When is crowned the Pope Leon X in Rome in 1514, the King Manuel I of Portugal you gave an elephant white brought from the India of name Hanno. The Pope accepted the gift by courtesy and commanded him to make a special building to keep him locked up in the Vatican.Since it is said that a white elephant is anything that costs a lot of money keeping and has no value (is not).
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