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    Tightrope walking, also called funambulism, is the skill of walking along a thin wire or rope. It has a long tradition in various countries and is commonly...
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    people, both in the UK and all over the world. Skelton walked a 150-metre tightrope between chimneys at Battersea Power Station, 66 metres above ground, to...
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    Other skills similar to tightrope walking include slack rope walking and slacklining. High wire act Korean tightrope-walking, Jultagi Tumbling is an acrobatic...
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    Charles Blondin (category Tightrope walkers)
    three times and had eight children. His name became synonymous with tightrope walking. Blondin was born on 28 February 1824 in Hesdin, Pas-de-Calais, France...
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  • walker, or tightrope walker in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tightrope walking is the art of walking along a thin wire or rope. Tightrope or Tight rope...
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    Nik Wallenda (category Tightrope walkers)
    acts as a child. He made his professional tightrope walking debut at the age of 13, and he chose high-wire walking as his career in 1998 after joining family...
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  • Walking a Tightrope (French: Les Équilibristes) is a 1991 French drama film written and directed by Nikos Papatakis. It was screened in competition at...
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    Slacklining (category Tightrope walking)
    Slacklining is similar to slack rope walking and tightrope walking. Slacklines differ from tightwires and tightropes in the type of material used and the...
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    the head, lies in the arms of his mother after an accident during a tightrope walking performance. The light in the painting is centered on the child and...
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  • The Walk (2015 film) (category Tightrope walking)
    photo of the Twin Towers in a magazine. Analyzing it, he dreams of walking a tightrope between the towers. Meanwhile, he is evicted from his parents' house...
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  • Adili Wuxor (category Tightrope walkers)
    a Chinese tightrope walker who was reported to have set a new world record on July 1, 2010, after he spent 60 days walking on a tightrope in the Bird's...
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    in 472 films. The Twin Towers were also used in Philippe Petit's tightrope-walking performance on August 7, 1974. Following the September 11 attacks...
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    publicity in 2007 at Higashiyama Zoo when he was 10 years old by tightrope walking. Shabani was the subject of further media attention in 2015, described...
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  • Spanish web Springboard Stage combat Static trapeze Stilt walking Teeterboard Tightrope walking Trampolining Trapeze Trick riding Trick roping Tumbling...
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  • brothers and members of the Buggy Pirates that are excellent tightrope walkers. The Tightrope Walking Funan Bros are voiced by Tetsu Inada, Osamu Ryutani, and...
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  • Tightrope is a 1984 American neo-noir psychological mystery crime action thriller film directed and written by Richard Tuggle and produced by and starring...
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    study in a circus school where he learned juggling, unicycling and tightrope walking. From 21 May to 29 June 1980 he played Trebonius/Marullus/Poet in...
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  • Williams accompany Lamar on the dockyard, while La'Donna is seen tightrope walking in the clouds. At Nickerson Gardens, Lamar hangs out with his former...
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  • The Great Wallendas, a made-for-TV movie about the family, aired. Tightrope walking Circus Flora "A Circus Fire Survivor's Story". The Hartford Circus...
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  • sci-fi puzzles leave things." The Economist described the film as "tightrope-walking the fine line between open-ended, mind-expanding mystery and lethargic...
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    Japanese acrobatic theatre, Sangaku, which included fire eating, tightrope walking, juggling and early illusion. In Europe, it developed into yet a third...
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  • different saints. Her family was a travelling troupe and her act was tightrope walking, making her extremely agile and light-footed. She was kidnapped by...
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    (Korean: 줄타기) or eoreum (어름) is traditional Korean performance of tightrope-walking. It is included into South Korea's Important Intangible Cultural Properties...
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  • Man on Wire (category Tightrope walking)
    on 7 June 2019. Retrieved 31 January 2014. A.O. Scott (25 July 2008). "Walking on Air Between the Towers". The New York Times. Archived from the original...
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  • World Highwire Championships (category Tightrope walking)
    Held May 3–5, 2007 in Seoul, Korea during the city's annual Hi Seoul Festival, the competition is a test of balance, agility, concentration and, more specifically...
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    Karl Wallenda (category Tightrope walkers)
    portal Tightrope walking "Wallenda's History". The Flying Wallendas. Archived from the original on November 1, 2010. Wallenda, Tino (2005). Walking the Straight...
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  • performance skills by picking up tricks from a local circus troupe, such as tightrope walking, inverted rope-climbing, kicking/flipping up from the ground (known...
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    Philippe Petit (category Tightrope walkers)
    Petit became known to New Yorkers in the early 1970s for his frequent tightrope-walking performances and magic shows in the city parks, especially Washington...
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  • Manolopoulos: "A Migrant's Hopeful Dawn" (2015) Dimitrios Troaditis: "Tightrope Walking" (2017) He was also a contributor translator of Alexandros Papadiamantis...
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  • arts since the 1970s. His photographs helped Philippe Petit plan his tightrope-walking stunt between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974 and...
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