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	P T Barnum P. T. Barnum (Phineas Taylor Barnum) , 1810-91, American showman, b. Bethel, Conn. As a youth Barnum worked at diverse sales jobs and managed a boardinghouse. He made his first sensation in 1835 when he bought and exhibited Joice Heth, a slave who claimed she was 161 years old (she was about 80)... Read more
	Bridgeport Bridgeport city (1990 pop. 141,686), Fairfield co., SW Conn., on Long Island Sound; inc. 1836. Long a chief industrial city in Connecticut, it makes electrical appliances, transportation equipment, clothing, ammunition, metal products, wiring devices, machinery, helicopters, motor vehicles, and... Read more
	Siamese twins Siamese twins congenitally united organisms that are complete or nearly complete individuals. They develop from a single fertilized ovum that has divided imperfectly; complete division would produce identical twins, having the same sex and general characteristics. Siamese twins remain attached at... Read more
	Douglas Stuart Moore Douglas Stuart Moore 1893-1969, American composer and teacher, b. Cutchogue, N.Y. Moore studied with Horatio Parker , Vincent D'Indy , Nadia Boulanger , and Ernest Bloch . In 1926 he joined the music faculty of Columbia Univ. and was its chairman from 1940 to 1962. His major works include ... Read more
	Jenny Lind Jenny Lind 1820-87, Swedish soprano. She made her debut in 1838 as Agathe in Weber's Der Freischütz. She studied in Paris and sang in Germany, England, and Sweden. In 1849 she abandoned opera for concert and oratorio until 1870. Under the management of P. T. Barnum she toured (1850-52) the... Read more
	Billie Burke BURKE, Billie Nationality:American. Born:Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke, in Washington, D.C., 7 August 1886 (some sources say 1885); daughter of William (Billy) Burke, an internationally celebrated Barnum and Bailey circus clown. Family:Married theater... Read more
	The American Museum American Museum, The (New York). Originally opened in Chambers Street in 1810 by John Scudder, it found, even in its early history, that its lecture room was given over frequently to variety performers, and entertainment quickly vied with the regular exhibits for popularity. The idea that it was a... Read more
	Tom Thumb Tom Thumb 1838-83, American entertainer, whose original name was Charles Sherwood Stratton, b. Bridgeport, Conn. His career as General Tom Thumb began in 1842, when the showman P. T. Barnum gave him the title and arranged with the child's parents for his exhibition as a midget. His height then... Read more
	Gamaliel Bradford Bradford, Gamaliel (1863–1932), Massachusetts author, who at age 50 found his most successful medium when he published Lee, the American (1912). This book employed a method he described as “psychography,” which aims to extract the essential, permanent, and vitally characteristic... Read more
	John Fowles John Fowles 1926-2005, English writer, b. Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, grad. Oxford, 1950. A complex, cerebral writer and a superb storyteller, Fowles was interested in manipulating the novel as a genre. His central philosophical proccupation involved the conflict between free will and determinism. His... Read more