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  Fair Events
Wallenda, 70, has been performing on the sway pole for 42 years and uses no safety net, said her husband, Mike Morgan.
Karl Wallenda, who once said, "Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting," fell to his death in 1978 at the age of 73.
In 1962, Carla Wallenda's brother was paralyzed and a cousin and brother-in-law died after falling from a seven-man high wire act in Detroit.
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  Circus Flora - Circus Stars - The Flying Wallendas
Tino Wallenda, grandson of the famed Karl Wallenda, represents the sixth generation of the famous Wallenda Family.
Karl Wallenda began to walk the high-wire in the early 1920s, and the family tradition is being carried on by several branches of the Wallendas.
To debut the intricate maneuver, the Wallendas premiered their feat for the Hamid Circus Royale during the 1998 Moslem Temple Shrine Circus in Detroit, which was the scene of the Wallendas greatest tragedy 36 years before.
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  CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Karl Wallenda was born in Magdeburg, Germany in 1905 to an old circus family, and began performing at the age of 6.
Herman Wallenda (11 June 1901 – January 1985), Karl's brother, was one of the survivors of the 1962 disaster in Detroit.
Karl Wallenda (21 January 1905 - 22 March 1978) was the founder and leader of the group until his death in San Juan in 1978.
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 CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Karl Wallenda (January 21, 1905 - March 22, 1978) was the founder of The Flying Wallendas, an internationally known daredevil circus act famous for performing death-defying stunts without a safety net.
On July 18, 1970, a 65-year-old Karl performed a high-wire walk across the Tallulah Gorge, a gorge formed by the Tallulah River in Georgia.
The Wallenda family attributes the tragedy to "several misconnected guy ropes along the wire" and not the windy conditions.
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 Karl Wallenda Information
Karl Wallenda (January 21, 1905 - March 22, 1978) was the founder of The Flying Wallendas, an internationally known daredevil circus act famous for performing death-defying stunts without a safety net.
On July 18, 1970, a 65-year-old Karl performed a high-wire walk across Tallulah Gorge, a gorge formed by the Tallulah River in Georgia.
In 1978, at age 73, Karl attempted a walk between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on a wire stretched 37 metres above the pavement, but fell to his death when winds exceeded 48 kilometres per hour.
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 Faughnan Genealogy
Karl told him to first obtain parental permission and visit the circus' winter headquarters in Sarasota in the fall.
Wearing white satin with green spangles, the Wallendas had built the pyramid and were moving in formation to the platform when Dieter Schepp, Karl Wallenda's nephew, who was on the bottom tier, reportedly lost his footing and fell, toppling the pyramid.
Mario Wallenda, Karl's son, also fell to the sawdust- and straw-covered floor and was paralyzed.
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  Karl Wallenda - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
On January 30, 1962, in Detroit, Michigan, Wallenda's son-in-law Richard Faughnan and nephew Dieter Schepp were killed and an adopted son Mario was paralyzed from the waist down when the pyramid collapsed.
Wallenda's sister-in-law Rietta fell to her death in 1963, and his son-in-law Richard ("Chico") Guzman was killed in 1972 after touching a live wire in the rigging.
Angel Wallenda (March 20, 1968 - May 3, 1996) married into the family in 1985, when she was 17, and began training on the wire.
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 Karl Wallenda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Wallenda sestra-v-právo Rietta klesal na její smrt v roce 1963 a jeho zeťe Richard (“Chico”) Guzman byl zabit v roce 1972 poté, co se dotýkal drátu pod napětím v lodní výstroji.
Karl sám, kdo v věku 73 pokusil se o procházku mezi dvěma hotely v San Juan, Puerto Rico, na drát se táhnul 37 m nad chodníkem, klesal na jeho smrt když větry překonaly 48 km/h.
Helena a Karl Wallenda byl ženatý v 1935.
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 Karl Wallenda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Karl Wallenda (January 21, 1905 - March 22, 1978) was the founder of The Flying Wallendas, an internationally known daredevil circus act famous for performing death-defying stunts without a safety net.
On July 18, 1970, a 65-year-old Karl performed a high-wire walk across the Tallulah Gorge, a gorge formed by the Tallulah River in Georgia.
