Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Clowns in American circuses were once considered a form of adult entertainment. ArtMarie/E+ via Getty Images The scary clown has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This list goes on, raising the question: what ever happened to the clown as a balloon-carrying birthday party entertainer, the ...

Our first president George Washington attended the first American circus in Philadelphia in 1793. Circus would expand from that auspicious start to become American folklife, intertwined with the ...

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THE great shortcoming of the American-style circus, in the opinion of Europeans, is the limitation it puts upon the work of the clown. It is as hard to be an outstanding clown in an American circus as ...

SARASOTA, Fla. -- Goodbye to death-defying feats -- daring young men (and women) on the flying trapeze, whip-wielding lion tamers, human cannonballs. Goodbye to the scent of peanuts and popcorn, the ...