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6th Year February 28, 1977 Number 9

Storm Stops ShowWhen the unusually severe winter storms swept through the eastern states earlier this it forced

the James M. Cole All Star TV Circus to shut down for three weeks. "We showed for the firstweek and then the schools were closed in Pennsylvania," reports Jimmy Cole, and as a result wejust could play during those weeks. In addition to the shut-down time, some other dates were can-celled when schools were unable to obtain heating fuel to keep their buildings warm.

During the height of the storm, local gas companies told schools they would be unable toprovide heating fuel for their needs. Businesses and schools throughout the east were closed as aresult. Huge drifts of snow and strong wind gusts also prevented citizens and businesses fromoperating at their normal pace.

The show reopened at Allegany, Pa., onFeb. llth and hoped that with subsiding snowand winds, they would be able to continue thetour as planned.

"This has been a really bad winter," saysJimmy Cole. "I lost more dates this year thanin all my 38 years of operating a winter showtour."

Circus DeathTwo 12 foot pythons strangled their trainer be-fore hundreds of horrified spectators during acircus performance at Naples (Italy) on Feb. 10.

As the pythons intertwined themselves around(Continued on Page 7)

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A DELAYAnimals and acts going by ship to Puerto Ricofor Circus Odyssey were delayed when the shipcaptain reported his vessel was having enginetrouble. Originally scheduled to sail from Jack-sonville (Fla.) on Feb. 12th, the circus folksdidn't leave until Feb. 15th.

Faced with the prospect of nothing to do, ele-phant trainer Bobby Gibbs put in a call to thelocal zoo. Both John Zara and Frank Thomp-son quickly made room at the zoo for Gibbs'5 elephants, Harry Thomas' 10 tigers, ManuelRuffin's 8 lions and the Sills' dogs.

An interesting note is that both John and Frankare well known to circus animal people. Frank'swife is the daughter of Felix Morales, a formerwell-known circus wire act performer.

Visiting at the animal encampment was "Brown-ie" Brown, who is prop boss with Hoxie Bros.He was formerly with the Diamond S Rodeoand worked at the Circus World Museum inBaraboo.

SHOW FEATURESThree special specs were designed and producedby Philip Morris for the 1977 edition of theRoyal Hanneford Circus, which opened its 1977tour at White Plains, N. Y. on Feb. 19th.

The numbers — "Jungle Drums" includes an 11ft. high gorilla and is an introduction for Prin-cess Tajana's mixed cat act.

"Happy Holidays" is a salute to the Shrine Cir-cus and "It's A Small World" is the show'sfinale.

WANTEDJUDO ACT FOR SCHOOL TOUR

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Wisconsin Bureau of Lectures & ConcertsTilleda, W^. - 54978

Show VisitVisited Circus Vargas at Brownsville, Texas, onFeb. 10th, where the show was using its newroyal blue big top for the first time.

They certainly have a beautiful spread of can-vas with the big top, menagerie and marquee.All are equipped with yellow nylon guying andconnecting ropes.

The weather was bad — rainy and foggy — how-ever the show was continually enjoying goodbusiness, which speaks highly of this circus.

.. D. E. Reid

MiscellaneousThe American Continental Circus will open its1977 tour early this coming month.

The "Snow White" show recently opened a 40week tour in the U.S. and Canada. Written byGene Johnson and produced by Philip Morris,the show's tour is being handled by GreaterAmerican Entertainment Corp., whose presi-dent is William English.

SLIM COATS, former rodeo champion, nowlives in Orinda, Calif., and regularly attends theSan Francisco Grand Nationals.

