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From 1929 to 2003, the Circus Maximus had used the same tent for 74 years. It was imported from the United States and was made of Merino Sheep wool coated with 1,800 pounds (820 kg) of paraffin wax dissolved in 6,000 US gallons (23,000 l) of gasoline, a common waterproofing method of mid-20th century America.

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rdfs:label	Charleston circus fire
rdfs:comment	From 1929 to 2003, the Circus Maximus had used the same tent for 74 years. It was imported from the United States and was made of Merino Sheep wool coated with 1,800 pounds (820 kg) of paraffin wax dissolved in 6,000 US gallons (23,000 l) of gasoline, a common waterproofing method of mid-20th century America.
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abstract	From 1929 to 2003, the Circus Maximus had used the same tent for 74 years. It was imported from the United States and was made of Merino Sheep wool coated with 1,800 pounds (820 kg) of paraffin wax dissolved in 6,000 US gallons (23,000 l) of gasoline, a common waterproofing method of mid-20th century America. The circus had been experiencing shortages of personnel and equipment due to budget cuts. The old tent was set to be replaced with a new one made of Nylon that had been imported from India, and it took way too long to come to Lovia, so the tent's usage was numbered. Delays and malfunctions in the ordinarily smooth order of the circus had become commonplace; on August 4, 2002, a PETA employee was arrested after she threw a firework into the menagerie trailer, causing a huge fire and killing a number of animals. After the ground in which the circus was performed was laid over with turf protection plates and then AstroTurf (for most of the grounds) and dirt and sawdust (for the circus tent floor), the circus trucks were set to come for the Charleston, Sylvania show. However, when the circus arrived, the trucks were so late that one of the two shows scheduled for that day had been canceled. In circus superstition, missing a show is considered extremely bad luck, and although the June 23 evening show ran as planned, many circus employees may have been on their guard, half-expecting an emergency or catastrophe. The next day was June 24; the crowd at the afternoon performance was dominated by tourists and children. The size of the audience that day was estimated to be over 1000. Before the fire occurred, Benny "The Human Bomb" Koske had performed his act for his year travelling with the circus, in where he stood inside a retired railroad boxcar that was blown up with bags of acetylene. A week earlier, 4 people were injured when pieces from the boxcar hit the audience. When the act was performed that day, a piece of the boxcar used, a retired British Railways General Utility Van, was blown up, one of the pieces caught fire and struck the northwest sidewall of the tent.

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