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  • ...hood, Billy Smart had long caressed the dream of having his own circus. He saw the perfect opportunity in the spectacular boon the British entertainment i
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  • ...ted regularly. Jacob Decastro, Astley's and Hughes's first biographer, who saw Ricketts perform in Whitechapel with the Joneses, declared him "the first r In May 1794, Norfolk and Richmond, Virginia, saw their first circuses. In July, Ricketts was in Baltimore, "near the Windmil
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  • 1969 saw the concretization of his love of the circus with the launch of his very ow
    12 KB (1,811 words) - 02:51, 27 January 2026
  • Most importantly, the reviewers saw what the Big Apple Circus had done for the city. The ''New York Post'' decl
    43 KB (7,105 words) - 18:10, 26 March 2026
  • ...rmed the act on French television, which is how [[Annie Fratellini]] first saw them. This was 1975.
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  • ...Mara passed away on December 14, 2013. She was seventy-nine. To those who saw her perform, she will always be remembered as "La Mara," as she was often c
    7 KB (1,212 words) - 19:13, 3 December 2024
  • ...wanted to be a clown—an auguste to be specific—even before he saw his first circus. This dream was ingrained in him as a child; as he would s
    7 KB (1,082 words) - 23:48, 27 August 2014
  • In 1983, Felker saw a performance of [[Circus Knie]] in Switzerland and began to consider worki
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  • ...claimed that, by age three, he already wanted to join the circus. When he saw the film Trapeze (1956)—Carol Reed's tale of an aging flyer and his g
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  • ...f of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The following year, Jacobs saw his star on Sarasota's [[Circus Ring of Fame]] on St. Armands Circle unveil
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  • The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 saw an exodus of Russian circus artists, who settled all over the world—a
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  • Louis Merlin never saw the project come to fruition: he died unexpectedly at the end of 1976. The ...st Gold Medal winners, that year, were the young [[Alexis Brothers]]. 1981 saw the last edition of the Gala de la Piste. In 1982, the Festival took a life
    6 KB (1,010 words) - 21:26, 5 June 2019
  • When, around 1884, their godfather saw the brothers perform, he suggested they resume their education—which
    17 KB (2,679 words) - 20:13, 31 May 2025
  • When, around 1884, their godfather saw the brothers perform, he suggested they resume their education. Anatoly pai
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  • ...or ''chapiteau'' in French—a traveling circus). In fact, Elena never saw a live circus performance while growing up. ...a won the Gold Medal and ignited the imagination of [[André Simard]], who saw her performance. Simard was then teaching acrobatics at the [[Ecole Nationa
    12 KB (1,998 words) - 02:48, 31 January 2026
  • ...had nothing to do with the circus, but when Oleg was twelve years old, he saw the Russian hand balancer Nikolai Kasse in a circus performance, and he was
    5 KB (759 words) - 04:02, 22 February 2022
  • Fortunately, Desprez saw big. He hired the best acts of the moment, including his brothers Marcel an
    48 KB (7,670 words) - 20:38, 18 March 2026
  • ...wn at the International Circus Festival of Monte-Carlo in 1990.) 1989 also saw the superb juggling act on a rolling globe of [[Yury Borzykin]].
    18 KB (2,794 words) - 19:49, 6 April 2026
  • ...John Ringling North]]’s European talent scouts. Johnny North immediately saw star potential in Harold Alzana, and the act was booked for the 1947 season
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  • ...ce: To Gunther, it was an epiphany! As fate had it, on their way out, they saw a sign announcing that Circus Williams was looking for a seamstress: Elfrie
    22 KB (3,548 words) - 06:21, 24 May 2025

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