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103 relations: A Tree of Night and Other Stories, Abraham Lincoln, Achondroplasia, American Civil War, American Horror Story: Freak Show, Anna Haining Bates, Anna of Russia, Barnum's American Museum, Black Scorpion (performer), Body piercing, Body Shock, Cabinet of curiosities, Cannes Film Festival, Carson McCullers, Chang and Eng Bunker, Channel 5 (UK), Charles I of England, Cirque du Soleil, Commodore Nutt, Comprachicos, Daisy and Violet Hilton, Dictionary of National Biography, Dime museum, Disability, Disease, Dublin Penny Journal, Dwarfism, Early modern Europe, East End of London, England, Era, Eudora Welty, Extraordinary People (2003 TV series), Fedor Jeftichew, Film, Fire eating, Flannery O'Connor, Freak show, Freaks, Geek show, General Tom Thumb, Genoa, Gibsonton, Florida, Grady Stiles, Great Circus Parade, Growth hormone deficiency, Human zoo, Ice palace, Intersex, Ireland, ..., Italy, Jesús Aceves, Jim Rose Circus, Joseph Merrick, Katzen (performer), Lazarus and Joannes Baptista Colloredo, Little People, Big World, Lollapalooza, Mancow Muller, Matthias Buchinger, Maximo and Bartola, Mental disorder, Michigan, Microcephaly, Midget, Mutant, Mutation, My 600-lb Life, National Library of Ireland, Nottingham, Oxford University Press, P. T. Barnum, Penguin Books, Peter the Great, Pre-Code Hollywood, Queen Victoria, ReganBooks, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Royal London Hospital, Sarah Baartman, Showman, Side Show, Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet, Southern Gothic, Stalking Cat, Sword swallowing, Syracuse University, Tattoo, Tavern, The Enigma (performer), The Guardian, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The True History of the Elephant Man, Tod Browning, Tom Norman, Truman Capote, United States, University of Chicago Press, University of Sheffield, Wayne Schoenfeld, Whitechapel Road, Wild Men of Borneo, Zip the Pinhead. Expand index (53 more) »
A Tree of Night and Other Stories
A Tree of Night and Other Stories is a short story collection by the American author Truman Capote published in early 1949.
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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.
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Achondroplasia
Achondroplasia is a genetic disorder that results in dwarfism.
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American Civil War
The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.
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American Horror Story: Freak Show
American Horror Story: Freak Show is the fourth season of the FX horror anthology television series American Horror Story.
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Anna Haining Bates
Anna Haining Bates (née Swan; August 6, 1846 – August 5, 1888), was a Canadian giantess famed for her great stature of.
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Anna of Russia
Anna Ioannovna (Анна Иоанновна; –), also spelled Anna Ivanovna and sometimes anglicized as Anne, was regent of the duchy of Courland from 1711 until 1730 and then ruled as Empress of Russia from 1730 to 1740.
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Barnum's American Museum
Barnum's American Museum was located at the corner of Broadway and Ann Street in New York City, United States, from 1841 to 1865.
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Black Scorpion (performer)
Black Scorpion (born August 26, 1979, Austin, Texas) is a writer, director, performer known mostly for his contribution to the revival of modern freak show and sideshow arts.
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Body piercing
Body piercing, a form of body modification, is the practice of puncturing or cutting a part of the human body, creating an opening in which jewelry may be worn.
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Body Shock
Body Shock (also: Bodyshock) is a British medical documentary series about the conditions or lives of extraordinary people.
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Cabinet of curiosities
Cabinets of curiosities (also known in German loanwords as Kunstkabinett, Kunstkammer or Wunderkammer; also Cabinets of Wonder, and wonder-rooms) were encyclopedic collections of objects whose categorical boundaries were, in Renaissance Europe, yet to be defined.
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Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Festival (Festival de Cannes), named until 2002 as the International Film Festival (Festival international du film) and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries from all around the world.
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Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers (February 19, 1917 – September 29, 1967) was an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, and poet.
