Word: astley
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...Andrew Astley Fraser...
...Apple parades the usual assortment of acts. There are horse tricks, clowns, acrobats and a band. This array has changed surprisingly little in two hundred years. In 1770, Philip Astley, a skilled equestrian who could ride balanced on his head, brought together in one ring "Chinese Shadows, Tumbling, Slack-Rope Vaulting, Egyptian Pyramids" and a clown named Burt. Flocks of Londoners paid a shilling to see the show, the first modern circus...
...circus pioneer Philip Astley joined the family business. At age 10, John could dance a minuet on three horses and so impressed Marie Antoinette that she presented him with a gold medallion. Lord George Sander, who gave himself the title and was Great Britain's equivalent of P. T. Barnum, was also born into a circus family...