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  2. Peg leg - Wikipedia

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    By the late 19th century, prosthetics vendors would offer peg legs as cheaper alternatives to more intricate, lifelike artificial legs. [3] Even as vendors touted advantages of more complicated prostheses over simple peg legs, [3] according to a contemporary surgeon, many patients found a peg leg more comfortable for walking. [4]

  3. Mandy Horvath - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. Aimee Mullins - Wikipedia

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    Mullins' prosthetic leg shown at CCCB exhibit in Barcelona, October 2015 Mullins watches fellow bilateral amputee Hugh Herr climb the wall at MIT Media Lab's h2.0 symposium, May 9, 2007. Mullins was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania , to an Irish father Bernard Mullins from Crusheen , County Clare , Ireland and mother Bernadette Mullins.

  5. After losing her hand in an accident, Monroe woman launches ...

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    The Lydia Amputees Foundation will hold its annual walk April 20 at Alvin Williams Memorial Park in Woodbridge. After losing her hand in an accident, Monroe woman launches nonprofit to help ...

  6. Video shows Los Angeles deputies restraining and punching amputee

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    Cellphone video showing two Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies restraining and punching an amputee has sparked outrage and demands for answers.

  7. Amputee woman recreates iconic Cinderella scene with gorgeous ...

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    A woman who is missing part of her arm became fed up with a lack of amputee representation in media, so she decided to create her own — and the result has warmed the hearts of thousands.

  8. Marilyn Gillies Carr - Wikipedia

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    Marilyn Gillies Carr (born 16 December 1941) is a Scottish woman from Dundee.She was born without arms or hands and uses her feet for all activities of daily living. [1]She appeared with Douglas Bader in the documentary film Two of a Kind in 1971, which contrasted his life as a double-leg amputee with hers as a person with no arms.

  9. Sarah Reinertsen - Wikipedia

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    Inspired by amputee marathon runner Paddy Rossbach, [2] Reinertsen began to run at age 11. At her first international track meet, when she was 13, she broke the 100 m world record for female above-knee amputees. [2] Her T42 400 m world record time, set in 1999, still stands today. [3] Reinertsen was a member of the US Disabled Track Team for 7 ...

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