Order of the Elephant current form on 1 December 1693 by King Christian V as having only one class consisting of only 30 noble knights in addition to the Grand Master (i.e., the king) and his sons. The statutes of the order were amended in 1958 by a Royal Ordinance so that both men and women could be members of the order. The elephant and castle design derives from an elephant carrying a howdah, the familiar castle replacing the unfamiliar howdah, and finds use elsewhere in European iconography, as discussed at howdah. The Danish monarch is the head of the order. The members of
Elephant in the room noticing "an elephant entering one's living room". Since then, the events that led to drug money financing the "Samper for President" campaign have been referred to as "The Elephant". For some, their first encounter with this phrase comes through the poem of the same name by Terry Kettering. In one edition of "Time" magazine in 2013, Chris Christie was labeled as the "Elephant in the Room" on the cover page. Communism, Islam, Catholicism, the New Left, cell phone addiction, child poverty, light pollution and so on are also described sometimes as the elephant in the room. A variation is the