P. T. Barnum

Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891) was an American showman, politician and businessman remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the Barnum & Bailey Circus (1871–2017). ^[1]

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T., P.T. Barnum Awards, Painless Parker, Paramour (Cirque du Soleil), Park Theatre (Manhattan), Pat Chappelle, Paul Montgomery, Paul Smith's Hotel, Paul T. Bateman, Pauline Cushman, Phineas, Phoebe Cary, Phonograph, Playland (San Francisco), Pogo (comic strip), Port Jefferson, New York, Poultry show, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie, Prince Randian, Private railroad car, Public aquarium, Public lecture, Putt-Putt (series), Racism, Ray Collins (actor), Ray Kurzweil, Rebecca Alban Hoffberger, Recreation Park (Pittsburgh), Regent Theatre (Sydney), Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Ringmaster (circus), Robert Greene (American author), Robert Henry Hendershot, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Ronnie Claire Edwards, Rossa Matilda Richter, Rubens Peale, Rufus C. 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A Lady's Morals

A Lady's Morals is a 1930 American Pre-Code film offering a highly fictionalized account of singer Jenny Lind.

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A&E (TV channel)

A&E is an American digital cable and satellite television television channel.

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Abraham Bogardus

Abraham Bogardus (November 29, 1822 – March 22, 1908) was an American Daguerreotypist and photographer who made some 200,000 daguerreotypes during his career.

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Abraham Dee Bartlett

Abraham Dee Bartlett (27 October 1812 – 7 May 1897) was a British taxidermist and an expert on captive animals.

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Adam Forepaugh

Adam John Forepaugh (February 28, 1831 - January 22, 1890) was an American entrepreneur, businessman, and circus owner.

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Admiral Dot

Admiral Dot (1859 or 1863– October 28, 1918), born Leopold S. Kahn, was a dwarf performer for P. T. Barnum.

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Afro

Afro, sometimes abbreviated to 'fro or described as a Jew fro under specific circumstances, is a hairstyle worn naturally outward by people with lengthy or even medium length kinky hair texture (wherein it is known as a natural), or specifically styled in such a fashion by individuals with naturally curly or straight hair.

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Against the Odds (TV series)

Against the Odds is an early Nickelodeon show profiling inspirational stories of people throughout history.

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Albert W. Hicks

Albert W. Hicks (c. 1820 – July 13, 1860), also known as William Johnson, John Hicks, and Pirate Hicks, was a triple murderer, and the last person executed for piracy in the United States (though the execution of the slaver Nathaniel Gordon in 1862 was under the terms of the Piracy Law of 1820).

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Alice Cary

Alice Cary (April 26, 1820February 12, 1871) was an American poet, and the older sister of fellow poet Phoebe Cary (1824–1871).

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Alone (TV series)

Alone is an American reality television series on the History channel.

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American Art-Union

The American Art-Union (1839–1851) was a subscription-based organization whose goal was to enlighten and educate an American public to a national art, while providing a support system for the viewing and sales of art “executed by artists in the United States or by American artists abroad." Art unions had been popular since the early 19th century in Europe; they first appeared in Switzerland, gaining great popularity in both Germany and the United Kingdom in the 1830s.

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American Dime Museum

The American Dime Museum (ADM) was co-founded in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, by artist and antique dealer Richard Horne and James Taylor (author), writer and publisher of the sideshow journal Shocked and Amazed! Opening November 1, 1999, the museum recreated, in spirit, the dime museums which saw their heyday in the 19th and early 20th centuries in America.

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American frontier

The American frontier comprises the geography, history, folklore, and cultural expression of life in the forward wave of American expansion that began with English colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last mainland territories as states in 1912.

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Angus MacAskill

Angus Mòr MacAskill, frequently referred to as Giant MacAskill or Black Angus (1825 – August 8, 1863), was a Scottish-born Canadian giant.

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Animal cracker

An animal cracker is a particular type of small cracker/cookie, baked in the shape of an animal, usually an animal either at a zoo or circus, such as an African lion, tiger, bear or elephant.

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Annie Jones (bearded woman)

Annie Jones Elliot (July 14, 1865 October 22, 1902) was an American bearded woman, born in Virginia.

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Annin & Co.

Annin Flagmakers is an American corporation based in Roseland, New Jersey.

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Apollos Smith

Apollos (Paul) Smith (1825–1912) was an American hunting and fishing guide from Vermont who founded the Saint Regis House in the Town of Brighton, New York, in the Adirondack Mountains.

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April 7

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Autobiography

An autobiography (from the Greek, αὐτός-autos self + βίος-bios life + γράφειν-graphein to write) is a self-written account of the life of oneself.

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Žito

Žito (also called Ziito, fl. fourteenth century) was a court-magician of Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia.

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B'wana Beast

B'wana Beast (Michael Payson "Mike" Maxwell) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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Bachelor party

A bachelor party, also known as a stag party, stag night, stag do, stag weekend (in the United Kingdom, Commonwealth countries, and Ireland), or a buck's night (in Australia) is a party held for the man who is to shortly enter marriage.

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Bailey's Crossroads, Virginia

Bailey's Crossroads is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.

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Ballyhoo (video game)

Ballyhoo is an interactive fiction computer game designed by Jeff O'Neill and published by Infocom in 1985.

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Bank of Baltimore

The Bank of Baltimore was a bank based in Baltimore, Maryland, that was chartered in 1795 and failed during the Panic of 1857.

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Barking Irons

Barking Irons is a design company based on the Bowery in New York City, specializing in casual-contemporary apparel inspired by American folklore and storytelling.

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Barnaby

Barnaby is both a masculine given name and a surname.

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Barnum (disambiguation)

Barnum typically refers to P. T. Barnum, an American businessman and circus founder.

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Barnum (musical)

Barnum is an American musical with a book by Mark Bramble, lyrics by Michael Stewart, and music by Cy Coleman.

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Barnum Brown

Barnum Brown (February 12, 1873 – February 5, 1963), commonly referred to as Mr.

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Barnum effect

The Barnum effect, also called the Forer effect, is a common psychological phenomenon whereby individuals give high accuracy ratings to descriptions of their personality that supposedly are tailored specifically to them but that are, in fact, vague and general enough to apply to a wide range of people.

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Barnum Island, New York

Barnum Island is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in Nassau County, New York, United States.

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Barnum Museum

The Barnum Museum is a museum at 820 Main Street in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States.

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Barnum Museum of Natural History

The Barnum Museum of Natural History was a natural history museum on the grounds of Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.

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Barnum station

Barnum is a planned regional rail station to be located on the Metro-North Railroad New Haven Line in East Bridgeport, Connecticut.

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Barnum's American Museum

Barnum's American Museum was located at the corner of Broadway and Ann Street in New York City, United States, from 1841 to 1865.

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Barnum's Aquarial Gardens

Barnum's Aquarial Gardens (June 1862 – February 1863) in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, was a public aquarium, zoo, and performance space located on Washington Street in the Financial District.

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Barnum, Denver

Barnum is a neighborhood of Denver, Colorado.

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Bayard Taylor

Bayard Taylor (January 11, 1825December 19, 1878) was an American poet, literary critic, translator, travel author, and diplomat.

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Bear Lake monster

The Bear Lake Monster is a being appearing in folklore near Bear Lake, on the Utah–Idaho border.

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Bearded lady

A bearded lady or bearded woman is a woman who has the ability to grow a visible beard.

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Beardsley Zoo

The Beardsley Zoo, located in Bridgeport, Connecticut, is the only AZA-accredited zoo in the state of Connecticut.

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Beardstown Grand Opera House

The Beardstown Grand Opera House is an opera house on South State Street in Beardstown, Cass County, Illinois.

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Beau Bridges

Lloyd Vernet "Beau" Bridges III (born December 9, 1941) is an American actor and director.

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Beauty pageant

A beauty pageant or beauty contest is a competition that has traditionally focused on judging and ranking the physical attributes of the contestants, although most contests have evolved to also incorporate personality traits, intelligence, talent, and answers to judges' questions as judged criteria.

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Benjamin D. Pritchard

Benjamin Dudley Pritchard (January 29, 1835 – November 26, 1907) was a United States Army officer, most known for leading the Union cavalry regiment which captured the fugitive Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, in the weeks surrounding the close of the American Civil War.

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Benjamin Franklin Keith

Benjamin Franklin Keith (January 26, 1846 – March 26, 1914) was an American vaudeville theater owner, highly influential in the evolution of variety theater into vaudeville.

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Benjamin T. Babbitt

Benjamin Talbot Babbitt (May 1, 1809 – October 20, 1889) was a self-made American businessman and inventor who amassed a fortune in the soap industry, manufacturing Babbitt's Best Soap.

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Bent's Opera House

Bent's Opera House, also known as Bent's Hall, is a three-story building located at 444 Main Street in Medina, New York, in the United States.

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Bethel, Connecticut

Bethel is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, about from New York City.

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Bethlehem, New Hampshire

Bethlehem is a hillside town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States.

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Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend

Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend is a non-fiction book written by Joshua Blu Buhs and published in 2009 by the University of Chicago Press.

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Bill Condon

William Condon (born October 22, 1955) is an American screenwriter and director.

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Billy Whitlock

. William M. "Billy" Whitlock (1813–1878) was an American blackface performer.

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Billy Zane

William George Zane Jr. (born February 24, 1966) is an American actor and producer.

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Biography

A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life.

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Black Scorpion (performer)

Black Scorpion (born August 26, 1979, Austin, Texas) is a writer, director, performer known mostly for his contribution to the revival of modern freak show and sideshow arts.

