- Zacchini, Mario A.
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▪ 2000Italian-born circus performer who was the last of his family to perform in circuses and carnivals as a human cannonball—being shot from a cannon into a net on the other side of the circus tent—a stunt he carried out thousands of times in his several-decade-long career (b. 1911?, Italy—d. Jan. 28, 1999, Tampa, Fla.).
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Universalium. 2010.