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Chang and Eng Bunker
Chang and Eng Bunker (May 11, 1811 – January 17, 1874) were Thai-American conjoined twin brothers whose condition and birthplace became the basis for the term "Siamese twins".
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Channel 5 (UK)
Channel 5 is a British commercial television network.
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Charles I of England
Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.
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Cirque du Soleil
Cirque du Soleil ("Circus of the Sun" or "Sun Circus") is a Canadian entertainment company.
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Commodore Nutt
Commodore Nutt (George Washington Morrison Nutt; April 1, 1848 – May 25, 1881) was an American entertainer.
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Comprachicos
Comprachicos (also Comprapequeños and Cheylas) is a compound Spanish neologism meaning "child-buyers", which was coined by Victor Hugo in his novel The Man Who Laughs.
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Daisy and Violet Hilton
Daisy and Violet Hilton (5 February 1908 – 4 January 1969) were English entertainers, who were conjoined twins.
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Dictionary of National Biography
The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published from 1885.
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Dime museum
Dime museums were institutions that were popular at the end of the 19th century in the United States.
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Disability
A disability is an impairment that may be cognitive, developmental, intellectual, mental, physical, sensory, or some combination of these.
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Disease
A disease is any condition which results in the disorder of a structure or function in an organism that is not due to any external injury.
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Dublin Penny Journal
The Dublin Penny Journal was a weekly newspaper, and later series of published volumes, originating from Dublin, Ireland, between 1832 and 1836.
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Dwarfism
Dwarfism, also known as short stature, occurs when an organism is extremely small.
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Early modern Europe
Early modern Europe is the period of European history between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, roughly the late 15th century to the late 18th century.
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East End of London
The East End of London, usually called the East End, is the historic core of wider East London, east of the Roman and medieval walls of the City of London, and north of the River Thames.
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Era
An era is a span of time defined for the purposes of chronology or historiography, as in the regnal eras in the history of a given monarchy, a calendar era used for a given calendar, or the geological eras defined for the history of Earth.
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Eudora Welty
Eudora Alice Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) was an American short story writer and novelist who wrote about the American South.
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Extraordinary People (2003 TV series)
Extraordinary People is a television documentary series broadcast on Channel 5 in the United Kingdom.
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Fedor Jeftichew
Fedor Adrianovich Jeftichew (Russian: Фёдор Адрианович Евтищев, Fyodor Yevtishchev, 1868 - January 31, 1904), better known as Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy (later Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Man), was a famous Russian sideshow performer who was brought to the United States of America by P.T. Barnum.
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Film
A film, also called a movie, motion picture, moving pícture, theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still images that, when shown on a screen, create the illusion of moving images.
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Fire eating
Fire eating is the act of putting a flaming object into the mouth and extinguishing it.
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Flannery O'Connor
Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925August 3, 1964) was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist.
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Freak show
A freak show is an exhibition of biological rarities, referred to in popular culture as "freaks of nature".
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Freaks
Freaks is a 1932 American MGM pre-Code horror film produced and directed by Tod Browning.
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Geek show
Geek shows were an act in traveling carnivals and circuses of early America and were often part of a larger sideshow.
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General Tom Thumb
Charles Sherwood Stratton (January 4, 1838 – July 15, 1883), better known by his stage name "General Tom Thumb", was a dwarf who achieved great fame as a performer under circus pioneer P.T. Barnum.
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Genoa
Genoa (Genova,; Zêna; English, historically, and Genua) is the capital of the Italian region of Liguria and the sixth-largest city in Italy.
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Gibsonton, Florida
Gibsonton is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Hillsborough County, Florida, United States.
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Grady Stiles
Grady Franklin Stiles Jr. (June 26, 1937 – November 29, 1992) was a freak show performer.
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Great Circus Parade
The Great Circus Parade is a parade of marching bands, circus wagons, clowns, performers, and animals.
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Growth hormone deficiency
Growth hormone deficiency (GHD) is a medical condition due to not enough growth hormone (GH).
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Human zoo
Human zoos, also called ethnological expositions, were 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century public exhibitions of humans, usually in a so-called natural or primitive state.
