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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Nickell, Joe.
  Secrets of the sideshows / Joe Nickell.
        p. cm.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  ISBN 0-8131-2358-5 (hardcover : alk. paper)
 1. Sideshows. I. Title.
  GV1835.N53 2005
 791.3’5--dc22                                                        2005007624

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