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Britannica 11th

Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition

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Trapeze

Britannica 11th

TRAPEZE, or TRAPESE, a form of swing, consisting of a crossbar suspended by ropes and used for gymnastic exercises, acrobatic displays and the like. The name was so applied in French (trapeze) from the resemblance of the apparatus to a " trapezium " or irregul ...

Vol. 27, pp. 213-213 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 330.0
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Britannica 11th

TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- ), English actor and manager, was born in London, on the I7th of December 1853, the son of Julius Beerbohm, a London merchant of German parentage; his half-brother, Max Beerbohm (b. 1872), became well known as a dramatic criti

Vol. 27, pp. 234-234 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 32.73
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