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    Phineas Taylor Barnum (/ˈbɑːrnəm/; July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891), known professionally as P.T. Barnum, was an American showman, businessman and politician...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • The Greatest Showman (category Cultural depictions of P. T. Barnum)
    fictionalized depiction of the life of P. T. Barnum, a showman and entertainer, and his creation of the Barnum & Bailey Circus and the lives of its star...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • Ellis Rubin is an American actor. He is known for playing a young PT. Barnum in the 2017 film The Greatest Showman. Rubin made his acting debut in the...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    the showman P. T. Barnum to undertake a long tour of the United States. The tour began in September 1850 and continued to May 1852. Barnum's advance publicity...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    circus entrepreneur P. T. Barnum, but Nabisco does not pay a licensing fee to Barnum and Bailey Circus. The product actually says “Barnum's Animals”, subtitled...
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    exceptionally strong dwarf brothers who were most famously associated with P. T. Barnum and his freak show exhibitions. Waino and Plutanor were actually Hiram...
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