Both professional wrestling and mixed martial arts can trace their lineages through the circuses and carnivals that took place on piers and in big tops throughout the late 1800s and early 1900s. It ...

NEWARK — In the early 1900s, Columbus native Conn Baker was thrilling circus audiences at home and abroad with his death-defying "loop-the-loop" bicycle act. As one poster from the time put it, Baker ...

There were death-defying stunts, daring acrobats and even a few performing alligators as the Show Me Center became a temporary big top on Sunday for Piccadilly Circus. Around 1,900 people attended two ...

Cirque de Shreve %u2014 A Mighty Meadows fundraiser is 6%3A30 - 10 p.m. Saturday at Pine Wold Manor%2C 2747 Fairfeild Ave. Tickets are %2475 for members of Friends of the Algur Meadows Museum of Art ...

In many towns throughout southern Delaware, the favorite summertime ritual for youngsters at the turn of the last century may have been the annual arrival of the circus, complete with performers and ...