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  2. Hyottoko - Wikipedia

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    Distraught, the old man carves a wooden mask of the baby, the eponymous Hyottoko, and hangs it within sight of the realm that it came from, in the hopes that it might one day return. Traditional dance. Hyottoko also appears in traditional dance dengaku (田楽). He plays the role of a clown.

  3. Pagliacci - Wikipedia

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    The incident stemmed from a series of perceived romantic entanglements involving Scavello, Luigi D'Alessandro, and a village girl with whom both men were infatuated. [3] Leoncavallo's father, a judge, presided as magistrate over the criminal investigation. [4] Leoncavallo originally titled his story Il pagliaccio (The Clown).

  4. Thaumatrope - Wikipedia

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    Babbage held the coin in front of a mirror, but Herschel showed how both sides were visible when the coin was spun on the table. A few days later Fitton brought Babbage a new illustration of the principle, consisting of a round disc of card suspended between two pieces of sewing silk. This disc had a parrot on one side and a cage at the other side.

  5. One popular theory: the Grimms' collection isn't a faithful rendering of the original women's stories. Unaware of their own masculine influence, they tweaked the tales — sometimes subtly, sometimes dramatically — transforming rich reflections of real women's experiences into the flat, silencing stories that inspired the patriarchal Disney ...

  6. 100 conversation starters to better understand the girl in ...

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    Say one thing, and you can derail an entire conversation that seemed to be getting a 10/10 ranking up until that point. Or perhaps you pose a pointed question, only to be met with an eye roll and ...

  7. Harlequinade - Wikipedia

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    He developed jokes, catch-phrases and songs that were used by subsequent Clowns for decades after his retirement in 1828, and Clowns were generically called "Joey" for four generations after him. [3] Clown became central to the transformation scene, crying "Here we are again!" and so opening the harlequinade.

  8. Cecily Strong on the Catharsis of Her Goober the Clown ... - AOL

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    Cecily Strong as Goober The Clown during Weekend Update on November 6, 2021 Credit - Will Heath—NBCU Photo Bank/Getty Images. O ne of the things I loved most when I was performing on Saturday ...

  9. Why one CEO hires the 'class clown' instead of the 'brainiac'

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    Jay Gould, CEO of the digital advertising company Yashi, knows a thing or two about creating a favorable work environment. His company was named one of the Best Places to Work in New Jerseyin 2015.