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- APT became the focus of a storm of negative press reporting, with every failure extensively reported on and continued claims that the entire project was a white elephant.
- The seal of the province shows a white elephant, the royal symbol, recalling that Chiang Rai was founded by King Mengrai, according to legend because his elephant liked the place.
- Anawrahta sent the monks and scriptures, and a white elephant as a present for Vijayabahu.
- Naval commentators usually consider "Chakri Naruebet" to be less an aircraft carrier and more the world's largest and most expensive royal yacht, while the Thai media have nicknamed the ship "Thai-tanic", and consider her to be a white elephant.
- The engine was installed in the TVR White Elephant, a prototype car built for Wheeler by John Ravenscroft.
- Some modern works indicate that Abul-Abbas was albino – literally a white elephant – but the basis for the claim is wanting.
- Moses opposed the idea, stating that the Long Island Motor Parkway had been "a white elephant for the last twenty years" and that it would need significant reconstruction to integrate it into the state parkway system.
- It was code named "White Elephant No. 1" and it was to be the prototype for the government's premier "classified waste destructor".
- In South Indian portrayals, Ayyappan images show him riding a tigress, but in some places such as Sri Lanka he is shown as riding a white elephant.
- ... "belonging to Iravati") is a white elephant who carries the deity Indra.
- Holiday groups use a gift exchange party game such as white elephant gift exchange for socializing and sharing gifts.
- In the West, the term "white elephant", relating to an expensive burden that fails to meet expectations, was first used in the 17th century and became widespread in the 19th century.
- The great Swedish white-elephant fortress of Karlsborg was built in the tradition of Vauban and intended as a reserve capital for Sweden, but it was obsolete before it was completed in 1869.
- In his treatise "Politics", Aristotle cited the temple as an example of how tyrannies engaged the populace in great works for the state (like a white elephant) and left them no time, energy or means to rebel.
- 1510 – 8 June 1516) was the pet white elephant given by King Manuel I of Portugal to Pope Leo X (born Giovanni de' Medici) at his coronation.
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