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Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities For Amusement And Profit,New Omar Ibn And The Beginning Of AFrom 1840 Until 1940, Freak Shows By The Hundreds Crisscrossed The United States, From The Smallest Towns To The Largest Cities, Exhibiting Their Casts Of Dwarfs, Giants, Siamese Twins, Bearded Ladies, Savages, Snake Charmers, Fire Eaters, And Other Oddities. By Today'S Standards Such Displays Would Be Considered Cruel And Exploitativethe Pornography Of Disability. Yet For One Hundred Years The Freak Show Was Widely Accepted As One Of America'S Most