ELLENTON, Fla. (AP) — From New York to Wisconsin to London and beyond, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus has performed for millions of fans during its 146-year reign as one of the world’s ...
P.T. Barnum (1810-1891) was the biggest entrepreneur of his day, more popular than Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, combined. For starters, he vastly expanded the concept of the "circus" -- his ...
When P.T. Barnum's American Museum http://www.lostmuseum.cuny.edu/intro.html in New York burned to the ground on July 13, 1865, the whales, whose sportive plunges had ...