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    the Barnum Family Genealogy website P. T. Barnum at Find a Grave P. T. Barnum at Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus Entry on P. T. Barnum in...
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  • to those given by showman P. T. Barnum. The Barnum effect is manifested in response to statements that are called "Barnum statements", meaning that general...
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    Bros. and Barnum & Bailey. The circus started in 1919 when the Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth, a circus created by P. T. Barnum and James Anthony...
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  • Barnum is an American musical with a book by Mark Bramble, lyrics by Michael Stewart, and music by Cy Coleman. It is based on the life of showman P. T...
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  • The Greatest Showman (category Cultural depictions of P. T. Barnum)
    heavily fictionalized depiction of the life of P. T. Barnum, a showman and entertainer who created the Barnum & Bailey Circus, and its star attractions. The...
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  • Barnum in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. P. T. Barnum (1810–1891) was an American businessman and circus founder. Barnum may also refer to: Barnum,...
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    with P. T. Barnum. In 1861, Nutt was touring New England with a circus when Barnum hired him to appear at the American Museum in New York City. Barnum gave...
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    Nancy Fish (redirect from Nancy Fish Barnum)
    successful cotton miller and the second wife of P. T. Barnum, 40 years her senior. After the death of Barnum's first wife in 1873, they married the following...
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  • There's a sucker born every minute (category P. T. Barnum)
    "There's a sucker born every minute" is a phrase closely associated with P. T. Barnum, an American showman of the mid-19th century, although there is no evidence...
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    recently Adrian Frutiger's Westside, URW++'s Zirkus and Bitstream's P. T. Barnum. A radically different approach has been that of Trilby by David Jonathan...
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    Cardiff Giant (category P. T. Barnum)
    site. Both it and an unauthorized copy made by P. T. Barnum are still being displayed. P.T. Barnum's is on display at Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum...
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    made and exhibited under similar names and pretexts. P. T. Barnum exhibited the original in Barnum's American Museum in New York in 1842, but it then disappeared—likely...
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    abnormalities contributed to the end of the exhibits' mystery and appeal. P. T. Barnum was considered the father of modern-day advertising, and one of the most...
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    York City, from 1841 to 1865. The museum was owned by famous showman P. T. Barnum, who purchased Scudder's American Museum in 1841. The museum offered...
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    dwarfism who achieved great fame as a performer under circus pioneer PT. Barnum. Born January 4, 1838, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Stratton was the son...
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    Bones, was an American paleontologist. Named after the circus showman P. T. Barnum, he discovered the first documented remains of Tyrannosaurus during a...
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    famous Swiss-born bearded lady who is most famous for being part of P. T. Barnum's "American Museum." Madame Clofullia, as she was often billed, was born...
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    complete set of Lambert's clothes. It was later bought by P. T. Barnum and displayed at Barnum's American Museum in New York, but the museum was destroyed...
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    The Barnum Museum is a museum at 820 Main Street in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States. It has an extensive collection related to P. T. Barnum and...
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    Iranistan (category P. T. Barnum)
    commissioned by P. T. Barnum in 1848. It was designed by Bohemian-American architect Leopold Eidlitz. At this "beautiful country seat" Barnum played host...
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    1850, Lind went to the United States at the invitation of the showman P. T. Barnum. She gave 93 large-scale concerts for him and then continued to tour...
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    portrayed Gabriel Van Helsing in the action film Van Helsing (2004), P. T. Barnum in the musical drama The Greatest Showman (2017), and Gary Hart in the...
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    Edmund Newell (category Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus)
    Newell, was a 19th-century dwarf who gained fame as an associate of P. T. Barnum. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Edmund S. Newell and Sarah Ellen...
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    an American bearded woman, born in Virginia. She toured with showman P. T. Barnum as a circus attraction. Whether the cause of her condition was hirsutism...
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    The Greatest Show on Earth (film) (category Cultural depictions of P. T. Barnum)
    Technicolor and released by Paramount Pictures. Set in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, the film stars Betty Hutton and Cornel Wilde as trapeze...
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    Jumbo (category Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus)
    to London Zoo in England. Despite public protest, Jumbo was sold to P. T. Barnum, who took him to the United States for exhibition in March 1882. The...
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    Petroff", was recruited by a P. T. Barnum agent in 1884, and joined Barnum in America as "Jo-Jo The Dog-Faced Boy" Barnum created a story that involved...
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    Life of P. T. Barnum. New York: Maxwell Macmillan International. Barnum, Phineas Taylor (1927). Struggles and Triumphs; or The Life of P. T. Barnum, Written...
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    ground without being able to stop himself. He died six months later. P. T. Barnum offered Donaldson an engagement, first at Gilmore's Garden and then with...
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  • elephants had coexisted in California. The Cardiff Giant, a hoax of a hoax; P. T. Barnum had a replica made because he could not obtain the "genuine" hoax item...
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