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Adam Rainer journey from dwarf to Giant Name : Adam Rainer Born : 1899 Graz, Austria-Hungary Nationality : Austrian Died : March 4, 1950 Aged : 50–51 Popularity : Being both a dwarf and giant ( Source ) Adam Rainer was born  In 1899  in the city of Graz, Austria.  H e was born into the family of normal sized people "average height", during his early years Adam was known to have displayed a stunted growth, weak and extremely small body size. Adam Rainer childhood At the age of 18, his height was measured at 122.55 cm (4 ft 0.25 in), he  was considered to be a dwarf  by the medical practitioners  and was denied entry to the Austrian military when he tried enlisting during World War I. His case was so mysterious that even though a stunted and weak stature  it was known that he had abnormally large hands and feet.  One year later, Adam Rainer  had grown a full 2 inches and  tried enlisting again...

The untold story of Bertha Ringer Benz Bertha Benz Name : Bertha Ringer, (Bertha Benz) after marriage Born : 3 May 1849 Pforzheim, Grand Duchy of Baden, German Confederation Died : 5 May 1944 (aged 95) Ladenburg, Nazi Germany Nationality : German Spouse(s) : Karl Benz (m. 20 July 1872 – 4 April 1929, his death) Children : 5 Popularity & inventions : First person in history to drive an automobile over a long distance Inventor of the world's first pair of brake pads.  3. First person to use a fuel station  4. First violator of high-way rules  5. First driver of the longest one-way road         trip ADVERTISEMENT Bertha Ringer, was born into a wealthy family from Pforzheim, southwestern German town.  She had been her husband's failing iron construction company saviour  using part of her dowry to invest in his  company t wo years prior to her marriage to Karl Benz.  On 20 July 1872, Berth...

Phineas Gage's "never say die" skull Name : Phineas Gage Born : July 1823, Place of birth : New Hampshire U.S. Died : May 1860, California American (aged 36) Occupation : railroad foreman Popularity : known for having survived a traumatic brain injury caused by an iron rod that shot through his skull and obliterated the greater part of the left frontal lobe of his brain. ( Source ) . Phineas Gage The man with the most famous name in neuroscience Gage was born into a family of farmers and was raised on a family farm in New Hampshire. He took up work on the construction of railways at some point of his life and came under the employment of contractors who were working with the Rutland and Burlington Railroad company. Among Gage’s duties was to clear rocks to level the ground. The task involved placing an explosive charge deep into the rock by drilling a hole. ADVERTISEMENT The hole was then filled with gunpowder, and a fuse was s...

James Plimpton James Leonard Plimpton Born : 14-Apr-1828 Birthplace : Medfield, MA Died:  1911 Cause of death : unspecified Gender : Male Race or Ethnicity : White Sexual orientation : Straight Occupation : Inventor, Business Nationality : United States Father : Leonard Plimpton (b. 8-Aug-1792, 26-Jan-1873) Mother : Sarah Turner Lane Plimpton (b. 2-Feb-1797, m. 27-Nov-1819, d. 30-Mar-1879) Brother : Henry Richardson Plimpton (school teacher, b. 8-Oct-1820, d. 24-Aug-1891) Sister : Joanna Lane Plimpton Clark (b. 7-Sep-1822) Wife : Harriet Amelia Adams (m. 6-Dec-1852) Son : Henry Plimpton ( Source ) Without any doubt, James Leonard Plimpton is the "quad-inventor" with the biggest success. He brought lots of innovations and helped roller skating a lot to grow worldwide. James Leonard Plimpton was born in 1828 in Medfield (Massachusetts, USA). His first 16 years he lived on a farm where he discovered his talent as mechanic. H...

Pearl “Bandit Queen” Taylor Hart BIRTH - 13 Nov 1876 Lindsay Township, Bruce County, Ontario, Canada DEATH - 28 Dec 1955 (aged 79) Globe, Gila County, Arizona, USA BURIAL  - Pinal Cemetery Central Heights, Gila County, Arizona, USA  Show Map MEMORIAL ID - 20336019 · View ( Sources ) Pearl Hart Pearl Hart – Lady Bandit of Arizona "Lady Outlaw" Pearl Hart, a petite and attractive young girl, would become one of the only female stagecoach robbers in the American West, and a celebrity in her own right. Born as Pearl Taylor of French descent in Lindsay, Ontario, Canada, she was one of several children brought up in a respectable middle-class family and received a good education. Though she couldn’t have known it, her life would take a turn for the worse when, at the age of seventeen, she fell for swaggering and seductive gambler named Frederick Hart. Pearl soon eloped with Hart, who sometimes worked as a bartender, but more often, lost ...

SEALAND The History of the world's smallest country   The Principality of Sealand is a unique little micronation with a colorful history. Located six miles off the eastern shores of Britain, it is one of four Maunsell Naval Sea Forts deployed by Britain during World War 2. It was originally called Roughs Tower, and was was used to monitor and report German minelaying in the waters off England. During the war, it was home to 150-300 personnel, radar equipment, two 6-inch guns, and two 40mm anti-aircraft autocannons. But after being abandoned by the Royal Navy in 1956, this artificial island on the high seas has been the site of a pirate radio landing pad, a takeover, a controversial declaration of independence, a coup, and it’s own miniature war.  The structure Sealand is built upon is technically a very large sunken ship, due to the way it was deployed. It was built in 1942 on a pontoon barge at Red Lion Wharf as a superstructure of two hollow concrete...