John S. Clarke's great nephew, John Clarke, writes below how a boy from Tyneside rubbed shoulders with iconic figures from ...

Her father, Grigori Rasputin, would later become one of the most notorious figures in Russian history, and she'd go on to live a wildly fascinating life as a cabaret dancer and lion tamer.

According to her obituary by The Guardian, Gladys became a lion tamer for Bailey Brothers’ Circus, where she met and married John Aloysius Wall. They traveled around the world. The couple had ...

The figure of lion tamer Isaac Van Amburgh fetched top price at the auction A rare figure of a lion tamer fetched the top price when a huge collection of Staffordshire pottery gathered by a ...

EWING, N.J. – In the New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) preseason coach’s poll, the Montclair State University women’s ...

A rare figure of a lion tamer fetched the top price when a huge collection of Staffordshire pottery gathered by a Borders hotelier was sold at the weekend. The pieces, which belonged to the late ...