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A BIG ONEThe aanual Moslem Shrine Circus, produced byL. N. Fleckles, was presented at Detroit (Mich)Feh. 4-20, wi th a total of 37 performances be-ing presented. The band was directed by AlYoungman, with announcements being handledby Al Dawley.The program featured: Fantasy on Parade spec;The Lodi Duo and Rejennie Duo, aerialists; GuyGossing, Bengal tigers; The Albanis; Martin, jug-gler; Randy & Sylvia, high perch; DeMille,t ightwire; Edwardos, unicycle; Private Lee,slack wire; Clowns; .Jorge's Unpredictable Car;Story Book Animals; Lena's Dogs; Klauser'sBears; Sebastian's Dogs; Al's Ponies; Aerial Bal-let;Darrell Wallen, and the dancing horse "Mr.Rythm; The Swaying Stars; Clowns; The Fly-ing Armors; The Flying Lar-Rays; ReynosoBros., Pirates of the Sky; Mickey's Chimps; Sa-bo's Chimps; Clowns; The World Wheelers; TheWheel of Destiny (Johnny Luxem); Lamberti,

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ETHEL LL'CKEY, chief musician at the CircusWorld Museum (Barbaroo, Wise.) and wife ofringmaster Paul Luckey, is recuperating frommajor surgery at her daughter's home. Cardsand letters can be sent to her at: 3808 Down-ing Way, Louisville, Ky. 40218. She expects tobe back at the Museum on its opening day.

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BILLY BARTONJIM N O R O M A R K (Int'l All Star) is fielding a secondunit to play only the best towns with a different format. Jim's reasoning makes sense. Why wait a year torepeat a good town. He will thus spot date the newunit this season and follow up with a long tour in '78.Towns are already being booked and promoted

Although LEAF has sold his tent company he willstay on to supervise....JUNE DEWSBURY, playingthe Rochester date for M&M, may be with Garden-Johnson this season....DAVE MERRIFIELD called be-tween TV dates, the E V E L KNIEVEL Special and theMIKE DOUGLAS Show (at the same time in themidst of building a lily pond) to say how sorry hewas that we'd miss each other on my Sarasota junket....PETEY KINOSH, who bought diggers, and who willbe with GOODING's MILLION DOLLAR MIDWAYthis year, reports that Circus Vargas did turnawaybiz in Houston in rainy, 30 degree weather....DittoJIMMY JAMES, who caught the Vargas opening inAtlanta, who said the circus had them lined up forblocks - again in bitter cold weather!

The DAVIDE ZOPPE Family are set for dates withEDDIE ZACCHINI in April....Davide is building flashynew props for wife Susan's Afgan dog act....KARLWALLENDA hit the nation's newspapers when heskidded into a snow bank during the Mentor (Ohio)run...Weather eas so brutal, Karl remarked: "Drivingis more hazardous than the high wire."....SANDY 00-BRITCH co-ordinated a second GALA, this one forCAESER's PALACE....The HASSANI's, who havebeen booked into G R E A T ADVENTURE by JOEBAUER, were headlined, along with PELUZA... .U isRICK K A L B R O O K (Vivian Scott's new husband) andNOT JIM GROGAN who is being schooled in DataProcessing....STEVIE SCOTT CORONA told me it isdefinitely NOT TRUE that the sisters are feuding ov-er Viv's marriage - So, let's spike that rumor NOW!

KENT & DONNA C L A Y T O N are busy making sportsshows; ditto the FEARLESS BAUERS....JOHN BEN-AKA and DAVID CHABIRA are in the new hardboundGuiness Book of World Records (Page 703) with afull page pix detailing their breaking the record for -are you ready? - "Ferris Wheel Riding." The team wasaloft for 21 days, 16 hours and 2 minutes!....! wastold in Sarasota that the GREAT BOROS was injuredlast September during a performance of his breakaway pole act at Old Chicago and that he is still inserious condition.

