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An acrobat is someone who performs daring gymnastics.
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Charles Blondin was the stage name of Jean Francois Gravelat, a French acrobat. He was born in 1824 at St Omer and died in 1897 at Ealing, London. He specialised in tight-rope walking, and in 1859 crossed Niagra Falls on a rope 160 feet above the water, repeating the stunt several more times often performing daring tricks while crossing the wire and even carrying a man upon his back while he crossed.
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Bonar Colleano (real name Bonar Sullivan II) was an American acrobat and actor. He was born in 1924 and died in 1958.
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Burt Lancaster was an American actor and former circus acrobat. He was born in 1913 and died in 1994.
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Dan Leno (real name George Galvin) was a British comedian. He was born in 1860 and died in 1904. He started as an acrobat, and in 1880 became champion clog-dancer of the North of England. He moved to the music hall, where he specialised in eccentric dancing and was renowned for his quaint humour and feverish energy.
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Harold Lloyd was an American actor and accomplished acrobat. He was born in 1893 and died in 1971.
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Richard Hearne was a British comedian, acrobat and actor. He was born in 1908 and died in 1979. he is best known for his portrayal of the role of 'Mr Pastry'.
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Adobe Acrobat is a coding system developed by Adobe Systems for electronic publishing applications. It was launched 1993. Acrobat coding was designed to turn computers into information distributors that would allow Macintosh users to view a document in its original form, and can be generated directly from PostScript files.
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The Nokia E90 Communicator is a quad-band mobile telephone able to be used on every continent of the world, featuring mobile office facilities and a battery stand-by time of up to fourteen days and a talk-time of up to 5.8 hours. The Nokia E90 Communicator incorporates a 3.2 megapixel digital camera, video faculties, music player, broadband internet connectivity and a full qwerty keyboard and a 800x352 pixel inner display supporting 16 million colours.
The Nokia E90 Communicator can be connected to a computer through a USB cable, and to other devices with an infra-red link or Bluetooth. The Nokia E90 Communicator provides a web browser and also support for the Adobe Acrobat Reader application for viewing PDF files.
The Nokia E90 Communicator also incorporates an FM radio and music player. The Nokia E90 Communicator supports the sending and receiving of emails through the usual POP3 and SMTP protocols, and also supports attachments with a built in ZIP manager and its own Quickoffice tools with editors for word processing, spreadsheets and presentations.
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Acrobat is Jamaican slang for a fool.
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