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Cirque du Soleil

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Cirque-du-Soleil-and-the-New-Circus.mp3 Author Kevin Shortsleeve Air Date 3/28/2002 Cirque du Soleil Transcript One wonders – how in this modern age of computer enhanced films and 3D amusement park rides can something as old fashioned as a circus survive? The truth is, that the circus – since it invention- has always been […]

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P. T. Barnum and the Circus

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/The-Circus.mp3 Author Rita Smith Air Date 7/5/2000 P. T. Barnum and the Circus Transcript July 5 is the birthday of P.T. Barnum, the man who in the 1870’s brought the American circus into its golden age. Over the next 50 years, the circus was one of the premier entertainment venues […]

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