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• Cyril Mills
  ...tinent (following the disappointing news that [[The Ringling Brothers|John Ringling]] couldn’t bring over from America ''The Greatest Show On Earth'' to fill ...ip of his foot to his head while balancing on a unicycle; [[Little John]] (John Seidel), the twelve-year-old Danish Boy-Wonder equilibrist; [[Con Colleano]
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• Con Colleano
  ...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 At the end of their 1955 engagement with the Ringling Circus, Con and his wife returned to Australia but their attempt to settle
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• May Wirth
  ...rn on June 6, 1894 at Bundaberg, Queensland, in Australia, the daughter of John Edward Zinga, a circus artist from Mauritius (an island nation off the sout ...al trick rider." In Melbourne in 1906, aged twelve, she was billed as "May Ringling," the "American fearless hurricane hurdle rider." Like the most ''adroit''
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• Norman Barrett
  ...ills Circus was the [[The Hagenbeck Family|Hagenbeck]]-trained Austrian, [[John Gindl]], who developed Norman’s grounding in the training and presentatio ...er, chimpanzee expert [[Rudy Lenz]], with whom she spent many years with [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus in the United States—where Sue and
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• The Flying Caceres
  ...of 2012), was created by Miguel Caceres in 1982 for the 112th Edition of [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus. Born in Paz de Rio, Colombia on Decembe ...can become quite confusing), and within a few months, they were hired by [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]]. The Flying Segreras, with Miguel as their main
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• Arturo Castilla
  ...als a constellation of great equestrians ([[The Carré Dynasty|Carré]], [[John Gindl|Gindl]], [[The Mullens Family|Mullens]], [[The Picard Troupe|Picard]] ...c American circus posters (with the notable use of the attractive faces of Ringling’s iconic clowns [[Paul Jung]] and [[Lou Jacobs]])—developing a styl
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• Ali Hassani
  ...ited States, at the Stardust Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, and later with [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]]'s ''Greatest Show on Earth''. That same year, the Hassani Troupe were cast in John Glen’s James Bond film, ''Octopussy'' (released in1983), which marked the
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• Nadia Houcke
  In 1954, she was signed by [[John Ringling North]] to be featured in the [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] show, where she remained until 1956—the l
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• Pinito del Oro
  ...s most prestigious circuses, and had been a center-ring headliner with [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus in the United States for seven consecuti ...]]’s talent scouts, who offered her a contract in the United States with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, ''The Greatest Show On Earth''.
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• Jenda Smaha
  ...'' at the [[Circus World Museum]] in Baraboo, Wisconsin—in the old [[Ringling Bros. Circus]] winter quarters—and they settled in this history-rich ...fifties. Jenda presented Bertha in the Circus World Museum show, and when John Ascuaga’s Nugget Hotel & Casino in Sparks, Nevada, purchased the elephant
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• Isabella Nock
  ...n Europe’s major circuses in the 1970-80s, and was a featured act with [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus in the United States, where she and her ...la Nock—the most glamorous member of the family, who was billed with Ringling Bros. as "Europe’s Golden Goddess of the Swinging Trapeze."
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• File:Siegrist-Silbons 1916 (Glazier).png ...cond from the left (1916) — ''Photo: F.W. Glasier - The John & Mabel Ringling Museum of Arts, Glasier Glass Plate Negative Collection'' (1,500 × 1,363 (951 KB)) - 04:36, 11 June 2013

• SHORT HISTORY OF THE CIRCUS
  ...etersburg, Russia; that same year, one of his pupils, British equestrian [[John Bill Ricketts]] (1769-1802), opened the first circus in the United States, [[File:Ringling_Program_Cover_1940.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus on tour (1940)]]In 1825, [[Joshuah Purdy B
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• Circus Williams
  ...a talented cat trainer and, like Gunther, a center-ring attraction with [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus in the United States. Baumann found his ...s, in major Italian sport arenas. (Chances that an American circus such as Ringling would visit Franco’s Spain were rather slim!)
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• Unus
  ...most famous hand balancer in the circus business, thanks notably to [[John Ringling North]], who made him a true circus star in the United States and, conseque ...Circus Knie. According to North, Unus showed no interest in working for [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]], and the first meetings he had with the hand ba
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• Circus Sarrasani
  ...l Krone]], colleagues and admirers such as [[Jérôme Medrano]] and [[John Ringling North]], and even, four generations later, [[Bernhard Paul]].
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• Struppi Hanneford
  ..., who had just replaced the legendary [[Merle Evans]] at the helm of the [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus’s band. Finally, Struppi chose "Tatjan ...ad done with his tiger riding an elephant, and which he performed with the Ringling show which he had joined in 1970. The difference here was that Struppi was
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• File:Lorch Family Friedlander Poster.jpeg ...Lorch Family's Risley act (c.1915) — ''Document © The John & Mabel Ringling Museum of Art, Online Collections'' (1,098 × 1,500 (461 KB)) - 23:12, 7 January 2015

• John Herriott
  ...ndsay Herriott (1901-1962) and his wife, Viola (1905-1981), née Engesser. John was the second of their two children; he had an elder sister, Jean. ...hn_and_Milton_Herriott.jpg|thumb|left|250px|John & Milt Herriott (c.1950)]]John Herriott’s grandfather was Osmer Pike Herriott (1871-1936), who is said t
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• File:John Herriott Liberty Act.jpg John Herriott, liberty act, at [[Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey]] Circus (1970) — ''Photo: Herriott Archive * Biography: [[John Herriott]] (1,500 × 1,035 (435 KB)) - 19:17, 27 April 2015