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- The Circus World Museum is a large museum complex in Baraboo, Wisconsin, in the U.S., devoted to circus-related history in America. The museum ...11 KB (1,624 words) - 22:24, 10 December 2023
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- The Circus World Museum is a large museum complex in Baraboo, Wisconsin, in the U.S., devoted to circus-related history in America. The museum ...11 KB (1,624 words) - 22:24, 10 December 2023
- Juggling also includes most prop-based circus skills such as diabolo, devil ... In 1768, Philip Astley opened the first modern circus. A few years ...19 KB (3,015 words) - 21:04, 4 October 2022
- in the West of the Peking (Beijing) Circus in the 1970s profoundly altered ... is still true, especially among family circus groups. However, most acrobats ...10 KB (1,437 words) - 05:38, 15 June 2023
- time he belonged to the so-called "Austrian circus," a group of Austrian economists including Gottfried Haberler and Friedrich von Hayek, who ...9 KB (1,193 words) - 04:38, 18 November 2022
- Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891) was an entrepreneur in popular entertainment, who developed the modern American circus ...17 KB (2,684 words) - 04:19, 24 November 2022
- leaving behind an ambitious, unfinished work The Circus. ... Lachaise. His last ambitious work, The Circus, was left unfinished at the ...12 KB (1,923 words) - 22:59, 24 November 2022
- Bob Dylan in the context of a small family circus, in which the clowns rise ... "Tharp and Dylan, A-Knockin’ on the Circus Door"] NYtimes.com. ...10 KB (1,421 words) - 16:40, 10 May 2022
- She belonged to the "Cambridge Circus," a group of economists ... has become known as the "Cambridge Circus"—a group of economists ...11 KB (1,560 words) - 02:04, 9 February 2023
- Chuck and Effie began their careers in the circus, where they met and fell ... My father started out as a circus 'leaper'. He'd run ...17 KB (2,571 words) - 17:21, 30 January 2024
- On January 29, 1849, the Equestrian circus (Конный цирк) opened on Theater Square. This was also the work of the architect Cavos. The ...11 KB (1,538 words) - 15:55, 6 November 2022
- (37-41 C.E.) started construction of a circus, (circle) that was later ... Heliopolis to decorate the spina of his circus and is thus its last visible ...21 KB (3,351 words) - 22:10, 21 December 2023
- Theater in Saint Petersburg. It stood next to the Circus Theater (rebuilt in 1860 as the Mariinsky Theater), but it was replaced in the 1890s by the ...6 KB (876 words) - 07:17, 17 November 2023
- [[Image:Circus.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Marc Chagall's painting Circus]] ... * Scenes of the Circus: Harmony of Man and Animal, which induces Creativity ...14 KB (2,115 words) - 03:04, 6 November 2022
- of its printing presses at the Holborn Circus site in London, built on ... Canary Wharf development. The Holborn Circus site is now occupied by J ...13 KB (1,917 words) - 16:59, 13 May 2020
- the two writers weren’t spared either. Under the Circus Tent suffered many alterations until it was finally realized in the film The Circus. Once During ...13 KB (2,022 words) - 16:19, 12 February 2024
- business career began in his teens as a circus clown and from there he went ... Skelton was the son of a Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus clown named Joe who died ...26 KB (3,902 words) - 02:29, 8 December 2022
- *Circus *Colonnaded Street *Decumanus *Hadrianic Baths with Palaestra ... 0.006748&t=k&z=18&om=1 The Circus at Leptis Magna - Satellite ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 21:59, 25 October 2022
- The play is set in a modern circus. Two vendors, Mr. Zuss and Nickles, begin the play-within-a-play by assuming the roles of God and Satan, respectively ...13 KB (2,029 words) - 06:17, 12 August 2023
