4) Dog Boys In early 20th century glassworks, “Dog Boys” under the age the 16 navigated the tight spaces carrying molten glass. The Boys constantly worked at light “Dogtrot” for Ten hours straight, covering 20 miles in bare feet.Shuffling between the blazes hot furnaces and cold damn lead to tuberculosis rates twice as high as […]
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4. The 19th century woman who was known as Widow Sunday Madame Dimanche, also known as Widow Sunday, was a French woman living in Paris in the early 19th century who grew a 24.9 cm horn from her forehead before it was successfully removed by a French surgeon. A wax model of her head is […]
