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The King Charles Troupe is a group of basketball-playing unicyclers performing choreographes routines of comedy and athletics. The troupe is a top act in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey's Circus, which opened on Wednesday at the Patriot Center in Fairfax and will hold shows now through April 20. "We perfect a skill and make it our own," says "Kip" Jones, the troupe's leader. "No one else can duplicate it in the way we've done it."

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Jude Law, left, plays a British safecracker with a manic streak released from prison after 12 years in "Dom Hemingway." The film also stars Richard E. Grant. (Fox Searchlight Pictures/Associated Press)

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Television personality Pat Sajak, left, and, television personality Alex Trebek pose together with their awards in the press room at the 38th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards in Las Vegas on Sunday, June 19, 2011. Sajak and Trebek both received Lifetime Achievement Awards. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg)

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Heather Locklear arrives at the TNT 25th Anniversary Party at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on Wednesday, July 24, 2013 in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

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Miracle moment: the author, at home in Detroit circa 1961, with her father, James W. Clark, and a fish that was nothing to be frightened of after all. (Photo courtesy of the author.)