- good pictures before leaving MGM, At the Circus (1939), Go West (1940) and ... *At the Circus (1939), released by MGM *Go West (1940), released by MGM ...20 KB (3,216 words) - 15:56, 7 November 2022
- This was followed by Casey's Court Circus variety show, and the following ... the classic The Gold Rush (1925), and The Circus (1928). ...32 KB (4,840 words) - 00:37, 5 December 2023
- * The Circus series * The Famous Five series * The Magic Faraway Tree series * The Malory Towers series * The Mary Mouse series * The Mistletoe ...16 KB (2,376 words) - 18:54, 13 February 2024
- * The Circus in the Attic (1968) (short story collection) * World Enough and Time (1950) * Brother to Dragons: A Tale in Verse and Voices (1953) ...8 KB (1,091 words) - 02:13, 16 December 2022
- , On Beyond Zebra! (1955), If I Ran the Circus (1956), and How the Grinch ... typical line (the first line of If I Ran the Circus) is: ...25 KB (3,804 words) - 17:31, 30 January 2024
- the daughter of Acacius, a bear keeper for the circus. It has been claimed, however, that she was a Mongol Princess. History of Women Through ...8 KB (1,261 words) - 02:27, 19 April 2023
- Merry Circus is neither a puppet film nor a cartoon; movement is simulated ... :*The Hurvinek Circus (Cirkus Hurvínek) (1955) :*Spejbl on the Track ...21 KB (3,254 words) - 02:02, 9 February 2023
- ==The Flying Circus== In January 1917, after his sixteenth confirmed ... In this way, JG1 became "The Flying Circus," its name coming both ...33 KB (4,981 words) - 17:23, 7 December 2023
- Carriage. He followed that success with Circus Barker and Strongman (published ... * Circus Barker and Strongman (1916) [http://www.best-norman-rockwell ...20 KB (2,916 words) - 02:46, 16 November 2022
- The first, built in 25 B.C.E., stood near the Circus Flaminius, the Roman racetrack, and contained a famous sculpture of a marine group by Scopas ...9 KB (1,493 words) - 16:21, 11 November 2022
- laughing happily, as if they were watching a circus act; they even found ways of delivering harder blows in the more vulnerable places, the ribs, the ...9 KB (1,415 words) - 05:23, 26 August 2023
- In 1964, she appeared with John Wayne in Circus World (UK title Magnificent ... *Circus World (1964) *The Money Trap (1965) *The Poppy Is Also a Flower ...30 KB (4,610 words) - 01:42, 15 December 2022
- minstrel shows, Wild West shows, and the circus. Variety theaters existed ... former ringmaster with P.T. Barnum's circus who turned theatre manager ...25 KB (3,760 words) - 14:43, 3 May 2023
- at zoos and aquariums. The archetypal circus seal performing behaviors such as throwing and catching balls on its nose and clapping is almost ...11 KB (1,599 words) - 02:40, 21 April 2023
- type, resembling nineteenth century circus posters. In 1969, a half-hour animated television special, The Pogo Special Birthday Special was produced ...10 KB (1,530 words) - 22:09, 3 May 2023
- *Acrobats at the Circus Fernando (1879) *On the Terrace (1881) *Luncheon of the Boating Party (1881) *The Piazza San Marco, Venice (1881) ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 05:15, 24 November 2022
- based on Greek mythology, before hunting and circus scenes became popular, as well as imagery drawn from the Old and New Testaments.. It appears to ...11 KB (1,710 words) - 18:36, 13 February 2024
- :Examples: the animated sequences of Monty Python's Flying Circus, the animated sequences of The Mighty Boosh, Tale of Tales ::Silhouette ...12 KB (1,946 words) - 06:15, 28 July 2023
- *December 4, 1981—The Big Apple Circus performed at its winter home in Damrosch Park for the first time. The circus has performed every winter ...27 KB (4,040 words) - 07:39, 9 March 2023
- [[Image:Summer in Grand Circus Park.JPG|thumb|275px|Summer in Grand Circus Park, Detroit, Michigan]] [[Image:Winter Landscape.jpg|thumb|275px ...23 KB (3,330 words) - 22:50, 21 January 2023
- as a trick roper in Texas Jack's Wild West Circus: ... Grateful for the guidance but anxious to move on, Rogers quit the ...30 KB (4,512 words) - 12:01, 5 May 2023
