Circus
Circus noun - A large usually roofless building for sporting events with tiers of seats for spectators.
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The only thing that you might consider frightening about this particular circus is that they brought a guillotine onto the stage and asked if someone wanted to die in the audience.
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Yuri and the Oswald siblings are more tragic examples: Yuri's dad died on-stage, and the Oswalds joined a circus after leaving their abusive step-parents... and Sophie later died.
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The Great Merlini, who appeared in four golden-age mystery novels by Clayton Rawson, was born to a family of circus acrobats and got his initial training in stage magic from the sideshow magician.
Source: Circus Brat
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