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偷窥马戏团帐棚内的情形 (Roswell,
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费尼尔司．泰勒．巴能 (Phineas
Taylor Barnum) 的诞生
你有没有去看过马戏团呢？要不要来一些余兴节目，看看身型硕大的大象，还有「真正的」美人鱼？费尼尔司．泰勒．巴能希望这些表演你全都能看到。
费尼尔司．泰勒．巴能于1810年7月5日出生在康乃狄克州的贝首 (Bethel) 。他后来成为一个兼具原创性与令人惊讶的表演大师。不管是真实的惊叹演出，或者是奇特的伪装，巴能的表演总是吸引许多人群。
「六月时，巴能要来瓦特伯里 (Waterbury) 表演，」巴能的爱好者阿特．波斯福特 (Art
Botsford) 说道，「我们要搭早上第一班火车到那里，然后在那里待上一整天。所有的商店大概都会休息，就算这些商店还开着，肯定也没有人会去上班的。」
Have you ever been to the circus? What about a sideshow with bearded ladies, giant elephants, and "real" mermaids? P.T. Barnum would like you to see them all.
Born on July 5, 1810, in Bethel, Connecticut, Phineas Taylor Barnum became a master showman of both the genuine and the fantastic. Whether actual wonders or freakish fakes, Barnum's attractions always drew crowds.
"Along in June P.T. Barnum would come to Waterbury, [Connecticut]," said a Barnum fan, Art Botsford, "We'd all go down on the morning train, and spend the day there. Shops [were] shut down tight. If they didn't nobody would work anyway."
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