Manu060662
Posts : 301 Join date : 2010-08-19 Location : Switzerland
| Subject: P. T. Barnum Sun Oct 17, 2010 1:39 pm | |
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Manu060662
Posts : 301 Join date : 2010-08-19 Location : Switzerland
| Subject: Re: P. T. Barnum Sun Oct 17, 2010 1:49 pm | |
| And we're back to the circus. The greatest show on earth. Cirque de soleil ????? What do you think? Love for all. | |
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Dirty Diana
Posts : 1796 Join date : 2010-03-13 Age : 27 Location : somewhere in your mind
| Subject: Re: P. T. Barnum Mon Oct 18, 2010 1:58 am | |
| You said Michael loveS hoaxes and this guy P. T. Barnum so this means P.T.Barnum had something to do with a hoax,right? And his autobiography is his bible...okaay... Wikipedia says: Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891) was an American showman, businessman, and entertainer, remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the circus that became the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.as you said,just like Michael... Barnum did not enter the circus business until he was 61. In Delavan, Wisconsin in 1871 with William Cameron Coup, he established "P. T. Barnum's Grand Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan & Hippodrome", a traveling circus, menagerie and museum of "freaks", which by 1872 was billing itself as "The Greatest Show on Earth". It went through various names: "P.T. Barnum's Travelling World's Fair, Great Roman Hippodrome and Greatest Show On Earth", and after an 1881 merger with James Bailey and James L. Hutchinson, "P.T. Barnum's Greatest Show On Earth, And The Great London Circus, Sanger's Royal British Menagerie and The Grand International Allied Shows United", soon shortened to "Barnum & London Circus". again as you said... Now typing on Google: "P.T. Barnum hoax" we find: http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/archive/display/category/p.t._barnum/The Hoaxes of P.T. Barnumand the list "Tom Thumb's Baby" "HOAXES INVOLVING FALSE OR DISGUISED IDENTITY"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "The Free Grand Buffalo Hunt" "Entertainment and Show Business Hoaxes""The Feejee Mermaid" "Hoaxes That Fooled Journalists""Joice Heth" "IMPOSTERS" These are ALL related to Michael... good find,Manu,thanks | |
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