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• Joshuah Brown changed the circus business dramatically in 1825 when he became the first to use a large portable canvas tent for his circus performances. This enabled his show to stay as long or short a time as he liked and present performances in all kinds of weather.

• The circus came to the United States from England in 1792. Brought by owner John Bill Ricketts, the first performance took place in Philadelphia and was attended

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THE CIRCUS (continued): • P.T. Barnum didn’t start out in the circus business, but rather with a showplace in New York City he called Barnum’s American Museum, which opened in 1841. There he featured a variety of attractions, including a paralyzed and blind former slave named Joice Heth that Barnum claimed had been George Washington’s nurse. He exhibited her as nearly 161 years old and carefully trained her to play the part. Ten years after her death, Barnum finally admitted to the hoax. He enticed his customers with the use of clever advertising, such as his ad for a “Man-Eating Chicken,” which was merely a man chewing on a drumstick. Barnum’s museum included hot-air balloon rides from the roof, live acts, sideshows and “curious” human beings. In 1842, he introduced the world to General Tom Thumb, who was a dwarf named Charles Stratton. Conjoined Siamese twins Chang and Eng also appeared for a time at the museum.

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• Barnum was past 60 before he got into the actual circus business, when he lent financial backing to an existing circus. “P.T. Barnum’s Grand Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan, and Hippodrome” began in 1871.

• In 1882, Barnum introduced the concept of three rings to accommodate an increasing number of acts. Circus tents were larger, and 10,000 spectators could see a portion of the show at all times. Also that year, he spent $30,000 to acquire “Jumbo,” the largest African elephant in captivity, from the London Zoo. Thousands gathered at the New York City dock for Jumbo’s arrival. Within a week, Barnum had recovered his investment. But Jumbo’s success was short-lived. After just three years with the circus, the giant pachyderm was struck and killed by a freight train in Ontario as he made his way back to the circus train. Clever Barnum, however, turned lemons into lemonade when he had Jumbo’s hide and skeleton mounted and continued to charge for the exhibit of the remains.

• Barnum merged his show with James A. Bailey in 1888, and it became “The Greatest Show on Earth.” Just three years later, Barnum was dead, and Bailey took control of the circus.

• The world’s first human cannonball performance came along in 1877. A 14-year-old girl, Rossa “Zazel” Richter, was hurled from a spring-style cannon in London. Although promoters would have the public believe that the person is launched by gunpowder, that’s just for the visual and auditory show.

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• As Barnum & Bailey continued to thrive, another giant was just getting its start in Baraboo, Wisconsin. In 1884, the Ringling Brothers started a small Continued on page 7

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• In 1911, there were 32 different circuses traversing the country by rail. The Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus needed 100 rail cars in 1923 to transport their equipment, animals and employees. Their Big Top tent had a 10,000-person capacity and required 14 acres of land to set up the show.

• By 1920, the popularity of the circus began to diminish. The street parade from the rail yard to the circus site, which was always held to herald the arrival of the circus, was discontinued by Ringling Brothers.

Urban development ate up the large areas near the rail yards where circuses set up. The Depression took its financial toll on many of the shows, and the introduction of the talking picture provided a new and novel form of entertainment.

• John Ringling managed the family business after the death of several of his brothers. One of the world’s wealthiest men, he lost nearly the entire family fortune during the Great Depression, and when he died in 1936, he had $311 in the bank. His nephew took over the operation, and in 1967, the circus was sold to the Feld family, who operates it today.

• One of Ringling’s most famous performers was flying trapeze artist Alfredo Codono, who perfected the triple somersault. He was married to another famous circus performer, Lillian Leitzel, an aerialist who performed stunts on rings. In 1931, a brass connection on Lillian’s rope broke, causing her to fall 45 feet onto a concrete floor. Head and spinal injuries were so severe, she perished two days later at age 39. Codono’s feat was finally topped in 1982, when Ringling Brothers’ trapeze artist Miguel Vazquez completed the first quadruple somersault in performance history.

• The circus changed forever in July of 1956 when the Greatest Show on Earth made its last appearance under the Big Top tent. While the Ringling family commented that the “tented circus is … a thing of the past,” LIFE magazine mourned its loss, writing, “a magical era had passed forever.”

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Money issues can be a source of great stress and pressure for people. Money controls people’s lives, it controls their attitudes, it controls their emotions, it’s the cause of many breakups and divorces, and frankly this should not be, at least for the Christian.

But, I would venture to say, it is a huge problem for millions in the body of Christ. Many people become slaves to money, all of their decisions are based on having it or on the fact of not having it. Where we go, what we do, what we buy, how we live, tends to all be based on our having it or not having it. But as Christians we need to get a financial attitude adjustment. Genesis 1:29 (NLT) Then God said, “Look! I have given you every seed-bearing plant throughout the earth and all the fruit trees for your food. Seed was designed by God to serve us not control or enslave us. Seed was designed to serve you not to bind you. Seed was designed to bless you not control you. Seed was designed to advance you not to hinder you. But how many of our Christian brothers and sisters do we actually see walking in this truth?...far less than we should right? Does your money serve you, or do you serve your money? We hear this said a lot, “Money is the root of all evil”. And many people use that as an excuse to stay poor, to be without, thinking that it is a Godly virtue to be poor and broke. But look at the scripture, it says that 1 Timothy 6:10 (NLT) For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil…” We are not to love money, we are to love God. We are not to trust in money, we are to trust in God. We are to be givers of money, not takers of money. Money is a tool that God has given to us to help other people.

Genesis 1:28-29 (Amp) And God blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it [using all its vast resources in the service of God and man]; As a believer you and I are to walk in this blessing, it was restored to us at the cross, because of the finished work of The Master, you and I care called to take this blessing to our families, to our neighborhoods, to our workplace, to our sphere of influence. Instead of spending a majority of our time, toiling and laboring to get more and more money, we have to understand that first of all money is a tool for us, a tool that we are to use to bless people, bless the world, and as we sow our seed according to the principles that God has set forth, we then release Him and empower Him, and give Him legal access to move on our behalf in our money, in our finances, and to bring about the multiplication needed.

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