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FAMOUS DUOS (continued): • The term “Siamese twins” had its origins with two brothers Chang and Eng, born in Siam (now Thailand) in 1811. The brothers were joined at the sternum by a very superficial connection of skin tissue, one that could easily be separated by surgery today. They toured with P.T. Barnum’s traveling circus for several years, after which they purchased a small plantation in North Carolina. Interestingly, these conjoined twins married sisters and shared a large bed built for four in their home. Chang fathered 11 children, and Eng, 10. The number of their descendants is more than 1,500, including Chang’s great-great-granddaughter Caroline Shaw, a 2013 Pulitzer Prize winner and Chang’s great-granddaughter Alex Sink, a former Chief Financial Officer for the state of Florida and former gubernatorial candidate. • P.T. Barnum established his showman career with his first traveling show at age 25. In addition to conjoined twins Chang and Eng, he exhibited General Tom Thumb, a 3.35-fttall (102 cm) gentleman who happened to be a distant relative of Barnum. Barnum taught Thumb, real name Charles Stratton, how to sing, dance, mime, and impersonate famous people. In 1871, he launched the “Greatest Show on Earth,” a traveling circus, animal menagerie, and museum. A competing circus, owned by James Bailey, featured an African elephant. Barnum, after making several attempts to purchase the elephant from his competition and being refused each time, agreed to merge his circus, and in 1881, the Barnum & Bailey Circus was born. The two gentlemen operated their circus together for 10 years until Barnum’s death. Following Bailey’s death in 1906, the circus was purchased by the Ringling Brothers.
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FAMOUS DUOS (continued): • Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn met on a cruise ship where Seigfried performed magic and Roy was a waiter. Shortly after Siegfried sought Roy’s assistance during a show, they began performing as a duo. Roy had been around exotic animals since he was 10 through a family friend, the founder of the Bremen, Germany, zoo. The pair worked together for more than 40 years, totaling 5,750 shows together, primarily at Las Vegas’ Mirage Hotel. In 2003, while working with the show’s trademark white tigers, Roy was bitten on the neck by a 7-year-old male tiger during a show. Siegfried and Roy claim that Roy suffered a stroke during the performance and that the tiger picked him up and moved him to safety. Roy suffered severe blood loss and was partially paralyzed for many months. The Mirage was forced to lay off 267 crew members associated with the show, suffering a loss of $45 million in annual ticket sales. • Nearly everyone has seen a Christmas card with the image of a Currier and Ives winter scene. Nathaniel Currier was 15 years old in 1828 when he became an apprentice in a Boston lithography shop to learn engraving and printing. Seven years later he had his own company at 1 Wall Street in New York City, where he printed and duplicated pictures, music, architectural plans, and a host of other items. He became the first to provide illustrations for a newspaper, which to that point had no pictures to accompany news stories. At age 39, he hired a new bookkeeper, James Ives, who was also a fine artist. They eventually formed a partnership that produced more than 7,500 different images, and over one million prints using hand-colored lithography.
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In honor of National Taco Day on October 4, Tidbits dishes the facts on one of our favorite foods. • Americans consume about 4.5 billion tacos a year, with a total weight equaling that of two Empire State Buildings! There are an estimated 31,000 Mexican food restaurants in the U.S. • When explorer Hernando Cortez landed in the New World in 1519, he found the Aztecs making flat corn breads. The Aztec word for these little breads was tlaxcalli, but the Spanish gave them the name “tortilla,” (although today we usually refer to the flour version as a tortilla). Some anthropologists claim there is evidence indicating dwellers of the Valley of Mexico ate tacos filled with fish long before the 16th century. Some areas added small live insects, ants, locusts, and snails to their filling. • The first written record in the U.S. of a taco is in a 1905 Los Angeles newspaper. At a time when migrant workers were crossing over from Mexico to work in the mines and on the railroads, a group of women called the Chili Queens ran a street vendor business there. • In 1914, a cookbook called the California Mexican-Spanish Cook Book featured a taco recipe, made by putting “chopped, cooked beef and chili sauce in a tortilla made of meal and flour, folded, edges sealed together with egg; fried in deep fat, chili sauce served over it.” • The 1929 cookbook Ramona’s SpanishMexican Cookery contained six taco and tacquito recipes with various ingredients including pork snout, ears, jowls, kidneys, and livers. Also featured were cream cheese tacos, egg tacos, and Mexican tacos.
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