They did some banzai stuff back in the days before mobile phone cameras and Instagrams, in actual fact what is done (and uploaded) nowadays - has mostly already been done....albeit in a slightly different manner.
Seen anything of interest? Well here's the place to post the stuff you stumble upon.
The Althoff Circus organized a publicity stunt by putting a baby
elephant on the floating train at Alter Markt station. As the
elephant started to bump around during the ride, she was pushed
out the wagon and she fell into the river Wupper. The elephant,
two journalists, and one passenger received minor injuries.
After this jump, the elephant got the name of Tuffi, meaning
‘waterdive’ in Italian.
Both operator and circus director were fined after the incident.
Boxer Gus Waldorf boxing against a bear. The bear won despite his handicaps.
Josephene Myrtle Corbin, the Four-Legged Woman, was born in Lincoln County,
Tennessee in 1868. Rather than having a parasitic twin, Myrtle’s extra legs
resulted from an even rarer form of conjoined twinning known as dipygus,
which gave her two complete bodies from the waist down. She had two small
pelves side-by-side, and each of her smaller inner legs was paired with
one of her outer legs. She could move the smaller legs but was unable to
use them for walking. At the age of 19, she married a doctor named Clinton
Bicknell and had four daughters and a son. It has been said that three of
her children were born from one set of organs, two from the other.
Myrtle died on May 6, 1928.
Seen anything of interest? Well here's the place to post the stuff you stumble upon.
The Althoff Circus organized a publicity stunt by putting a baby
elephant on the floating train at Alter Markt station. As the
elephant started to bump around during the ride, she was pushed
out the wagon and she fell into the river Wupper. The elephant,
two journalists, and one passenger received minor injuries.
After this jump, the elephant got the name of Tuffi, meaning
‘waterdive’ in Italian.
Both operator and circus director were fined after the incident.
Boxer Gus Waldorf boxing against a bear. The bear won despite his handicaps.
Josephene Myrtle Corbin, the Four-Legged Woman, was born in Lincoln County,
Tennessee in 1868. Rather than having a parasitic twin, Myrtle’s extra legs
resulted from an even rarer form of conjoined twinning known as dipygus,
which gave her two complete bodies from the waist down. She had two small
pelves side-by-side, and each of her smaller inner legs was paired with
one of her outer legs. She could move the smaller legs but was unable to
use them for walking. At the age of 19, she married a doctor named Clinton
Bicknell and had four daughters and a son. It has been said that three of
her children were born from one set of organs, two from the other.
Myrtle died on May 6, 1928.
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