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He burst into a fairground tent and there, before him, was Mr Electrico in his chair, with a sparking sword.
ECONOMIST: Ray Bradbury
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She evokes the universe in which we carelessly frolic as an unknowable, shadowy place where invisible terrors are likely to pop up when we least expect them like grinning skeletons in a fairground tunnel-of-love.
ECONOMIST: New American fiction
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West Berlin, meanwhile, had transformed itself into a giant fairground, and the Wall was its biggest ride.
BBC: Eyewitness: The night the Wall came down
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The event will feature dancing, street entertainment, a children's fairground, and vintage vehicles.
BBC: Camborne celebrates inventor Richard Trevithick
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In 1932, an itinerant troupe of stunt and race fliers at a New Orleans waterfront fairground attracts the attention of Burke Devlin (Rock Hudson), an ambitious and colorful journalist.
NEWYORKER: The Tarnished Angels
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And in Cardiff, more than 50, 000 people gathered in the streets around the civic centre to watch bands, take a turn on the fairground rides or take to the ice in the council's Winter Wonderland rink.
BBC: Celebrations were toned down in the wake of the tsunami
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However, when the state fair is held in October, it is illegal to bring a loaded gun to the fairground because of the large crowds, authorities said.
CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS
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General Motors, under pressure to create a midprice blockbuster sport utility with the look of a macho Hummer, relied on input from 481 people summoned to a building on an empty fairground in southern California in June 2001.
FORBES: Have It Your Way
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Greeted everywhere by flower-pelting citizens, addressing a crowd of more than a million in the New Delhi Fairground, touring the sacred Taj Mahal, General Eisenhower added luster to his legacy in the twilight of his presidency.
NPR: Bush's India Travels Are Shadowed by War
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On Brighton's Palace Pier, where the Noble Organisation has invested in a dazzling array of slot machines and fairground rides, entry is free, as are deckchairs in which to sit and watch the sights of London-by-the-sea.
ECONOMIST: Musings on a favourite memento mori
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You make money by charging the owners of venues looking to attract the leagues to their establishments--a bar, restaurant, church, school or fairground, for example.
FORBES: Busted