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'Mermaid Is Real' Video Is Actually Fake — But You Knew That, Right?

Edit About.com 22 Nov 2015
Description. Viral video / Hoax. Circulating since. August 2014. Status. Fake. In reality, the video consists of a montage of still photos of a prop mermaid created by makeup and special effects artist Joel Harlow for the 2011 film Pirates of the Caribbean. On Stranger Tides ... T. Barnum's 19th-century "Feejee Mermaid" hoax and Japanese "mummified mermaids" dating back to the 1600s.Mermaids on TV ... The Feejee Mermaid, 1842....

P.T. Barnum Makes Trump Look Like a Clown

Edit The Daily Beast 01 Aug 2015
Donald Trump has compared himself to the legendary American showman, but he has more in common with items found in Barnum’s museum than his incredible political legacy. Shop ▾ ... But The Donald is not America’s first showman turned politician. One Trump role model, the nineteenth-century entrepreneurial egotist P.T ... Having labeled himself “a bit of a P.T ... There was “the Feejee Mermaid,” half-monkey, half-fish, all faux mummified ... P.T....

P.T. Barnum’s American Museum ‘Re-Opens’ at the Graduate Center after 150 Years (CUNY - The City University of New York)

Edit Public Technologies 08 Jul 2015
(Source. CUNY - The City University of New York). On July 13, 1865, in a spectacular fire witnessed by thousands of New Yorkers, P. T ... From the mysterious FeeJee Mermaid and beautiful Circassian Woman to Confederate president Jefferson Davis in his wife's dress, many revelations and deceptions are again on view, supplemented by a rich archive of historical documents and artifacts ... distributed by ... (noodl. 28984461) ....

Gloriously Hideous Sculptures Reveal The True Horror Of The Mermaid Myth

Edit Huffington Post 27 May 2015
Early Woman ... Barnum of Barnum & Bailey Circus. The hybrid beasts were, of course, a hoax, one that originated in 19th century Japan and the East Indies ... "Of one allusion [...] the sight of the wonder has forever robbed us -- we shall never again discourse, even in poesy, of mermaid beauty, nor woo a mermaid even in our dreams -- for the Feejee lady is the very incarnation of ugliness.". "California Dreamin'" ... "Fiji Mermaid" ... ....

"Mythic Creatures" ushers dragons, mermaids into Denver science museum

Edit Denver Post 20 Mar 2015
"Mythic Creatures" looks at our long history with imaginary creatures and their symbolic importance. Above, a kraken, a giant squidlike animal, explodes from the floor of the museum. (Provided by Denver Museum of Nature & Science) ... Along the way, some amusing, unsettling examples of cultural zeitgeist-gone-awry also pop up, such as the FeeJee mermaid, a literal grafting of a monkey's head and torso onto the back half of a fish ... ....

The Real People Who Inspired The Characters on American Horror Story Freak Show

Edit IMDb 24 Nov 2014
Barnum with the Feejee mermaid and tragic such as Joseph Merick the Elephant Man who ended up being the subject of a film starring John Hurt ... ». ....

Shock and awwwww at deformities

Edit Stuff 09 Nov 2014
Longevity wasn't really in prospect for Two Face, though at least the wee critter was gently treated throughout his short life. When, after nearly six weeks, the Slope Point lamb succumbed to what was widely expected to be his unviable condition, he created his second set of headlines ... Yuck . ... ... ... His "Feejee" mermaid of 1842, with the head of a monkey and the tail of a fish, was entirely man-made and not at a scientific level neither....

'American Horror Story' and the Real Freak Show

Edit Huffington Post 06 Oct 2014
Ryan Murphy is afraid we'll all tune out season four of American Horror Story. Its just going to be "too scary" for us, he recently said. He's not really afraid of this ... It is true, however, that the new season has chosen to explore an outr� moment in the history of horror ... P.T ... In 1842, Barnum exhibited the body parts of a monkey and a fish taxidermied together and pronounced it "the Feejee mermaid." ... He also presented people as monsters ... ....

A skeletal bestiary of myth

Edit CNET 30 May 2014
...Prev Next... PREV NEXT. 1 of 6. Sleipnir. This eight-legged horse is the of Norse Allfather of the Gods Odin. It is also the (which may go some way towards explaining how Thor could have thought he had given birth to a squirrel). 30 May 2014 2.14 AM BST Photo by. © Brian Richardson. Used with permission of Brian Richardson. / Caption by.. facebook. twitter. linkedin. googleplus. more. more + email. tumblr. stumble. delicious. reddit ... Feejee Mermaid ... ....

Life among the 'Legends' at Ringling Circus in Orlando

Edit Orlando Sentinel 08 Jan 2014
... mythological critters such as the embalmed "Feejee Mermaid" at his Barnum's American Museum in New York City....
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