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.

* 1810 – P. T. Barnum, American businessman, founded Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus ( d. 1891 )

* 1956 – Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closes its very last " Big Tent " show in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, due to changing economics all subsequent circus shows will be held in arenas.

* July 16 – With the closing of its " Big Tent " show in Pittsburgh, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus announces all subsequent circuses will be " arena shows " due to changing economics.

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.

In addition to the film actors, the real Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey's Circus ' 1951 troupe appears in the film, with its complement of 1400 people, hundreds of animals, and 60 carloads of equipment and tents.

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.

The film features about 85 Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus acts, including clowns Emmett Kelly and Lou Jacobs, midget Cucciola, bandmaster Merle Evans and aerialist Antoinette Concello.

North was a nephew of the five Ringling Brothers who founded Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

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Whether that be the Sousa, Ringling Bros., or Gilmore, every band typically had marches written by their conductor in repertoire.

In April 2009, Feld Entertainment, parent company to Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, announced that " The Greatest Show on Earth " would perform on Coney Island for the entire summer of 2009, the first time since July 16, 1956 that Ringling Bros. had performed in this location.

Phineas Taylor Barnum ( July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891 ) was an American showman, businessman, scam artist and entertainer, remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the circus that became the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circuses ran separately until they merged in 1919 forming the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

* Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus

Sid Krofft became a noted puppeteer who worked in vaudeville and was a featured player with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

In 1970, Bostwick was a member of a pop group called The Klowns, assembled and promoted by Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, whose members performed wearing stylized clown makeup and costumes.

At Sutro Blum led a partnership that acquired Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus for $ 8m, selling it to Mattel four years later for $ 40m.

In the New York delegation, Brinkley served as a delegate on the 2000 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles. Brinkley supports animal rights, most notably through the organization PETA, having previously spoken out against the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

The Lakers ' Minneapolis Auditorium was already booked, and the Knicks ' Madison Square Garden was occupied by the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

* 1863 – Charles Ringling, American circus owner ( d. 1926 )

* 1936 – John Ringling, American circus owner ( b. 1866 )

As a billposter, he also traveled across the U. S. with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and the Ringling Brothers, among the five different circuses.

His jobs included working as a talker ( barker, as the term is also known, isn't correct ) for the Wild Man of Borneo, performing a live burial act in which he was billed as " The Living Corpse ", and performing as a clown with the Ringling Brothers Circus.

John Ringling North plays himself as the owner of the circus.

While still engaged in legal proceedings over " peta. org ", PETA themselves registered the domains " ringlingbrothers. com " and " voguemagazine. com ", using the sites to accuse Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus and Vogue of animal cruelty.

From 1942 – 1956 Kelly performed with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, where he was a major attraction, though he took the 1956 season off to perform as the mascot for the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team.

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.

The Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus and Disney on Ice will relocate to Barclays Center when it opens in 2012, leaving the Garden with at least nine open dates.

During the same period of the community band / concert band, circuses such as the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus would have live music being performed by their own bands.

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.

* Merle Evans, Circus Bandleader for Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus

There were huge numbers of vendor stands, fair rides, animals, shows / performances, 4-H Club judgings, as well as Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey shows.

* Christopher L. Sullivan-Clown, Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey, The Greatest Show on Earth

Another nephew, Fred Harrison Bailey, recognized a potential circus talent in James Anthony McGuiness, later James Anthony Bailey, who united the Cooper and Bailey with Phineas Taylor Barnum's circus to form the Barnum and Bailey Circus, which later joined with the Ringling Brothers Circus to form the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus.

For a time, a few of these unicorns travelled with the Ringling Brothers Circus.

Gibsonton was famous as a sideshow wintering town, where various people in the carnival business would spend the off season placing it near the winter home for Ringling Brothers Circus at Tampa, Sarasota and Venice in various times.

Maria Rasputina, daughter of Grigori Rasputin, was mauled by a bear in Peru while working for the Ringling Brothers Circus.

This grand scale movie palace is larger and more elaborate than one would normally find in a town the size of Baraboo, owing to the financial assistance of the Ringling family.

Spivey sought financial support for this concept from the Sarasota circus magnate, John Ringling.

The Garden hosted the annual French Ball, both the Barnum and the Ringling Brothers circuses, orchestral performances, light operas and romantic comedies, and the 1924 Democratic National Convention, which nominated John W. Davis after 103 ballots, but it was never a financial success.