In 1877, Topsy, a baby elephant stolen from her home in the wild, was smuggled into America in secret by circus magnate Adam Forepaugh and dishonestly billed as the first American-born elephant. Topsy ...
“Topsy,” which is set mainly in America’s Gilded Age, is a gripping popular history that runs on two tracks. First, it is the story of two entrepreneurial geniuses, P.T. Barnum and Thomas Edison, and ...
The handler found Topsy as docile as a woman being fitted for a shoe. Each time he tapped his cane against her ankle, she lifted her foot and held the pose, allowing him to dip his sponge into a ...
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Ronald B. Tobias discovered the story of Topsy the circus elephant while working as a producer for the Discovery Channel — and has been haunted by the sad tale since. Topsy was marquee attraction to ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) -As thousands of people enjoyed a weekend of arts and entertainment for Wilmington’s Riverfest, 100 years ago a different kind of visitor was romping through: a four-ton circus ...
Read this book and you will never again want to attend a circus or watch a show that features "trained" elephants (or, probably, animals of any kind). In the heartbreaking "Topsy: The Startling Story ...
You might just be inspired to swear off circuses forever, said William Kist in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Michael Daly’s heartrending true story about an elephant that paid the ultimate price to feed ...
Topsy the elephant was innocent! In a tale that interweaves the electrocution of a gentle giant with the electrification of America and the rise of the big top circus, “Topsy,” by Michael Daly, ...
NOT for her a mute inglorious posterity. A century after her death, her legacy to science, and to America, has received the recognition it deserves. A memorial to Topsy the elephant has been erected ...
Brooklyn-based journalist Michael Daly has recently published “Topsy: The Startling Story of the Crooked-Tailed Elephant, P. T. Barnum, and the American Wizard, Thomas Edison” (Atlantic Monthly Press) ...
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