Menade du: "elephant" "Tongue Talang" P. T. Barnum
Jumbo and P.T. Barnum Under the Big Top Les Harding. Toung Taloung was a victim of the terrible fire at the Barnum & Bai- ley Circus winter headquarters in November ¡887. Toung Taloung escaped the flames , but , said Barnum , the beast ...
... elephant purchased by them in Siam many months before Toung Taloung was obtained , was poisoned on the eve of its departure by its attendant priests rather than that it should fall into the hands of profane Chris- tians . Finally ...
... Barnum et al . were acquitted the next day . See the Washington Post , April 4 and 5 , 1883 . 17. The animal in question here was Bar- num's rare white elephant , Toung Taloung . For much of the previous year , Barnum had devoted ...
... Barnum purchased a “ rare , ” “ sacred " white Burmese elephant named Toung Taloung at " great cost " from King Thibaw of Burma in 1883. Toung Taloung was shown in London for over a month before the opening of Barnum , Bailey , and ...
... elephant was regarded as a sign that the monarch reigned with justice and power. Because the animals were considered ... Toung Taloung that he billed as the 'Sacred White Elephant of Burma'. After much effort and great expense ...
The Autobiography of P. T. Barnum Phineas Taylor Barnum Waldo Ralph Browne ... elephant purchased by them in Siam many months before Toung Taloung was ... Elephant out of Burmah , that I am satisfied no other successful g attempt ...
The Startling Story of the Crooked-Tailed Elephant, P. T. Barnum, and the American Wizard, Thomas Edison Michael ... Toung Taloung, which he translated as Gem of the Sky. Barnum then intoned, “Of course we have all learned by this ...
... elephant whose death traumatised Pistols Scaramanga in Ian Fleming's The Man with the Golden Gun. According to the ... toung taloung The Sacred White Elephant of Burma, purchased by PT Barnum for $250,000, and ever since an ...
... Toung Taloung, Adam Forepaugh Sr introduced a spotless white elephant named Light of Asia as the first such animal ... Barnum arrived there with Toung Taloung and an elephant named Tip. To take a dig at his rival, Barnum had ...
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