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Pages in category "Lion tamers" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Rose Flanders Bascom;
Lion taming is the taming and training of lions, either for protection or for use in entertainment, such as the circus. The term often applies to the taming and display of lions and other big cats such as tigers, leopards, jaguars, cheetahs, and cougars. People often use lion taming as a metaphor for any dangerous activity.
Death of Lion Queen, Wombwell's Menagerie, Illustrated London News, 1850. Ellen Eliza Blight (1833–1850), also known as Helen Bright, was an English lion tamer, known as "The Lion Queen", who was killed by a tiger while working in her uncle George Wombwell's menagerie, aged 17. Her shocking death made her a media sensation.
Lion tamers (20 P) Pages in category "Animal trainers" The following 66 pages are in this category, out of 66 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
In August 2004, Siegfried & Roy's act became the basis for Father of the Pride, an animated sitcom about a lion who performs in their show and is head of a family of lions. Shortly before its release, the series was almost cancelled until Fischbacher and Horn urged NBC to continue production after Horn's medical condition had improved.
The 'Macarte Lion' in 1874 - The Illustrated London News Thomas Macarte was born in Cork in Ireland in about 1839. He was married but had no children. There are claims that he was a member of the famous Macarte family of circus and music hall entertainers that included the equestrienne Marie Macarte and the high-wire act Macarte Sisters, but this cannot be verified.
As pundits made their Golden Lion predictions in the last days of the Venice Film Festival, the general consensus was that it all depended on what kind of mood Damien Chazelle’s competition jury ...
Rose Flanders Bascom, born in Contoocook (a village of Hopkinton), Merrimack County, New Hampshire, in 1880, was the first American woman lion tamer, who performed in the circus in the early 1900s. Rose Bascom with Lions Rose and Tiger, circa 1914. In 1898 she married Alfred Bascom who was of French Canadian ancestry but born in the United ...