Anyone responsible for a travelling circus that uses wild animals in a performance will need to hold a valid licence, meet welfare standards and have a retirement plan for each animal.

BBC: Wild animals to be banned from circuses

This travelling circus is responsible for emitting at least 20, 000 tonnes of CO2 every year - about the same as the entire CO2 output of a small nation like Kiribati, or 4, 000 London households.

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Born in 1915, Piaf (Marion Cotillard) was raised in a brothel, a travelling circus, and the bars and streets of Paris, where she developed the voice somehow both metallic and throaty, coarse and soulful that electrified the French and, after the war, the Americans, too.

NEWYORKER: La Vie en Rose

They are all here Himmler, Goebbels, Speer, the entire fascinating, loathsome crew of commanders, mad visionaries, and toadies (all brilliantly acted) and, leading them still, a man so physically ill and constricted in movement that he looks like a broken-down puppet from a Bavarian travelling circus.

NEWYORKER: Downfall

It is clear that Ahmadinejad's purpose in travelling to New York is to ensure that the conference is a circus.

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