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The flea circus of Maxfield Rubbish, San Diego, CA (2009) A flea circus is a circus sideshow attraction in which fleas are attached (or appear to be attached) to miniature carts and other items, and encouraged to perform circus acts within a small housing.
The Batfink episode "Jumping Jewelry" (1967) features Professor Hopper, an owner of a flea circus, using his trained fleas to steal jewelry. A Sesame Street animation spotlighting the letter "F" features a ringmaster presiding over a flea circus whose performers all begin with "F"; one ends up injuring his foot and another ends up destroying ...
Professor Hopper is a criminal flea circus owner who uses his trained fleas to commit crimes. Roz the Schnozz is a criminal with a bloodhound-like nose. Lucky Chuck is a lucky criminal. Party Marty is a party-themed criminal who uses special party favors in his crimes. Professor Flippo is a mad scientist who invented a machine that turns things ...
This motion is critical to the use of film in a movie camera or movie projector. This is in contrast to a continuous mechanism, whereby the film is constantly in motion and the image is held steady by optical or electronic methods. The reason the intermittent mechanism "works" for the viewer is because of a phenomenon called persistence of vision.
A flea can jump 60 times its length in height and 110 times its length in distance, equivalent to a 1.8 m (6 ft) adult human jumping 110 m (361 ft) vertically and 200 m (656 ft) horizontally. Rarely do fleas jump from dog to dog. Most flea infestations come from newly developed fleas from the pet's environment. [6]
Altica (Neo-Latin from Greek ἁλτικός, haltikós, "jumper" or "jumping") is a large genus of flea beetles in the subfamily Galerucinae, with about 300 species, distributed nearly worldwide. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The genus is best represented in the Neotropical realm , well represented in the Nearctic and Palearctic , but occurs also in the ...
The species is known by common names such as clover springtail, [1] lucerne flea, [2] or lucerne earth flea. [3] Common names such as lucerne flea are misleading because, being a member of the Collembola, this species is not even remotely related to the fleas. Calling it a "flea" simply is a reference to its jumping ability and its small size. [4]
Fire breathing Guinness world record holder Fredrik Karlsson doing "The dragon's breath" Fire breathing A Jester fire breathing in slow motion Dragon's breath, where the fire breather continues to feed a full-sized flame Street performer fire breathing Fire breather Time-lapse composite of a breath of fire Fire breath 65 fire breathers perform simultaneously at Burning Man 2005 Fire breathing ...