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 ...
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 ...
The Metropolitan Playhouse and Joe Trentacosta present the World Premiere of Edison''s Elephant, a new play by Chris Van Strander & David Koteles, directed by David Elliott as part of the Metropolitan ...
Presented by The Metropolitan Playhouse and Joe Trentacosta, the limited engagement is part of the Metropolitan Playhouse Gilded Age Festival. David Elliott directs a cast that includes Lynn Berg, ...
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) ...
When Thomas Edison’s film crew rolled its cameras on the triple-barreled execution of a circus elephant that combined cyanide poisoning, strangling, and 6,600 volts of electricity, the event, ...
contributor and Curator of Films and Photographs at the Historical Society Joe Tropea was struck by two mysterious photographs of an elephant. The elephant wasn’t relaxing in a zoo or performing in a ...
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, ...
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