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Mandy Horvath (born June 10,1993) is a Colorado based American bi-lateral above knee amputee, creative writer, public speaker, actress and mountaineer. She is notable as the first female bi-lateral amputee to summit the Manitou Incline, Pikes Peak (twice), the Statue of Liberty stairwell to the crown, and Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro, without the use of prosthetic equipment- using her arms and ...
Jessica Cox (born February 2, 1983) is the world's first licensed armless pilot, as well as the first armless black-belt in the American Taekwondo Association. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] She was born without arms due to a rare birth defect .
Phocomelia is a congenital condition that involves malformations of human arms and legs which result in a flipper-like appendage. [1] [2] A prominent cause of phocomelia is the mother being prescribed the use of the drug thalidomide during pregnancy; however, the causes of most cases are to be determined.
Nellie Zimmerman, the deaf and blind woman who was discovered tucked away and forgotten for nearly two decades in the psychiatric ward at Massillon State Hospital in the middle of the 1970s, died ...
Aloisia Wagner (1905 or 1906 - c. 1940), better known by her stage name Violetta, was a German-American woman who was born without legs or arms with a condition known as tetra-amelia syndrome. She was born in Hemelingen, Germany, and had a lengthy career in sideshow performance. [1] Aloisia Wagner was born in either 1905 or 1906.
Two other armless men, Belgium’s Piotr Van Montagu and Mexico’s Víctor Sardina Viveros, are also competing in Paris, and like Devi and Stutzman, use other body parts to aim and shoot. Related...
A blind woman who has autism is wowing social media users around the globe with her beautiful rendition of a classic Disney melody. Lavender Darcangelo, a singer from Fitchburg, Mass., took the ...
Sesser was born in 1992 with a congenital absence of both legs. As an infant, she was abandoned outside a Buddhist temple in Pak Chong, Thailand. [1] [2] She was found by a woman passing by on 13 September 1992, who picked up the baby Sesser, washed the debris off, and called the city police to take the baby to the hospital. [1]