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"Barnum Museum's Showman's Shorts" is based on the life of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus founder P.T. Barnum.
Dabo Swinney helped the Savannah Bananas start the game and a fan's catch helped them end it at Clemson football's sold-out Memorial Stadium.
Chang and Eng Bunker were conjoined twins who became a sideshow sensation in the 19th century. Billed as the "Siamese Twins," ...
General Tom Thumb only stood about three feet, four inches tall. But he made a huge impact during his life as a 19th-century sideshow performer promoted by P.T. Barnum. He appeared before queens and ...
“The traditionalist side of the Catholic Church in the United States has tolerated Francis, resented him, denigrated him, ignored him,” the writer Paul Elie says. “But also attached themself ...
China adding 12 U.S. entities to its export control list deepens trade tensions. This move signals tighter tech restrictions, escalating risks for U.S.-China business ties and adding fresh pressure on ...
PT Barnum is credited with the quote, “All publicity is good publicity”. His idea being that even bad publicity still gets your name out there and recognized. But old PT wasn’t around in the days of ...
Messrs. P.T. Barnum, J.L. Hutchinson, and J.A. Bailey, proprietors of the "greatest show on earth," and James Elliott, father of all but one of the Elliott children, were arrested yesterday ...
Yale University Professor Jason Stanley, who studies fascism, joins Ana Cabrera to explain why he is leaving the U.S. and going to Canada due to the Trump administration's policies and crackdown ...
Rachael Beck and Todd McKenney are two of the busiest names in Aussie stage and screen. Now, they're weeks away from performing in Barnum the Musical, based on the life of circus ringmaster and owner ...