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Ice palace
An ice palace or ice castle is a castle-like structure made of blocks of ice.
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Intersex
Intersex people are born with any of several variations in sex characteristics including chromosomes, gonads, sex hormones, or genitals that, according to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit the typical definitions for male or female bodies".
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Ireland
Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic.
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Italy
Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.
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Jesús Aceves
Jesús "Chuy" Aceves was born in Loreto, Zacatecas, Mexico in 1968 and is the second person in his family born with a rare condition known as hypertrichosis.
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Jim Rose Circus
The Jim Rose Circus is a modern-day version of a circus sideshow.
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Joseph Merrick
Joseph Carey Merrick (5 August 1862 – 11 April 1890), often incorrectly called John Merrick, was an English man with very severe face and body deformities who was first exhibited at a freak show as the "Elephant Man", and then went to live at the London Hospital after he met Dr. Frederick Treves, subsequently becoming well known in London society.
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Katzen (performer)
Katzen the Tiger Lady is the stage name of a female performance artist and tattoo artist, whose full body tattoo theme is that of a tiger.
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Lazarus and Joannes Baptista Colloredo
Lazarus Colloredo and Joannes Baptista Colloredo (1617 – after 1646) were Italian conjoined twins who toured in 17th-century Europe.
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Little People, Big World
Little People, Big World is an American reality television series that premiered on March 4, 2006, and airs on TLC.
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Lollapalooza
Lollapalooza is an annual music festival featuring popular alternative rock, heavy metal, punk rock, hip hop, and electronic music bands and artists, dance and comedy performances, and craft booths.
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Mancow Muller
Matthew Erich "Mancow" Muller (born June 21, 1966) is an American radio and television personality, actor, and former child model.
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Matthias Buchinger
Matthias Buchinger (June 2, 1674 January 17, 1740), sometimes called Matthew Buckinger in English, was a German artist, magician, calligrapher, and performer who was born without hands or feet and was tall.
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Maximo and Bartola
Máximo and Bartola (also known as Maximo Valdez Nunez and Bartola Velasquez respectively) were the stage names of two Salvadoran siblings both suffering from microcephaly and cognitive developmental disability who were exhibited in human zoos in the 19th century.
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Mental disorder
A mental disorder, also called a mental illness or psychiatric disorder, is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning.
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Michigan
Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States.
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Microcephaly
Microcephaly is a medical condition in which the brain does not develop properly resulting in a smaller than normal head.
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Midget
Midget (from midge, a sand fly) is a term for a person of unusually short stature that is considered by some to be pejorative.
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Mutant
In biology and especially genetics, a mutant is an organism or a new genetic character arising or resulting from an instance of mutation, which is an alteration of the DNA sequence of a gene or chromosome of an organism.
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Mutation
In biology, a mutation is the permanent alteration of the nucleotide sequence of the genome of an organism, virus, or extrachromosomal DNA or other genetic elements.
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My 600-lb Life
My 600-lb Life is a reality television series that has aired on the TLC television network since 2012.
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National Library of Ireland
The National Library of Ireland (Leabharlann Náisiúnta na hÉireann) is Ireland's national library located in Dublin, in a building designed by Thomas Newenham Deane.
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Nottingham
Nottingham is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, England, north of London, in the East Midlands.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.
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P. T. Barnum
Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891) was an American showman, politician and businessman remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the Barnum & Bailey Circus (1871–2017).
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Penguin Books
Penguin Books is a British publishing house.
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Peter the Great
Peter the Great (ˈpʲɵtr vʲɪˈlʲikʲɪj), Peter I (ˈpʲɵtr ˈpʲɛrvɨj) or Peter Alexeyevich (p; –)Dates indicated by the letters "O.S." are in the Julian calendar with the start of year adjusted to 1 January.
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Pre-Code Hollywood
Pre-Code Hollywood refers to the brief era in the American film industry between the widespread adoption of sound in pictures in 1929LaSalle (2002), pg.
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Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death.
