Phineas Taylor Barnum, better known as P.T. Barnum, was one of the original sensationalists. Best remembered for founding the Barnum & Bailey Circus, by his own admission, Barnum was first and ...

"There's a sucker born every minute," or so said Phineas Taylor Barnum, the greatest American huckster who ever lived. He honed his flimflam skills to such astonishing heights that he eventually ...

How 21 elephants solved panic on Brooklyn Bridge 139 years ago thanks to PT Barnum ...

Fêted by crowned heads, Queen Victoria included, the tour would bring both Barnum and Stratton international fame and fortune. Phineas Taylor Barnum was born in July 1810 in the small American ...

Some milestones in the history of the circus: 1841 — Phineas Taylor Barnum buys Scudder’s American Museum in New York City and renames it Barnum’s American Museum, which was something of a ...

Countless comparisons were made in the Donald Trump era between the 45th president and Phineas Taylor “P.T.” Barnum. With the showman standard-bearer summarily ejected from the center ring ...

Orphaned, penniless, but ambitious and with a mind crammed with imagination and fresh ideas, the American entertainer, Phineas Taylor Barnum, will always be remembered as the man with the gift to ...

But after learning about circus owner Phineas Taylor Barnum’s exploitation of racism and animal abuse, I can no longer look at this movie the same way again. Chau Tsz-ching, 13, Stewards Pooi ...

T. Barnum. Or, to give him his full name, Phineas Taylor Barnum. Barnum has been called many things. For example, 'The 19th century impresario who found fame by exploiting circus 'freaks'.' ...

ON a cold February day in 1844, a small group of travellers disembarked their ship at the port of Liverpool. There was no welcoming party; no ...

Orphaned, penniless, but ambitious and with a mind crammed with imagination and fresh ideas, the American entertainer, Phineas Taylor Barnum, will always be remembered as the man with the gift to ...