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  2. Sarah Biffin - Wikipedia

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    Sarah Biffin was born on 25 October 1784 in East Quantoxhead, Somerset [1] to her father Henry Biffin, a shoemaker, and his wife Sarah.She was born with no arms and undeveloped legs – a result of the congenital condition phocomelia, [2] and would grow to a height of 37 inches.

  3. Gallery of Beauties - Wikipedia

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    Gallery of Beauties The Nymphenburg Palace seen from its park. The Gallery of Beauties (German: Schönheitengalerie) is a collection of 38 portraits of the most beautiful women from the nobility and bourgeoisie of Munich, Germany, gathered by King Ludwig I of Bavaria in the south pavilion of his Nymphenburg Palace. [1]

  4. Alison Lapper - Wikipedia

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    Lapper uses photography, digital imaging, and painting to, as she says, question physical normality and beauty, using herself as a subject. She is a member of the Association of Mouth and Foot Painting Artists of the World (AMFPA), having joined as a student member and receiving a full membership after her college graduation. [1]

  5. Blanche Monnier - Wikipedia

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    Blanche Monnier (French pronunciation: [blɑ̃ʃ mɔnje]; 1 March 1849 – 13 October 1913), often known in France as la Séquestrée de Poitiers [a] (roughly, "The Confined Woman of Poitiers"), [1] was a woman from Poitiers, France, who was secretly kept locked in a small room by her aristocratic mother and brother for 25 years.

  6. Samuel Gridley Howe - Wikipedia

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    [3] [4] His mother Patty (Gridley) Howe was considered to be one of the most beautiful women of her day. [2] Samuel Gridley Howe's grandfather, Edward Compton Howe, was one of the patriots at the Boston Tea Party. [3] Howe was educated at Boston Latin School, where he was cruelly treated and even beaten, according to his daughter. [5]

  7. La Belle Strasbourgeoise - Wikipedia

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    La Belle Strasbourgeoise is the most famous of the circa 1,500 portrait paintings by Largillière, and arguably the most iconic work in the Strasbourg museum. The identity of the depicted woman is unknown: she may be someone from the Strasbourg bourgeoisie, or a young Parisian in disguise (Strasbourg had become part of France only 22 years prior, in 1681), or the painter's own sister, Marie ...

  8. Vintage photos of coal miners in America - AOL

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    In the 1800s, the Industrial Revolution spread to America, where coal became the main source of energy just as it had years earlier in England. Vintage photos of coal miners in America Skip to ...

  9. Disability in the arts - Wikipedia

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    Disability in the arts is an aspect within various arts disciplines of inclusive practices involving disability.It manifests itself in the output and mission of some stage and modern dance performing-arts companies, and as the subject matter of individual works of art, such as the work of specific painters and those who draw.