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ENGLISH
A carousel (or carrousel) is an amusement journey consisting of a rotating platform with seats for passengers. The &quotseats&quot are typically in the type of wooden horses or animals, which are frequently moved mechanically up and down to simulate galloping. This prospects to a single of the machine’s choice names, the galloper. Other common names are merry-go-spherical, roundabout and flying horses. Typically, circus new music is looped whilst the rides spins.

Despite the fact that present day carousels (specially in The united states) are primarily populated with horses, carousels from before periods usually incorporated varied varieties of animals, such as dogs, cats, rabbits, pigs, and deer, to title a handful of. And often, standard chairlike seats are employed as effectively.

The earliest carousel is recognized from a Byzantine Empire bas-relief dating to around 500 A.D., which depicts riders in baskets suspended from a central pole. The phrase carousel originates from the Italian garosello and Spanish carosella (&quotlittle war&quot), used by crusaders to describe a battle preparation exercise and video game played by Turkish and Arabian horsemen in the 1100s. In a perception this early device could be deemed a cavalry teaching mechanism it prepared and strengthened the riders for actual overcome as they wielded their swords at the mock enemies. European Crusaders learned this contraption and brought the concept back again to personal their lands, primarily the ruling lords and kings. There the carousel was stored mystery in the castle walls, to be employed for coaching by horsemen no carousel was allowed out in the public. At some point some tiny carousel rides ended up made and set up for royalty in their personal gardens. Shortly right after that, with the pomp of France and circumstance of Paris a grand video game was devised and played in Le Area du Carrousel. Along with a pageantry-filled jousting tournament it also consisted of &quotcombatants&quot throwing clay balls crammed with perfumed drinking water at every single other, therefore these being hit would scent for days. A highlight of the carrousel was the ring-tilt, in which knights would endeavor to spear suspended rings at entire gallop.

As for the Turkish and Arabian horseman, a carousel was built all around 1680 as a training gadget for the ring-tilt, consisting of wood horses suspended from arms branching from a middle pole. Riders aimed to spear rings situated close to the circumference as the carousel was moved by a gentleman, horse, or mule.

Far more data: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carousel

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CASTELLANO
Un tiovivo o carrusel (o una calesita en Andalucía y América Meridional) es un medio de diversión consistente en una plataforma rotatoria con asientos para los pasajeros. Tradicionalmente los &quotasientos&quot poseen formas de caballos de madera u otros animales, los cuales en muchos casos son desplazados mecánicamente hacia arriba y hacia abajo para simular el galope de un caballo. Normalmente, la música se repite mientras el carrusel da vueltas.

Aunque los carruseles modernos están fundamentalmente compuestos de caballos, los carruseles de periodos anteriores a menudo incluían diversas variedades de animales, como perros, caballos, conejos, cerdos y ciervos, por nombrar algunos.

El primer tiovivo o carrusel de que se tiene información es uno que aparece en un bajo reduce del Imperio de Bizancio fechado hacia el año 500 DC, que muestra un grupo de personas dentro de cestas suspendidas de un poste central. La palabra carrusel tiene sus orígenes en el italiano garosello y español carosella (&quotpequeña batalla&quot), usada por los cruzados para describir un ejercicio de entrenamiento para combate y un juego común entre los jinetes turcos y árabes hacia el 1100. En cierto sentido este dispositivo puede ser considerado un mecanismo para el entrenamiento de la caballería reforzaba la preparación de los jinetes para la batalla al atacar con espadas de madera a muñecos que representan al enemigo. Los cruzados descubrieron este método y llevaron la notion a sus señores y reyes en Europa. Allí el carrusel se mantuvo en secreto dentro de los castillos, siendo usado para el entrenamiento de los jinetes los carruseles no eran mostrados al público en common.

Para la caballería turca y árabe, se construyó un carrusel cerca del año 1680 como aparato de entrenamiento mediante el proveedor de anillos, consistía de caballos de madera suspendidos de vigas soportadas por una columna central. Los jinetes apuntaban con lanzas, tratando de ensartar anillos ubicados alrededor del tiovivo, movido por hombres, caballos o mulas.

Más info: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiovivo