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Edmondo Zacchini was the oldest son of Ildebrando Zacchini, an Italian portrait artist and amateur gymnast, and brother of Hugo Zacchini. Ildebrando brought his family up in a traveling circus . The family eventually formed their own circus , and Edmondo became a gifted clown , as well as doing acrobatics.
Edmondo and Hugo Zacchini circa 1960-1970. Edmondo Zacchini (1894–1981) and Hugo Zacchini (1898–1975) were circus entertainers. They were the sons of Ildebrando Zacchini (1868–1948) and came from a large Italian family residing primarily in Tampa, Florida. While not all human cannonballs, all of papa Zacchini's children were circus ...
Ildebrando Zacchini (July 31, 1868 – July 17, 1948) was an Italian-born painter, inventor, and travelling circus owner. [1] Inspired by the works of Jules Verne, Zacchini came up with an idea for a human cannonball act. [2] Instead of explosives, Zacchini's human-firing cannon used compressed air, and he first tested it on his son Hugo Zacchini.
In 2008, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, was a New York Times Top 10 Bestseller as well as a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice; it was a San Francisco Chronicle #1 bestseller and made it to the Boston Sunday Globe′s Top 5 Science Books. Bonk was also a Booksense Independent Bestseller and the Publishers Weekly 2008 ...
MARK ULRIKSEN mysterious stranger who blows into town one day and makes the bad guys go away. He wore a grizzled beard and had thick, un-bound hair that cascaded halfway down his
The Breakthrough is written for the lay reader and includes sections on immunology that have been written for a general audience. It examines the development of cancer immunotherapy, starting with William Coley's work with toxins in the 1890s, moving on to the long hiatus of immunotherapy, and concluding with victory for the believers in the form of regulatory approval of CTLA-4, PD-1, and PD ...
Cancer Ward (Russian: Раковый корпус, romanized: Rakovy korpus) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Nobel Prize-winning Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. [1] Completed in 1966, the novel was distributed in Russia that year in samizdat , and banned there the following year.
[9] In a review for The New York Review of Books, Nellie Hermann writes about how Boyer's memoir can not be easily categorised as a standard illness narrative. [10] NPR's Sascha Cohen writes, "The Undying catalogs the unceasing losses that accompany a breast cancer diagnosis in the 21st century." Cohen calls the memoir an "anti-capitalist ...