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George Buckley Bolton
Publikováno v:
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. 120:177-186
The youths who are the subject of the following memoir, were born in May 1811 in the kingdom of Siam, at Maklong, a small village sixty miles distant from the capital, Bankok. They are the offspring of Chinese parents, and have been named, the one Ch
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https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1830.0014
https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1830.0014
Autor:
George Buckley Bolton
Publikováno v:
Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. 2:397-399
The twin brothers, of whom an account is given in this paper, were born of Chinese parents in 1811, at a small village in Siam, distant about sixty miles from Bankok, the capital of the kingdom. When the intelligence of their birth had reached the ea
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https://doi.org/10.1098/rspl.1815.0391
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspl.1815.0391
Autor:
Martin, Holly E.
Publikováno v:
Journal of American Culture; Dec2011, Vol. 34 Issue 4, p372-390, 19p, 1 Black and White Photograph
Autor:
Michael Wheeler
A compelling history of the famous London club and its members'impact on Britain's scientific, creative, and official life When it was founded in 1824, the Athenæum broke the mold. Unlike in other preeminent clubs, its members were chosen on the bas
Autor:
Kaj Thaning
Publikováno v:
Grundtvig-Studier. 37:11-46
Who was Clara?By Kaj ThaningIn this essay the author describes his search for Clara Bolton and her acquaintance with among others Benjamin Disraeli and the priest, Alexander d’Arblay, a son of the author, Fanny Burney. He gives a detailed account o
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https://doi.org/10.7146/grs.v37i1.15940
https://doi.org/10.7146/grs.v37i1.15940
The private letters of a statesman are always inviting material for historians and when he has claim to literary fame as well the correspondence assumes a double significance. Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) belonged to an age that gave pride of place
Autor:
Joseph Andrew Orser
Connected at the chest by a band of flesh, Chang and Eng Bunker toured the United States and the world from the 1820s to the 1870s, placing themselves and their extraordinary bodies on exhibit as'freaks of nature'and'Oriental curiosities.'More famous
Autor:
Sam Halliday
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From Critical to Speculative Idealism ISBN: 9789401184007
Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James ISBN: 9781349537327
Science and Technology in the Age of Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and James ISBN: 9781349537327
In November 1829, the “Siamese twins” Chang and Eng Bunker (1811–74) arrived in London.1 They had already appeared in New York City and Boston, where astonishment had been aroused by the living band of tissue uniting their bodies (see figure 1.
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9106-7_9
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9106-7_9
Autor:
Nadja Durbach
In 1847, during the great age of the freak show, the British periodical Punch bemoaned the public's'prevailing taste for deformity.'This vividly detailed work argues that far from being purely exploitative, displays of anomalous bodies served a deepe
Autor:
Joyce L. Huff, Martha Stoddard Holmes
The long 19th century-stretching from the start of the American Revolution in 1776 to the end of World War I in 1918-was a pivotal period in the history of disability for the Western world and the cultures under its imperial sway. Industrialization w