Every school was a big top circus tent, and the pecking order went from acrobats to lion tamers, from clowns to carnies, all of these miles ahead of who we were.

If you watched a Samurai movie or two you can tell that the "Japanese" fighting in the movie is simply the same "Kung-fu" (Really circus acrobats) stunt men doing the same things except with a Japanese sword.

Soon, Dickson's Kinetoscope would become an enormous success as a new way of entertainment, with many people eager to pay the nickel that was charged to be able to watch people dancing, or acrobats performing stunts through the "peepshow" of the Kinetoscope.

Alongside these linguistic programs are seasonal performances by touring Chinese acrobats.

Two or three ran and clambered from one window to another with the agility of acrobats.

That gentleman was a sort of Barnum, the director of a troupe of mountebanks, jugglers, clowns, acrobats, equilibrists, and gymnasts, who, according to the placard, was giving his last performances before leaving the Empire of the Sun for the States of the Union.

It is useless to describe the astonishing performances of the acrobats and gymnasts.

After the instruments came rich chariots filled with acrobats, dancers male and female, grouped artistically, with wands in their hands.

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