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Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards

Bone Sharps, Cowboys, and Thunder Lizards: A Tale of Edward Drinker Cope, Othniel Charles Marsh, and the Gilded Age of Paleontology (2005) is a graphic novel written by Jim Ottaviani and illustrated by the company Big Time Attic.

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Boston Aquarial and Zoological Gardens

The Boston Aquarial and Zoological Gardens (October 1860 – June 1862) in Boston, Massachusetts, featured a public aquarium and zoo.

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Boxing in the 1920s

Boxing in the 1920s was an exceptionally popular international sport.

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Brandreth Pill Factory

The former Brandreth Pill Factory is a historic industrial complex located on Water Street in Ossining, New York, United States.

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Brian Conley

Brian Paul Conley (born 7 August 1961) is an English comedian, television presenter, singer and actor.

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Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Ferry

The Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Steamboat Company, better known as the Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Ferry is a ferry company that operates ferry service across the Long Island Sound, between the city of Bridgeport, Connecticut and the Long Island village of Port Jefferson, New York.

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Bridgeport Hospital

Bridgeport Hospital is a not-for-profit general medical and surgical hospital in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

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Bridgeport Public Schools

Bridgeport Public Schools is a school district headquartered in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States.

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Bridgeport, Connecticut

Bridgeport is a historic seaport city in the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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Bridgeport, Connecticut Centennial half dollar

The Bridgeport centennial half dollar commemorative coin was minted in 1936 to celebrate the centennial of the incorporation of the city of Bridgeport, Connecticut.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Brookhaven, New York

The Town of Brookhaven is the most populous of the ten towns of Suffolk County, New York, United States.

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Brooklyn Bridge

The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge in New York City and is one of the oldest roadway bridges in the United States.

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Bryant Electric Company

The Bryant Electric Company was a manufacturer of wiring devices, electrical components, and switches founded in 1888 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States.

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Bullet catch

The bullet catch is a stage magic illusion in which a magician appears to catch a bullet fired directly at them – often in their mouth, sometimes in their hand or sometimes caught with other items such as a dinner plate.

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Burt Lancaster

Burton Stephen Lancaster (November 2, 1913 – October 20, 1994) was an American actor and producer.

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Busker Alley

Busker Alley is a musical with music and lyrics by the Sherman Brothers and a book by AJ Carothers, based on the 1938 British film, St. Martin's Lane, which was inspired by the 1905 novel, Small Town Tyrant, by Heinrich Mann.

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Capitoline Grounds

The Capitoline Grounds, also known as Capitoline Skating Lake and Base Ball Ground,Lowry, p. 34 was a baseball park located in Brooklyn, New York from 1864 to 1880.

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Captain George Costentenus

Captain George Costentenus or "The Greek Albanian," (April 17, 1833 - ?) was a circus performer in the late 1800s.

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Cardiff Giant

The Cardiff Giant was one of the most famous hoaxes in American history.

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Carl Akeley

Carl Ethan Akeley (May 19, 1864 – November 17, 1926) was a pioneering American taxidermist, sculptor, biologist, conservationist, inventor, and nature photographer, noted for his contributions to American museums, most notably to the Field Museum of Natural History and the American Museum of Natural History.

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Carl Crew

Carl Albert Crew (born August 2, 1961) is an American actor, screenwriter, author, artist and co-proprietor of the North Hollywood nightclub California Institute of Abnormalarts.

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Carl Hagenbeck

Carl Hagenbeck (June 10, 1844 – April 14, 1913) was a German merchant of wild animals who supplied many European zoos, as well as P. T. Barnum.

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Catherine Hayes (soprano)

Catherine Hayes, married name Catherine Bushnell, (1818? – 11 August 1861) was a world-famous Irish soprano of the Victorian era.

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Celia Newman

Celia Maria Newman (born October 21, 1968, in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico) is an actress, sometimes credited as Cehlia Barnum.

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Center for Elephant Conservation

The Center for Elephant Conservation (CEC) is a breeding farm and retirement facility for elephants in Polk City, Florida, opened in 1995.

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Central City Opera House

The Central City Opera House is located in the Central City/Black Hawk Historic District in Central City, Colorado, United States.

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Champ (folklore)

In American folklore, Champ or Champy is the name given to a lake monster supposedly living in Lake Champlain, a -long body of fresh water shared by New York and Vermont, with a portion extending into Quebec, Canada.

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Charles B. Tripp

Charles B. Tripp (July6, 1855January26, 1930) was a Canadian-American artist and sideshow performer known as the "Armless Wonder".

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Charles Cruft (showman)

Charles Alfred Cruft (28 June 1852 – 10 September 1938) was a British showman who founded the Crufts dog show.

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Charles J. Ross

Charles Joseph "Charlie" Kelly (February 18, 1859 – June 15, 1918), known professionally as Charles J. Ross, was a Canadian-American entertainer, composer and theatrical producer who performed in vaudeville, burlesque, and on the stage.

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Charles Jamrach

Charles Jamrach (born Johann Christian Carl Jamrach; March 1815 – 6 September 1891) was a leading dealer in wildlife, birds and shells in 19th-century London.

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Charles Martin Crandall

Charles Martin Crandall (May 30, 1833 – Jun 25, 1905) was an American inventor and toy-maker.

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Charles Martin Smith

Charles Martin Smith (born October 30, 1953) is an American film actor, writer, and director.

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Charles Schreiner III

Charles Schreiner III, known as Charlie III, or Three (January 6, 1927 – April 22, 2001), was a rancher, author, publisher, entrepreneur, collector of guns and Western art and memorabilia, and historian from Kerr County in the Texas Hill Country.

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Charles Willson Peale

Charles Willson Peale (April 15, 1741February 22, 1827) was an American painter, soldier, scientist, inventor, politician and naturalist.

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Charley Grapewin

Charles Ellsworth Grapewin (December 20, 1869 – February 2, 1956) was an American vaudeville performer, writer and a stage and silent and sound actor, and comedian who was best known for portraying Aunt Em's husband, Uncle Henry in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's The Wizard of Oz (1939) as well as Grandpa Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940) and Jeeter Lester in Tobacco Road (1941).

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Charlotte von Rothschild

Charlotte Freifrau von Rothschild (13 June 1819 – 13 March 1884) was a German-born British socialite.

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Chetanya Adib

Chetanya Adib is an Indian actor, voice actor, model and singer who speaks English and Hindi.

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Chickering & Sons

Chickering & Sons was an American piano manufacturer located in Boston, Massachusetts, known for producing award-winning instruments of superb quality and design.

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Circassian beauties

Circassian beauties is a phrase used to refer to an idealized image of the women of the Circassian people of the Northwestern Caucasus.

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Circus

A circus is a company of performers who put on diverse entertainment shows that include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, dancers, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, magicians, unicyclists, as well as other object manipulation and stunt-oriented artists.

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Circus clown

Clowns have always been an integral part of the circus, offering a source of amusement for patrons and providing relief from the array of animal acts and performances by acrobats and novelty artistes.

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Circus Hall of Fame

Wallace Circus and American Circus Corporation Winter Quarters, also known as Peru Circus Farm or Valley Farms, is located in Peru, Indiana.

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Circus train

A circus train is a method of conveyance for circus troupes.

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Clan McDuck

The Clan McDuck is a fictional Scottish clan of cartoon ducks from which Disney character Scrooge McDuck is descended.

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Cold reading

Cold reading is a set of techniques used by mentalists, psychics, fortune-tellers, mediums, illusionists (readers), and scam artists to imply that the reader knows much more about the person than the reader actually does.

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Color organ

The term color organ refers to a tradition of mechanical devices built to represent sound and accompany music in a visual medium.

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Commodore Nutt

Commodore Nutt (George Washington Morrison Nutt; April 1, 1848 – May 25, 1881) was an American entertainer.

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Common Nonsense

Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance is a 2010 book by investigative reporter Alexander Zaitchik.

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Congress Street Bridge (Connecticut)

The Congress Street Bridge was a movable deck-girder Scherzer rolling-lift bridge in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States.

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Conjoined twins

Conjoined twins are identical twins joined in utero.

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Constance Rourke

Constance Mayfield Rourke (November 14, 1885 – March 29, 1941) was an American author and educator.

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Count of St. Germain

The Comte de Saint Germain (born circa. 1691/1712 – died 27 February 1784) was a European adventurer, with an interest in science and the arts.

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Count Primo Magri

Count Primo Magri (1849–1920) and Count Rosebud were the stage names of a 19th-century Italian dwarf who married Lavinia Warren, the widow of General Tom Thumb on Easter Monday, April 6, 1885 at the Church of the Holy Trinity in New York City.

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Creature suit

Creature suits are realistic costumes used to disguise a performer as an animal, monster, or other being.

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Cultural depictions of elephants

Elephants have been depicted in mythology, symbolism and popular culture.

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Cut in Two Island

Cut in Two Island, East and West, are two of the Thimble Islands off Stony Creek, a section of Branford, Connecticut.

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Dan Rice

Dan Rice (January 23, 1823 – February 22, 1900) was an American entertainer of many talents, most famously as a clown, who was pre-eminent before the American Civil War.

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Daniel Lambert

Daniel Lambert (1770 – 1809) was a gaol keeper and animal breeder from Leicester, England, famous for his unusually large size.

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Davenport brothers

Ira Erastus Davenport (September 17, 1839 – July 8, 1911) and William Henry Davenport (February 1, 1841 – July 1, 1877), known as the Davenport brothers, were American magicians in the late 19th century, sons of a Buffalo, New York policeman.

