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Bill Haast (December 30, 1910 – June 15, 2011 [1]) was the owner and operator, from 1947 until 1984, of the Miami Serpentarium, a tourist attraction south of Miami, Florida, where he entertained customers by performing live venom extraction from snakes. [2]
Bill Haast: 1910–2011: 100: American director of the Miami Serpentarium [88] Viktor Hamburger: 1900–2001: 100: German professor and embryologist [89] Alice Hamilton: 1869–1970: 101: American toxicologist [90] Michael Heidelberger: 1888–1991: 103: American immunologist [91] Rudolf Hell: 1901–2002: 100: German inventor [92] Joel Henry ...
According to a first-person account published in Orlando Magazine in 2011 at the age of 67, when he was six years old he met Bill Haast who was the owner of the Miami Serpentarium and became his mentor, and the first snake he ever picked up was a rattlesnake which struck at him but hit his fingernail without penetrating the skin. [1]
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Bill Haast, owner and director of the Miami Serpentarium, injected himself with snake venom during most of his adult life, in an effort to build up an immunity to a broad array of venomous snakes, in a practice known as mithridatism. Haast lived to age 100, and survived a reported 172 snake bites.
Haas had a distinguished college career: he was a three-time first-team All-American, four-time All-ACC, two-time ACC player-of-the-year and the 2001 ACC rookie-of-the-year.
Haast is a German family name. It may refer to: High Availability for Asterisk, a software package which turns any two Asterisk servers into a cluster; Bill Haast (1910–2011), founder of the Miami Serpentarium and pioneering snake venom collector
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