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unusual facts about Barnum



A Lady's Morals

The movie features Grace Moore as Lind, Reginald Denny as a lover, and Wallace Beery as P. T. Barnum; Beery would play Barnum again four years later in The Mighty Barnum.

Adam Forepaugh

The quote "There's a sucker born every minute, but none of them ever die" is often attributed to P. T. Barnum.

Charles Stratton

General Tom Thumb (birth name: Charles Sherwood Stratton), circus performer for P. T. Barnum

Christopher Helt

He stated of the case, "They move principals around like it's a Barnum & Bailey circus … When there's a problem, they blame it on the principals. The principals have become the Oliver Norths for everything that's wrong with Chicago public schools." The Chicago Tribune wrote that, in response to the suit, CPS CEO Paul Vallas said he would "declare an educational crisis at the school and seek the permanent removal of the principal and the local school council".

Christopher James Jones

Christopher's stage roles include those of the Wolf and Cinderella’s Prince in Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim, Baal in Baal by Bertolt Brecht, Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, Barnum in the musical Barnum by Cy Coleman, and even that of Elvis.

Fiji mermaid

The Fiji mermaid came into Barnum's possession via his Boston counterpart Moses Kimball, who brought it down to Barnum in late spring of 1842.

Gary Pomerantz

The Devil's Tickets evokes the last echoes of the Roaring 20s and the darkness of the Depression when a suave and cunning Russian-born American named Ely Culbertson became the Barnum of a bridge craze that fueled marital uproar across the nation, including a husband-killing and sensational trial in Kansas City.

Henry A. Barnum

At Savannah, Georgia, Barnum led his brigade, first in Sherman's command, into the captured city, and under Brig. Gen. John W. Geary had charge of its western portion during the occupancy by General Sherman.

John D. Stevens

An accomplished performer, Stevens was the original sousaphone soloist in the Broadway production Barnum and is a member of Symphonia, the world's first professional tuba ensemble.

Johnny J. Jones

She travelled with a variety of traveling shows, including the Johnny J. Jones Exposition, the Miller Brothers 101 Ranch and the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

Joice Heth

when Barnum started to exhibit her on August 10, 1835, at Niblo's Garden in New York City.

Karl King

In an interview in the last year of his life, King stated that his proudest moment was conducting the Barnum and Bailey band in Madison Square Garden.

Lime Rock, Connecticut

U.S. Senator William Henry Barnum, the chief executive of Barnum and Richardson and longest serving Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, resided in Lime Rock, and was the founder of Trinity Episcopal Church Trinity Lime Rock.

Mount Jumbo

Miners christened a nearby copper mine 'Jumbo Lode' in honor of Barnum and Bailey's most famous attraction Jumbo, the largest elephant in the world, which Barnum acquired in 1882.

Niko Henrichon

Henrichon's first major work was a graphic novel titled Barnum!, written by Howard Chaykin and David Tischman, but he also did work for Fables, New X-Men, Sandman, and Spider-Man.

Prosaurolophus

Well-known paleontologist Barnum Brown recovered a duckbill skull in 1915 for the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH 5836) from the Red Deer River of Alberta, near Steveville.

St. Louis and Hannibal Railroad

Around November 1919, the "Short Line" was sold to John Ringling (of Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey Circus fame) for approximately $325,000.

The Half Brother

Soon Vera has another child, whom they name Barnum Nilsen, after the master scam artist P. T. Barnum.

W. Hamilton Barnum

For his efforts in establishing the hobby of stamp collecting, Barnum was named to the American Philatelic Society Hall of Fame in 1942.


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