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David Braham

David Braham (1834 – April 11, 1905) was a London-born musical theatre composer most famous for his work with Edward Harrigan and Tony Hart.

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Dee Brown (writer)

Dorris Alexander "Dee" Brown (February 29, 1908 – December 12, 2002) was an American novelist, historian, and librarian.

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Development of musical theatre

Development of musical theatre refers to the historical development of theatrical performance combined with music that culminated in the integrated form of modern musical theatre that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.

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Dime museum

Dime museums were institutions that were popular at the end of the 19th century in the United States.

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Do-Hum-Me

Do-Hum-Me (1825–1843) was the daughter of the chief of the Sauk Native American tribe.

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Douglas Moore

Douglas Stuart Moore (August 10, 1893 – July 25, 1969) was an American composer, educator, and author.

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Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical

The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Musical is an annual award presented by Drama Desk in recognition of achievements in the theatre among Broadway, Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway productions.

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Drummer of Tedworth

The Drummer of Tedworth is a case of an alleged poltergeist manifestation in the West Country of England by Joseph Glanvill, from his book Saducismus Triumphatus (1681).

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Dublin Evening Mail

The Dublin Evening Mail (renamed the Evening Mail in 1928) was between 1823 and 1962 one of Dublin's evening newspapers.

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Dwarfism

Dwarfism, also known as short stature, occurs when an organism is extremely small.

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East Marion, New York

East Marion is a census-designated place (CDP) that roughly corresponds to the hamlet by the same name in the town of Southold in Suffolk County, New York, United States.

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Ebierbing

Ebierbing (Ipiirviq), also known as "Joe," "Eskimo Joe," "Ipirvik", "Eberbing", and "Joseph Ebierbing", c. 1837 - c. 1881, was a remarkable Inuit guide and explorer, who assisted several American Arctic explorers, among them Charles Francis Hall and Frederick Schwatka.

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Edgar Wallace

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 – 10 February 1932) was an English writer.

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Edmund Milton Holland

Edmund Milton Holland (1848–1913) was an American comedian,.

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Edmund Newell

Edmund Newell (July 27, 1857 – December 23, 1915), better known as General Grant Jr. or Major Edward Newell, was a 19th-century dwarf who gained fame as an associate of P. T. Barnum.

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Edward Franklin Albee II

Edward Franklin Albee (October 8, 1857 – March 11, 1930) was a vaudeville impresario, and the adoptive grandfather of Edward Franklin Albee, the playwright.

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Edward Steinkopff

Edward Steinkopff (c1838-28 February 1906), was a German entrepreneur and art collector who lived much of his life in Britain.

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EFX (show)

EFX was a Las Vegas Strip production show residing at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino which opened on March 23, 1995 and closed on December 31, 2002.

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Eli Bowen

Eli Bowen (October 14, 1844 – May 4, 1924) was an American sideshow performer known as "The Legless Wonder", or "The Legless Acrobat".

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Elitch Gardens

Elitch Gardens was a family-owned seasonal amusement park, theater, and botanic garden in the West Highland neighborhood in northwest Denver, Colorado, United States, at 38th and Tennyson streets.

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Ellis Rubin

Ellis S. Rubin (June 20, 1925 – December 12, 2006) was an American attorney in Miami, Florida who gained national fame for handling a variety of highly publicized cases in a legal career that spanned 53 years.

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Elsie the Cow

Elsie the Cow is a cartoon cow developed as a mascot for the Borden Dairy Company in 1936 to symbolize the "perfect dairy product".

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Encyclopedia Horrifica

Encyclopedia Horrifica: The Terrifying TRUTH! About Vampires, Ghosts, Monsters, and More (also known as E.H. or EnHo_001) is a hardcover book by Joshua Gee.

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Enoch Fuller House

The Enoch Fuller House is an historic octagon house located at 72 Pine Street in Stoneham, Massachusetts.

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Estelle Griswold

Estelle Naomi Trebert Griswold (June 8, 1900 – August 13, 1981) was a civil rights activist and feminist most commonly known as a defendant in what became the Supreme Court case Griswold v. Connecticut, in which contraception for married couples was legalized in the state of Connecticut, setting the precedent of the right to privacy.

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Fairfield County Courthouse (Bridgeport, Connecticut)

The Fairfield County Courthouse, also known as the Court of Common Pleas, is located at 172 Golden Hill Street in downtown Bridgeport, Connecticut.

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Fakir of Ava

Isaiah Harris Hughes (25 December 1813 – 24 May 1891), better known as the Fakir of Ava, was a 19th-century stage magician, the teacher of Harry Kellar.

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Famous Trick Donkeys

Famous Trick Donkeys is a puzzle invented by Sam Loyd in 1858, first printed on a card supposed to promote P.T. Barnum’s circus.

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Fanny Crosby

Frances Jane van Alstyne (née Crosby; March 24, 1820 – February 12, 1915), more commonly known as Fanny Crosby, was an American mission worker, poet, lyricist, and composer.

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Fedor Jeftichew

Fedor Adrianovich Jeftichew (Russian: Фёдор Адрианович Евтищев, Fyodor Yevtishchev, 1868 - January 31, 1904), better known as Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy (later Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Man), was a famous Russian sideshow performer who was brought to the United States of America by P.T. Barnum.

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Fiji mermaid

The Fiji mermaid (also Feejee mermaid) was an object comprising the torso and head of a juvenile monkey sewn to the back half of a fish.

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Flea circuses in popular culture

Flea circuses in popular culture are represented in numerous cartoons, films, television shows, music, and novels.

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Floating Battery of Charleston Harbor

The Floating Battery of Charleston Harbor was an ironclad vessel that was constructed by the Confederacy in early 1861, a few months before the American Civil War ignited.

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Florence Claxton

Florence Anne Claxton (c. 1839 – 1879) was an English artist and humorist, most notable for her satire on the Pre-Raphaelite movement.

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Fourth Universalist Society in the City of New York

The Fourth Universalist Society in the City of New York is a congregation within the Unitarian Universalist Association located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

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Frances Ann Conant

Frances Ann Conant (1831–1875), also known as J. H. Conant, was an American spiritualist medium.

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Francis Barnham

Sir Francis Barnham (1576–1646) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1604 and 1646.

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Frank Leslie

Frank Leslie (March 29, 1821 – January 10, 1880) was an English-born American engraver, illustrator, and publisher of family periodicals.

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Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, later renamed Leslie's Weekly, was an American illustrated literary and news magazine founded in 1855 and published until 1922.

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Franklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey

Franklin Township is a township in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States.

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Freak show

A freak show is an exhibition of biological rarities, referred to in popular culture as "freaks of nature".

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Fred Glazer

Frederic Jay Glazer (February 20, 1937 – December 8, 1997) was an American librarian and director of the West Virginia Library Commission from 1972 to 1996.

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Fred Swanton

Fred Wilder Swanton (1862–1940) was a businessman who served as mayor of Santa Cruz, California from 1927 until 1933.

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Frederick Gleason

Frederick Gleason (c.1817 – November 6, 1896) was a publisher in Boston, Massachusetts, in the mid-nineteenth century.

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Gangs of New York

Gangs of New York is a 2002 American epic period drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, set in the mid-19th century in the Five Points district of New York City.

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General Tom Thumb

Charles Sherwood Stratton (January 4, 1838 – July 15, 1883), better known by his stage name "General Tom Thumb", was a dwarf who achieved great fame as a performer under circus pioneer P.T. Barnum.

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George Adamski

George Adamski (17 April 1891 – 23 April 1965) was a Polish American citizen who became widely known in ufology circles, and to some degree in popular culture, after he claimed to have photographed spaceships from other planets, met with friendly Nordic alien Space Brothers, and to have taken flights with them to the Moon and other planets.

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George Gilman

George Francis Gilman (1826–1901) founded The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company.

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George Lippert

George Lippert (1844 – 28 July 1906), was born in Germany with three legs and two hearts.

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George W. Longstaff

George W. Longstaff (1850-1901) was an American architect practicing in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

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George, Count Joannes

George Jones (born probably London, England, May 10, 1810; died New York City, New York, December 30, 1879), known later in life as George, Count Joannes, was an English-American actor, author, journalist, and litigator best known for his eccentric behavior later in life.

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Geronimo

Geronimo (Goyaałé "the one who yawns"; June 16, 1829 – February 17, 1909) was a prominent leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Chiricahua Apache tribe.

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Gillian Avery

Gillian Elise Avery (30 September 1926 – 31 January 2016) was a British children's novelist and historian of childhood education and children's literature.

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Ginger Strand

Ginger Strand is an American essayist, novelist, environmental writer, and historian.

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Glynn Ross

Glynn Ross (December 15, 1914 – July 21, 2005, Tucson, Arizona) was an American opera impresario.

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Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy is an award presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

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Great Central Railway (Nottingham)

The Great Central Railway (Nottingham) (formerly known as Nottingham Transport Heritage Centre) is a heritage railway and Transport Museum on the south side of the village of Ruddington in Nottinghamshire.

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Green Naugahyde

Green Naugahyde is the seventh studio album by rock group Primus, released by ATO Records and Prawn Song on September 12, 2011 in Europe, and on September 13, 2011 in the United States.

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Growth hormone therapy

Growth hormone therapy refers to the use of growth hormone (GH) as a prescription medication—it is one form of hormone therapy.

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Guy Laliberté

Guy Laliberté, (born 2 September 1959) is a Canadian businessman, investor, poker player, and musician.

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Hachaliah Bailey

Hachaliah Bailey (pronounced heck-a-LIE-uh; July 31, 1775 – September 2, 1845) was the founder of one of America's earliest circuses.

