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Barnum
[ bahr-nuhm ]
noun
- P(hineas) T(aylor), 1810–91, U.S. showman who established a circus in 1871.
Barnum
/ ˈbɑːnəm /
noun
- BarnumP(hineas) T(aylor).18101891MUSTHEATRE: showman P ( hineas ) T ( aylor ). 1810–91, US showman, who created The Greatest Show on Earth (1871) and, with J. A. Bailey, founded the Barnum and Bailey Circus (1881)
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And the Absinthe House has a full list: Other famous imbibers include P.T. Barnum, Oscar Wilde, and General Robert E. Lee.
Circus parades often became as large a sight as the performance itself; one Barnum and Bailey parade stretched for three miles.
Acrobat death In 2004, Dessi Espana, a performer with Ringling Bros. and Barnum Bailey, fell 35 feet during a performance.
Kirsch has just completed his three-minute audition for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey's Clown College.
He was an accomplished ski jumper, and for a time, he toured the country with the Barnum Bailey Circus.
On the first day of May, Barnum's menagerie came to our town; and Clarence went with his papa to see the animals.
Hear him tell it, he set Barnum up in business and loaned the Ringling boys their first money.
Is he recallin' th' happy days at Barnum's befure brutal man sunk an ice pick into him an' dhrove him to th' park?
Barnum claimed that he was cheated and swindled by this company, robbed of his property and name, and reduced to poverty.
That Company failed, and Barnum took the stock as security for endorsing and furnishing them with cash.
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