- species in total. Pallid Harrier (Circus macrourus) and Lesser Kestrel (Falco naumanni) are occasionally recorded and there are a few isolated ...12 KB (1,767 words) - 02:28, 19 December 2022
- was erected along the northern side of the Circus Maximus where the ancient ... moved to Rome in AD 37 to stand in the Circus of Nero some 820 feet away ...25 KB (3,946 words) - 18:31, 14 October 2022
- situated at the foot of the Aventine Hill near the Circus Maximus. Its dedication day, August 19, was celebrated thereafter during the Vinalia Rustica ...13 KB (1,985 words) - 19:28, 14 November 2022
- as a fictional character in the 1935 novel The Circus of Dr. Lao, as well as the 1964 film adaptation 7 Faces of Dr. Lao. ==References== ...13 KB (2,013 words) - 15:49, 11 August 2023
- dental care, land surveying, acting, circus performer, psalm singer, ... released, including one of his best known circus stories, "Allez!" ...37 KB (5,536 words) - 16:30, 7 September 2023
- Phineas T. Barnum, the famous founder of the circus that became the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Barnum, who had served as mayor of ...30 KB (4,093 words) - 17:06, 15 September 2023
- of Dr. Hartley in a road show of Polly and the Circus. Rooming with Howard Lindsay, who later rose to fame as the co-writer of such classic hits as ...13 KB (2,037 words) - 18:06, 24 January 2024
- (Elixir of love). Igor Stravinsky composed Circus Polka in 1942 for a ballet work choreographed by George Balanchine, a work created especially ...27 KB (4,215 words) - 00:17, 12 April 2023
- often charged an admission fee, rather like a circus act for scholars. Many European cities, such as Amsterdam, London, Copenhagen, Padua, and Paris ...14 KB (2,224 words) - 19:02, 26 July 2023
- " also known as the Cambridge "Circus," refers to the group ... Theory. As a member of Keynes's "Circus" at Cambridge during ...42 KB (6,124 words) - 03:32, 6 October 2022
- * Blood Circus * Green River * Gruntruck * Gumball * Hammerbox * Love Battery * Mad Season * Malfunkshun * Melvins * Mono Men * Mother Love Bone ...30 KB (4,642 words) - 10:14, 25 February 2023
- George Smiley, the spymaster of "the Circus," as he called British ... George Smiley, the spymaster of "the Circus," as he called British ...30 KB (4,264 words) - 02:30, 9 February 2023
- (credits theme for Monty Python's Flying Circus) *"Manhattan Beach March" (1893) *"The Beau Ideal March" (1893) ...15 KB (2,115 words) - 07:04, 3 August 2022
- (Anthony Quinn), who has a small-time circus-like act as a traveling strongman ... working on his new film, to the ending circus-like circular procession ...35 KB (5,656 words) - 01:57, 26 March 2024
- Broadway and Forty-second Street photographing circus images, midget clowns, tattooed men, and sideshow subjects. She would also repeatedly visit the ...14 KB (2,103 words) - 11:54, 29 January 2024
- entertainers, like the Barnum and Bailey Circus and the Vaudeville circuits. Cody put together a new traveling show based on both of those forms ...27 KB (4,199 words) - 12:10, 8 May 2023
- A popular career in Inner Mongolia is circus acrobatics. The famous Inner Mongolia Acrobatic Troupe travels and performs with the renowned Ringling ...33 KB (4,665 words) - 19:29, 5 March 2024
- internal combustion engine as well as a notorious circus machine, "The Whirlwind of Death" (an automotive loop-the-loop that was quite a hit ...15 KB (2,243 words) - 00:46, 9 November 2022
- with the story of a family of itinerant actors and circus performers. It is a religious allegory confronting the questions of faith and God’s existence ...15 KB (2,262 words) - 19:23, 5 March 2024
- Stravinsky's use of Schubert in Circus Polka (1942) and "Happy ... of his music to portray time as in a circus tableau and to present time ...32 KB (4,790 words) - 16:04, 12 February 2024
