Darlings, did you know that on this day in history in 1768, the first modern circus was staged in London? Or that the average size of a clown shoe is 28EEEEE? Do you want to know what a straddle whip is? For this and 11 more facts you didn’t know about the greatest show on Earth, go read Today in History with Eva Halloween!
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Categories: History (Haunted and Otherwise)
Dancing Skeletons and Troublesome Heads: Joyously Macabre Films of the 1890s 
In a Smile of Peculiar Meaning: Edgar Allan Poe’s “Berenice” 
It Is the Hour of Departure: Turn-of-the-Century Ghost Rides 
20th Century Glamour Ghoul: Honoring Maila Nurmi’s Vampira 
The Year of Halloween 
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