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  2. Ella Ewing - Wikipedia

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    Ewing's maximum height is a matter of dispute, but in several accounts she was claimed to be over eight feet tall. Her mother's journal indicated that Ella's growth finally stopped when she was age twenty-two, at 8 feet, 4 inches tall. [3] However, this is not well documented, and as such she is not mentioned in Guinness World Records. The ...

  3. List of circus skills - Wikipedia

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    Circus schools and instructors use various systems of categorization to group circus skills by type. Systems that have attempted to formally organize circus skills into pragmatic teaching groupings include the Gurevich system [1] (the basis of the Russian Circus School's curriculum) and the Hovey Burgess system.

  4. Marawa Ibrahim - Wikipedia

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    The solo show covered a history of exoticism in women and performance, including such women as: Saartjie Baartman, Josephine Baker, Koringa, and Yma Sumac. [9] Each act was based on one of the featured women and Ibrahim's circus skills, which included: trapeze, hoops, the ladder of swords, high-heeled skates, dance of the seven veils , and a ...

  5. The amazing 'strong-women' of the early 1900s - AOL

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    In the late 1800s and early 1900s, a new breed of women started to emerge from the depths of circus tents around the world: the strong-woman. These women quickly drew large crowds of circus lovers ...

  6. Clarence Chesterfield Howerton - Wikipedia

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    Clarence Chesterfield Howerton (February 9, 1913 – November 18, 1975), also known as Major Mite, was an American circus performer who starred in the sideshow for over 25 years, 20 of which were with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. He was 2 ft 4 in (0.71 m) tall and performed with several groups from the early 1920s through the ...

  7. Katie Sandwina - Wikipedia

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    Sandwina's record of an overhead lift of 296 pounds (129 kg) stood for many years until being eclipsed by women's weightlifter Karyn Marshall in 1987. [4] [5] [6] Reporter Marguerite Martyn described her act when the circus came to St. Louis, Missouri, in 1911: At the moment she was twirling her husband about in dizzy circles above her head . . . .

  8. Pic showing Simone Biles and Shaquille O’Neal’s height ...

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    The 4-foot-8 Biles, who wowed sports lovers when she and Team USA won gold during the women’s gymnastics team final July 30, wears a strappy white top and a short black skirt in the photo, while ...

  9. Leotard - Wikipedia

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    For floor and vault, gymnasts wear a pair of very short shorts over the singlet. For their other events, they wear a pair of long pants attached to the bottom of their feet with stirrups. Unlike women's uniforms, which generally employ metallic or iridescent fabrics, men's uniforms are usually matte-colored and less ornate.

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