Ganymede rolling a hoop and bearing aloft a cockerel - a love gift from Zeus (in pursuit, on obverse of vase). Attic red-figure crater, 500-490 BCE; Painter of Berlin; Louvre, Paris)
Child's game in which a large hoop, made of wood, metal or plastic, is propelled by means of a rolling stick. Skilled players can keep the hoop upright for lengthy periods of time and can do various tricks. Able hoop rollers have created circus acts around their skill. The term circus originates from Latin and can mean several things: A public equipped space for shows and other spectacles of the Classical period (e. ...
It is known to have been played in early antiquity, as seen on Greek vase paintings from ca. 500 BCE. It is still found - albeit rarely - as a feature of children's street culture all over the world. Childrens street culture refers the cumulative culture of rhymes, songs, jokes, taboos, games, and places (e. ...
This was the forerunner of a precision effect where special hoops were rolled and spun and wobbled along the stage with a dozen different angles and methods of English, giving them a life of their own.
A girlish hoop dropped a hanky and a courting hoop, with the aid of a pin embedded in the rim, raced along to pick it up and follow her behind some stage scenery.
Although the gyroscopic forces of the spinning hoop aided the juggler, the least bit of wobble was fatal.
As the residual stresses in a steel mill roll build up continuously during a campaign it is important to know their level before the installation of a roll in its cage and after a rolling campaign.
Roll 11 was used as the upper-, while roll 19 was used as the lower roll.
Roll No 37, from the first supplier rolled 40607 tons of steel whereas rolls 11 and 19, from the second supplier worked both in the same cage and rolled 33688 tons of steel.
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