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 ).

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.

" Barnum ’ s hotel became the Leip House, featuring a ballroom, billiard room, dancing pavilion, bowling alley, and boats.

In 1862, he discovered the giantess Anna Swan and Commodore Nutt, a new Tom Thumb, who with Barnum visited President Abraham Lincoln at the White House.

In 1889, the name was changed to " Reed Simpson Thacher & Barnum " when former U. S. House Speaker Thomas Brackett Reed joined the firm.

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Another early settler was Eliakim Barnum, the original owner of the Barnum House on Hwy # 2.

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 ).

According to skeptics, clairvoyance is the result of fraud, self-delusion, Barnum effects, confirmatory biases, or failures to appreciate the base rate of chance occurrences.

The Patriot Center is also host to over 100 concerts and events throughout the year, annually attracting major performers like the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

The Greatest Show on Earth is a 1952 drama film set in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and starring Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, and Charlton Heston.

Brad bargains to keep the circus on the road as long as it is making a profit, thus keeping the 1, 400 performers and roustabouts who make Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus ' the Greatest Show On Earth working.

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

According to Professor Lynda Walsh of the University of Nevada, Reno, some hoaxes — such as the Great Stock Exchange Fraud of 1814, labeled as a hoax by contemporary commentators — are financial in nature, and successful hoaxers — such as P. T. Barnum, whose Fiji mermaid contributed to his wealth — often acquire monetary gain or fame through their fabrications, so the distinction between hoax and fraud is not necessarily clear.

Barnum is a city in Webster County, Iowa, United States located just off U. S. Route 7.

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

Barnum is a city in Carlton County, Minnesota, United States.

Barnum is located six miles northeast of Moose Lake.

Barnum is also located 20 miles southwest of the city of Cloquet ; and 38 miles southwest of the city of Duluth.

Barnum is the home of the Carlton County Fair.

Barnum Township is a township in Carlton County, Minnesota, United States.

The city of Barnum is entirely within this township geographically but is a separate entity.

The northwest quarter of the city of Barnum is within this township geographically but is a separate entity.

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

Barnum Island is an unincorporated area of the Town of Hempstead.

Most of Barnum Island is separated from the Village of Island Park by the LIRR's rail line to Long Beach.

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

The island is named for clothier Peter C. Barnum and his wife Sarah Ann Baldwin Barnum.

Barnum Island has its own fire district, but is under contract with the Island Park Fire Department for emergency services.

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

A street named " Barnum Ave ." now runs though the area that was once his land, and one of Bridgeport & Port Jefferson Ferry boats is named the " P. T.

The posters declared, " The Ringling Bros. World's Greatest Shows and the Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth are now combined into one record-breaking giant of all exhibitions.

From 1966 until 1999, the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus visited the Cow Palace, joined in later years by what is now Disney on Ice ; both events are now held at Oracle Arena.

", during the song " There Is A Sucker Born Ev ' ry Minute " Barnum suggests as an attraction a " lady fair whose head was lost " and now " eats farina through a hose, and wears pink tights instead of clothes ".

He then toured with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus for six seasons before leaving the show and moving to Chicago, Illinois where he attended the Goodman School of Drama and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting from the institution, now commonly referred as The Theater School at DePaul University.

Jessie Caldwell ( Mary Steenburgen ), a child services psychologist called in by Sheriff Doug Barnum ( Lance Henriksen ), takes him to a boy's home because he is now effectively a ward of the state.

Barnum used the museum as a platform to promote hoaxes and human curiosities such as the '" Feejee " mermaid ' and " General Tom Thumb.

Barnum leased the " mermaid " from fellow museum owner Moses Kimball of Boston.

To raise the fee, Barnum borrowed heavily on his mansion and his museum.

This time the loss was too great, and Barnum retired from the museum business.

After his death, the museum was sold to, and split up by, showmen P. T. Barnum and Moses Kimball.