The old wooden barriers of the Circus Maximus were replaced with ones made of gold-ornamented marble.

At the Circus Maximus, two armies of war captives, each of 2, 000 people, 200 horse and 20 elephants, fought to the death.

Tarquinius established the Circus Maximus.

The most famous of his great building projects is the Circus Maximus, a giant stadium used for chariot races.

Priscus followed up the Circus Maximus with the construction of the temple-fortress to the god Jupiter upon the Capitoline Hill.

Tarquin also engaged in a series of public works, notably the completion of the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus, and works on the Cloaca Maxima and the Circus Maximus.

* 495 BC: Temple to Mercury on the Circus Maximus in Rome is built

He participated as a gladiator and boasts of victory in 1, 000 matches in the Circus Maximus.

Model of ancient Rome in the Roman Empire | Imperial era, showing the Circus Maximus ( foreground ), the Colosseum ( top of picture ) and between them, the Palatine Hill | Palatine

Another view of the Circus Maximus

Over the several centuries of its development, the Circus Maximus became Rome's paramount specialist venue for chariot races.

The last known beast-hunt at the Circus Maximus took place in 523, and the last known races there were held by Totila in 549.

Ruins of the Circus Maximus ( 1983 )

* James Grout: Circus Maximus, part of the Encyclopædia Romana

* Circus Maximus Ipix 360 ° panorama

* Circus Maximus Art & History

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He was the most famous Bozo in Latin America and created his own version of Bozo's Circus, which traveled all along Latin America for decades.

The town's name could derives from the Latin Mont Circus Vallium, Mont Cuneus or montem cuci, meaning " cuckoo mountain ".

* 1st Academy Awards ( 1929 ): Special Award " for versatility and genius in acting, writing, directing and producing The Circus ".

Chaplin had originally been nominated for Best Production, Best Director in a Comedy Picture, Best Actor and Best Writing ( Original Story ) for The Circus.

Garfield ’ s Jim Davis, for example, switched with Blondie ’ s Stan Drake, while Scott Adams ( Dilbert ) traded strips with Bil Keane ( The Family Circus ).

A new section of the Circus was designated for seating the senators, who previously had sat among the general public.

Although land, as at Ludgate Circus and Lewisham, had been reserved for the second stage, the rising cost led to the project's indefinite postponement in the early 1980s.

In 1969, Chapman and Cleese joined the other Pythons including Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin for their sketch comedy show Flying Circus.

He produced scenes for the 20th anniversary of the first broadcast of Flying Circus that month, the last time he would appear on television, but he became ill again on 1 October.

Wanting to capitalize on the countries aviation craze, Fox immediately bought Hawks's original story for The Air Circus, a variation of the male friendship plot of A Girl in Every Port about two young pilots.

An 1843 poster for Pablo Fanque's Circus Royal describes how the Victorian circus employed a hogshead in a most unusual fashion.

) Although the fictitious faculty first appeared in the Bruces sketch in the TV show Monty Python's Flying Circus, the song itself was not included, making its debut on the album Matching Tie and Handkerchief as a coda for the sketch.

" The Funniest Joke in the World " is the title most frequently used for written references to a Monty Python's Flying Circus comedy sketch, which is also known by two other phrases that appear within it, " Joke Warfare " and " Killer Joke ", the latter being the most commonly spoken title used to refer to it.

As NCS president for two consecutive terms, Jeff Keane, cartoonist for the Family Circus and son of comic creator, Bil Keane, returned to the charter and spirit of the NCS by extending the society's outreach to the military by visiting and cartooning for vets who served in the Iraq War and Afghanistan War, during the years 2007-2011.

Artistic research has been defined by the University of Dance and Circus ( Dans och Cirkushögskolan, DOCH ), Stockholm in the following manner-" Artistic research is to investigate and test with the purpose of gaining knowledge within and for our artistic disciplines.

The first instance of the stop motion technique can be credited to Albert E. Smith and J. Stuart Blackton for The Humpty Dumpty Circus ( 1897 ), in which a toy circus of acrobats and animals comes to life.

Austin's latest release, Circus Girl, her first in eight years, is described as a series of stories interpreted by a strong woman, about women, and for women, and Sherrié feels it ’ s something her female fans have been clamoring for, for quite some time.

* Peckinpah's use of violence was parodied by Monty Python in Sam Peckinpah's " Salad Days ", one of the more controversial episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus, in which a lovely day out for an upper-class English family turns into a blood-soaked orgy of severed limbs and gushing wounds.

* Gilliam was also given a BAFTA Special Award in 1969 for the graphics and animations in Monty Python's Flying Circus.

His jobs included working as a talker ( barker, as the term is also known, isn't correct ) for the Wild Man of Borneo, performing a live burial act in which he was billed as " The Living Corpse ", and performing as a clown with the Ringling Brothers Circus.