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Hanover Tavern

The Hanover Tavern in Hanover Courthouse, Virginia and Hanover County, Virginia, is one of the oldest taverns in the United States.

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Harold Schechter

Harold Schechter is an American true crime writer who specializes in serial killers.

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Harrison Phoebus

Harrison Phoebus (1840–1886) was an American 19th century entrepreneur and hotelier who became the leading citizen and namesake of the town of Phoebus in Elizabeth City County, near Fort Monroe, which is now part of the independent city of Hampton, Virginia.

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Harry Watkins (actor)

Harry Watkins (January 14, 1825 – February 5, 1894) was an American actor, theatre manager and playwright, whose career spanned the latter half of the nineteenth century.

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Have You Seen Tom Thumb?

Have You Seen Tom Thumb? is a biography of General Tom Thumb written for children by Mabel Leigh Hunt.

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Haverly's United Mastodon Minstrels

Haverly's United Mastodon Minstrels was a blackface minstrel troupe created in 1877, when J. H. Haverly merged four of the companies he owned and managed.

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Henry Alexander Cooper

Henry Alexander Cooper (12 June 1853 - 16 August 1899) born in Norton-on-Derwent, North Yorkshire, England, was a 19th-century celebrity billed by P. T. Barnum as The Tallest Man in the World.

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Henry Alonzo House

Henry Alonzo House (April 23, 1840 – December 18, 1930) was an American inventor who developed machinery and processes that have had a lasting impact on several industries.

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Henry Augustus Buchtel

Henry Augustus Buchtel (September 30, 1847 – October 22, 1924) was an American minister, educator, and public official, born near Akron, Ohio.

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Henry Augustus Siebrecht

Henry Augustus Siebrecht (1849 – June 19, 1934) was a German immigrant to America who used his early horticultural training to become one of the top floral designers and horticulturalists in the United States.

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Henry Czerny

Henry Czerny (born February 8, 1959) is a Canadian film, stage and television actor.

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Herndon House

The Herndon House, later known as the International Hotel and then the Union Pacific Headquarters, was an early hotel located at Ninth and Farnam Streets in present-day Downtown Omaha, Nebraska.

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Hiram Bond

Hiram Bond was born May 10, 1838 in Farmersville, Cattaraugus County, New York and died in Seattle March 29, 1906.

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Historic Sixth Street Business District

The Historic Sixth Street Business District is a set of largely intact two and three-story shops along the main road coming into Racine, Wisconsin from the west.

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History of advertising

The history of advertising can be traced to ancient civilizations.

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History of Bridgeport, Connecticut

The history of Bridgeport, Connecticut was, in the late 17th and most of the 18th century, one of land acquisitions from the native inhabitants, farming and fishing.

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History of public relations

Most textbooks date the establishment of the "Publicity Bureau" in 1900 as the start of the modern public relations (PR) profession.

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History of taxidermy

Taxidermy, or the process of preserving animal skin together with its feathers, fur, or scales, is an art whose existence has been short compared to forms such as painting, sculpture, and music.

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History of Tufts University

The history of Tufts University, originally Tufts College, can be traced back to 1847 when the Universalist Church set up convention for the creation of a university for the parish.

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Hoax

A hoax is a falsehood deliberately fabricated to masquerade as the truth.

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Hoaxes and legends of upstate New York

Hoaxes and legends have played a significant role in the history of upstate New York.

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Hog Island (New York)

Hog Island was the name of two islands near Long Island, New York until the 1890s.

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Holborn Viaduct power station

Holborn Viaduct power station, named the Edison Electric Light Station, was the world's first coal-fired power station, generating electricity for public use.

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Howard Chaykin

Howard Victor Chaykin (born October 7, 1950) is an American comic book artist and writer.

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Hugh Jackman

Hugh Michael Jackman (born 12 October 1968) is an Australian actor, singer, and producer.

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Hugh Jackman on screen and stage

The following is the complete filmography of Australian actor, singer, and producer Hugh Jackman.

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Human zoo

Human zoos, also called ethnological expositions, were 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century public exhibitions of humans, usually in a so-called natural or primitive state.

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Iranistan

Iranistan was a Moorish Revival mansion in Bridgeport, Connecticut commissioned by P. T. Barnum in 1848.

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Irwin Allen

Irwin Allen (June 12, 1916 – November 2, 1991) was an American television, documentary and film director and producer with a varied career who became known as the "Master of Disaster" for his work in the disaster film genre.

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Isaac W. Sprague

Isaac W. Sprague (May 21, 1841 - January 5, 1887) was an entertainer and sideshow performer, billed as the living human skeleton.

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Island Park, New York

Island Park is a village located in southern Nassau County, New York in the United States.

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J. H. Haverly

Jack H. Haverly (1837-1901) or J. H. Haverly was an entrepreneur and promoter of blackface minstrel shows.

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Jack Stehlin

Jack Stehlin is an American television and theater actor.

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Jacko hoax

The Jacko hoax was a Canadian newspaper story about a gorilla supposedly caught near Yale, British Columbia in 1884.

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James Ambrose Cutting

James Ambrose Cutting (1814–1867) was an American photographer and inventor, sometimes called the inventor of the Ambrotype photographic process.

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James Anthony Bailey

James Anthony Bailey (July 4, 1847 – April 11, 1906), born James Anthony McGinnis, was an American circus ringmaster.

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James Pond (Medal of Honor)

James Burton Pond (June 11, 1838 – June 21, 1903) was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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James Presley Ball

James Presley Ball, Sr. (1825 – May 4, 1904) was a prominent African-American photographer, abolitionist, and businessman.

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Jasper McLevy

Jasper McLevy (March 27, 1878—November 20, 1962) was an American politician who served as mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut from 1933–1957.

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Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin

Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin (December 7, 1805 – June 13, 1871) was a French magician.

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Jean-Paul Marat

Jean-Paul Marat (24 May 1743 – 13 July 1793) was a French political theorist, physician, and scientist who became best known for his role as a radical journalist and politician during the French Revolution.

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Jennie Quigley

Jennie Quigley (August 20, 1850 – March 11, 1936) was a Scottish sideshow performer in the United States.

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Jenny Lind

Johanna Maria "Jenny" Lind (6 October 18202 November 1887) was a Swedish opera singer, often known as the "Swedish Nightingale".

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Jenny Lind private railroad car

The Jenny Lind private railroad car is the first specifically outfitted private railway coach.

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Jenny Lind tour of America, 1850–52

The Swedish soprano Jenny Lind, often known as the "Swedish Nightingale" was one of the most highly regarded singers of the 19th century.

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Jenny Lind Tower

The Jenny Lind Tower is a stone tower located in North Truro, Massachusetts.

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Jim Porter (giant)

James D. Porter, known as "Big Jim" Porter (December 15, 1811 – April 25, 1859) was an American tavern keeper and coach driver.

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Joe Coleman (painter)

Joseph "Joe" Coleman Jr. (born November 22, 1955) is an American painter, illustrator and performance artist.

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John "Grizzly" Adams

John "Grizzly" Adams (also known as James Capen Adams and Grizzly Adams) (1812–1860) was a famous California mountain man and trainer of grizzly bears and other wild animals he captured for menageries, zoological gardens and circuses.

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John Banvard

John Banvard (November 15, 1815 – May 16, 1891) was a US panorama and portrait painter known for his panoramic views of the Mississippi River Valley.

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John C. Colt

John Caldwell Colt (March 1, 1810 – November 18, 1842), the brother of Samuel Colt of Colt firearm fame, was an American fur trader, bookkeeper, law clerk, and teacher.

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John Diamond (dancer)

John Diamond (1823 – October 20, 1857), aka Jack or Johnny, was an Irish-American dancer and blackface minstrel performer.

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John Elitch

John Elitch (1852 – March 10, 1891) was a restaurateur, businessman, actor, zookeeper, and original owner and namesake of Elitch Gardens and the Elitch Theatre in Denver, CO.

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John Emory Powers

John E. Powers (1837–1919) was a highly influential American copywriter.

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John McMahon (wrestler)

John McMahon (July 7, 1841 – April 3, 1911) was an American professional wrestler who specialized in collar-and-elbow wrestling.

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John Nicholas Genin

John Nicholas Genin was born in 1819.

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Joice Heth

Joice Heth (c. 1756February 19, 1836)"Joice Heth", Hoaxes.org was an African-American slave who was exhibited by P.T. Barnum with the false claim that she was the 161-year-old nursing mammy of George Washington.

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Josephine Clofullia

Josephine Clofullia (1829–1875) was a famous Swiss-born bearded lady who toured with P. T. Barnum's "American Museum".

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Journey's End (Doctor Who)

"Journey's End" is the thirteenth and final episode of the fourth series of British science fiction television series Doctor Who, first broadcast on BBC One on 5 July 2008.

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Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon

Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon is a 1967 Eastman color British science fiction comedy film directed by Don Sharp and starring Burl Ives, Troy Donahue, Gert Fröbe and Terry-Thomas.

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July 5

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Jumbo

Jumbo (about Christmas 1860 – September 15, 1885), also known as Jumbo the Elephant and Jumbo the Circus Elephant, was a 19th-century male African bush elephant born in Sudan.

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Jumbo Glacier, British Columbia

Jumbo Glacier, also known as Jumbo, is a mountain resort municipality within the Regional District of East Kootenay in southeast British Columbia, Canada.

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June 2

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Karl Wenclas

Karl "King" Wenclas (born in Detroit, Michigan) is a founder and the former Publicity Director and front man of the Underground Literary Alliance.

