This was followed with clowns on swings or swiveling about in giant rings, acrobats suspended high above the stage, ballerinas, someone on stilts jumping rope and dancers dressed as Tarot cards.

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The web's links now encompass computer-science technical reports, folk-song lyrics, economic statistics from America's Department of Commerce, tarot cards, satellite weather photographs, film reviews, legal databases, the Bible, library catalogues, literary magazines and more.

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The Tarot is a set of seventy-eight cards, composed of twenty-two cards referred to as the Major Arcana.

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