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Everybody loves a circus! Tidbits looks back at the ori-gin of the modern circus and a few of the most famous shows under the Big Top.• Although there were circuses in ancient Rome, the modern circus as we know it has been around since the late 1700s. Philip Astley premiered his circus in 1768 in England and is credited with bringing trick horse-riding into the circus ring. A few years later, he added jugglers and clowns to his entourage. • Joshuah Brown changed the circus business dramati-cally 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 per-formance took place in Philadelphia and was attended by George Washington. Ricketts himself juggled while on horseback during the show. • The circus gained mobility when the railroad came along. Enormous distances could be covered, safe from the weather, meaning no more horse-drawn wagons in the rain on poorly maintained roads.
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THE CIRCUS (continued):• P.T. Barnum didn’t start out in the circus busi-ness, 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 at-tractions, 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 fi-nally 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 in-cluded 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. • 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 Lon-don 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 cir-cus, 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. Bai-ley 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 “Za-zel” Richter, was hurled from a spring-style cannon in London. Although promoters would have the public believe that the person is launched by gun-powder, that’s just for the visual and auditory show. The real driving force is really a spring or a blast of compressed air.
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Do Some Spring Cleaning on Your (Financial) House
It’s spring — time to clean out the gutters, tune up the lawnmower and wash down the windows. But as you attend to these types of tasks around your home, why not take the time to do some financial “spring cleaning” as well?
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“Dust off” your investment strategy. If there’s an area in your home that you haven’t looked at for a while, you may need to dust it off in preparation for the new season. And the same principle may apply to your investment strategy — if you haven’t examined it for a while, it may be time to clean it up to prepare for a new season in your life. After all, since you initially designed your in-vestment strategy — that is, the total amount you invest, the percentages going into “growth” and “income” ve-hicles, the dollars going into taxable versus tax-deferred accounts and so on — many things may have changed for you, such as your employment situation, the number of children in your household and even your long-term goals. Consequently, you may need to revise your in-vestment strategy in consultation with your financial advisor. “De-clutter” your portfolio. The chances are pretty good that if you look around your house, you’ll find many things that are actually duplicates, such as those five cof-feemakers you’ve accumulated over the years — so you decide to “purge” a few. And when you take a close look at your portfolio, you might find several investments that you’ve added over time and that are similar to each other. If that’s the case, you might help yourself by sell-ing the “redundant” investments and using the proceeds to buy different ones that can help you diversify your portfolio. (Keep in mind that while diversification can help reduce the effects of volatility on your portfolio, it can’t guarantee gains or prevent losses.) Prepare yourself for stormy weather. During spring-time, we often experience heavy rains, hailstorms, high winds and other types of inclement weather. That’s why we keep our roofs in good shape, keep branches away from our homes and take other steps to protect our hous-es and property from the ravages of Mother Nature. You and your family could go through some rough “weather” too, during the course of your lives, so you’ll want to make sure you have sufficient protection in the form of adequate life and disability insurance. Review your cov-erage to make sure it’s still adequate for your needs. Open up the windows of opportunity. After a long win-ter, you’ll find it pleasant to open the windows of your home and let in the sun and the air. And as an inves-tor, you’ll find “windows of opportunity” through which you can open yourself up to good investment possibili-ties. For example, even though we’ve clearly been in a challenging economy the past couple of years, a number of factors – such as low interest rates, improved corpo-rate earnings and favorable stock valuations (the price you pay for a stock, relative to its earnings) — have ac-tually meant that it’s been a pretty good environment for investors looking for quality stocks. By doing some financial spring cleaning, you may find that you’ve swept away some of the obstacles to helping achieve your goals.
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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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¥ On April 5, 1614, Pocahontas, daughter of the chief of the Powhatan Indian confederacy, marries English tobacco plant-er John Rolfe in Jamestown, Va. Pocahontas had been kid-napped and used as a hostage for peace negotiations. By the time she was released, she had fallen in love with John Rolfe.
¥ On April 9, 1859, a 23-year-old Missouri youth named Samuel Langhorne Clemens receives his steamboat pilot’s li-cense. During his time as a pilot, he picked up the term “Mark Twain,” a boatman’s call noting that the river was only 2 fath-oms deep, the minimum depth for safe navigation. He used it as a pseudonym in his writing for nearly 50 years.
¥ On April 10, 1866, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is founded in New York City by philan-thropist and diplomat Henry Bergh. Bergh’s impassioned ac-counts of the horrors inflicted on animals convinced the New York State legislature to pass the ASPCA charter.
¥ On April 6, 1896, the Olympic Games, a long-lost tradition of ancient Greece, are reborn in Athens -- 1,500 years after being banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I. King Geor-gios I of Greece and a crowd of 60,000 spectators welcomed athletes from 13 nations to the international competition.
¥ On April 4, 1913, Chicago bluesman Muddy Waters is born in Clarksdale, Miss. Born McKinley Morganfield, he wrote “Rollin’ Stone,” “Hoochie Coochie Man,” “Mannish Boy” and “Got My Mojo Working,” songs that would later provide inspiration to Bob Dylan.
¥ On April 7, 1920, classically trained sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar is born in Varanasi, India. The Beatles studied under Shankar and experimented with the distinctive sitar sound in songs such as “Norwegian Wood” and “Within You, Without You.”
¥ On April 8, 1974, Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hits his 715th career home run, breaking Babe Ruth’s legendary record of 714 homers. A crowd of 53,775 people, the largest in the history of Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, was with Aaron that night to cheer when he hit a 4th-inning pitch off the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Al Downing.
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Some years later, they chatted after having dinner together. They discussed the gifts they were able to give their elderly mother who lived far away in another city.
The first said, "I had a big house built for Mama."The second said, "I had a hundred thousand dollar theater built in the house."The third said, "I had my Mercedes dealer deliver an SL600 to her."
The fourth said, "You know how Mama loved reading the Bible and you know she can't read anymore because she can't see very well.
I met this preacher who told me about a parrot that can recite the entire Bible. It took twenty preachers 12 years to teach him. I had to pledge to contribute $100,000 a year for twenty years to the church, but it was worth it. Mama just has to name the chapter and verse and the parrot will recite it."The other brothers were impressed.
After the holidays Mom sent out her Thank You notes. She wrote: " Milton, the house you built is so huge; I live in only one room, but I have to clean the whole house. Thanks anyway."
"Marvin, I am too old to travel. I stay home; I have my grocer-ies delivered, so I never use the Mercedes. The thought was good. Thanks."
"Michael, you gave me an expensive theater with Dolby sound, it could hold 50 people, but all of my friends are dead; I've lost my hearing and I'm nearly blind. I'll never use it. Thank you for the gesture just the same."
"Dearest Bob, you were the only son to have the good sense to give a little thought to your gift. The chicken was delicious.
