| The musical, set in a Big Top, features gravity-defying stunts and slapstick clowning as it portrays the story of American showman PT Barnum. |
| P T Barnum tells a story about how his grandfather tricked a woodchopper into cutting up a cord of firewood for him. |
| Acrobat death In 2004, Dessi Espana, a performer with Ringling Bros. and Barnum Bailey, fell 35 feet during a performance. |
| Behavioural genetics is such smashing science, it does not need to use anything that could look like a Barnum effect. |
| He appealed to the same love of the marvelous and monstrous which Barnum has made his fortune in exhibiting woolly horses, dwarfs, Feejee mermaids and other queer fish. |
| The technique appears to have parallels to the Barnum effect used by some mediums, clairvoyants, and tarot card readers. |
