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- Performance (3170 bytes)
17: ** [[Circus (performing art)|circus]] acts - Theodora (6th century) (3433 bytes)
4: ...e society, the daughter of a bearkeeper for the [[circus]]. Much of the information from this earliest par... - Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
4: ... an unmarried laundress, Suzanne Valadon became a circus acrobat at the age of 15 until a fall ended her c...
10: ...ings and fine paintings, encouraged her efforts. Unlike many of her peers, Valadon received acclaim an...
18: ... intimate relationship with Valadon would be the only relationship of the kind in his life, leaving hi...
37: * [http://www.xs4all.nl/~androom/index.htm?biography/p001790.htm Short Va... - Pipe organ (24478 bytes)
5: ...s range in size from portable instruments having only a few dozen pipes to grand organs having tens of...
7: Pipe organs are most commonly found in [[church]]es, and in some [[Reform Juda...
27: ...edecessor of the instrument used in ancient Roman circus games and similar to a modern [[portative]].
31: ...mmensely loud; this instrument was used in games, circuses, amphitheatres, and processions. Characteristi...
35: ...d secular music, in a variety of settings--since unlike other organs, they were easily moved. - Wisconsin (18812 bytes)
169: ...aboo, Wisconsin|Baraboo]], pop. 10,717, home of [[Circus World Museum]] - St. Peter's Basilica (17805 bytes)
8: ...he current location is probably the site of the [[Circus of Nero]] in the first century. After [[Constanti...
14: ...io/Roma/Rome/_Texts/Lanciani/LANPAC/3*.html#sec16 Circus of Nero and the old and new Basilicas superimpose...
17: ...1st century]] to stand in [[Circus Maximus|Nero's Circus]] some 275 yards away. Including the cross on top...
31: ...cedil;ade and the interior is the [[portico]]. Mainly designed by Maderno, it contains an [[18th centu...
33: ...ico Consorti]] ([[1950]]), which is by tradition only opened for great celebrations such as [[Jubilee ... - Swing (seat) (996 bytes)
2: ...obatics|acrobats]] in a [[Circus (performing art)|circus]], or on a [[porch]] for relaxing. - Christianity (47078 bytes)
14: ...generally believe that faith in [[Jesus]] is the only way to achieve salvation and to enter into [[hea...
45: ... organization the Christian church had to deal mainly with occasional, but sometimes severe persecutio...
54: This was only the first of several [[ecumenical council|ecumen...
58: ...us Christus]]'' (Christ alone—is Jesus the only mediator between humanity and God, or do the Chu...
62: ... governed by avowed [[atheism|atheist]]s, though only [[Albania]] was officially atheistic. Adherents ... - Los Angeles Dodgers (23879 bytes)
7: ... the ''Superbas'' (under manager Ned Hanlon -- "Hanlon's Superbas" was the name of an acrobatic troup ...
23: ...en known won two successive pennats under [[Ned Hanlon]] in 1899 and 1900.
25: In 1902 Hanlon expressed his desire to buy a controlling inter...
28: ...decided to sketch an exaggerated version of famed circus clown [[Emmett Kelly]] to represent the Dodgers i...
32: *The only Brooklyn World Series title came in [[1955 World... - Timeline of Ancient Rome (22347 bytes)
11: ...[Lucius Tarquinius Priscus]]: building of the ''[[Circus Maximus]]'', [[Rome]] gets the first system of se... - Elephant (13277 bytes)
21: '''Elephantidae''' (the '''elephants''') is the only extant [[family (biology)|family]] in the [[orde...
44: ... of fruits, seeds and flowers. Because elephants only use 40% of what they eat they have to make up fo...
48: ...ngers" at the tip of their trunks, as opposed to only one.
55: ...atomy as well. African ivory hunters, by killing only tusked elephants, have given a much larger chanc...
56: It is possible, if unlikely, that continued selection pressure could bri... - Julius Caesar (50670 bytes)
13: ...he Marius party through family connections. Not only was he Marius' nephew, he was also married to Co...
30: ...ws which were designed to grant Pompey the Great unlimited powers in dealing with Cilician Pirates in ...
32: ...a young Senator, and Crassus’ support certainly made it an achievable task for Caesar. All the w...
34: ...c games on state holidays and management of the [[Circus Maximus]]. Caesar indebted himself to the point o...
40: [[63 BC]] was an especially difficult year, not only for Caesar, but for the [[Roman Republic]] itsel... - Caesar Augustus (50559 bytes)
10: ...edonia]] before dying when Octavian was a boy of only 4 years old in [[58 BC]]. More importantly, his ...
25: ...us Antonius]], essentially ignored Octavian. Not only did he disregard Caesar’s will, but made n...
38: ...tradition through the use of military force. The only limit on their powers was the five year time lim...
40: ...all, some 300 Senators were proscribed, but most only faced confiscation of property. Members of the T...
87: ...d virtuous Roman wife" Octavia in the same year. Unlike Caesar before him, who propped Cleopatra up po... - Nero (23127 bytes)
8: ...on Nero may not be reliable. These works were mainly written by [[Suetonius]] and [[Tacitus]], both o...
14: ...in [[Antium]] (modern day [[Anzio]]), he was the only son of [[Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (1st centur...
23: ...Augustus]]. His maternal uncle [[Caligula]] had only started his own reign on [[March 16]] of that ye...
25: ...tering uncle, apparently implying that he was as unlikely to become Augustus as Claudius.
27: ...usilla's sudden death in [[38]] would apparently only serve to ensure this belief: she was reportedly ... - Roman architecture (3399 bytes)
3: ...e-[[dimension]]al counterpart, the [[dome]]. The only two developments of any significance were the Tu...
17: * [[Circus Maximus]], in [[Rome]], [[Italy]] - Amphitheatre (4978 bytes)
3: ..., an amphitheatre differs from a [[Circus Maximus|circus]], which was used for racing and looked more like... - Charles Lindbergh (11557 bytes)
26: ...kidnappers. More than three years later, a media circus ensued when the man accused of the murder, [[Brun...
31: ...nklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]] openly questioned his loyalty.
75: [[nl:Charles Lindbergh]] - Pirate (23151 bytes)
2: ... on shore. These acts are known as ''piracy''. Unlike the [[stereotype|stereotypical]] pirate with [...
38: ...is of note in [[international law]] as it is commonly held to represent the earliest invocation of the...
46: ...some surprising facts about pirate organization. Unlike traditional Western societies of the time, man...
60: ...irates are not interested in the cargo and are mainly interested in taking the personal belongings of ...
68: * Unlawful seizure of items or the ship - Phoenix, Arizona (34271 bytes)
111: ...dash;can occur during any month of the year, but only happen an average of once or twice per year some...
115: ...[1896]] it has accumulated to 0.1 inch (0.25 cm) only 7 times. The heaviest snowstorm occurred on Jan...
458: *[[Bil Keane]] - cartoonist, [[Family Circus]] - Amusement park (17293 bytes)
40: ... second-largest theme park company in the world, only rivalled in size by Disney itself.
42: ...st Legoland opened in [[Billund, Denmark]]). The only limit to future theme park ventures is one's ima...
45: * [[Circus_Circus#Adventuredome_Theme_Park|Adventuredome]], [[Las V...
48: * [[Bobbejaanland]], [[Belgium]]
76: * [[Linnanmä«©]], [[Helsinki]], [[Finland]]
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