Search results for "Circus" - New World Encyclopedia
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- [[Image:Circus Lion Tamer.jpg|400px|thumb|Nineteenth century etching ... either as part of an established circus or as an individual act. ...86 KB (13,304 words) - 17:35, 12 May 2023
- with the lifting of the Lateranense obelisk in the Circus Maximus (c. 357 C.E.). The maximum lifting capability of a single capstan can be established ...37 KB (5,784 words) - 20:21, 28 May 2024
- English. He was fascinated by theater and the circus; read avidly and widely, and delighted in drawing sketches and caricatures. He continued those activities ...36 KB (5,636 words) - 09:58, 26 January 2023
- as the House on the Rock near Spring Green and Circus World Museum in Baraboo also draw thousands of visitors annually, and festivals such as Summerfest ...35 KB (5,043 words) - 23:16, 17 May 2023
- Eris, said "through this whole crazy circus-like procedure, somehow the right answer was stumbled on. It’s been a long time coming. Science ...42 KB (6,097 words) - 17:02, 26 September 2023
- set up a 'roadside attraction' (a little circus-like setup) and charge admission for people to see a teapot walking a tightrope. The plan worked ...36 KB (6,032 words) - 22:05, 24 November 2022
- for the display, and was putting on a show in the circus, where he mingled with the people in the dress of charioteer or drove about in his chariot. ...39 KB (6,311 words) - 04:33, 11 March 2023
- The dog (Canis lupus familiaris or Canis familiaris) is usually considered to be humankind's first, and perhaps most important, domestic ...38 KB (6,036 words) - 11:04, 2 August 2023
- Image:London 501593 fh000027.jpg|Piccadilly Circus at night. Image:westminster.tube.station.jubilee.arp.jpg|The London Underground is the oldest ...41 KB (5,950 words) - 21:02, 3 November 2022
- enlisted Hamer for help controlling the "circus-like atmosphere," and only then did people move away from the car. Milner. ...42 KB (6,735 words) - 07:23, 17 November 2023
- with the dogs, as though they were performing in a circus." King and Wilson, 2003, 250. Yet another of the guards, however, called the youngest ...45 KB (6,796 words) - 18:51, 24 May 2024
- lessons from the dictionary, took him to the circus each year, and was the first to introduce his grandson to ice–a "miracle" found at the ...51 KB (8,034 words) - 07:37, 15 April 2024
- Shinjuku in Tokyo and Oxford Street and Picadilly Circus in London. The Sukhumvit area also serves as a shopping district for foreigners. The popular ...46 KB (6,646 words) - 03:29, 17 September 2023
- A small "circus" described by Leake proved to be a theatre-like building constructed soon after 200 C.E. around the altar and in front ...46 KB (7,079 words) - 19:09, 7 February 2023
- *Battle Circus (1951). A love story of a hard-bitten surgeon and a new nurse at a M.A.S.H. unit. It starred Humphrey Bogart and June Allyson ...51 KB (7,713 words) - 04:35, 4 March 2023
- means of publicity, Sunday also once hired a circus giant to serve as an usher. Knickerbocker, 145-146; McLaughlin, 11. When Sunday began to attract ...47 KB (7,375 words) - 22:05, 3 February 2022
- Comics #31 (Sept. 1939) Wayne takes in an orphaned circus acrobat, Dick Grayson, who becomes his sidekick, Robin. Batman also becomes a founding member ...56 KB (8,607 words) - 11:11, 20 September 2023
- 19. and also partly suggested by the traditional circus strong-man outfit.Grant Morrison, "Seriously, Perilously" The Herald (Glasgow) September ...61 KB (9,123 words) - 13:55, 28 April 2023
- in Los Angeles in 1949, for which he erected circus tents in a parking lot. He attracted national media coverage, especially in the conservative ...66 KB (9,276 words) - 17:37, 31 October 2023
- at Lake Michigan into something of a circus. The trip required a train ride from Dayton to Cincinnati; change trains for an overnight ride to ...67 KB (10,436 words) - 14:04, 20 May 2023
