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• Norman Barrett
  ...-up comedian: "A smashing bloke and a very very nice man… A loyal friend and a very very very nice man." Quite an amazing epitaph for anybody! ===Barrett’s Canadian Circus===
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• Erhard and Christiane Samel
  ...ould add two ligers (a cross between a lion and a tiger), a black leopard, and finally, a boa to this rather varied jungle family. ...t [[Circus Busch|Zirkus Busch-Berlin]], where she and her husband, worked, and became increasingly involved with the care of their animals, until she even
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• Rogana
  ...ved a specialty that had not been seen for a long time in the circus—and their act was subsequently widely copied by other artistes. ...England at Blackpool's [[Tower Circus]] in 1952, and at the [[Kelvin Hall Circus]] in Glasgow, Scotlamd, for the 1952-53 winter season.
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• The Rogge Sisters
  ...revived a specialty that had not been seen for a long time in the circus—and their act was subsequently widely copied by other artistes. ...England at Blackpool's [[Tower Circus]] in 1952, and at the [[Kelvin Hall Circus]] in Glasgow, Scotlamd, for the 1952-53 winter season.
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• The Flying Caceres
  ...and when he was about thirteen years old, Miguel "ran away and joined the circus," as they say. ...eras, with Miguel as their main flyer, participated in the [[International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo]] in 1977.
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• Arturo Castilla
  ==Circus Director and Impresario== ...ns and marketing, his foresight of the emerging sport arenas’ potential, and the pioneering of trans-national synergies between major European circuses.
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• Ali Hassani
  ==Acrobat, Circus Owner== ''By Dominique Jando and Donald Stacey''
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• Nadia Houcke
  ...[[Alphonse Rancy]] (1861-1933). She belonged to genuine circus aristocracy and, not surprisingly, she was an equestrienne of great talent. ...e]] eventually turned into a unforgettable tiger trainer—and a major circus star when he became the first "Tarzan" of the big cage in the 1940s, wearin
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• Liaoning Acrobatic Troupe
  ...forms of performing arts, each of them characterized by a host of schools and styles. They have followed, for centuries, a linear evolution aimed towards ...e Chinese tradition aims towards the perfection of already known elements, and the integration of new elements into an existing mold.
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• Udarma
  ...contortion: In this remote Asian country (located between Russian Siberia and China), contortionists endowed with spiritual significance their unique abi Udarma went to work with [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] in the United States in 1988. In 1990, she participated in the [[Festival
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• Paul Jung
  ...oxes of Kellogg’s Sugar Smacks—and has been often used on European circus posters as a generic clown image. ...working for the Ringling organization, with ''The Greatest Show On Earth'' and other Ringling-owned circuses, for nearly half a century.
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• Freddy Osler
  ...Observatory, Cape Town, which defined the South African school of flyers, and produced most of them.) ...]] (catcher). There were not many great flying acts in Europe at the time, and the Flying Oslers began an impressive career that led them to practically a
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• Terry Cavaretta
  ...flyers of all time. A diminutive, eye-catching woman with a girlish charm and a luminous smile, she was for twenty-three years a headliner in Las Vegas, ..., born in 1949; the twins Maureen (Moe) and Marlene (Molli), born in 1951; and Darlene (Terry), the youngest.
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• Pinito del Oro
  ...as also courageous and resilient: she survived three near-fatal accidents, and each time resumed her precarious career on the trapeze. ...troubles, and in an area also totally devoid of competition. (The Spanish circus scene at the time was particularly active.)
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• William Woodcock, Jr.
  ...fans, who enjoyed testing his historical knowledge of the American circus, and his encyclopedic command of the history of elephants in the United States&m ...sconsin in 1854. As the feisty Babe would often say, "My family was in the circus when the Ringling brothers were still wearing wooden shoes."
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• Isabella Nock
  ...secutive seasons. Her heel catches on her swinging trapeze bar, barefooted and scantily clad in a sparkling bikini, made her act memorable wherever she wo ...) were originally itinerant rope-dancers, who performed on village squares and fairgrounds, their ropes strung between church spires or above the open-air
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• Lillian Leitzel Outdoors Video (c1928)
  ...in a publicity stunt in Chicago for [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus. (c.1928) — ''"The Crimson Petal" (by Fred Jewell), Lillian Leitzel's
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• The Suarez Troupe
  ...e years, as members of his family got married and occasional partners came and went, the composition of the troupe changed. His daughter Martha, a gifted ...West''. Enrique, Jr., has since become a major equestrian star of his own, and was featured for several seasons with the equestrian hit show, [[Cavalia]].
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• Julius Gleich
  ==Circus Owner== ...existence (1928-1937), but it was, in the early 1930s, one of the largest and most popular traveling circuses in Europe. It was emblematic of an era when
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• SHORT HISTORY OF THE CIRCUS
  ...common denominator between Roman and modern circuses is the word itself, ''circus'', which means in Latin as in English, "circle". ===Philip Astley: The Father Of The Modern Circus===
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