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  • Have done, but... methinks one of those people has either an absolutely enormous fan base, or some sort of automatum voting for him.

    vote vote vote vote vote again! 2008

  • He went to the circus when opportunity offered, gave nine shillings to a “man who brought an elk as a show,” three shillings and ninepence “to hear the Armonica,” two dollars for tickets “to see the automatum,” treated the “Ladies to ye Microcosm” and paid to see waxworks, puppet shows, a dancing bear, and a lioness and tiger.

    The True George Washington Ford, Paul L 1896

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