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2. Hartford, Connecticut - Wikipedia

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   Claiming the lives of 168 persons, mostly children and their mothers, and injuring several hundred more. It occurred at a matinee performance of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus on Barbour Street in the city's north end and became known as the Hartford Circus Fire. [43] Connecticut River Flood, 1930 Connecticut River Flood, 1930

3. Union Market - Wikipedia

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   In May 1936, it was the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus who settled there with there menagerie. [35] They returned the following year from May 17 to May 19, 1937. [36] The circus later moved to the Washington Coliseum (formally the Uline Arena) but the animals still came by the Market into the 1970s. [37] [38]

4. Bridgeport, Connecticut - Wikipedia

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   Showman P. T. Barnum was a resident of the city and served as the town's mayor (1871). [8] Barnum built four houses in Bridgeport and housed his circus in town during winter. The city in the early 20th century saw an economic and population boom, becoming by all measures Connecticut's chief manufacturing city by 1905. [9]

5. Coney Island - Wikipedia

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   Coney Island is a neighborhood and entertainment area in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn.The neighborhood is bounded by Brighton Beach to its east, Lower New York Bay to the south and west, and Gravesend to the north and includes the subsection of Sea Gate on its west.

6. Piccadilly Circus - Wikipedia

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   Piccadilly Circus is a road junction and public space of London's West End in the City of Westminster. It was built in 1819 to connect Regent Street with Piccadilly . In this context, a circus , from the Latin word meaning "circle", is a round open space at a street junction.

7. New Brunswick, New Jersey - Wikipedia

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   New Brunswick is a city in and the county seat of Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. [23] A regional commercial hub for central New Jersey, the city is both a college town (the main campus of Rutgers University, the state's largest university) and a commuter town for residents commuting to New York City within the New York metropolitan area. [24]