- family home, located on a hill just opposite the Circus Maximus, into a monastery dedicated to the apostle, St. Andrew. Gregory himself entered as a monk. ...18 KB (2,721 words) - 14:47, 31 January 2023
- A media circus ensued, with Samantha being interviewed by Ted Koppel and Johnny Carson, among others, and with nightly reports by the major American ...19 KB (2,913 words) - 02:05, 23 December 2022
- William Harrison "Jack" Dempsey (June 24, 1895 – May 31, 1983) was an American boxer who held the world heavyweight title between ...17 KB (2,668 words) - 08:39, 13 March 2024
- who were at the Rock 'n' Roll Circus nightclub and supported the ... in a toilet at the notorious Rock and Roll Circus nightclub or any number of ...31 KB (4,948 words) - 20:58, 3 April 2024
- skills for mounting and dismounting a horse, and circus performance skills. Since its entrance into the United States in 1830, it rapidly evolved into ...18 KB (2,771 words) - 07:20, 28 July 2023
- worked as a dancer and then a tiger-trainer in a circus. She left memoirs Matrena Rasputina (2001). about her father, wherein she painted an ...18 KB (2,856 words) - 20:15, 31 January 2023
- Although he taught it to do what he wanted in a circus ring, when he took it outdoors he was unable to control it. He found the Burchell's zebra ...20 KB (3,083 words) - 00:52, 17 April 2023
- (Dilbert) traded strips with Bil Keane (The Family Circus). Even the United States Postal Service got into the act, issuing a series of commemorative ...19 KB (2,982 words) - 07:56, 14 January 2023
- his interests included the circus, the ballet, and puppetry. Benedetti (1999, 6-11). Sergei Vladimirovich Alekseiev, Stanislavski's father ...19 KB (2,723 words) - 17:50, 16 May 2020
- #039; Madison Square Garden was occupied by a circus. Instead, the Lakers played in Saint Paul and the Knicks in the damp, dimly lit, 69th Regiment ...19 KB (3,019 words) - 16:27, 15 August 2021
- [[Image:Eros-piccadilly-circus.jpg|thumb|right|The statue Eros in Piccadilly Circus London, constructed in 1893, and is one of the first statues ...38 KB (5,676 words) - 08:41, 23 July 2023
- (Matthew 21:2-7), comparing Jesus to a circus clown. He was sentenced to nine months' hard labor. In 1977, Denis Lemon, the editor of Gay ...20 KB (3,022 words) - 14:33, 8 February 2022
- and Germany; often traveling showmen and circus people, and ... their involvement in street theater and circus performances. They are the ...37 KB (5,594 words) - 21:36, 16 April 2023
- imagined music of The Beatles with an interpretive, circus-based artistic and athletic stage performance. The production is a joint venture between Cirque ...38 KB (5,974 words) - 15:30, 30 April 2023
- a variety of acts. However, conditions for circus elephants are highly unnatural ... * Frei, G. n. D. Anatomy of the elephants. Elephants in Zoo and Circus. ...64 KB (9,737 words) - 10:18, 21 January 2023
- | image = [[File:BAFTA Mask at Piccadilly Circus (2009) revised.jpg|200px]] | caption = BAFTA awards mask at Piccadilly, London | awarded_for ...26 KB (3,803 words) - 02:24, 22 November 2023
- to occur even after Cage’s death. This concept of circus was to remain important to Cage throughout his life and featured strongly in such pieces as ...40 KB (6,250 words) - 17:00, 5 April 2024
- There are also two large circuses in Moscow: Moscow State Circus and ... [http://www.circusnikulin.ru/ Moscow Nikulun Circus]. Retrieved August ...63 KB (8,988 words) - 16:33, 10 November 2022
- Stephen Collins Foster (July 4, 1826 – January 13, 1864), known as the "father of American music," was the preeminent songwriter ...20 KB (3,215 words) - 20:00, 9 February 2023
- Jullian, who had previously been a shepherd and circus masked man, took him on for 40 Francs a month. Frazier (2000), 28–29. At Académie Jullian ...19 KB (2,827 words) - 08:08, 23 January 2023
- for provocative performances which included circus-like stunts, readings of what was perceived as non-sensical verse, and theatrical presentations ...22 KB (3,102 words) - 02:35, 31 March 2023
