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The 1814–15 Pig-faced Lady craze in London and the subsequent hoax in Paris were the last occasions in which the mainstream press reported the existence of pig-faced women as fact. [62] By the 1860s the fad for exhibiting "pig-faced women" at fairs was losing popularity, [3] although they continued to be exhibited until at least the 1880s. [2]
Pig-faced women, generally having a body of a human but the face of a pig, appeared without warning in Holland, England and France in the late 1630s.Some people thought that these often rich women were under a magical curse, in which they could be beautiful to their husbands and ugly to the world at large, or pretty outside the pen but porkers to their men.
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Steevens' Hospital in 1800. Steevens was born in 1653 in Wiltshire, in England. She was the twin sister of Richard Steevens (1653–1710), a Dublin physician. They were the children of John, a Royalist cleric, and his wife Constance. [1]
Image credits: famous_unicorn #2. Olga of Kiev. Some jerks called the Drevlians killed her husband and tried to have her marry their Prince. She fooled them into sending their most important men ...
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Environmentalist Ellen Swallow Richards was the first woman admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an impressive feat in and of itself.What's even more admirable was her work in science, a field in which women faced many obstacles, as well as the time she spent getting her Ph.D. in chemistry from MIT– well, almost.
Described as the malicious spirit, or onryō, of a woman, she partially covers her face with a mask or other item and carries a pair of scissors, a knife, or some other sharp object. She is most often described as a tall woman of about 175-180cm, however, some people believe she is up to 8 feet tall, having long, straight black hair, white ...