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2. Hagenbeck–Wallace Circus - Wikipedia

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   The author is the great-niece of an elephant trainer of the Hagenbeck–Wallace Circus. Hagenbeck's name also appears in a series of Polish books for teenagers by Alfred Szklarski. The main characters from the books travel around the world to hunt animals for Hagenbeck's circus. Hagenbeck is also mentioned in the story "First Love" by Samuel ...

3. List of circus accidents - Wikipedia

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   On June 22, 1918, the famous Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus suffered a deadly train accident while traveling to a show in Hammond, Indiana. While the second of the team's trains had pulled off to the side to fix an engineering issue, an empty train used to transport soldiers crashed into five wooden sleeping cars, which ignited a quickly-spreading fire.

4. Hammond Circus train wreck - Wikipedia

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   The Hammond circus train wreck occurred on June 22, 1918, and was one of the worst train wrecks in U.S. history. Eighty-six people were reported to have died and another 127 were injured when a locomotive engineer fell asleep and ran his troop train into the rear of a circus train near Hammond , Indiana .

5. Benjamin Wallace (circus owner) - Wikipedia

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   Wallace used the land to build barns and buildings including a cat barn, an elephant barn, a wagon shed, a carpenter shop and a foundry. [6] Wallace acquired and merged the La Pearl circus in 1899. [7] In 1907, Wallace purchased the Carl Hagenbeck Circus and incorporated it into his own show forming the Hagenbeck–Wallace Circus. [1]

6. Circus Hall of Fame - Wikipedia

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   It is located in Peru, Indiana, on the former grounds of the Wallace Circus and American Circus Corporation Winter Quarters, also known as the Peru Circus Farm and Valley Farms. The property includes rare surviving circus buildings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and was designated a National Historic Landmark for its historical ...

7. Hagenbeck - Wikipedia

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   Wilhelm Hagenbeck (1850–1910), German circus-director Willy Hagenbeck (1884–1965), German circus-director John Hagenbeck (1866–1940), organizer of human zoos, half-brother of Carl Hagenbeck

8. ‘Wallace & Gromit,’ ‘Twilight of the Gods,’ ‘The Twits’ Get ...

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   Netflix Animation revealed a string of sneak peeks and new clips of its upcoming projects, including the return of villainous penguin Feathers McGraw in “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl ...

9. Emmett Kelly - Wikipedia

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   Emmett Leo Kelly was born in Sedan, Kansas on December 9, 1898. His father, Thomas, was a section foreman for the Missouri-Pacific Railroad.While he was still a child, the family moved to Southern Missouri where his father had purchased a farm in Texas County, near the community of Houston, Missouri. [1]