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ReganBooks
ReganBooks was an American bestselling imprint or division of HarperCollins book publishing house (parent company is News Corporation), headed by editor and publisher Judith Regan, started in 1994 and ended in late 2006.
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Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
Ringling Bros.
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Royal London Hospital
The Royal London Hospital is a large teaching hospital in London, United Kingdom.
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Sarah Baartman
Sarah Baartman (also spelled Sara, sometimes in the diminutive form Saartje, and Bartman, Bartmann, or Baartmen) (1789 – 29 December 1815), was the most well known of at least two South African Khoikhoi women who, due to their large buttocks, were exhibited as freak show attractions in 19th-century Europe under the name Hottentot Venus—"Hottentot" was the then current name for the Khoi people, now considered an offensive term, and "Venus" referred to the Roman goddess of love.
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Showman
Showman can have a variety of meanings, usually by context and depending on the country.
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Side Show
Side Show is a musical by Bill Russell (book and lyrics) and Henry Krieger (music) based on the lives of Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins who became famous stage performers in the 1930s.
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Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet
Sir Frederick Treves, 1st Baronet (15 February 1853 – 7 December 1923) was a prominent British surgeon of the Victorian and Edwardian eras.
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Southern Gothic
Southern Gothic is a subgenre of Gothic fiction in American literature that takes place in the American South.
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Stalking Cat
Stalking Cat (born Dennis Avner; August 27, 1958 – November 5, 2012) was an American man known for his extensive body modifications, which were intended to increase his resemblance to a tigress.
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Sword swallowing
Sword swallowing is a skill in which the performer passes a sword through the mouth and down the esophagus to the stomach.
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Syracuse University
Syracuse University (commonly referred to as Syracuse, 'Cuse, or SU) is a private research university in Syracuse, New York, United States.
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Tattoo
A tattoo is a form of body modification where a design is made by inserting ink, dyes and pigments, either indelible or temporary, into the dermis layer of the skin to change the pigment.
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Tavern
A tavern is a place of business where people gather to drink alcoholic beverages and be served food, and in most cases, where travelers receive lodging.
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The Enigma (performer)
The Enigma (born Paul Lawrence) is an American sideshow performer, actor, and musician who has undergone extensive body modification, including horn implants, ear reshaping, multiple body piercings, and a full-body jigsaw-puzzle tattoo.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1940) is the début novel by the American author Carson McCullers; she was 23 at the time of publication.
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The True History of the Elephant Man
The True History of the Elephant Man is a biography of Joseph Merrick written by Michael Howell and Peter Ford.
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Tod Browning
Tod Browning (born Charles Albert Browning, Jr.; July 12, 1880 – October 6, 1962) was an American film actor, film director, screenwriter and vaudeville performer.
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Tom Norman
Tom Norman, born Thomas Noakes, (7 May 1860 – 24 August 1930), was an English businessman, showman and the last exhibitor of Joseph Merrick who was otherwise known as the "Elephant Man".
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Truman Capote
Truman Garcia Capotehttp://www.biography.com/people/truman-capote-9237547#early-life (born Truman Streckfus Persons, September 30, 1924 – August 25, 1984) was an American novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, playwright, and actor.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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University of Chicago Press
The University of Chicago Press is the largest and one of the oldest university presses in the United States.
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University of Sheffield
The University of Sheffield (informally Sheffield University) is a public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.
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Wayne Schoenfeld
Wayne Schoenfeld (born September 12, 1948 in Los Angeles, United States) is an American photographer best known for his coverage of global humanitarian projects, as well as his art photography.
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Whitechapel Road
Whitechapel Road is a major arterial road in Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, in the East End of London.
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Wild Men of Borneo
The Wild Men of Borneo, Waino and Plutanor, were a pair of exceptionally strong dwarf brothers who were most famously associated with P. T. Barnum and his freak show exhibitions.
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Zip the Pinhead
William Henry Johnson (c. 1857 – April 9, 1926) known as Zip the Pinhead was an American freak show performer famous for his tapered head.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freak_show
