Circus parades often became as large a sight as the performance itself; one Barnum and Bailey parade stretched for three miles.
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Acrobat death In 2004, Dessi Espana, a performer with Ringling Bros. and Barnum Bailey, fell 35 feet during a performance.
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Kirsch has just completed his three-minute audition for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey's Clown College.
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He was an accomplished ski jumper, and for a time, he toured the country with the Barnum Bailey Circus.
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And, like Barnum, he bestowed his own name onto his product.
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These Japanese artificial mermaids have brought many a dollar into the pockets of Mr. Barnum and other showmen.
Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained|Henry Lee
It shows how, by help of time, a story can grow—even after Barnum has had the first innings in the telling of it.
Following the Equator, Complete|Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Hales remained with Barnum for some years, in the course of which he visited most of the cities and towns in America.
Norfolk Annals|Charles Mackie
After a while the capillary attraction ceased to draw, and Mr. Barnum thought of an admirable plan to revive it.
Memoirs|Charles Godfrey Leland
Barnum then continued to describe Robert-Houdins greatness and his cleverness in the use of electricity.
The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin|Harry Houdini
British Dictionary definitions for Barnum
Barnum
/ (ˈbɑːnəm) /
noun
P (hineas) T (aylor). 1810–91, US showman, who created The Greatest Show on Earth (1871) and, with J. A. Bailey, founded the Barnum and Bailey Circus (1881)