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Kate Josephine Bateman

Kate Josephine Bateman Crowe (October 7, 1842 – April 8, 1917) was an American actor.

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Keying (ship)

Keying (Chinese: 英, p Qíyīng) was a three-masted, 800-ton Foochow Chinese trading junk which sailed from China around the Cape of Good Hope to the United States and Britain between 1846 and 1848.

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King Kong (2005 film)

King Kong is a 2005 epic monster adventure film co-written, produced, and directed by Peter Jackson.

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Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical

The Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical is an annual award presented by The Society of London Theatre in recognition of achievements in commercial British theatre.

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Lavinia Warren

Mercy Lavinia Warren Stratton (née Bump, October 31, 1842 – November 25, 1919) was an American proportionate dwarf, who was a circus performer and the wife of General Tom Thumb.

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Léon Compère-Léandre

Léon Compère-Léandre (1874?–1936, aged 62) was a shoemaker in Saint-Pierre on the French Caribbean island of Martinique when Mount Pelée erupted on May 8, 1902 and destroyed the town.

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Leopold Eidlitz

Leopold Eidlitz (March 10, 1823, Prague, Bohemia – 1908, New York City) was a prominent New York architect best known for his work on the New York State Capitol (Albany, New York, 1876–1881), as well as "Iranistan" (1848), P. T. Barnum's house in Bridgeport, Connecticut; St.

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Limerick Athenaeum

The Limerick Athenaeum was a centre of learning, established in Limerick city, Ireland, in 1852.

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Lincoln Trail Homestead State Memorial

The Lincoln Trail Homestead State Memorial is a state park located on the Sangamon River in Macon County near Harristown, Illinois, United States.

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List of Americans of English descent

This is a list of notable Americans of English descent, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.

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List of autobiographies

The following is a list of notable autobiographies.

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List of Award of Garden Merit narcissus

Below is a selected list of Narcissus species, varieties and cultivars which currently (2016) hold the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit (AGM).

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List of biographical films

This is a list of biographical films.

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List of Canadian Pickers episodes

This is a list of television episodes of the Canadian series Canadian Pickers.

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List of cemeteries in Connecticut

This is a list of cemeteries in Connecticut.

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List of cemeteries in the United States

This is a list of cemeteries in the United States, with selected notable interments.

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List of circuses and circus owners

There have been many famous modern circuses since the first modern circus was staged by Philip Astley in London on January 9, 1768.

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List of Donald Duck universe characters

This list of Donald Duck universe characters focuses on Disney cartoon characters who typically appear with Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck, but are not related to them.

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List of Dr. Floyd episodes

The dates below are for dates of first podcast release of each episode of The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd.

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List of eponyms (A–K)

An eponym is a person (real or fictitious) from whom something is said to take its name.

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List of fictional bears

This is a list of fictional bears that appear in video games, film, television, animation, comics and literature.

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List of foods named after people

This is a list of foods and dishes named after people.

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List of former theatres in Boston

The following is a partial list of former theatres in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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List of Great Central Railway locomotives and rolling stock

This is a comprehensive list of locomotives and rolling stock based at the preserved Great Central Railway at Loughborough, Leicestershire and the Nottingham Transport Heritage Centre near Ruddington.

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List of hoaxes

The following are lists of hoaxes.

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List of individual elephants

This is a list of historical elephants by name.

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List of Legends of Tomorrow characters

Legends of Tomorrow is an American television series, developed by Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, Phil Klemmer, and Andrew Kreisberg, based on several characters from DC Comics.

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List of Legends of Tomorrow episodes

Legends of Tomorrow is an American action-adventure television series developed by Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, Andrew Kreisberg and Phil Klemmer, who are also executive producers along with Sarah Schechter and Chris Fedak; Klemmer serves as showrunner.

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List of Liberty ships (M–R)

This section of List of Liberty ships is a sortable list of Liberty ships—cargo ships built in the United States during World War II—with names beginning with M through R.

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List of mayors of Bridgeport, Connecticut

The Mayor is the chief executive who is directly elected for a four-year term.

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List of museums in Connecticut

This list of museums in Connecticut contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.

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List of Penguin Classics

This is a list of books published as Penguin Classics.

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List of people from Bridgeport, Connecticut

This is a list of notable people associated with Bridgeport, Connecticut who achieved great public distinction, listed in the category for which they are best known.

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List of people from Connecticut

The following is a list of notable people born, raised, or resident in Connecticut, with place of birth or residence when known.

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List of people with dwarfism

The following is a list of people who are known for their dwarfism and who have been open about it.

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List of piscine and amphibian humanoids

Piscine and amphibian humanoids (people with the characteristics of fish or amphibians) appear in folklore and fiction.

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List of premature obituaries

A premature obituary is an obituary published whose subject is not actually deceased at the time of publication.

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List of Ripley's Believe It or Not! episodes (1982–86)

The following is an episode list for Ripley's Believe It or Not!, an American documentary television series which was hosted by Jack Palance and aired on ABC from 1982 to 1986.

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List of Simon & Schuster authors

List of authors published by Simon & Schuster and its various imprints including Atria Publishing Group, Doubleday, Free Press, Scribner, Simon & Schuster for Young Readers, Touchstone and Washington Square Press.

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List of Spanish flu cases

This is a list of cases from the January 1918 – December 1920 flu pandemic, commonly referred to as the Spanish flu.

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List of Super Friends episodes

Superfriends is American animated series about a team of superheroes which ran from 1973 to 1986 on ABC.

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List of Sussex County, New Jersey people

Sussex County in northwestern New Jersey has had a place in over three centuries of modern history, beginning with the age of European settlement and exploration during the American colonial period.

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List of The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show episodes

This is a list of episodes of The Mr. Peabody & Sherman Show, the American animated web television series produced by DreamWorks Animation and Jay Ward Productions.

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List of Unitarian, Universalist, and Unitarian Universalist churches

This is a list of Unitarian, Universalist, and Unitarian Universalist churches.

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List of Unitarians, Universalists, and Unitarian Universalists

A number of notable people have considered themselves Unitarians, Universalists, and following the merger of these denominations in the United States and Canada in 1961, Unitarian Universalists.

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List of United States political families (B)

The following is an alphabetical list of political families in the United States whose last name begins with B. NOTE: Info may be incomplete.

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List of Vanity Fair (British magazine) caricatures (1885–89)

>> List of ''Vanity Fair'' caricatures (1890–94) The following is from a list of caricatures published 1885–89 by the British magazine Vanity Fair (1868–1914).

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List of works by Horatio Alger Jr.

Horatio Alger Jr. published about 100 poems and odes, most written by 1875.

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London Zoo

London Zoo is the world's oldest scientific zoo.

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Lucky Luke

Lucky Luke is a western comics series created by Belgian cartoonist Morris in 1946.

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Luke Ski

Luke Collis Sienkowski (born January 14, 1974), better known as the great Luke Ski or simply as Luke Ski, is a parody, filk, and rap artist who writes, records and performs comedy music.

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Luna Park, Scranton

Luna Park, an amusement park in Scranton, Pennsylvania, from 1906 to 1916, initially designed, built, and operated by two companies affiliated with amusement park pioneer Frederick Ingersoll, occupied a mostly western-facing 20-acre tract of land on Moosic Mountain along the eastern side of Roaring Brook gorge, opposite present-day Nay Aug Park.

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Lydia Folger Fowler

Lydia Folger Fowler (May 5, 1823 – January 26, 1879) was a pioneering American physician, professor of medicine, and activist.

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Machine Project

Machine Project is a Los Angeles based not-for-profit arts organization and community event space.

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Madison Avenue

Madison Avenue is a north-south avenue in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, United States, that carries northbound one-way traffic.

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Madison Square and Madison Square Park

Madison Square is a public square formed by the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Broadway at 23rd Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan.

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Madison Square Garden

Madison Square Garden, often called "MSG" or simply "The Garden", is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the New York City borough of Manhattan.

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Madison Square Garden (1879)

Madison Square Garden was an arena in New York City located on the northeast corner of East 26th Street and Madison Avenue in Manhattan.

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Madison Square Garden (1890)

Madison Square Garden was an indoor arena in New York City, the second by that name, and the second to be located at 26th Street and Madison Avenue in Manhattan.

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Manbarra

The Manbarra, otherwise known as the Wulgurukaba, were an Indigenous Australian people, and the original inhabitants of Palm Island in Queensland.

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Maria Hernandez Park

Maria Hernandez Park is a municipal park in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York City.

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Marie-Josephte Corriveau

Marie-Josephte Corriveau (1733 at Saint-Vallier, Quebec – at Quebec City), better known as "la Corriveau", is a well-known figure in Québécois folklore.

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Marshall Pinckney Wilder

Marshall Pinckney Wilder (September 19, 1859 – January 10, 1915) was an American actor, monologist, humorist and sketch artist.

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Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum

Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum, located in Farmington Hills, Michigan, is devoted to a huge collection of coin-operated animatronic dummies, mechanical games and other oddities.

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Master Juba

Master Juba (ca. 1825 – ca. 1852 or 1853) was an African-American dancer active in the 1840s.

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Maurice Starr

Maurice Starr (born Lawrence Curtis Johnson, 1953) is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer.

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Max Maretzek Italian Opera Company

The Max Maretzek Italian Opera Company (sometimes referred to as the Italian Opera Company, the Italian Grand Opera Company, or Academy of Music Opera Company) was a touring American opera company that performed throughout the United States from 1849-1878.

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Maytime (musical)

Maytime is a musical with music by Sigmund Romberg and lyrics and book by Rida Johnson Young, and with additional lyrics by Cyrus Wood.

