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HOAXES & HUMBUG (cont’d) maid. It was actually a taxidermied monkey and a large fish skillfully sewn together and preserved. Barnum deliberately set out to stage a hoax. First he sent press releases to newspapers all over the country stating that British naturalist Dr. Griffin had discovered a new species of animal in the Fiji Islands. Next he hired a friend of his to pose as the British Dr. Griffin and give lectures about the mermaid. Barnum invited members of the press to examine the mermaid, and more articles and free publicity appeared in the papers. Pamphlets about the strange new animal (written by Barnum) were circulated. • Then Barnum announced that Dr. Griffin had refused to let the public see the animal. With the public aroused, Barnum announced one week later that Dr. Griffin had decided he would exhibit the mermaid at Barnum’s Museum. In the first month of the exhibit, attendance tripled. The result of this elaborate fraud was that people all over the country believed that a species of mermaid existed in the Fiji Islands. When the hoax was found out, many people critisized Barnum saying that exaggeration could go too far. Barnum seemed to have realized that he had gone over the line. He refused to discuss the mermaid episode ever again. • When the founder of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals complained about making horses jump through flaming hoops, Barnum responded by jumping (continued on next page)

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Hoaxes & Humbug (cont’d) through a flaming hoop himself, followed by half of the circus crew. When the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children complained about the use of six acrobatic children in the bicycle-riding act, Barnum walked up to the superintendent of the organization and offered him $200 a week to exhibit himself as the man who wanted to take the bread out of children's mouths. THE GREATEST SHOW • Barnum discovered that elephants were a big draw so he bought several, including the famous Jumbo. When Barnum paid a fortune sight-unseen for an elephant billed as a rare white elephant, he found upon receiving it that it was light grey instead of white. Barnum had it painted white before shows. One elephant was sent to a farm. Barnum hired a farmer to dress in Oriental clothes and keep the elephant busy plowing fields. The keeper was given a railroad schedule so the elephant was hard at work in the fields whenever a passenger train went by, resulting in much publicity. • It was an elephant that led to Barnum teaming up with Bailey. James Bailey owned a circus, and one of the elephants became the mother of the first baby elephant ever born in captivity. Barnum couldn't stand to see someone else get more publicity than himself, so he offered to buy the two elephants for an exorbitant sum. Bailey simply used Barnum's offer to get more publicity for himself. Barnum recognized a person who, like himself, was a master of publicity. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em, thought Barnum, and a deal was struck whereby the two teamed up to put the Greatest Show on Earth on the road: the Barnum & Bailey Circus. When their first show was scheduled to open in Madi(continued in next column)

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THE GREATEST SHOW (cont’d)

son Square Gardens, Barnum paid for 100 top newspaper reporters from all over the country to come review the circus. The publicity he got ensured the success of the new circus. • By the mid 1880s, the Barnum and Bailey Circus was earning a million dollars a year. Barnum invented the concept of the three-ring circus, and coined the phrase, “The Greatest Show On Earth.” Barnum died in 1891 at the age of 82. Several years later, the Ringling Brothers bought the Barnum & Bailey circus. The combined circus became the largest travelling show on the planet, truly the “greatest show on earth.”

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• In 1921 a bakery in Indianapolis was getting ready to release their newest product and they needed a name. The product was a 1.5 pound loaf of bread, in an era where virtually all loaves weighed one pound. • Elmer Cline was vice-president of the company and he attended the International Balloon Race at the Indianapolis Speedway. He was awe-struck by the sight of hundreds of balloons filling the sky. That experience inspired both the name of the bread and the logo: Wonder Bread. • The company advertised widely that “a new wonder” was coming on the market prior to the release of the new product. When it was released, delivery drivers handed out heliumfilled balloons to children on their route. Each balloon came with a letter to their mother touting the benefits of Wonder Bread. Wonder Bread quickly became the best-selling bread on the market. • In the 1930s the popular loaf underwent an amazing transformation when it became the world’s first pre-sliced bread. Because the bread was so soft, it was difficult to slice at home without squashing the whole loaf. Sales of pre-sliced bread were slow at first because customers worried that sliced bread would dry out. Convenience overcame apprehension and soon the bread was on tables from coast to coast, inspiring the phrase “the best thing since sliced bread.” The bakery saw a 2,000 percent increase in sales following the introduction of uniformly sliced bread. • In 1890, about 90% of bread was baked at home, but by 1930, 90% of bread was purchased in a store. The widespread popularity of Wonder Bread was made possible due to recent innovations including the use of delivery trucks, as well as the automated bread-wrapping machine. • During World War II metals became so scarce that the blades for slicing bread were no longer available, and bread slicing was suspended for a while. (continued on next page)

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On Oct. 10, 1967, the international Outer Space Treaty was ratified. This treaty established a set of rules regulating how different countries can explore and use outer space. Specifically, it says “the exploration and use of outer space shall be carried out for the benefit and in the interests of all countries and shall be the province of all mankind.” The treaty dictates that no one can claim territory in outer space and that other celestial bodies must be used “exclusively for peaceful purposes.” More than 100 countries have ratified the treaty today. Most likely, this is the best-known picture of a flag ever taken of an American astronaut standing next to the first U.S. flag planted on the Moon. For those who knew their world history, it also rang some alarm bells. Only less than a century ago, back on Earth, planting a national flag in another part of the world still amounted to claiming that territory for the fatherland. Did the Stars and Stripes on the moon signify the establishment of an American colony? This has caused much controversy about the film “First Man” where the flag planting scene is not included. The producers wanted to focus on the landing being an achievement of all humanity.

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quickly stuck and became accepted worldwide as part and parcel of the law of nations. Obviously, the astronauts had more important things on their mind than contemplating the legal meaning and consequences of that planted flag, but luckily the issue had been taken care of prior to the mission. Since the beginning of the space race the United States knew that for many people around the world the sight of a U.S. flag on the Moon would raise major political issues. The simple answer to the question of whether Armstrong and Aldrin by way of their small ceremony did transform the moon, or at least a major part of it, into U.S. territory turns out to be “no.” They, nor NASA, nor the U.S. government intended the U.S. flag to have that effect. Most importantly, that answer was enshrined in the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, to which both the United States and the Soviet Union as well as all other spacefaring nations, had become a party. By that token, the moon became something of a “global commons” legally accessible to all countries – two years prior to the first actual manned moon landing. Businessman Rajzeev V. Baagree, in 2005, purchased five acres of land on the moon for the equivalent of $31 per acre. It turned out he got scammed. So, the U.S. flag was not a manifestation of claiming (continued on next page)

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