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• Cirkus Kludsky
  ...s traveling by train were used to transport the circus equipment and house the personnel. ...iness). From humble beginnings, Karel Kludský had managed to build one of the biggest traveling circuses in Europe, which was subsequently continued and
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• Links
  ==Circus Websites== '''Eden Brothers''' Circus [http://www.edencircus.com/ www.edencircus.com]
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• John Bill Ricketts
  == THE FIRST CIRCUS IN AMERICA== ...ed in with a mixture of soil and sawdust, forty-two feet in diameter—the ring.
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• New York Circuses
  ...d transported to the next—or simply sold at wood value at the end of the run. ...e, and they quickly prevailed: From roughly 1870 to 1930, they made circus the most popular performing art in America.
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• Big Apple Circus
  ...me one of the world’s most respected and successful circuses—until the economic crisis of 2008, which dramatically impacted its fund-raising capac ...winter season. However, the Covid pandemic prevented it from performing in the winter of 2020-21. (As of June 2021, it is not yet known if it will resume
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• Miss Mara
  ...acrobat on tight wire—before developing a famous tight wire duo, [[The Tonitos]], with his brother Jorge. ...and a slide to heel-catch in full swing, which had been a specialty of the great Australian trapeze artist [[Winnie Colleano]]. Mara worked at dizzying heig
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• Charlie Rivel
  ...lowns ever to have achieved true international stardom. Like [[Grock]] and the [[Les Fratellini|Fratellinis]] before him, Rivel was beloved all over Europ ...nal clown character that stands as one of the twentieth century's greatest circus icons.
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• Egorov Troupe
  ...he learned a wide range of circus disciplines. (Amateur Circus troupes are the Russian equivalents of Youth Circuses—albeit at a much higher level o ...he performed for twelve years, both in Russia and abroad with the [[Moscow Circus]].
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• The Knie Dynasty
  ==Knie: The Swiss National Circus== ...ng Friedrich left his studies without a second thought and went on to roam the country with a small company of traveling performers.
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• Cirque d'Hiver
  ==Cirque Napoléon, Cirque National, Cirque d'Hiver== ...eloup: The Cirque d’Hiver is therefore quite noticeable, practically "on the Boulevards."
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• Gunther Gebel-Williams
  ...round the world, one of the greatest animal trainers of the second half of the twentieth century. ...l bars. Needless to say, Gunther's early childhood was far from happy, and the advent of World War II would further tear apart his already dysfunctional G
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• Tom Dougherty
  ...ness in any way. Yet Tom’s grandfather, Adolf L. Müller, who was one of the main architects of Brooklyn’s historic Williamsburg Savings Bank building ...actor: “We had a rehearsal and they offered me a contract at the end of the day.”
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• Pieric
  ..., however, has chosen this arduous specialty, and he has performed it with great success for more than three decades, in addition to being a talented august ...of Brittany in France. The people of Brittany are mariners, and fittingly, the Furics were a family of sailors. But if Pierre was as good a sailor as coul
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• The Indian Circus
  ...orted to methods that have fortunately vanished more than a century ago in the western world. [[File:Rambo_Circus_(2011).jpeg|thumb|right|375px|Rambo Circus (2011)]]
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• Johnny Hutch
  ...n reruns), as a sidekick of comedian Benny Hill in Thames Television’s ''The Benny Hill Show''. ...ny was rather short for his age (in adulthood, he was five feet tall), and the jobs available around were not for him. So, his father suggested that Johnn
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• Russia's First National Circus
  ...their merry-go-rounds, but the presence of the theater had since redeemed the square's prestige, and Guerra found himself in ideal surroundings. .... Guerra was a remarkable trick-rider, famous for his aggressive manner in the ring (which he also displayed in private life), and which got him a nicknam
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• Anhui Acrobatic Troupe
  ...for centuries, a linear evolution aimed towards the extreme refinement of the skills involved in a particular art form. ...inese tradition aims towards the perfection of already known elements, and the integration of new elements into an existing mold.
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• Bertram Mills
  ==Circus Owner and Director== ...e "King of the Modern Circus," indicating the unrivalled position in which the showman was revered.
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• Cyril Mills
  ==Circus Owner and Director== ...break for National Service in the Royal Air Force. After the Bertram Mills Circus closed down in 1967, he and Cyril Mills remained close friends.''
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• Leonid Engibarov
  ...Russian pop music—among others. And Leonid Engibarov for the Russian circus. ...odied the moods of a new Soviet youth, which danced the twist, listened to the Beatles, and tried to erase three decades of Stalinist tyranny.
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