TOMMY and POM POM DONOHO are now with Cir-

cus Vargas. She is working bulls and he is working inthe Electrical Dept....l have been told the Cossack Ri-ders are no longer with the Lipizzan Stallion Show(Wonderful World of Horses)....TIPPY and EVAY O U N G will make the Japan date for P A U L KAYE...SAMPION is breaking a pig act. He and MARIEF R A N C E return to Sells & Gray. . . .LUCIO CRISTIANland TINO W A L L E N D A ZOPPE will be with Quebec'sGATINE CIRCUS. . GEE GEE ENGESSER was a lastminute replacement in Detroit with her elephantsK A T H Y SCOTT called in that they left Mentor, gotas far as Detroit and got snowbound A rumor fromthat city is that HUGO ZACCHINI had an accidentenroute No further details.

RON and A R L E N E MORRIS bought a home in Sara-sota. They named their new son ISAAC DANIELJACKIE BURKE is lighting director for Ice America....Due to a Boxing Match that show couldn't set up un-til the last minute at Orlando, the compressor brokedown and the ice was thin, soft in spots and rippling...Nevertheless, the skaters worked hard and did so admir-able, under horrendous conditions!....When TAJANAsold one of her tiger cubs to the H O L L I D A Y S she dis-covered they were not brother and sister, but brotherand brother! .... GUNNAR AMANDIS is busy settingacts for the Texas dates....RUDY D O C K E Y and AL-FREDO LANDON are clowning at the Circus Hall ofFame....LUDWIG MASCHINO returned from a visitto Ice America to find his home had been broken into.Missing were checks, cash and his valuable coin collec-tion....The MEDRO BOYS are now out on their own...CARLA WALLENDA will do a "double" slide for lifeat KING'S DOMINION later this season. Hanging byone ankle she will support daughter RIETTA....TOM-MY HANNEFORD, due to new regulations, had torebuild all his tiger cages - at considerable expense.

The DYMEKS, in Vegas for over a year, will play atCincinnati for Royal Hanneford. Other talent inkedfor various dates include The F E A R L E S S BAUERS,FLYING PALACIOS (with a double wide act), FLY-ING ESPAGNOLES (new Mexican act with a triple),OSCARIANS, FULBRIGHT ' s Horses, SATANI, SirVICTOR JULIAN, BISBINI's Mule, HERBIE WEBERand HOXIE'S elephants.

R ICKEY WALLENDA is now enrolled in a ChristianCollege in Texas....JIM DOUGLASS, of Circus Creations, added a Chinese section to his new spec, also aGiraffe Wagon. The long necks bob and weave as thewagon moves The unique fold-a-floats Circus Crea-tions builds are indeed ingenious!

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ROUTESCIRCUS ODYSSEY

Feb. 15-Mar. 31 San Juan, Pto Rico

CIRCUS VARGASFeb. 26-Mar. 3 Arlington, TexasMar. 4-7 Denton

COLE ALL STAR TV CIRCUSFeb. 28 Bergen, N. Y.Mar. 1 Medina

2 Le Roy3 East Bloomfield4 Shortsville5 Geneva6 Hilton7 Clifton Springs

HAMID-MORTON CIRCUSMar. 1-6 Kansas City, Kans;

MEDINAH SHRINE CIRCUSMar. 7-22 Chicago, 111.

RINGLING-BARNUM - Blue UnitMar. 2-6 Raleigh, N. C.

RINGLING-BARNUM - Red UnitFeb. 23-Mar. 1 Norfolk, Va.Mar. 3-6 Hampton Roads, Va.

SHRINE CIRCUSMar. 3-6 Lansing, Mich.

TNT & ROYAL OLYMPIC CIRCUSMar. 1-5 Mesquite, Texas

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ICE AMERICA SHOWFeb. 27-Mar. 1 W. Orange, N. J.Mar. 3-5 Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

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SPORTS SHOWMar. 1-6 Denver, Colo.

U. S. N A V Y BAND CONCERTFeb. 28 San Francisco, Calif.

WIZARD OF OZ SHOWMar. 1-6 San Diego, Calif.

CIRCUS DEATH (Continued)their Yugoslavian trainer, Janco Simba (30),he screamed for help.

Other performers attacked the snakes withaxes, but Simba was pronounced dead uponarrival at a local hospital.

