P.T. Barnum Promoted Hoaxes!!!

Phineas Taylor Barnum aka P.T.Barnum (July 5, 1810 - April 7, 1891). He was among other things an American buisness man, author, showman, politician and remembered for promoting famous and celebrated hoaxes. He funded a circus that later became Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Baileys Circus.

In the 1830's he purchased the Scudder's American Museum and remamed it to Barnum American Museum. He used the museum as a platform to promote hoaxes and human curiosities. In 1842 Barnum introduced his first major hoax, Feejee mermaid with a head of a monkey and the body and tail of a fish. ""Barnum described his hoaxes and justified the act of perpetrating them by saying they were "advertisements to draw attention...to the Museum"" The Museum was in New York. In 1866 Barnum released the book "The Humbugs of the World.



There is a connection to Michael Jackson:  "Eleven Asian elephants and seven horses (not seen) walk past the Staples Center, hours before a memorial service for recently deceased singer Michael Jackson is to take place at the same location, during the traditional Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus Animal Walk from the circus train on July 7, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. Wherever the Ringling Bros. circus performs, the elephants and other animals must walk from the train to the performance arena. The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus is arriving for their 2009 month-long southern California engagement..."
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There is no such thing as coincidence!!