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Eleanor the elephant is the only circus elephant to ever had performed her act while walking on a tall pair of stilts. After a terrible fall, she is forced into retirement. As she rides away from the circus in a truck, she quakes from her trunk to her toes wondering where she is going.
Thomas Powers describes the Price covers in later decades as sometimes possessing "a stunning, wistful beauty", flagging, in particular, "a 1956 cover of circus queens riding elephants into the ring, a 1949 cover of a boy all alone on a spring ball field sliding into home plate, and a 1951 cover of autumn leaves falling over a summer house ...
Hugo Schmitt, born July 19, 1904, in Bann, Landkreis Kaiserslautern, in Southwestern Rheinland-Pfalz in Germany, dead August 9, 1977, in Sarasota, Florida, United States, was a German-American circus artist, animal trainer and one of the world's most famous elephant trainers with a record of 55 elephants performing in the ring.
Image credits: historycoolkids The History Cool Kids Instagram account has amassed an impressive 1.5 million followers since its creation in 2016. But the page’s success will come as no surprise ...
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Old Bet (died July 24, 1816) was the first circus elephant and the second elephant brought to the United States. [1] There are reports of an elephant brought to the United States in 1796, but it is not known for certain that this was the elephant that was later named Old Bet.
A circus elephant ran loose in the streets of Butte, Montana, on April 16, NBC Montana reported. Surveillance video from Town Pump gas station shows the elephant roaming the streets as it’s ...
Lallah Rookh (died 11 September 1860) [1] was a female Asian elephant in Dan Rice's circus. She was known for her tightrope walking act. Lallah started her circus career in Franconi's Hippodrome under the name of Jenny Lind, from which she kept from 1848 to 1851. In 1851, she was renamed as Juliet and was paired with another elephant, Romeo.