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MATT G R E G O R Y has flown to Japan wi th his"U. S. A. Made" revue which opened in Ito fora six month tour. Included on the program are:The Mum Bros., jugglers; Charles Myrick, ma-gic and Fay Stratton, vocalist, plus a dozen topdancers from Las Vegas.

TERRI and SANDRA MORRIS are presentingtheir own individual acts in a special magic dis-play created for the Royal Hanneford Circusby Sr. Rai.VELMA LOWRY, of Sedan, Kans., has been ap-pointed director of the CFA's District No. 12.She replaces JULIAN JIMENEZ who has re-signed.

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1 - HAWTHORN'S PERFORMING TIGERS and LION2 - HAWTHORN'S RIDING TIGER and LION with ELEPHANT3-THE KLAUSER BEAR ACT4 - HAWTHORN'S PERFORMING ELEPHANTS (5)5 • HAWTHORN'S PERFORMING BABY ELEPHANTS

With This Unit Comes the Lights, Ring Curbs, Ring Matt For Your Show

Also Ava i l ab l e for 1977HAWTHORN'S PERFORMING LIONS (8 Males)

Some Open Time Between April 1 and June 10 and After Oct. 1

New for 1978HAWTHORN'S PERFORMING WHITE TIGERS

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RBBB Advance Roto Mags. 1936 - $5.00(full of pictures) $8 00 1945 (poor shape, but intact)1937 1938 53.00

1948 - $5.001949 - $5.00

Barnum & Bailey Expense Records for One Day $8.00(McKinney, Texas Oct. 21, 1916)

Robbms Bros. Circus Program - 1938 $5.00

Al G. Barnes & Sells Floto Program - 1938 $5.00

RBBB Panarama Photos (Kelty) - $8.00 each

Inside Madison Square Garden during Spec - 1931Performers Posed on Irvington, N.J . Lot - 1934Banquet for Performers and Staff (Hotel New Yorker) - 1943

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RAY CHANDLER, working with the LOUISGOEBELS camels on a film in Arizona, re-cently suffered a broken leg. The film is called"March or Die."

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Birthday PartyAn exclusive restaurant, South of the Border,the "Drive Inn" in Matamoros, Mexico, wasthe scene of a d i n n e r party given by Clifford E.Vargas and honoring Wal ly Naghtin, LonnieMcGee, and Mike Gorman (a l l celebrating their29th birthdays) on the evening of Feb. 9th.

It was a gala a f f a i r , w i th p lenty of fun, food,drink and fellowship and the guest list read l i k ea Who's Who in Circusdom. Among those at-tending were Circus Vargas' Vice PresidentsJack Bailey and Joe Muscarello, Mr. & Mrs.Cimeon Martinez, Mr. & Mrs. Lacy Toth, WesWestly, Mr. & Mrs. John Berkecz, Lloyd Wood-ward, Mr. & Mrs. Bi l ly Baker, Tommy Baker, MrMr. & Mrs. Freddie Van Voorden, Barbara VanVoorden, Anna Fritz, Wally Ross, Mr. & Mrs.Larry Joyner, Bill Biggerstaff, Mr. & Mrs. FrankClark, Joe Davidson, Marylou DeTemple,Frank Pealer, V. C. Arivett , Pam Easely, Rod-ney Myrup, Mr. & Mrs. Tommy Donoho, Mr.& Mrs." Rich Crutchfield, Mr. & Mrs. Bill Big-gerstaff, Jr., Mr. & Mrs. Jim Gibson, Mr. & Mrs.Jim Gibson, Mr. & Mrs. Townsend and JimParker.

