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Topsy the circus pachyderm broke loose twice in 1922, making nationwide news. An NC restaurant wants to commemorate this weird occasion. An escaped elephant rampaged through Wilmington 100 years ago.
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.
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.
Elephant executions occurred most frequently in the United States during the carnival-circus era of roughly 1850 to 1950; at least 36 elephants were executed between the 1880s and the 1920s. [1] [2] During this era, elephant behavior was often explained anthropomorphically, and thus granted a moral dimension wherein their actions were "good" or ...
Topsy (elephant) Tusko (Oregon Zoo) Tyke (elephant) Z. Ziggy (elephant) This page was last edited on 7 June 2024, at 03:44 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
Sacha Baron Cohen's upcoming film "The Brothers Grimsby" was almost rated NC-17. ... If the audio was any indication, the scene includes an elephant or two, some major violence, a couple of jokes ...
March 29at Brooklyn Arts Center: Longtime Wilmington-based reggae act Signal Fire will play a hometown concert in this beloved venue before heading on the road for a half-dozen shows in the ...
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