The Wallenda family attributes the tragedy to "several misconnected guy ropes along the wire" and not the windy conditions.
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 Suchmaschine
Karl Wallenda was born in Magdeburg, Germany in 1905 to an old circus family, and began performing at the age of 6.
Herman Wallenda (11 June 1901 - January 1985), Karl's brother, was one of the survivors of the 1962 disaster in Detroit.
Karl Wallenda (21 January 1905 - 22 March 1978) was the founder and leader of the group until his death in San Juan in 1978.
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 Karl Wallenda
On January 30, 1962, in Detroit, Wallenda's son-in-law Richard Faughnan and nephew Dieter Schepp were killed and an adopted son Mario was paralyzed from the waist down when the pyramid collapsed.
Karl himself, who at age 73 attempted a walk between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on a wire stretched 37 m above the pavement, fell to his death when winds exceeded 48 km/h.
Helen and Karl Wallenda were married in 1935.
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 The Great (or Flying) Wallendas Biography - Biography.com
The family was headed by Karl Wallenda, the fifth generation of a Germancircus family, born in Magdenburg, Germany in 1905.
Karl Wallenda and fellow performer Helen Kreis were married in 1935.
While performing the seven-person wire-walking human pyramid to the strains of “The Washington Post March” in Detroit on January 30, 1962, Dieter Schepp, Karl Wallenda’s nephew, who was on the bottom tier, reportedly lost his footing and fell, toppling the pyramid to the concrete floor in front of 7,000 spectators.
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 Flying Wallenda, a Paraplegic goes for a comeback
The adopted son of Karl Wallenda, the patriarch of the famous Flying Wallenda family of high-wire performers, Mario was 21 when he wheeled himself away from the circus life.
Wallenda says he's always missed show business, and he could use the money to supplement his meager Social Security income, but mostly he just wants something to do that makes him feel alive and productive again.
The fourth anchorman remained standing, as Karl and his brother Herman fell to the wire from the second level and held on.
www.paralinks.net /paralinksarchives/mariowallenda.html   (890 words)

  
 Karl Wallenda - Encyclopedia.com
His wife, Helen Kreis (1910–96), joined the troupe in 1926 and later was balanced at the peak of the seven-person pyramid, the most famous of the Wallendas' acts.
Karl's nephew Gunther (1927–96) trained on the wire from age five; when a pyramid collapsed in 1962, Gunther was the only member left standing and rescued three who were clinging to the wire; two others were killed and one was paralyzed.
Karl died in a fall from a wind-whipped wire 123 ft (37 m) above a street in San Juan.
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 Karl Wallenda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Karl Wallenda (January 21, 1905 - March 22, 1978) was the founder of the Great Wallendas, an internationally known daredevil circus act famous for performing death-defying stunts without a safety net.
Karl himself, who at age 73 attempted a walk between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on a wire stretched 37 metres above the pavement, fell to his death when winds exceeded 48 kilometres per hour.
In 1987 her right leg had to be amputated, and in 1988 parts of both lungs were removed.
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 Karl Wallenda
Karl Wallenda (January 21, 1905 - March 22, 1978) was the founder of the Great Wallendas, an internationally known daredevil circus act famous for performing death-defying stunts without a safety net.
Wallenda's sister-in-law Rietta fell to her death in 1963, and his son-in-law Richard ("Chico") Guzman was killed in 1972 after touching a live wire in the rigging.
Angel Wallenda (March 20, 1968 - May 3, 1996) married into the family in 1985, when she was 17, and began training on the wire.
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 Wired | Sarasota Magazine
Karl "The Great" Wallenda is the best-known wire walker in history-his name a household word from the moment he moved his acrobatic Bohemian-German family to the United States in 1928.
Gunther Wallenda remained upright, Karl and Herman Wallenda grabbed the wire, and Karl snared Jana Schepp-Dieter's sister, who had been sitting in a chair at the top of the pyramid-as she fell.
Karl Wallenda only permitted his family to attempt the maneuver two more times: once the next year in Fort Worth, "to show that the family could keep going and the show must go on.
www.sarasotamagazine.com /Articles/Sarasota-Magazine/2006/02/Wired.asp   (1937 words)

  
 "Sit Down, Poppy, Sit Down!" | TIME
When Karl Wallenda was a boy in Germany, the story goes, he answered an ad asking for someone who could do a handstand.
