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  • ...alacios]], with triple-somersaulter [[Lalo Palacio]], were starring in the Ringling show, and the triple, still a rarity at the time, became Tito's goal. He ca ...ndon's Olympia. There, the Gaonas performed their acts for Queen Elizabeth II and her family.
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  • ...s, Circo Zoppé, which turned to motorized transportation before World War II, took great pride in its equestrian acts. Luigi's son, Alberto, became an o ...he war, to his family’s circus for the duration of Alberto’s contract. North agreed.
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  • ...Alzana was, from the late forties to the mid-sixties, a star fixture of [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey]] Circus. His daredevil manner—working on ...ing as a coal miner. In 1941, he married his sweetheart, Minnie. World War II was raging, but Harold and his siblings never stopped practicing and improv
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  • ...Gunther's early childhood was far from happy, and the advent of World War II would further tear apart his already dysfunctional Gebel family. By 1967, [[John Ringling North]], the owner of [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]], had lost interest in his circus. On November 1
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  • === World War II: A Family Tragedy=== ...udio. This could have led to an acting career, but the advent of World War II completely reshaped Heinz’s destiny: His father was caught helping a Jewi
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  • ...ad already left Europe, and was performing in the United States with the [[Ringling Bros. Circus]]. ...of [[Charles Ringling]] and, in May 1914, The Orpingtons debuted with the Ringling Bros. Circus in Chicago.[[File:Orpingtons.png|thumb|left|300px|The Orpingto
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  • ...vated by the fact that he had received a timely offer from [[John Ringling North]] to go to the United States and work with all his animals on ''The Greates ...thumb|right|380px|Fritz, Damoo Dhotre, Court, and Willy Storey (c.1945)]][[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]]’s new show debuted at New York's Madison Squa
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  • "The Colleanos got to Sydney and joined the King Carnival. They went north with the King Carnival, struggling all the way, but they did get good busin ...h the great Ringling circus as its center-ring attraction. His salary with Ringling went up each season, so that by the late 1930s, he was earning $1,000 per w
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  • Carola Althoff was born on December 1, 1903 in Bad Sassendorf, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Her father, [[The Althoff Dynasty|Dominik Althof ===The Nazi Regime And Word War II===
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  • ...-boxing arena. The political situation in Europe was tense; Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany was posturing aggressively, and Parisians, who had not forgotten ...and his sons [[Cyril Mills|Cyril and Bernard]] in England, [[John Ringling North]] in the United States, and before them, [[Hans Stosch-Sarrasani|Hans Stosc
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  • ...a sealion trainer. (Their son, Adolf Frohn, Jr. (1904-1955), joined the [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus in 1945 before settling in Marineland, F Traveling by rail, the circus then moved North, and then left Germany to visit Copenhagen in Denmark. Like most of the oth
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