Elephant racing Affairs in India, Nina Hagen, the German rock singer, and Brigitte Bardot, the French film actress. In India only two states hold the event. In Nepal, the race started as an International Elephant Race in December 2005. The Tharu people of Nepal, who are professional tamers of wild elephants, ride the race elephants. A particular feature of this race is that riders of racing elephants are chosen by lottery and not by choice and this makes the riding difficult for the jockeys who train on their favourite particular elephants. The winning elephant is awarded a trophy. The racing track is
White elephant gift exchange of gift that was brought by each player. Typically, a "White Elephant" gift was any item that the player had lying around the house, and would actually like to get rid of, or just a humorous, silly gift. This was in deference to the stories about a king giving a "worthless or not-so-desirable" gift, a.k.a. the "White Elephant". A "Dirty Santa" gift exchange was more of a reference to the method of play of the game, in which gifts were "stolen" after they had been received (picked). It is easy to see how the White Elephant type game began to