In 1963, at the age of eight, he appeared in Jack Palance's ABC circus drama The Greatest Show on Earth.

Among his best-known films are Cleopatra ; Samson and Delilah ; The Greatest Show on Earth, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture ; and The Ten Commandments, which was his last and most successful film.

Paulette Goddard's refusal to risk personal injury in a scene involving fire in Unconquered cost her DeMille's favor and probably a role in The Greatest Show on Earth.

DeMille was, however, adept at directing " thousands of extras ", and many of his pictures included spectacular set pieces, such as the parting of the Red Sea in both versions of The Ten Commandments, the toppling of the pagan temple in Samson and Delilah, train wrecks in The Road to Yesterday, Union Pacific and The Greatest Show on Earth, and the destruction of a zeppelin in Madame Satan.

Also representative of his penchant for the spectacular was the 1952 production of The Greatest Show on Earth which gave DeMille an Oscar for best picture and a nomination for best director.

In his book, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, biologist Richard Dawkins grapples with the question of why pain has to be so very painful.

A " Museum Show " which might be deceptively billed as " World's Greatest Freaks Past and Present ," is a sideshow in which the exhibits are usually not alive.

* List of South Africans – Voted 14th in the TV Show 100 Greatest South Africans

St. Louis posted an NFL-best 14-2 regular season record led by quarterback Kurt Warner and " The Greatest Show on Turf " offense.

The Rams ' 1999 – 2001 offense, nicknamed " The Greatest Show on Turf ," is widely considered one of the best in NFL history.

Trinidad and Tobago's Carnival is also known as The Greatest Show on Earth, and it definitely is.

The Carnival in Brazil is a big part of the Brazilian Culture, and it is sometimes referred to by the Brazilians as the " Greatest Show on Earth ".

The Greatest Show on Earth is a 1952 drama film set in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and starring Betty Hutton, Cornel Wilde, and Charlton Heston.

A television series, also called The Greatest Show on Earth, was inspired by the film, but with Jack Palance in the role of Charlton Heston's character.

and of the men and women who fight to make it — The Greatest Show on Earth!

Brad bargains to keep the circus on the road as long as it is making a profit, thus keeping the 1, 400 performers and roustabouts who make Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus ' the Greatest Show On Earth working.

However, the plot and cameos play second fiddle to the documentary-like look at The Greatest Show On Earth in its last years under canvas.

At the time the movie was filmed, John Ringling North was the owner of The Greatest Show On Earth.

In 1952, Bosley Crowther called The Greatest Show on Earth a " lusty triumph of circus showmanship and movie skill " and a " piece of entertainment that will delight movie audiences for years ":

In 2005, " The Official Razzie Movie Guide: Enjoying The Best of Hollywood's Worst " includes The Greatest Show On Earth.

In 2006, in an article for MSNBC about the 78th Academy Awards selection of Crash as Best Picture, Erik Lundegaard called Crash the " worst Best Picture winner since the ' dull, bloated ' film The Greatest Show on Earth "

Another likely reason The Greatest Show On Earth was voted Best Picture of 1952 was that it was seen as a " last chance " vote for Cecil B. DeMille, to honor him for a lifetime of film making going well back into the silent movie era.

It may be that the members of the Academy ( which included many veterans of the silent era ) felt that as an elder statesman of Hollywood, he deserved the honor even if films like The Quiet Man, High Noon, Singin ' in the Rain, and Ivanhoe were seen as better than The Greatest Show On Earth.

The Greatest Show on Earth was the first film that director Steven Spielberg saw and he credits it as one of the major inspirations that led him into a film career.

In Steven Spielberg's remake of War of the Worlds, in an early scene the children of Tom Cruise's character are seen channel-surfing on their television, and the train-wreck scene from The Greatest Show On Earth is being broadcast.

Barb Wire was a superhero published by Comics Greatest World, an imprint of Dark Horse Comics.

In 2000 the fourth series, Blackadder Goes Forth, ranked at 16 in the " 100 Greatest British Television Programmes ", a list created by the British Film Institute.

In a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes, drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000 and voted for by industry professionals, Blackadder Goes Forth placed 16th.

There are also many different versions of Holly's " Greatest Hits " as well as covers / compilation albums of Buddy's songs performed by various artists.

* Into the Bermuda Triangle: Pursuing the Truth Behind the World's Greatest Mystery by Gian J. Quasar, International Marine / Ragged Mountain Press ( 2003 ) ISBN 0-07-142640-X ; contains list of missing craft as researched in official records.

* In 2002, on a UK poll broadcast by the BBC, Chaplin was ranked number 66 on a list of the 100 Greatest Britons.

It went on to be declared one of the best albums of all time by Rolling Stone magazine in their 500 Greatest Albums of All Time issue in 2003.

The first major artist to have his entire catalogue converted to CD was David Bowie, whose 15 studio albums were made available by RCA Records in February 1985, along with four Greatest Hits albums.

While the compositions and performances were credited to " Jimmy Thudpucker ", they were in fact co-written and sung by Brewer, who also co-wrote and provided the vocals for " Ginny's Song ", a 1976 single on the Warner Bros. Label, and Jimmy Thudpucker's Greatest Hits, an LP released by Windsong Records, John Denver's subsidiary of RCA Records ).

The Detroit River became the busiest commercial river in the world and was dubbed " the Greatest Commercial Artery on Earth " by The Detroit News in 1908.

On June 5, 2005, Lucas was named among the 100 " Greatest Americans " by the Discovery Channel.

Greatest common divisors can in principle be computed by determining the prime factorizations of the two numbers and comparing factors, as in the following example: to compute gcd ( 18, 84 ), we find the prime factorizations 18 = 2 · 3 < sup > 2 </ sup > and 84 = 2 < sup > 2 </ sup > · 3 · 7 and notice that the " overlap " of the two expressions is 2 · 3 ; so gcd ( 18, 84 ) = 6.

* Greatest Common Measure: The Last 2500 Years, by Alexander Stepanov

Several magazines and websites have compiled what they intend as lists of the greatest guitarists — for example The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time by Rolling Stone magazine, or 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time by Guitar World magazine.

The character was ranked as the 8th Greatest Villain by Wizard on its 100 Greatest Villains of All Time list.

In 2005, he was voted the 4th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.

In 2000, Abdul ’ s Paula Abdul: Greatest Hits CD was released by Virgin Records ( with whom Abdul was already no longer affiliated ).

Paula Abdul's second greatest-hits CD, Greatest Hits: Straight Up !, was released by Virgin Records on May 8, 2007.

" Another example of this bias was that the album Nevermind, by grunge band Nirvana, was given three stars in its original review, despite being placed at No. 17 in " The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time " list in 2003.