费尼尔司．泰勒．巴能 (Phineas Taylor Barnum) 的诞生

巴能也很会取悦他的观众。当他只有25岁的时候，他伪装成乔治．华盛顿那个高达161岁的护士乔伊丝．海斯 (Joice Heth) 。你也许不会被这种玩笑所愚弄，但是许多人都前来看这个老护士。你会想花钱看看长了胡子的阿理公主吗？

在1842年时，巴能接管了纽约市的美国博物馆 (American Museum) 。他把所有古怪的事物都纳入了博物馆的收藏，其中最有名的就是他的假斐济美人鱼 (FeeJee Mermaid) ，这是一种介于人类和鱼之间的生物。


Barnum was skilled at fooling his audiences. When he was only 25 years old, he passed off Joice Heth as George Washington's 161-year-old nurse. You might not have been fooled by the hoax, but a lot of people came to see her. What would you pay to see the bearded Princess Ali?

In 1842, P.T. Barnum took over the American Museum in New York City. He brought oddities of all sorts to the museum. Among the most famous of his attractions was the fake FeeJee Mermaid, a cross between a human and a fish.
 

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