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11 Stories on Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
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Closing arguments set for elephant abuse trial

Are circus elephants abused? Or are the elephants under the big top healthy and thriving in a caring environment?

Circus turns touchy-feely for visually impaired kids

An enormous Asian elephant stepped out from behind a big red curtain at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Atlanta, Georgia.

Judge hears case alleging circus elephant abuse

A federal judge began hearing a lawsuit alleging the abuse of circus elephants, including the use of heavy chains, tethers and sharp tools called bullhooks.

This family DOES live in a circus

They could probably smell him coming for miles.

First dates -- the good, the bad, the OMG

When Sid Savara, a 28-year-old software developer from Honolulu, struck up a conversation with a cute girl in a Los Angeles ice cream shop three years ago, he was excited to learn that she, too, admired the musician Beck.

Tyrrell: Animal rights nonsense

The legal concept of the Public Nuisance has for long been recognized throughout all the civilized countries of the world. Basically, and unadorned by the tortured language of the legal profession, a public nuisance is one who uses property to annoy or damage an individual or the general public. Occasionally the annoyance or damage is sufficiently grievous for the public nuisance to suffer some sort of penalty.

Circus performer falls to her death

A circus performer working without a net died Saturday after falling about 35 feet during a Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus show, while hundreds of children and parents watched in horror.

Fortune: Elephant Pedicurist Mike Hayward, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, shot in New York City

The first drawing I ever did was of an elephant. I was 3 years old. My mother still has it. The college that I attended gave a diploma in animal care. We would go out to the wildlife park and spend...

Fortune: The Greatest Business on Earth Okay, so P.T. Barnum is a tough act to follow. But impresario Kenneth Feld owns

Who needs a scary movie to send chills up the spine? Meet Guy Tell, a mustachioed archer who performs in P.T. Barnum's Kaleidoscape, an upscale one-ring circus that's the latest creation from the p...

Fortune: STOCKING UP VINTAGE SECURITIES CERTIFICATES HAVE ARTISTIC, HISTORICAL--AND MARKET--VALUE.

If you have a predilection for fedoras, wingtips, cigars, and horseracing, you are probably as enamored of our red-blooded past as I am. If so, permit me to draw your attention to yet another piece...

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