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2. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus - Wikipedia

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   The circus started in 1919 when the Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth, a circus created by P. T. Barnum and James Anthony Bailey, was merged with the Ringling Bros. World's Greatest Shows. The Ringling brothers purchased Barnum & Bailey Ltd. in 1907 following Bailey's death in 1906, but ran the circuses separately until they were merged ...

3. Ringling Brothers Circus - Wikipedia

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   The circus started traveling by trains in 1888 allowing the show to consistently expand. [4] The Ringlings acquired the Yankee Robinson Circus and opened a joint show on May 19, 1884. This brought them to the attention of James Anthony Bailey of Barnum & Bailey. The brothers later met with Bailey and agreed to divide some territory.

4. William Ethelbert Burke - Wikipedia

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   In that city, Burke joined Thaver and Noyes circus where he experienced again the sink of the steamer that carrying the troupe on the Red River, and escaped with losing his wardrobe. [1] He then remained with Thayer and Noyes circus for a years and later moved to Mike Lipman show. [ 1 ]

5. How Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey is reinventing the ...

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   Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey dates back to 1919 as a combined circus, but go all the way back to the 19th century as separate spectacles that combined human feats of strength and agility ...

6. Circus World Museum - Wikipedia

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   The combined entity, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, was successful until 2017 when it took its final bow on Sunday, May 21, 2017, in Uniondale, New York. In 1954, John M. Kelley, a former attorney for the Ringling Brothers, incorporated the Circus World Museum with the intent of forming a museum of the Ringling Brothers Circus and ...

7. John Ringling - Wikipedia

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   John Nicholas Ringling (May 31, 1866 – December 2, 1936) was an American entrepreneur who is the best known of the seven Ringling brothers, five of whom merged the Barnum & Bailey Circus with their own Ringling Bros. World's Greatest Shows to create a virtual monopoly of traveling circuses and helped shape the modern circus.

8. Circus train - Wikipedia

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   A circus train is a method of conveyance for circus troupes. One of the larger users of circus trains was the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (RBBX), a famous American circus formed when the Ringling Brothers Circus purchased the Barnum and Bailey Circus in 1907. [1] [2] [3]

9. Barnum family estate sale draws crowd in search of treasures

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   One of the Barnum relatives of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus lived in this very house after moving to the Milwaukee area from Syracuse, New York, where she had a family estate ...