 New York Times simile.
Elephant Island
Elephant Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica: ice-covered island 1,255 km from South Georgia where 22 of Shackleton's Endurance crew survived four months in 1916 until rescue by the Chilean tug Yelcho.
Elephant Kingdom
Elephant Kingdom (Королівство слонів) is the Asian elephant exhibit of Kharkiv Zoo, Ukraine, its largest exposition complex (1,412 m² summer and 1,737 m² indoor enclosures, sand flooring first in Ukraine). Also the name of Ichihara Elephant Kingdom in Japan and Samui Elephant Kingdom in Thailand.
Elephant Partners
Elephant Partners is a Boston venture capital firm founded around 2015 by Jeremiah Daly and Warby Parker co-founder Andrew Hunt, investing in consumer internet, mobile, and software.
Elephant polo
Elephant polo, a polo variant played on elephants with long mallets on a shortened pitch, founded 1982 in Nepal by Jim Edwards and James Manclark under WEPA; main tournaments ended 2017-2018 after welfare criticism.
Elephant seal
Elephant seal (Mirounga): two species, northern (angustirostris) and southern (leonina), the largest seals and most sexually dimorphic mammals; deep divers to 2,000 m; northern species recovered from under 100 survivors to about 250,000.
Elephant shrew
The elephant shrew, also called a sengi, is a small, fast-running African mammal with a long trunk-like snout, more closely related to elephants than to true shrews.
Elephant tomb at Carmona
Elephant tomb (Tumba del Elefante), rock-cut hypogeum in the Roman Necropolis of Carmona, Seville, Spain, excavated 1885-1886. Named for a sandstone elephant sculpture; reinterpreted in 2012 as a possible mithraeum with equinox solar alignment.
Elephant trunk manipulator (Elephant's Trunk robot)
The elephant trunk manipulator is a continuum robot arm built at Clemson University by Michael W. Hannan and Ian D. Walker, which bends smoothly along its whole length.
Elephant trunk technique
The elephant trunk technique is a staged cardiac surgery approach for extensive aortic disease, introduced by Borst and colleagues in 1983, leaving a graft segment for later completion.
Elephant's Foot (Chernobyl)
The Elephant's Foot is a solidified lava-like mass of melted nuclear fuel, or corium, formed during the 1986 Chernobyl accident and discovered in fall 1986 beneath Reactor 4.
Elephant's toothpaste
Elephant's toothpaste is a popular chemistry demonstration in which hydrogen peroxide, catalyzed by potassium iodide or yeast, erupts into a rapidly growing column of foam.
Elephanta Caves
Elephanta Caves (Gharapuri): rock-cut Hindu Shaiva cave temples on Elephanta Island in Mumbai Harbour, carved mid-5th to 6th centuries CE, famed for the 7-metre Sadashiva Trimurti and fifteen reliefs; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987.