Highl ight ing the evening was a grand parade ofMiss \jOn\ and Cl i f ford Vargas, with the formeron a cart escorted (pushed) by the lat ter . ADean Martin "Roast" is tame compared to aCl i f fo rd Vargas "Fry." Mm Parker

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RON BACON, Agent , Hoxie Bros. Circus

February 28, 1977

No One Can ExplainB A R B A R I C B E H A V I O R One of the most inhu-mane and uncivilized hunts in the world gets underway next month when 170,000 harp seal babies willbe slaughtered in Newfoundland H u n t e r s in packswill descend upon the seals for the i r pel ts , prized aspieces of fashion and for meat, which is considered adelicacy.The seal pups, who can barely move, will look up atthe advancing hunters with their sof t , black eyes Thehunters will use various sized clubs , with hammerheadsas they batter the helpless creatures. Then the animalswill be skinned, some while st i l l alive, and then car-casses will be lef t to stain the ice.

Despite an uproar last year about this unmercifulslaughter, the kill quota has been increased f rom 142thousand to 170 thousand

We have yet to hear (and we do not expect to) a logi-cal explanation for the butchering of these handsomeanimals other than that it provides an income for hun-ters, who earn from $200 to $1000 each for their kill.

Surely civilized people do not have to resort to suchinhumanity as killing small, helpless animals withclubs for the sport and the small amount of money

BILL PATTERSON (The Great Mayo, escapeartist) was featured in the Feb. 1977 issue ofAbbott 's "New Tops" magazine.

iHAROLI) H A L L , clown, was recently hospi-talized at Los Angeles for a chronic asthmaproblem.

RAY HARTZELL, organist, will tour with theKelly Bros. Circus, which opens its season latenext month.

FRANKIE SALUTO, retired midget clown, isconfined to a nursing home and would enjoycards and letters. Write him at: Gulf Drive Re-sidence, 777 - 9th St., North, Naples, Fla.

D. R. MILLER currently owns 49 elephants.He has 46 at his show.s winterquarters and has3 on lease to Bobbv Gibbs.

they can earn. Those in the fashion world who en-courage these hunters by using the furs are no betterthan the hunters.

Let's put an end to this barbaric behavior!

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CLOWN MEETThe Kansas Alley No. 45, of C l o w n s of Americawill host a St«te Meeting at Salma, Kansas on C()n Colleano was the first circus performer toMarch 13th, w i th an all day program sponsored achieve a fect- to-fect forward somersault on theby the local Arthr i t i s Chapter . The program, u n - ' t igh twire . The first was first accomplished inder the direction of Bi l l Lorenson, w i l l f ea ture 1923 at tne Empire Theatre in Johannesburg,the Huha Hum clowns. South Afr ica .

The State Meeting wi l l help to k i ck off p u b l i c - The first circus in Australia to use electric,ty for the upcoming Nat ional Clown Week, j light plants was the Perry Bros. C.rcus ,n 1924,which this year wi l l be held Aug. 1-7. | they had two 4 cvl. Red Seal car engines and

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STAGE TRAILER - Portable 33 ft. - Front side folds down to make a 30 ft. x16 ft. stage. A section of the floor l i f ts up to reveal an 8 ft. x 16 ft. trampoline builtinto the stage. Carries all props, ring curb and rigging. When fully loaded can takeup to 10,000 Ibs. (All trailers can be hauled by pick-ups).

DODGE Truck - 1974 - 2 ton - 4 speed transmission • 2 speed rear end. Runningcondition is excellent. 50,000 miles original 318 engine. Has horse compartmentbehind cab, also a 15 KW Diesel generator with 125 gal. tank. Also has spool forbig top, plus electrical cables and electric arc welder.

BIG TOP 80 ft. wide and 120 ft. long with a 40 ft. middle Blue and whitevynal coated dacron.

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CALLIOPE and Wagon - 8 ft x 4 ft. not counting hitch - Can be pulled by anyvehicle' MOON WALK Midway at tract ion

CONCESSION TRAILER 3 3 f t This is a combination concession and officewith ticket window and living space. Lots of holding tanks. Concessions in rearof trailer. Trailer has 3 axles, is 2 years old and in excellent condition. Looks likea noraml trailer going down the highway No weigh s ta t ion stops if pulled by apick up or camper Also have concessions lef t over f rom last season.

