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Podcast: Footnoting History
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Jumbo the Elephant
Category: Society & Culture
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Publish Date: 2017-05-06 11:50:24
Description: (Christine) In May of 2016 the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus’ elephants performed for their final time before entering retirement. Over 130 years earlier, in 1882, Jumbo the elephant left London for New York and joined P.T. Barnum’s traveling menagerie. In this episode, Christine explores Jumbo’s life as one of the Victorian era’s most famous animals.
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