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This article is a continuation of ‘Breast Ironing in Cameroon – Part 1’. The agency conducted extensive research in 2006 with surveys of 5,700 women 10 to 82, who also revealed that half of girls whose breasts began to grow before the age of nine have this practice more common in cities than in the […]
Ever heard of a society so hostile that mothers have to iron their daughter’s breasts in order to decrease their sexual appeal and therefore save them from being raped? This is the story of the torture that female children of Cameroon have to bear. The procedure contains placing hot stones on the developing breasts of […]
We have all heard about several animal species becoming extinct, even in the modern world, humans have seen whole generations of some animals disappear. Will bees become one of them? Some experts believe that the bees could be about to die and at least one third of our food depends on pollination of flowering plants. […]
Human beings are normally considered to be good conductors of electricity, thus an electric shock can usually prove to be fatal but there is a man who can pass electricity without being shocked. His name is Slavisa Pajkic, he is Serbian and is known as the "man-battery" for his amazing ability to withstand high voltage […]
Have you ever been struck by lightning? Have you ever imagined what it would be like to get struck by the bolt of nature? Here is the story of a man who experienced Nature’s shock throughout his life. Roy Sullivan was born in a small town in Virginia in 1912. It did not take him […]
From homeless to millionaire Jerry Winkler , 28 years old, was living on the streets when he discovered that he was the only son and heir to a billionaire businessman. Jerry’s childhood was traumatic. When her mother found a brain tumor, he was sent to live with the man she thought was her father. […]
This article is a continuation of “The story of the Elephant man – Part 1”. Soon after, he was hired by another employer on a tour of Belgium. Once in Brussels and alone, the unscrupulous Merrick had his money stolen. Leaving him alone and wandering the streets without shelter and food. As he could not […]
Joseph Merrick is widely considered one of the most unfortunate human beings in history, his radical deformity, the most severe ever recorded in a living human being, sentenced him to a life of ostracism. "I saw the light for the first time on August 5, 1860. I was born in Lee Street, Leicester. The deformity […]
This article is a continuation of ‘The Wolf Boy – Part 1’. Twelve years passed until one day the Civil Guard found him, his hair around his waist and covered with deerskin. His skin had turned brown and was covered with scars. His feet were full of calluses, because he was barefoot and he could […]
Marcos Rodriguez Pantoja was born in Añora, a village in Sierra Morena in Andalusia in 1946. Some years later when he was 7 years old, he was abandoned by all and was literally raised by wolves. He was the youngest of three brothers. His mother, Araceli, had died when he was still young. His father, […]
Although he rarely played the beautiful, there once lived a man who had three instead of two legs. His name was Francesco Lentini was born in Syracuse in 1889, within a family of 11 children. Because of his deformity, he was abandoned by his parents and picked up by an aunt, who ended up sending […]
It is a common English expression to call someone two-faced, but have you ever encountered someone who literally had two faces? His name was Edward Mordrake and was born in the nineteenth century in England. It is told that he was attractive, intelligent and talented in music and studies. Also born into a wealthy family, […]