So Karl Wallenda became a high-wire stunt man. Probably it was in his blood all along.
In 1947 Wallenda devised a more complicated form of his pyramid— seven people in three tiers, six men connected by shoulder bars and one young woman perched on top on a chair, all swaying at the edge of the void, preserved only by their incredible combination of skill, balance and courage.
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 EBTX - 10 Ways to Save Karl Wallenda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
he falling death of Karl Wallenda gave me many ideas about how to "walk the wire" more safely.
Karl stays on the roof and uses a "joy stick".
A youthful girlfriend of mine was in the stands at the first great Wallenda fall in Detroit.
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 EBTX - 10 Ways to Save Karl Wallenda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
he falling death of Karl Wallenda gave me many ideas about how to "walk the wire" more safely.
Karl stays on the roof and uses a "joy stick".
A youthful girlfriend of mine was in the stands at the first great Wallenda fall in Detroit.
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 Biography Page
­ 6th Generation Wallenda, began performing on the high wire with her grandfather Karl and the Great Wallendas at age 13 in New Orleans.
She is the first female Wallenda to hold the front position of the second level of The Seven.
Upon graduation, Dave auditioned for Karl Wallenda and became a part of the team for the next nine years.
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 The Flying Wallendas
In the early 20th century, Karl Wallenda was performing at the age of 6.
On this pole, Karl Wallenda would place a chair and balance himself on the chair while his future wife Helen stood on his shoulders.
In 1998, 21 years after the Wallenda family performed the last 7-person pyramid, they decided to do it once again in the exact place that the family had fallen in 1962.
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 The INSIDER Online: Celeb Central: High Wire Acts Gone Wrong!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
But at age 73, KARL WALLENDA, head of the Great Wallendas, fell 10 stories to his death in a perilous stunt walking between two hotels.
Incredibly, the famous acrobat's tragic fall was caught on tape and is part of a series of life and death episodes seen on the National Geographic Channel's "Most Thrilling Moments," airing June 12 at 10 p.m.
The Great Wallendas are known for their amazing high wire stunts, including a seven-person pyramid that Karl invented in 1947 and they still perform today.
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 The Greatest of Ease... | MetaFilter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Throughout the coming years, Karl creating a circus dynasty that drew fame and attention, not only for their skill but for their aversion to using nets.
Despite many tragedies, the seventh generation of The Flying Wallendas, headed by Karl's grandson Tino, is still going strong, holding the 2003 Guinness Record for an 8 person pyramid and winning the 2004 "Silver Clown" at the International Festival du Cirque in Monte Carlo.
I saw the Wallendas perform their 7-person pyramid a few years ago at Circus Flora in St. Louis.
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 Still flying high   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
"Himmler was bad because when he spoke, he screamed." Wallenda swipes the air with the flat of her hand and pounds the table with a fist.
Born in Magdeburg, Germany, in 1905, Karl Wallenda was an international superstar who conquered America by signing with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in Sarasota.
The Wallendas sent their 6-year-old daughter back to Germany in 1934, where she would live with her aunt and grandparents.
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 Wallenda family history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
May 20, 2007 - This is the Wallenda page of genealogy information.
Sorry, no results available for Wallenda family history..
Either we experienced a bad connection to the database, or there may be no matching data found.
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 Karl Wallenda Famous Quote, Quotes, Quotations, Proverbs - QuoteMountain.com
The quotes below are those from or by Karl Wallenda.
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 Atomic Books - Wallenda: A Biography Of Karl Wallenda
So goes the suspenseful story of the life of Karl Wallenda; the most famous circus performer of this century.
Karl Wallenda thrilled audiences for over 60 years and his legend is available in this exciting book.
You will be thrilled to read of the conquest of fear in the creation of heretofore impossible feats and saddened with the inevitable deaths when so much relies on pure courage and will.
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 07/24/2000
The quote for today is from Karl Wallenda, patriarch of one of the world's most famous circus families.
The Flying Wallendas are still performing their aerialist/tightrope act to this day.
During a promotional walk in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in March of 1978, Karl Wallenda fell to his death at age 73.
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