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Topsy (c. 1875 – January 4, 1903) was a female Asian elephant who was electrocuted at Coney Island, New York, in January 1903.Born in Southeast Asia around 1875, Topsy was secretly brought into the United States soon thereafter and added to the herd of performing elephants at the Forepaugh Circus, who fraudulently advertised her as the first elephant born in the United States.
The reference alludes to the propensity for nasal hemorrhage at high altitudes, usually owing to lower barometric pressure. The oral history of the Native American Sioux tribe includes reference to women who experience nosebleeds as a result of a lover's playing of music, implying sexual arousal. [35]
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During the performance, she noticed two elephants outside a tent at the back of the Circus World Museum, who seemed to. Eleanor Bartsch was performing with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, during ...
Elephants bathe in mud for a few different reasons. It helps cool them off and regulate body temperature. Rolling in mud helps protect their skin from insect bites and sun rays.
Getting pimples inside your nose is the worst. Here's how to treat that blemish (and how to prevent a pimple in nose from coming back again).
Tyke (1973 – August 20, 1994) was a female African bush elephant from Mozambique who performed with Circus International of Honolulu, Hawaii.On August 20, 1994, during a performance at the Neal Blaisdell Center, she killed her trainer, Allen Campbell, and seriously injured her groomer, Dallas Beckwith.
Electrocuting an Elephant - the film in full. The 74-second film opens with Topsy being led past a crowd of people through an unfinished Luna Park to the execution spot, an island in the middle of a "lagoon" used for boat-rides, by elephant handler Carl Goliath. The film cuts and an intervening hour and forty-five minutes are not recorded.