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February 28, 1977

DEFINITE DATEDespite stories to the contray in Central Ohionewspapers, the Hubert Castle Circus will playthe Columbus Shrine date on March 24-April 2as originally scheduled. The Ohio ExpositionsCommission closed down the fair grounds.where the circus will play, due to a criticalshortage of natural gas in Ohio. The Shrine of-ficials have since been able to secure a sourceof other fuel and will be able to heat the f a c i l -ities if needed.

The CFA Tent-Raising Ceremony of the newTony Diano Tent No. 130, of Columbus, Ohio,will be held at the Saturday evening perform-ance of the circus as previously announced. TheDiano elephants will take part in the ceremony,at which Tony Diano, Lee and Jeanette Keenerwill be made honorary members of the newtent.

Day long festivities sponsored by the Tony Di-ano Tent will include a Sells Bros. Top StateConvention, Bull Room and circusiana auctionat the Carrousel Inn, at Columbus.

Many rare and scarce circus items have beencollected for the auction. Included are severalnewspaper style couriers of the Diano Bros.Circus of 1953, old lithos, route cards, pro-grams and other circus memorabilia. A clownsuit, worn by the famous Lou Hershey, clownwith the Al G. Barnes Circus will be includedin the auct ion. This suit, worn by Lou, is pic-tured in advertising material for the circus inthe 1930's and also in pictures at the museumin Baraboo. All fans and friends are invited toattend the Tent-Raising and mail bids for theauction will be accepted from those unable to

New BookCIRCUS, A WORLD HISTORY by RupertCroft-Cooke and Peter Cotes, has just been pub-lished by the MacMillan Publishing Co. The192 page volume sells for $14.95.

The highlight of the book is the color of thecircus itself. While not as extravagant or as ex-Citing as the real event, of course, contained inthe volume are several great reproductions ofclowns, costumes, advertising posters and per-formers caught in the act. Black-and-whitephotos further augment the book.

The exposition details the many firsts of thismagnificent entertainment spectacle in a sec-tion chock full of detail and amusing facts(such as when the crocodile was displayed).

In Memoriam .ALFRED FRANCIS PERRY (71) a memberof the famous Australian circus family, died atCanberra, Australia, on Aug. 23, 1976. He spenthis entire l i fe in the circus and was the thirdman in the worid to achieve a forward some--sault on the tightwire. Because of his except-ional wire work he has been called, by many,"the best in the world."Survivors include his wife , and two sons - Al-bert, Jr. and Robert • who operate Alberto'sCircus.

attend. For further information contact: TonyDiano Tent No. 130, Box 30749, Columbus,Ohio 43230 or phone (614) 475-3773.

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JOHN J AVERYCHIEF R A B B A N

CARL M. WERLING SR

HARLES F BURKHARDT SR

HIGH P R I E S T f t PROPHET

GERALTO J V ITAILLUSTRIOUS POTENTATE

February 4, 1977

A J MURA JR

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RICHARD A DOWLING PPT R E A S U R E R

M I C H E L MIKE CAPLAN

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1137 ST CHARLES AVENUE • NEW ORLEANS L A . 70130

Dear Toaeyt

I an finally getting around to writing a letter to you, that I

started four or five times before.

As you know of course, our attendance for the circus this year was

better than ever. We haven't yet gotten all the ticket sales in, but

we are ahead of last year.

Tommy, you certainly out did yourself by putting together one of

the greatest shows we've had in a long time. There have been so many

people that did not get to see the show, that heard so much about how

wonderful it was, which should all add up to a record breaking crowd

this year.

If there is ever anything that I can do to be of assistance to

you in negotiating with other Shrine Temples, please feel free to call

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on me.

Looking forward to seeing another great show this year.

Yours in the

cc: Mr. Glen ParkinsGJV/ch

Oeralto J. Vita,PotentateJerusalem Temple

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