The first modern American pageant was staged by P. T. Barnum in 1854, but his beauty contest was closed down by public protest., He previously held dog, baby, and bird beauty contests.

It became the expectation — rather than the exception — that those in the public eye should write about themselves — not only writers such as Charles Dickens ( who also incorporated autobiographical elements in his novels ) and Anthony Trollope, but also politicians ( e. g. Henry Brooks Adams ), philosophers ( e. g. John Stuart Mill ), churchmen such as Cardinal Newman, and entertainers such as P. T. Barnum.

* Barnum ( Charity Barnum, Broadway, 1980 ), Cy Coleman musical about Phineas T. Barnum

Other regular events at the arena include the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus when it comes to New York City ( although the Izod Center and Nassau Coliseum also host the circus each year ), selected home games for the St. John's men's Red Storm ( college basketball ), the annual pre and postseason NIT tournaments, the NBA Draft, the Millrose Games track and field meet, and almost any other kind of indoor activity that draws large audiences, such as the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show and the 2004 Republican National Convention.

In 1986 Finn performed with The Rock Party a charity project initiated by The National Campaign Against Drug Abuse ( NCADA ), which included many Australasian musicians such as Reg Mombassa from Mental As Anything, Eddie Rayner, Tim Finn, Nick Seymour and Paul Hester of Crowded House, Geoff Stapleton, Mark Callaghan and Robbie James of GANGgajang, Mary Azzopardi of Rockmelons, Andrew Barnum of The Vitabeats, Lissa Barnum, Michael Barclay, Peter Blakely, Deborah Conway, Jenny Morris, Danny De Costa, Greg Herbert ( The Promise ), Spencer P Jones, Sean Kelly ( Models ), John Kennedy, Paul Kelly, Martin Plaza ( Mental as Anything ), Robert Susz ( Dynamic Hepnotics ) and Rick Swinn ( The Venetians ).

His parents worked for the Barnum and Bailey Circus: his mother, Rae ( née Fisher ), was a bareback rider and his father, Harry, was an advance man.

* Len Barnum ( 1912 – 1998 ), former NFL player with the New York Giants and Philadelphia Eagles.

The Island Park Post Office ( 11558 ), serves the village of Island Park, as well as the two surrounding hamlets, Barnum Island and Harbor Isle.

* P. T. Barnum ( 1887 ), circus showman, in Bridgeport, Connecticut

He was the third great grandson of Thomas Barnum ( 1625 – 1695 ), the immigrant ancestor of the Barnum family in North America.

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

Often referred to as the " Prince of Humbugs ," Barnum saw nothing wrong in entertainers or vendors using hype ( or " humbug ," as he termed it ) in promotional material, as long as the public was getting value for money.

* Andronik, Catherine M. Prince of Humbugs, A Life of P. T. Barnum, New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1994.

The impresario P. T. Barnum included an exposé of the Davenports in his 1865 book The Humbugs of the World.

From 1974 to 1986 Circus World, a theme park created by the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, was open just north of Haines City.

She helped shepherd the OGNs Barnum !, Confessions of a Blabbermouth, 1001 Nights of Snowfall, God Save the Queen, The Little Endless Storybook, Re-Gifters, Sandman: Endless Nights and Silverfish as well as both Bite Club miniseries, Faker, Grip: The Strange World of Men, My Faith in Frankie and House of Secrets: Facade.

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus advertised their shows as the “ World ’ s Greatest Menagerie ”.

* Henry Alexander Cooper ( 1853 – 1899 ), celebrity billed by P. T. Barnum as The Tallest Man in the World

Since then the arena has hosted over 1200 events with over 4, 000, 000 guests attending and has sold out shows by Bruce Springsteen, World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ), Shania Twain, Keith Urban, Cher, Elton John, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Britney Spears and Justin Bieber.

The Events Center has played host to comedians Bill Cosby, Ron White, Carlos Mencia & Larry the Cable Guy, as well as Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus, Disney on Ice, The Wiggles, World Wrestling Entertainment, Sesame Street Live & The Harlem Globetrotters.

Barnum served two terms in the Connecticut legislature in 1865 as a Republican for Fairfield.

While he claimed " politics were always distasteful to me ," Barnum was elected to the Connecticut legislature in 1865 as Republican representative for Fairfield and served two terms.

Barnum had donated the land for this park in 1865.

* Barnum, Phineas Taylor, Struggles and Triumphs ; or The Life of P. T. Barnum, Written by Himself, Vol.

Among those let go were health care business reporter Bruce Japsen, DuPage County reporter Art Barnum, Editorial Board member Pat Widder and photographer Dave Pierini.

* P. T. Barnum refers to her in the preface of his non-fiction booklet Art of Money Getting ( 1880 ).

In 1968, they played as part of the Barnum and Bailey Light Circus, a sound and light show that was produced by two college professors, and which was performed at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art.

It is based on the life of showman P. T. Barnum, covering the period from 1835 through 1880 in America and major cities of the world where Barnum took his performing companies.

In 1934, she earned a Ph. D. in mathematics from Yale under the direction of Øystein Ore .< ref > Though some books, including Kurt Beyer's Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age, reported that Hopper was the first woman to earn a Yale PhD in mathematics, the first of ten women prior to 1934 was Charlotte Cynthia Barnum ( 1860-1934 ).

Barnum is usually cited as the one to have made the offer, he had been dead since 1891 ).

Barnum is located at ( 42. 506660 ,-94. 364575 ).

Barnum Island is located at ( 40. 605203 ,-73. 647403 ).

Barnum Island is included in the Island Park School District and ZIP code ( 11558 ).

Barnum once wrote to Bailey, “ I try to impress on the public that we are prepared to keep the show at the top of the heap for generations to come …” ( Saxon 298 ).

Barnum ( 1927 ).

While hot reading is the use of foreknowledge and cold reading is the use of general presumptions common to human experience, warm reading refers to the judicious use of Barnum effect statements ( also known as the Forer effect ).

Barnum ( 1927 ).

Stratford is served by several major highways, including Interstate 95 ( Connecticut Turnpike ), U. S. Route 1 ( Boston Post Road ) ( Boston Avenue and Barnum Avenue ), the Merritt Parkway ( Route 15 ), Route 108 ( Nichols Avenue ), Route 110 ( East Main Street and River Road ), Route 113 ( Lordship Boulevard and Main Street ), and Route 130 ( Stratford Avenue and Ferry Boulevard ).

Barnum, that Barnum had bought the one-half interest of Adams ' California Menagerie, ( possibly from Tanner ).

Famously, when one of Barnum and Bailey's stage elephants died, the circus owners ordered that the elephant be pushed out onto the middle of the lake ( conveniently the lake was frozen for the winter ).

He has appeared in commercials for Zyban, and toured as the Ringmaster in both the 136th edition of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Circus of Dreams ( 2006 through 2007 ), and the 138th edition Over The Top ( 2008 through 2009 ).

Grafton is currently home to such notable places as St. Annes Inn & Spa, the former home of Bob Homme (" The Friendly Giant "), the Barnum House museum, and a defunct canning factory ( often said to be one of most haunted places in Ontario ).

He has been nominated for the Tony Award three times, for the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for Barnum and 42nd Street ( 1981 ) and Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical, 42nd Street ( 2001 ).