- were liable to be sacrificed to Ceres at the Circus Maximus by having torches tied to their tails after which they were allowed to run loose. ...22 KB (3,262 words) - 22:52, 5 February 2023
- gunshot under the statue of Eros in Piccadilly Circus on April 22, 1922, which was John's birthday. After this event, which transformed a private ...23 KB (3,325 words) - 14:02, 31 January 2023
- of growing old. In the poem "The Circus Animals' Desertion," published in his final collection, Yeats describes the inspiration ...21 KB (3,324 words) - 15:42, 6 May 2023
- A cowboy is an animal herder, usually in charge of the horses and/or cattle, on cattle ranches, especially in the western United States and Canada ...23 KB (3,523 words) - 06:14, 11 January 2024
- funniest looking beings you ever saw ... like a circus rider gone mad." After being promoted to brigadier general, Custer sported a uniform that ...23 KB (3,575 words) - 07:01, 18 April 2024
- with his spirit in New York as he had hated the circus that surrounded other jazz funerals, like Bird's. He didn't want any part of that. ...23 KB (3,414 words) - 22:22, 4 December 2023
- Elephant Encyclopedia, Accidents with Elephants in zoo and circus. While working as a police officer for the British colonial government in Burma ...23 KB (3,632 words) - 01:57, 15 January 2023
- *Circus World (1964) *The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) *In Harm's Way (1965) *The Sons of Katie Elder (1965) *Cast a Giant Shadow (1966) ...21 KB (3,062 words) - 16:07, 1 October 2022
- has a significant career hobby, such as acting, circus performance, dance, or violin. Some prefer to homeschool in order to accelerate study toward ...29 KB (4,035 words) - 16:36, 1 March 2023
- [[Image:Lynching-of-will-james.jpg|left|thumb|330px|The circus-style lynching of Will James, Cairo, Illinois, 1909.]] There are generally two ...23 KB (3,493 words) - 10:41, 9 March 2023
- *Lonesome Luke, Circus King (1916) *Luke's Double (1916) *Them Was the Happy Days! (1916) *Luke and the Bomb Throwers (1916) *Luke's ...26 KB (3,880 words) - 09:20, 19 January 2024
- right|A linear clock at London's Piccadilly Circus tube station. The 24 hour band moves across the static map, keeping pace with the apparent ...26 KB (3,970 words) - 22:10, 7 January 2024
- Column, Trajan's Market, the Catacombs, the Circus Maximus, the Baths of Caracalla, Castel Sant'Angelo, the Mausoleum of Augustus, the Ara ...25 KB (3,724 words) - 04:59, 16 December 2022
- the goddess of Reason, from the Circus of the Palais Royale to the Cathedral of Notre Dame and renamed the cathedral as a "Temple of Reason ...26 KB (3,903 words) - 21:56, 28 November 2022
- a stunt pilot for a barnstorming flying circus, left his mother, Julia Ann ... farm without saying goodbye and joined a circus for a short time. He drifted ...50 KB (7,471 words) - 00:44, 26 February 2023
- *3 Ring Circus (1954) *You're Never Too Young (1955) * Artists and Models (1955) *Screen Snapshots: Hollywood, City of Stars (1956) (short ...24 KB (3,934 words) - 08:56, 28 January 2024
- #039; home. More than three years later, a media circus ensued when the man accused of the murder, Bruno Hauptmann, went on trial. Tired of being in ...26 KB (3,945 words) - 21:30, 4 December 2023
- Show on Earth (1952), Cecil B. De Mille's circus epic, and Road to Bali (1952). However this did not seem to lead to better film offers, and ...28 KB (4,290 words) - 17:28, 30 January 2024
- | Battle Circus | Maj. Jed Webbe | Richard Brooks | June Allyson |- | Beat the Devil | Billy Dannreuther | John Huston | Jennifer Jones, Gina ...51 KB (8,176 words) - 12:20, 4 February 2023
- robbery in 1972 which turned into a 12-hour circus and ended with the arrest of the main characters. Saturday Night Fever used Bay Ridge in Brooklyn ...28 KB (4,109 words) - 04:35, 22 November 2023