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Melanie Benjamin (author)

Melanie Benjamin (born November 24, 1962) is the pen name of American writer Melanie Hauser (née Miller).

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Mermaid

In folklore, a mermaid is an aquatic creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish.

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Merman

Mermen are mythical male equivalents and counterparts of mermaids – legendary creatures who have the form of a male human from the waist up and are fish-like from the waist down, having scaly fish tails in place of legs.

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Michael Cohen (writer)

Michael Cohen (born 1970) is an Australian writer and presenter of articles on events claimed to be paranormal.

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Michael Crawford

Michael Patrick Smith, (born 19 January 1942) known by the professional stage name of Michael Crawford, is an English actor, comedian, philanthropist, and singer.

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Michael Fitzmaurice (actor)

Michael Fitzmaurice (April 28, 1908 - August 31, 1967) was a radio actor, best known for his portrayal of Superman.

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Michael Gracey

Michael Gracey is an Australian director and visual effects artist.

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Michelle Williams (actress)

Michelle Ingrid Williams (born September 9, 1980) is an American actress.

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Middleborough, Massachusetts

Middleborough (frequently written as Middleboro) is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Midget

Midget (from midge, a sand fly) is a term for a person of unusually short stature that is considered by some to be pejorative.

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Minnie Warren

Huldah Pierce Warren (Bump) Newell (June 2, 1849 – July 23, 1878), better known as Minnie Warren, who was a proportionate dwarf and an entertainer associated with P. T. Barnum.

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Minstrel show

The minstrel show, or minstrelsy, was an American form of entertainment developed in the early 19th century.

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Mister Peabody

Hector Peabody (mostly referred to as Mr. Peabody) is a cartoon dog who appeared in the late 1950s and early 1960s television animated series The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends, produced by Jay Ward.

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Montauk, New York

Montauk is a census-designated place (CDP) that includes the hamlet with the same name located in the town of East Hampton in Suffolk County, New York, on the eastern end of the South Shore of Long Island.

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Montaukett

The Montaukett or Montauk people are a Native American tribe of Algonquian-speaking people from the eastern end of Long Island, New York.

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Moorish Revival architecture

Moorish Revival or Neo-Moorish is one of the exotic revival architectural styles that were adopted by architects of Europe and the Americas in the wake of the Romanticist fascination with all things oriental.

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Morgan County, Missouri

Morgan County is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Missouri.

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Moses Kimball

Moses Kimball (October 24, 1809 – February 21, 1895) was a US politician and showman.

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Mount Airy, North Carolina

Mount Airy is a city in Surry County, North Carolina, United States.

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Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport

Mountain Grove Cemetery, Bridgeport, Connecticut, was laid out in 1849 in a park-like, rural setting away from the center of the city.

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Mrs Grundy

Mrs Grundy is a figurative name for an extremely conventional or priggish person, a personification of the tyranny of conventional propriety.

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Musical film

The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing.

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Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.

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Nala Damajanti

Nala Damajanti was the stage name of a late 19th-century snake charmer who toured with P.T. Barnum's circus and performed at the famed Folies Bergère in Paris.

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Nassau William Senior

Nassau William Senior (26 September 1790 – 4 June 1864), was an English lawyer known as an economist.

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Nathaniel Currier

Nathaniel Currier (March 27, 1813 – November 20, 1888) was an American lithographer, who headed the company Currier & Ives with James Ives.

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Nellie Keeler

Nellie Keeler (April 6, 1875 – 1903) was an American child circus performer known as Little Queen Mab.

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New Haven Line

Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line runs from New Haven, Connecticut, southwest to Mount Vernon, New York.

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New Indian Ridge Museum

The New Indian Ridge Museum, Historic Shupe Homestead, and Wildlife Preserve is a complex founded in 2000 by Matt Nahorn.

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New York Atlas

The New York Atlas was a Sunday newspaper in New York City which was published from 1838 until the 1880s.

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New York City in the American Civil War

New York City during the American Civil War (1861–1865) was a bustling American city that provided a major source of troops, supplies, equipment and financing for the Union Army.

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New York Crystal Palace

New York Crystal Palace was an exhibition building constructed for the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City in 1853, which was under the presidency of the mayor Jacob Aaron Westervelt.

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New York Life Building

The New York Life Insurance Building, New York, located at 51 Madison Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, across from Madison Square Park, is the headquarters of the New York Life Insurance Company.

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Newcomen Society of the United States

The Newcomen Society of the United States was a non-profit educational foundation for "the study and recognition of achievement in American business and the society it serves." It was responsible for more than 1,600 individual histories of organizations, from corporations to colleges, which were distributed to libraries and its membership.

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Niagara Falls Museum

Niagara Falls Museum was a museum most notable for being the oldest Canadian museum (1827), as well as for having housed the mummy of Ramesses I for 140 years before its return to Egypt in 2003.

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Niblo's Garden

Niblo's Garden was a New York theatre on Broadway, near Prince Street.

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Nikola Tesla in popular culture

Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) is portrayed in multiple forms of popular culture.

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Nonsuch (album)

Nonsuch (styled as NONSVCH.) is the 12th studio album by the English band XTC, released on 27 April 1992.

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Northern Railway of Canada

The Northern Railway of Canada was a historical railway located in the province of Ontario, Canada.

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Nutt

Nutt is a surname.

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Obnoxio the Clown

Obnoxio the Clown is a character in the Marvel Comics humor magazine Crazy and served as its mascot.

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Old Ephraim

Old Ephraim or Ol' Ephraim is a term popularized in the 19th-century American West to refer to grizzly bears.

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Opie Read

Opie Percival Read (born December 22, 1852, Nashville Tennessee; d. November 2, 1939, Chicago Illinois) was an American journalist and humorist.

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Orson Welles and People

Orson Welles and People was a 1956 pilot for a projected documentary series by Orson Welles, which is now believed to be lost.

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Otis Skinner

Otis Skinner (June 28, 1858 – January 4, 1942) was an American stage actor active during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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P. T.

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P.T. Barnum Awards

The P.T. Barnum Awards for Excellence in Entertainment is an annual awards ceremony honoring alumni of Tufts University for their work in the field of media and entertainment.

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Painless Parker

Painless Parker (born Edgar R.R. Parker; 1872–1952) was a flamboyant American street dentist described as "a menace to the dignity of the profession" by the American Dental Association.

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Paramour (Cirque du Soleil)

Paramour was Cirque du Soleil's first resident musical theatre show at the Lyric Theatre on Broadway, New York City.

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Park Theatre (Manhattan)

The Park Theatre, originally known as the New Theatre, was a playhouse in New York City, located at 21, 23, and 25 Park Row, about east of Ann Street and backing Theatre Alley.

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Pat Chappelle

Patrick Henry "Pat" Chappelle (January 7, 1869 – October 21, 1911),Lynn Abbott, Doug Seroff,, University Press of Mississippi, 2009, pp.

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Paul Montgomery

Joseph Paul Montgomery (June 5, 1960 – June 19, 1999) was an American entrepreneur and inventor.

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Paul Smith's Hotel

Paul Smith's Hotel, formally known as the Saint Regis House, was founded in 1859 by Apollos (Paul) Smith in the town of Brighton, Franklin County, New York in what would become the village of Paul Smiths; it was one of the first wilderness resorts in Adirondacks.

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Paul T. Bateman

Paul Trevier Bateman (June 6, 1919 – December 26, 2012) was an American number theorist, known for formulating the Bateman–Horn conjecture on the density of prime number values generated by systems of polynomials and the New Mersenne conjecture relating the occurrences of Mersenne primes and Wagstaff primes.

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Pauline Cushman

Pauline Cushman (born Harriet Wood; June 10, 1833 – December 2, 1893) was an American actress and a spy for the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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Phineas

Phineas is a masculine given name which may refer to.

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Phoebe Cary

Phoebe Cary (September 4, 1824July 31, 1871) was an American poet, and the younger sister of poet Alice Cary (1820–1871).

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Phonograph

The phonograph is a device for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound.

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Playland (San Francisco)

Playland (also known as Playland at the Beach and Whitney's Playland beginning in 1928) was a seaside amusement park located next to Ocean Beach, in the Richmond District at the western edge of San Francisco, California along Great Highway where Cabrillo and Balboa streets are now.

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Pogo (comic strip)

Pogo is the title and central character of a long-running daily American comic strip, created by cartoonist Walt Kelly (1913–1973) and distributed by the Post-Hall Syndicate.

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Port Jefferson, New York

Port Jefferson (informally known as Port Jeff) is an incorporated village in the Town of Brookhaven in Suffolk County, New York on the North Shore of Long Island.

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Poultry show

A poultry show is a specific subset of a livestock show that involves the exhibition and competition of exhibition poultry, which may include chickens, domestic ducks, domestic geese, domestic guineafowl and domestic turkey.

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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie

This is a list of winners and nominees of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.

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Prince Randian

Prince Randian (sometimes misspelled Rardion or Randion; October 12, 1871 – December 19, 1934), also nicknamed as The Snake Man, The Human Torso, The Human Caterpillar and a variety of other names, was a Guyanese-born American performer with tetra-amelia syndrome and a famous limbless sideshow performer of the early 1900s, best known for his ability to roll cigarettes with his lips.

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Private railroad car

A private railroad car, private railway coach, private car or private varnish is a railroad passenger car which was either originally built or later converted for service as a business car for private individuals.

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Public aquarium

A public aquarium (plural: public aquaria or public aquariums) is the aquatic counterpart of a zoo, which houses living aquatic animal and plant specimens for public viewing.

