Among the strongmen and strongwomen in traveling s... ...Sandwina. Her parents were strength performers in circuses , and she took after both of them.Kate’s nat... ...d her muscular girth to the paying patrons of the circuses her father contracted with. She was initially a w...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/09/06/Sandwina-Woman-of-Steel/Maude Wagner was the first American woman who disp... ...the first American woman tattoo artist. She was a circus performer, an aerialist and contortionist. What c... ...aerialist. At the time, Gus was also traveling in circuses and doing sideshows, amazing audiences with his i...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/04/01/The-First-Victorian-Tattoo-Queen/Come this May, Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Ba... ...this May, Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus will be folding up their tents for good, closing... ...ple time and money to preserve the history of the circus through digitizing thousands of posters, photogra... ...ugh digitizing thousands of...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/02/19/Vintage-Colorized-Photos-of-the-Greatest-Show-on-Earth/Officials with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum &... ...s with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus have announced that the circus will close down in May of 2017. They cited declin... ...and changes in audience taste as the reasons. The circus was a combinatio...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/01/15/Ringling-Bros-Circus-to-End/Woman have always been strong, but there was a tim... ...n weightlifters and bodybuilders were featured in circus sideshows more often than athletic events. These... ...mion, the stage name of Laverie Vallee, who was a circus strongman and trapeze artist, notable for her sug...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/09/07/A-Brief-History-of-Strong-Women/(YouTube link)Max’s parents pulled the old b... ...last minute he found out that the trip was to the circus instead. You can’t blame the little guy for...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/03/07/Max-is-Disappointed/The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus has been traveling for over 100 years, and even l... ...n the train, too.) Most come from multigeneration circus families, to the extent that collectively, the circus staff represents thousands of years of *strong class="m...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/11/20/Running-Away-With-the-Circus/Who knew that Rasputin, advisor to Tsar Nicholas I... ...to Tsar Nicholas II, had a daughter who became a circus performer -and then an American? Maria went from... ...career- that of an animal trainer in a traveling circus . With her characteristic sense of humor, Maria sa...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/11/04/The-Many-Lives-of-Maria-Rasputin-Daughter-of-the-Mad-Monk/The New Conformity is a trio of jugglers who perfo... ...o of jugglers who perform with Cause & Effect Circus . They start off with synchronized juggling, which...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/10/28/Juggling-Gentlemen/Every time the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bai... ...y time the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus comes to our town in the past few years, my young... ...t; she goes to hold a sign in protest against the circus ’s use of animals. She and others like her c... ...squo;s putting it mildly....
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/03/06/Ringling-Bros-Circus-To-Phase-Out-Elephant-Acts/