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• Nadia Houcke
  ...Alphonse Rancy]] (1861-1933). Nadia belonged to genuine circus aristocracy and, not surprisingly, she was an equestrienne of great talent. ...oucke]] eventually turned into a legendary 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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• 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. ...f competition. (The Spanish circus scene at the time was particularly rich and active.)
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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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• Circus Williams
  ==Carola Williams And Her Circus== ...of the twentieth century: [[Charly Baumann]], [[Gunther Gebel-Williams]], and [[Gerd Siemoneit]].
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• Gilbert Houcke
  ...have made his one of the great names of the twentieth century’s European circus. ...]], a French equestrian who had settled in Sweden, where he originated his circus dynasty in the 19th century.
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• Francis Brunn
  ...icks he performed (although they were spectacular) as the speed, precision and balletic quality of his act. ...ontego]] (1936-2016), who would also become a great juggler. (All siblings and their parents would eventually resettle in the U.S.)
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• Cirque Medrano (Paris)
  ...ife of its three historic directors: Louis Fernando, [[Geronimo Medrano]], and [[Jérôme Medrano]]. ...reign in January 1963 was an event attended by the Tout-Paris of the arts, and its demolition in December 1973 caused a massive uproar that eventually led
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• Gene Mendez
  ...h a wonderful “Latino” temperament, he worked without a balancing pole and without a net, in the manner of low wire artists such as [[Con Colleano]]. ...in his mother’s apartment! He quickly developed a talent for the craft, and eventually participated in a televised talent show in Philadelphia, where [
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• Circus Krone
  =="Größter Circus Europas"== ...t circus building in Munich, the Kronebau, has been home to regular winter circus productions since 1919.
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• Nouveau Cirque (Paris)
  ...cult to manage. It began to lose its prominence before the first World War and proved unable to adapt to the post-war era. ...-equipped to fight. Once a revolutionary and trendsetting house whose rich and often glorious life had lasted forty years, the Nouveau Cirque finally call
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• Franz Althoff
  ==Gröẞter Rennbahn-Circus Europas== ...ee-ring circus and the refinement and intimacy of the traditional European circus.
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• The Schumann Dynasty
  ==Equestrians, Circus Owners== ''By Dominique Jando and Johan Vinberg''
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• Barbette
  ...s act, which played with great artistry and flair on gender confusion, was and would remain unique. ...most important publication, ''Le numéro Barbette'', with texts by Cocteau and photographs by Man Ray, dates from 1980—seven years after Barbette's
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• Cirque Bureau
  ...tine was disturbed by World War II and the Nazi occupation of France—and Jules Glasner, its last director, had a hard time trying to restore its pla ==1. THE BUREAU BROTHERS' CIRCUS==
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