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Public lecture

A public lecture is one means employed for educating the public in the arts and sciences.

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Putt-Putt (series)

The Putt-Putt series is a collection of children's adventure and puzzle computer games created by Humongous Entertainment.

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Racism

Racism is the belief in the superiority of one race over another, which often results in discrimination and prejudice towards people based on their race or ethnicity.

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Ray Collins (actor)

Ray Bidwell Collins (December 10, 1889 – July 11, 1965) was an American character actor in stock and Broadway theatre, radio, films, and television.

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Ray Kurzweil

Raymond Kurzweil (born February 12, 1948) is an American author, computer scientist, inventor and futurist.

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Rebecca Alban Hoffberger

Rebecca Alban Hoffberger (born September 25, 1952, Baltimore, Maryland) is the founder and director of the American Visionary Art Museum, America's official national museum for outsider art, located in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Recreation Park (Pittsburgh)

Recreation Park was a sporting grounds and stadium located in what is today Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Regent Theatre (Sydney)

The Regent Theatre was a heritage-listed cinema and entertainment venue in Sydney, Australia, which was demolished in 1988.

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Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus

Ringling Bros.

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Ringmaster (circus)

A ringmaster, or ringmistress or sometimes a ringleader, is a significant performer in the many circuses.

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Robert Greene (American author)

Robert Greene (born May 14, 1959) is an American author known for his books on strategy, power and seduction.

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Robert Henry Hendershot

Robert Henry Hendershot, known as the Drummer Boy of the Rappahannock, was an American Civil War drummer boy known for his reputed heroics at the Battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia, in December 1862.

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Roger Ashton-Griffiths

Roger Ashton-Griffiths (born 19 January 1957) is an English character actor, screenwriter and film director.

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Ronnie Claire Edwards

Ronnie Claire Edwards (February 9, 1933 – June 14, 2016) was an American actress, best known for playing Corabeth Walton Godsey on the TV series The Waltons.

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Rossa Matilda Richter

Rossa Matilda Richter (1863–1937) was a circus performer and actor (stage name Zazel) who became the first recorded human cannonball in 1877, at the age of 14, launching herself from a spring-style "cannon".

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Rubens Peale

Rubens Peale (May 4, 1784 – July 17, 1865) was an American artist and museum director.

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Rufus C. Somerby

Rufus C. Somerby (1832–1903) was an entertainer, showman, and panoramist in the mid-nineteenth century, and one of a very few men of his profession to leave behind any memoirs or account of his activities.

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Saalfield Publishing

The Saalfield Publishing Company published children's books and other products from 1900 to 1977.

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San Francisco National Cemetery

San Francisco National Cemetery is a United States national cemetery, located in the Presidio of San Francisco, California.

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Sand Masters

Sand Masters is an American reality-television series that premiered on June 1, 2011 on the Travel Channel.

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Satellite Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film

Actor Miniseries or Television Film Category:Television awards for Best Actor.

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Science fiction convention

Science fiction conventions are gatherings of fans of the speculative fiction genre, science fiction.

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Scientific phenomena named after people

This is a list of scientific phenomena and concepts named after people (eponymous phenomena).

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Scott Mauro

Scott Mauro is a Tony award-winning executive producer, consultant, writer and creator of various plays and live events.

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Scudder's American Museum

Scudder's American Museum was a museum located in New York City from 1810 to 1841, when it was purchased by P.T. Barnum and transformed into the very successful Barnum's American Museum.

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Seaside Park (Connecticut)

Seaside Park, located in Bridgeport, Connecticut, is a long crescent-shaped park bordering Bridgeport Harbor, Long Island Sound, and Black Rock Harbor.

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Self-made man

A "self-made man" (later expanded to include "self-made women") is a classic phrase first coined on February 2, 1832 by United States senator Henry Clay who referred to the self-made man in the United States senate, to describe individuals in the manufacturing sector whose success lay within the individuals themselves, not with outside conditions.

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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (soundtrack)

Sgt.

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Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (SBT) is an independent registered educational charity based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, that came into existence in 1847 following the purchase of William Shakespeare's birthplace for preservation as a national memorial.

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Shakespeare's Birthplace

Shakespeare's Birthplace is a restored 16th-century half-timbered house situated in Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, where it is believed that William Shakespeare was born in 1564 and spent his childhood years.

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Shelburne Museum

Shelburne Museum is a museum of art, design, and Americana located in Shelburne, Vermont, United States.

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Short Trips – Volume 3

Short Trips – Volume 3 is a Big Finish Productions audiobook based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

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Sidney Bernstein, Baron Bernstein

Sidney Lewis Bernstein, Baron Bernstein (30 January 1899 – 5 February 1993) was a British businessman and media executive who was the founding chairman of the London-based Granada Group and the founder of the Manchester-based Granada Television in 1954.

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Signor Lawanda

Signor Lawanda (August 7, 1849 - 14 November 1934) born Hugh David Evans, was a nineteenth-century circus performer and strongman renowned for his strength.

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Solid Muldoon

The Solid Muldoon was a supposedly prehistoric "petrified human body" unearthed in 1877, at a spot now known as Muldoon Hill, near Beulah, Colorado.

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Southport Botanic Gardens

Southport Botanic Gardens is a botanical garden situated in the suburban village of Churchtown, Southport, in Merseyside, England.

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Star system (filmmaking)

The star system was the method of creating, promoting and exploiting stars in Hollywood films.

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Steamboat Jenny Lind

The steamboat Jenny Lind was a ferry that exploded in San Francisco Bay on April 11, 1853 while on course to San Francisco from Alviso, California, killing many residents of Alviso and San Jose.

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Steel Pier

The Steel Pier is a 1,000-foot-long amusement park built on a pier in Atlantic City, New Jersey, located at the boardwalk, across from the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City (formerly Trump Taj Mahal).

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Student life at Tufts University

The Tufts University school mascot is Jumbo the elephant, in honor of a major donation from circus owner P.T. Barnum in 1882.

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Sunday Mercury (New York)

The Sunday Mercury (1839–1896) (sometimes referred to as the New York Sunday Mercury) was a weekly Sunday newspaper published in New York City that grew to become the highest-circulation weekly newspaper (at least by its own claims) in the United States at its peak.

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Susan Swan

Susan Swan (born 9 June 1945) is a Canadian author.

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Tacony Music Hall

The Tacony Music Hall is a historic building in the Tacony neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Temperance movement in the United States

The Temperance movement in the United States was a movement to curb the consumption of alcohol.

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Tent show

Tent shows have been an important part of American history since the mid-to-late nineteenth century.

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Terrorism in the United States

In the United States a common definition of terrorism is the systematic or threatened use of violence in order to intimidate a population or government and thereby effect political, religious, or ideological change.

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Tex Rickard

George Lewis "Tex" Rickard (January 2, 1870 – January 6, 1929) was an American boxing promoter, founder of the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL), and builder of the third incarnation of Madison Square Garden in New York City.

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The American Mercury

The American Mercury was an American magazine published from 1924 to 1981.

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The Big Book Of

The Big Book Of is a series of graphic novel anthologies published by American company DC Comics imprint Paradox Press.

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The Bridge Stage of the Arts

The Bridge Stage of the Arts, Inc. (The Bridge) is an American theater company based in New York City.

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The Centaur Company

The Centaur Company, founded in 1871, owned and marketed proprietary medicines, notably, the stimulant laxative Fletcher's Castoria and the ointment Centaur Liniment.

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The Drunkard

The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved is an American temperance play first performed on February 12, 1844.

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The Dutchman's Secret

The Dutchman's Secret is a 1999 Donald Duck comic story by Don Rosa.

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The Ghosts of Berkeley Square

The Ghosts of Berkeley Square is a 1947 British comedy film, directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Robert Morley and Felix Aylmer.

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The Golden Turkey Awards

The Golden Turkey Awards is a 1980 book by film critic Michael Medved and his brother Harry.

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The Greatest Show on Earth (film)

The Greatest Show on Earth is a 1952 American drama film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille, shot in Technicolor, and released by Paramount Pictures.

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The Greatest Showman

The Greatest Showman is a 2017 American musical film directed by Michael Gracey in his directorial debut, written by Jenny Bicks and Bill Condon and starring Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Michelle Williams, Rebecca Ferguson, and Zendaya.

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The Half Brother

The Half Brother (Halvbroren) is a 2001 novel by the Norwegian writer Lars Saabye Christensen.

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The Hall of Egress

"The Hall of Egress" is the twenty-fourth episode of the seventh season of the American animated television series Adventure Time.

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The Hasheesh Eater

The Hasheesh Eater (1857) is an autobiographical book by Fitz Hugh Ludlow describing the author's altered states of consciousness and philosophical flights of fancy while he was using a cannabis extract.

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The Herald of Freedom

The Herald of Freedom, established 1829, was a newspaper published by P. T. Barnum, based in Bethel, Connecticut.

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The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck

The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck (Lo) is a serial of 12 comic book stories written and drawn by Don Rosa, first published by the Danish publisher Egmont in the magazine Anders And & Co. from 1992–94 and later in English in Uncle Scrooge #285 through #296 (1994–96).

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The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Companion

The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck Companion is a 2006 trade paperback by Don Rosa published by Gemstone Publishing for The Walt Disney Company.

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The Making of Donald Trump

The Making of Donald Trump is a 2016 biography of the American businessman, property developer and politician Donald Trump by the American investigative journalist David Cay Johnston.

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The Mighty Barnum

The Mighty Barnum is a 1934 film starring Wallace Beery as P.T. Barnum.

