Queen Victoria was not amused when this animal ridden by kids at the London Zoo was sold to a U.S. showman
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Jeopary Questions page 1624 - THINK PINK - TriviaBistro.com  IN THE NEWS 1882: Queen Victoria was not amused when this animal ridden by kids at the London Zoo was sold to a U.S. showman  RAISE YOUR GLASSES:...
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Random Final Jeopardy! Quiz - By jaedon_dawg - Sporcle  Queen Victoria was not amused when this animal ridden by kids at the London Zoo was sold to a U.S. showman, In the News: 1882. A catering hall called...
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Victorian History: Travelling Menageries  Mar 1, 2012 ... Menageries, of course, pre-dated the Victorian Era. ... opened the Bristol Zoo which ranks as the world's oldest provincial zoo. ... from the appeal of the unusual animals that were sold on the London streets ... Thomas Frost, in The Old Showmen and the Old London Fairs ... Death of Lion Queen Ellen Blight...
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P. T. Barnum - Wikipedia  Phineas Taylor "P. T." Barnum (July 5, 1810  April 7, 1891) was an American politician, showman, and businessman remembered .... From between the upper windows, giant paintings of animals drew stares from ... During 184445, Barnum toured with Tom Thumb in Europe and met Queen Victoria, who was amused and...
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RARE COMMEMORATIVE P.T. BARNUM CIRCUS STERLING ...  Country/Region of Manufacture: United States, Jumbo The Elephant: Elephant ... Barnum's Museum: Funhouse Showman, Asian Elephants: Animals Circus Tricks .... in Europe and met Queen Victoria, who was amused and saddened by the little ..... Abraham Bartlett, the superintendent of the London Zoo in Regent's Park...
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The Old Showman's Last Triumph | American History Lives at ...  Near the close of a gaudy career, P. T. Earnum took the greatest show on earth to London. ... them he had fashioned an endlessly diverting drama, with himself never far from ... One reason for Barnum's uneasiness was his fear that the British public ... He was the Gardens' major attraction, and when the news of his sale...
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A Queen's Forbidden Love - The New York Times  Aug 29, 2014 ... Victoria's relationship with her servant had a flirtatious side. ... It has been posited as one of the great unanswered questions of her ... Scandalmongers whispered about a secret marriage, or children, ... Queen Victoria, after all, was a lustful Hanoverian who yearned for her husband's embrace after he died,...
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American Circus Anthology, Traveling Menagerie  These individual animals were all the subject of advertisements; there might have ... In this paper we list forty-one menageries in the years 1813- 1834. ... the 1850s almost all the animal exhibits in the country were controlled by just two firms. .... The menagerie that used this generic name more than any other company is...
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Christie's Auction House Fined After Trying to Sell Ivory  May 29, 2016 ... Christie's, a prominent auction house, was fined this week after it ... The item in question was a tusk mounted on silver, which was ... Collins brought the tusk to London-based Christie's claiming to have found it in a loft after his mother died. ... ivory and will not sell modern ivory, or unworked tusks of any age.
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Queen Victoria - Wikipedia  Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until ...... In 1887, the British Empire celebrated Victoria's Golden Jubilee. ... The Queen's Diamond Jubilee procession on 22 June 1897 followed a route ...... McKusick, Victor A. (1965) "The Royal Hemophilia", Scientific American, vol.
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Bushman (1928 - 1951) - Find A Grave Memorial  Mar 11, 2011 ... Gorillas were still a rarity in America, and Bushman was soon ... Visitors to the zoo would often see Bushman and his keeper tossing a football around on the park lawn. ... The Lord of Lincoln Park became the most famous zoo animal in the country. ... Specifically: Stuffed on display at Chicago Field Museum.
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jeopardy/22_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  MEDALS & DECORATIONS | This animal is depicted on Great Britain's Victoria .... VASES & URNS | The name of this dynasty of 1368 to 1644 often comes .... the British Museum was broken in 1845, repaired and then re-repaired in 1988 | the...
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Victoria (England) facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ...  Victoria (1819-1901) was queen of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837 to 1901 and ... she succeeded to the throne, receiving the news of her accession in a cotton dressing .... In 1873 Gladstone resigned, and in 1874, to Victoria's delight, Disraeli ... officially assuming the title Empress of India, which she did on May 1, 1876.
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Queen Victoria: The real story of her 'domestic bliss' - BBC News  Jan 1, 2013 ... To the outside world Queen Victoria and Prince Albert seemed the embodiment of ... Though she was a prolific mother, Victoria loathed being pregnant. ... Relations with her eldest son Bertie, later Edward VII, were especially fraught. ... disease, but for years afterwards Victoria blamed Bertie for his death.
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Animal Instincts and the Canadian Beast - Skemman  Timothy Findleys Not Wanted on the Voyage is a work of Canadian ..... comes first, then woman and the animal kingdom is only of tertiary significance if any. ..... gossip of the wood and eager to hear some news of her acquaintances there.
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Jumbo, an African Bush elephant at Barnum and Bailey Circus  Jumbo with his trainer Matthew Scott in London Zoo. ... Jumbo was sold in 1882 to P. T. Barnum, owner of "The Greatest Show on Earth", the Barnum & Bailey...
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What princess learned that she became a queen, being in Africa on ...  The hotel was madly popular in those days therefore many lodgers among whom ... The current queen of Great Britain Elizabeth was one of them also. ... All its apartments settled down at tops of trees where wild animals could not reach. ... night before she and the duke already managed to observe the animals who came to...
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On This Day: April 15, 1882 - The New York Times  ... 1882, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about P. T. Barnum and Jumbo the elephant ... purchase of Jumbo the elephant from a London Zoo as mutually beneficial to ... In 1841, he opened Barnum's American Museum in New York, which is...