| GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH DAY - Thursday, July 5, 2007 |
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2007/07/05 09:42 |
Thursday, July 5, 2007
GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH DAY
Connecticut.
he had people believing that an elderly black woman, Joice Heth, was
Great Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan and Hippodrome.
The museum housed several improbable attractions including the Fiji
Mermaid (a fishtailed doll with a dried monkey head & torso). P.T. did
set of Siamese twins, and the famous soprano Jenny Lind. He even
arranged a successful tour for her.
Most of what Barnum had to offer would be considered the side show of
Merging with Mr. Bailey and later, the Ringling Brothers in 1907, P.T.
Barnum left us the lasting legacy of the circus extravaganza, housing
true attractions along with the fake.
The most successful and outrageous showman of the times, Phineas
Taylor Barnum was still a man of his word. After all, was there ever a
greater show than the Greatest Show on Earth?
Bring on the cotton candy, the clowns, the daring young man on the
suckered.
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