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The Old Fashioned Way (film)

The Old Fashioned Way is a 1934 American comedy film produced by Paramount Pictures.

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The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd

The Radio Adventures of Dr.

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The Satanic Bible

The Satanic Bible is a collection of essays, observations, and rituals published by Anton LaVey in 1969.

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There's a sucker born every minute

"There's a sucker born every minute" is a phrase closely associated with P. T. Barnum, an American showman of the mid-19th century, although there is no evidence he in fact said it.

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Third County Courthouse

The Third County Courthouse is an 1837 Greek Revival building at 302 Center Street in Historic Richmond Town, near the geographic center of Staten Island, New York.

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Thomas Aspinwall Davis

Thomas Aspinwall Davis (December 11, 1798 – November 22, 1845) was a silversmith and businessman who served as mayor of Boston for nine months in 1845.

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Thomas Ball (artist)

Thomas Ball (June 3, 1819 – December 11, 1911) was an American sculptor and musician.

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Thomas Dilward

Thomas Dilward (1840–1902), also known by the stage name Japanese Tommy, was an African-American dwarf who performed in the blackface minstrel show.

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Thomas W. Lawson (businessman)

Thomas William Lawson (February 26, 1857 – February 8, 1925) was an American businessman and author.

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Timeline of Baltimore

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

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Timeline of London

The following is a timeline of the history of London, the capital of England in the United Kingdom.

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Timeline of music in the United States (1820–49)

This is a timeline of music in the United States from 1820 to 1849.

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Timeline of music in the United States (1850–79)

This timeline of music in the United States covers the period from 1850 to 1879.

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Timeline of women in war in the United States, Pre-1945

This is a timeline of women in warfare in the United States up until the end of World War II.

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Timeline of women in warfare in the United States before 1900

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Timex Group USA

Timex Group USA, Inc. (formerly known as Timex Corporation) is an American manufacturing company founded in 1854.

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Tom Bass (horse trainer)

Tom Bass (January 5, 1859 – November 4, 1934) was an American Saddlebred horse trainer.

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Tom Norman

Tom Norman, born Thomas Noakes, (7 May 1860 – 24 August 1930), was an English businessman, showman and the last exhibitor of Joseph Merrick who was otherwise known as the "Elephant Man".

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Tom show

Tom show is a general term for any play or musical based (often only loosely) on the 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

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Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical

The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical is awarded to the actor who was voted as the best actor in a musical play, whether a new production or a revival.

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Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical

The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical has been presented since 1950.

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Tony Pastor

Tony Pastor (May 28, 1837 – August 26, 1908) was an American impresario, variety performer and theatre owner who became one of the founding forces behind American vaudeville in the mid- to late-nineteenth century.

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Topsy (elephant)

Topsy (circa 1875 – January 4, 1903) was a female Asian elephant put to death at a Coney Island, New York amusement park by electrocution in January 1903.

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Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park

Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park is a historic cemetery and Commonweath of Nations war memorial in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in London's East End.

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Treat Williams

Richard Treat Williams (born December 1, 1951) is an American actor and children's book author who has appeared on film, stage and television.

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True Williams

Truman W. "True" Williams (March 22, 1839 – November 23, 1897) was an American artist known as the most prolific illustrator to Mark Twain's books and novels.

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TrumpNation

TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald is a 2005 biographical book about Donald Trump that was written by Timothy L. O'Brien and published by Warner Books.

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Trunk (luggage)

A trunk, also known as a travel trunk, is a large cuboid container designed to hold clothes and other personal belongings.

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Tufts University

Tufts University is a private research university incorporated in the municipality of Medford, Massachusetts, United States.

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Union Pacific 3985

Union Pacific 3985, or UP 3985, is a four-cylinder simple articulated 4-6-6-4 Challenger-type steam locomotive owned and operated by Union Pacific Railroad in the Western United States.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Universalist Church of America

The Universalist Church of America was a Christian Universalist religious denomination in the United States (plus affiliated churches in other parts of the world).

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University of Bridgeport

The University of Bridgeport, commonly referred to as UB, is a private, independent, non-sectarian, coeducational National university located in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

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Upper West Side

The Upper West Side, sometimes abbreviated UWS, is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, New York City, that lies between Central Park and the Hudson River and between West 59th Street and West 110th Street.

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Vernon Hill

Vernon W. Hill II (born August 18, 1945) is an American businessman, the founder and chairman of Metro Bank, a UK retail bank with 48 stores, and assets of £7.4b ($10.6b).

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Vertigo (DC Comics)

DC Vertigo (originally simply Vertigo) is an imprint of the American comic book publisher DC Comics.

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Villa Park, Denver

Villa Park is a neighborhood of Denver, Colorado.

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Wallace Beery

Wallace Fitzgerald Beery (April 1, 1885 – April 15, 1949) was an American film actor.

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Washington Harrison Donaldson

Washington Harrison Donaldson (1840 in Philadelphia – 15 July 1875 in Lake Michigan) was a 19th-century balloonist who worked in the United States.

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White elephant

A white elephant is a possession which its owner cannot dispose of and whose cost, particularly that of maintenance, is out of proportion to its usefulness.

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White savior narrative in film

The white savior is a cinematic trope in which a white character rescues people of color from their plight.

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Wild Men of Borneo

The Wild Men of Borneo, Waino and Plutanor, were a pair of exceptionally strong dwarf brothers who were most famously associated with P. T. Barnum and his freak show exhibitions.

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Willard InterContinental Washington

The Willard InterContinental Washington is a historic luxury Beaux-Arts hotel located at 1401 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. Among its facilities are numerous luxurious guest rooms, several restaurants, the famed Round Robin Bar, the Peacock Alley series of luxury shops, and voluminous function rooms.

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William A. Clark House

The William A. Clark House, also known as "Clark's Folly", was a mansion located at 962 Fifth Avenue on the northeast corner of its intersection with East 77th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

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William C. Coup

William Cameron Coup (August 4, 1836 – March 4, 1895) was a Wisconsin businessman who partnered with P. T. Barnum and Dan Castello in 1870 to form the "P.

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William D. Lewis

William D. Lewis was a 19th-century banker, merchant, and railroad executive based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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William H. Mumler

William H. Mumler (1832–1884) was an American spirit photographer who worked in New York and Boston.

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William Henry Barnum

William Henry Barnum (September 17, 1818 – April 30, 1889) was an American politician, serving as a state representative, U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and finally as chairman of the Democratic National Committee.

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William Kissam Vanderbilt

William Kissam Vanderbilt I (December 12, 1849 – July 22, 1920) was an American heir, businessman, philanthropist and horsebreeder.

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William Leonard Hunt

William Leonard Hunt (June 10, 1838 – January 17, 1929), also known by the stage name The Great Farini, was a well-known nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Canadian funambulist, entertainment promoter and inventor, as well as the first known white man to cross the Kalahari Desert on foot and survive.

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William Lewis Douglas

William Lewis Douglas (August 22, 1845 – September 17, 1924) was a U.S. businessman and politician from Massachusetts.

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William Muldoon

William A. Muldoon (May 25, 1852 – June 3, 1933) was the Greco-Roman Wrestling Champion, a physical culturist and the first chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission.

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William Robert Renshaw

William Robert Renshaw (1845 – 1923) was an English industrialist and foundryman.

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William S. Hutchings

William Street Hutchings, (January 7, 1832 - August 25, 1911) also known as Professor Hutchings and the Lightning Calculator, was a 19th-century math prodigy and mental calculator who P. T. Barnum first billed as the "Boy Lightning Calculator".

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Winter Garden Theatre (1850)

The first theatre in New York City to bear the name The Winter Garden Theatre had a brief but important seventeen-year history (beginning in 1850) as one of New York's premier showcases for a wide range of theatrical fare, from Variety shows to extravagant productions of the works of Shakespeare.

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Woolworths Group

Woolworths Group was a listed British company that owned the high-street retail chain, Woolworths.

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World Circus Sideshow

The World Circus Side Show was a sideshow owned and operated by "Professor" Samuel Wagner from 1922 to 1941 on Surf Avenue, Coney Island, New York.

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World's Wonder View Tower

The World's Wonder View Tower is a tourist trap and roadside attraction located in Genoa, Colorado.

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Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (born July 15, 1987) is an American actor, best known for his role Cadillac in the television series The Get Down.

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Zip the Pinhead

William Henry Johnson (c. 1857 – April 9, 1926) known as Zip the Pinhead was an American freak show performer famous for his tapered head.

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Zippy the Pinhead

Zippy the Pinhead is a fictional character who is the protagonist of Zippy, an American comic strip created by Bill Griffith.

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1810

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1810 in the United States

Events from the year 1810 in the United States.

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1835 in the United States

Events from the year 1835 in the United States.

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1841 in the United States

Events from the year 1841 in the United States.

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1863

January-March.

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1863 in the United States

Events from the year 1863 in the United States.

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1865 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1865.

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1869 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1869.

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1880

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1882

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1882 in the United Kingdom

Events from the year 1882 in the United Kingdom.

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1885

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1891

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19th century

The 19th century was a century that began on January 1, 1801, and ended on December 31, 1900.

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2018 Teen Choice Awards

The 2018 Teen Choice Awards ceremony will be held on August 12, 2018.

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52nd Primetime Emmy Awards

The 52nd Primetime Emmy Awards were held on Sunday, September 10, 2000.

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75th Golden Globe Awards

The 75th Golden Globe Awards honored film and American television of 2017 and was broadcast live on January 7, 2018, from The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California beginning at 5:00 p.m. PST / 8:00 p.m. EST by NBC.

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