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Sarah Biffen (1784 – 1850) was a Victorian English painter born with no arms and only vestigial legs. She nevertheless taught herself to write, paint, sew,…
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In 1974, the legendary pharaoh Ramesses II was issued a valid Egyptian passport so that his 3,000-year-old mummy could be flown to Paris for necessary repair.…
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Immigrants who passed the first mental inspection wait in pens in the Registry Room, also called the Great Hall at Ellis Island in New York Harbor,…
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Wooden Leg was a Northern Cheyenne warrior who fought against Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn Wooden Leg was born, in 1858, in…
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Flag Raising On Iwo Jima, 1945 It is but a speck of an island 760 miles south of Tokyo, a volcanic pile that blocked the Allies’…
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A Prussian Landwehrmann tanning rat skins in a dugout, WWI A Prussian Landwehrmann tanning rat skins in a dugout, WWI. The trench soldier of WWI had…
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Barnum & Bailey Circus’Sideshow performer Stephan Bibrowski, also known as Lionel the Lion-Faced Man. Stephan Bibrowski was born in Bielsk, Poland in 1890 with stunning blonde…
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The original Michelin Man from 1898. The Michelin Man is white because rubber tires are naturally white. It was not until 1912, that carbon chemicals were…
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WW2: Chinese and Malayan girls forcibly taken from Penang by the Japanese to work as ‘comfort girls’ for the troops. 1939-1945 Comfort women or comfort girls…
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Charles Nelson of East London worked as a knocker-up for 25 years. He woke up early morning workers such as doctors, market traders and drivers. 1929.…