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Did you know... that Latvia had its very own P.T. Barnum in the person of Albert Salamonsky (1839 - 1913), a German promoter, horse trainer and performer who created his own circus in Riga? Although Riga already had a temporary wooden circus building as early as 1864, Salamonsky wanted to build a permanent edifice. The building bore his name from 1888 until 1940, when it was renamed the National Circus of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic. Read more at: inyourpocket/latvia/riga/Join-the-circus_71998f
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