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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "There were flashes and small blue flames and then smoke began to curl up from where copper met foot," an excerpt from Daly's book ...

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Teslelephant time! In 1903, Topsy the elephant died of electrocution on Coney Island. Topsy had killed a man, and after being proved to be unmanageable, Topsy was ordered to be executed. Originally ...

The elephant in the room, is, well, in this case, the elephant in the room. The room in question is National Statuary Hall, the old House chamber in the U.S. Capitol. The elephant is a dead circus ...

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In the late 1800s, post-War of Currents America was a place of emerging electricity and circus entertainment. A product of this intersection was Topsy, a captured female elephant from Southeast Asia, ...

In this bizarre and remarkable dual history, journalist Daly (The Book of Mychal) weaves together the stories of two turn-of-the-century rivalries. Circus entrepreneurs P.T. Barnum and Adam Forepaugh ...