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Wallenda, Karl
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(born 1905, Magdeburg, Ger.—died March 22, 1978, San Juan, P.R.) German-born U.S. circus acrobat. He founded the Great Wallendas acrobatic troupe, which achieved fame in Europe for its four-man pyramid and cycling on the high wire without a...
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Karl Wallenda (January 21, 1905 - March 22, 1978) was the founder of The Flying Wallendas, an internationally known daredevil circus act famous for performing death-defying stunts without a safety net. Karl was born in Magdeburg, Germany. The Great...


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Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and...


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The Independent - London
OBITUARY : Gunther Wallenda
04/19/1996: 1,364 words, approx. 5 pages
Gunther Wallenda was one of the few male members of his world- renowned circus family, the Great Wallendas, to die a natural death in old age. He was 68 and died from a heart attack. His uncle Willi was the first to die,...
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The Washington Post
Grounded for Years, Flying Wallenda Tries a Comeback
01/23/2005: 923 words, approx. 3 pages
Mario Wallenda says he doesn't remember anything about that day in January 1962 when he tumbled from a tightrope at the fairgrounds coliseum in Detroit, an accident that left him a paraplegic and forced his retirement from the family business. The adopted son...
 


 

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