SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Shirley Griffith. JUNE SIMMS: And I'm June Simms. This week on our program, we take you on a circus train. Then, we take a trip ...

Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey is America’s longest-running circus company. It began performances in the early 1890s. More than a century later, the company maintains many of the traditions of ...

Just before dawn on May 30, 1893, the Walter L. Main circus train carrying dozens of animals and performers ran off the tracks in an epic crash in central Pennsylvania. Five people, at least 50 horses ...

For more than 100 years, the remains of 56 performers and roustabouts of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus lay at the Woodlawn Cemetery in Forest Park. Some were known only by nickname, such as Baldy and ...

In 1918, outside Hammond, Indiana, a train accident took the lives of 86 circus performers. Many of the dead were never identified. Playwright Jay Torrence memorialized the horrific event with his ...

When the circus came to town in Great Falls a century ago, people paid attention. There were no radio broadcasts yet to distract them. When the circus arrived in the Electric City 60 years ago, before ...

For mother Nadia Tarasova, life is a circus. She and her husband, Dmitry Dolgikh, are performers in Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey's show "Fully Charged," which is coming to Austin Aug. 22-26.

NASHUA – The Greatest Show on Earth was nothing more than an amusing distraction when it passed through the city Wednesday. A Ringling Bros. Circus freight train carrying animals and all sorts of gear ...

In the early morning hours of June 22, 1918, the second of two Hagenback-Wallace Circus trains was headed to Hammond from Michigan City when was rear-ended, as it was stopped to check a hot box on a ...