Remarkable Siamese twins exhibit in Orissa village
Radhika and Dhud are joined at the torso and share movement and meals. Born in Noapara village Angul district Orissa their condition drew superstition until a Tahsildar helped them start exhibiting to earn a living. They travel with a manager and perform as a curiosities show.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Radhika
Dhudfor
Noapara
Orissa
Wil
Tsawan
Luzerne County
Eckley B. Coxe
Drifton
Philadelphia ‘Times
Harmston
Blackie
An Sier
Troy
Great Calculators of the Proofless Century
A survey of prodigies in arithmetic from Inaudi to Zerah Colburn, tracing their origins, methods, and exhibitions. It chronicles Inaudi’s ear based calculation, Colburn’s rapid mental feats, and the public intrigue they stirred from peasant beginnings to European courts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacques Inaudi
Zerah Colburn
Mons
Inaudi
Jacques
Jaques
Provence
Europe
Paris
Broca
Anthropological Society
French Academy
Colburn
Mondeux
Vermont
Zerah
Abin Colburn
Abia Colburn
Montpelier
First American steamboat tested on Potomac in 1786
The first steamboat built in the United States was partly constructed in Frederick County in 1785 by James Rumsey at Shepherdstown West Virginia. A public experiment on March 14, 1786 on the Potomac River reached four miles per hour upstream, with patrons George Washington and Gov Thomas Johnson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Frederick County
James Rumsey
Shepherdstown
West Va
Robert Fulton
Clermont
Rumsey
Catoctin
Johnson Brothers
Frederick
Baltmore
Antietam
America
Potomac River
George Washington
Thomas Johnson
Maryland
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Potomac
Frederick Coun
Tomahawk of Tecumseh Owned by West Point Lady
Story traces a famed Tecumseh heirloom from Morgan Brambin to Mrs. Lizzie Skinner of West Point Kentucky a bequeathed weapon with a half British hatchet half Indian tomahawk head walnut handle brass quarter moon emblem notes a controversial claim about Tecumseh’s death at Thames and a NY soldier John Hanes who described the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lizzie Skinner
West Point Ky
Tecumseh
Battle of the Thames
New York
John Hanes
Johnson
Hanes
John KR. Brambin
Morgan Brambin
Skinner
Picayune
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Wooster
Ohio
Monroe
Harrison
Joseph H. Larwin
Joseph H. Larwill
Nancy I. Larwill
Noblestown
Pittsburg Dispatch
Joe van Duren
Ile
Greenlee & Forst
No. McMurray
van Duren
Kran Suernerp
Drakeville
Iowa
Columbia
D. C
Philadelphia Press
Supreme Court of the State
Bev
Boston
Bar
England
London
Tie
Earl of Bristol
Westminster School
France
Napoleon
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