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  • Barnum, P. T
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    BARNUM, P. T. (Phineas Taylor Barnum)fin e s, bar n m, 1810 91, American showman, b. Bethel, Conn. As a youth Barnum worked at diverse sales jobs and managed a boardinghouse. He...
     
  • Bridgeport
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...1970, and Bridgeport struggled as more affluent residents fled to the suburbs. The Barnum Institute of Science and History commemorates showman P. T. Barnum , who lived in Bridgeport and whose circus wintered there. The Univ. of Bridgeport...
     
  • Circus
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Bailey. The most celebrated circus in America was "The Greatest Show on Earth" of P. T. Barnum , which, in merging with Baileys, became Barnum and Baileys. On Baileys death in 1907 the circus was purchased by Ringling Brothers , and in...
     
  • Tom Thumb
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...as General Tom Thumb began in 1842, when the showman P. T. Barnum gave him the title and arranged with the childs parents for...61 cm), and at no time did it exceed 33 in. (84 cm). Barnum aroused the intense curiosity of people throughout the world...
     
  • Ringling Brothers
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...smaller circuses. In 1907 they purchased their largest competitor, Barnum Bailey, and a decade later combined the shows into the nations largest circus, Ringling Brothers Barnum Bailey, styled the "Greatest Show on Earth." When Charles, who...
     

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