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One of the greatest female hand-balancers of her generation, Elena Vyacheslavovna Borodina was born July 23, 1973, in Moscow, Russia, in a well-to-do family of scientists: Her father was a geologist, and her mother, a nuclear physicist. But as a child, Elena had ambitions of a very different order: She wanted to be a ballet dancer and, at a very young age, she began to take ballet lessons. When she was nine, the required age to enter the Moscow State Academy of Choreography (better known as the Moscow Ballet School), Elena presented her candidature to the prestigious academy—the talent source of the Bolshoi Ballet. But she was then under medical treatment for a minor ailment, and that was enough for the Academy to refuse her application. Applicants had to be nine years old, not eight, nor ten: It was a one-shot-only opportunity, and young Elena was devastated... ([[Elena Borodina|more...]])
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A former pupil of [[Charles Hughes]]—Philip Astley's rival and the founder of London's Royal Circus—Ricketts was first noticed as the star equestrian of a troupe managed jointly by the actor-manager James Jones and the equestrian [[George Jones]] (no relation). The Joneses would later establish a permanent circus in Edinburgh, which their company had visited regularly. Jacob Decastro, Astley's and Hughes's first biographer, who saw Ricketts perform in Whitechapel with the Joneses, declared him "the first rider of real eminence"... ([[John Bill Ricketts|more...]])
  
 
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JOHN BILL RICKETTS

A former pupil of Charles Hughes—Philip Astley's rival and the founder of London's Royal Circus—Ricketts was first noticed as the star equestrian of a troupe managed jointly by the actor-manager James Jones and the equestrian George Jones (no relation). The Joneses would later establish a permanent circus in Edinburgh, which their company had visited regularly. Jacob Decastro, Astley's and Hughes's first biographer, who saw Ricketts perform in Whitechapel with the Joneses, declared him "the first rider of real eminence"... (more...)

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