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Tracy Ashton is an American film and television actress. She earned a degree from Southern Illinois University in dance prior to becoming an amputee due to cancer. A comic performer, she is best known for playing disabled characters, including a recurring role as the one-legged Didi in the television series My Name Is Earl.
Sarah Doherty (December 21, 1959 – January 5, 2023) was an amputee mountaineer, ski racer, motivational speaker, and entrepreneur who lost her right leg to a drunk driver at age 13. She was a member of the inaugural U.S. National Disabled Ski Team [ 1 ] and was the first amputee to reach the summit of Denali .
At the 1984 Winter Paralympics in Innsbruck, Austria, St. John won a bronze medal in the slalom, a bronze medal in the giant slalom, and was awarded a silver medal for overall performance thereby earning her the distinction of being the second fastest woman in the world on one leg in that year.
Another optical illusion has taken the internet by storm. This may join the ranks of the dress and the woman with a "missing" leg.This one involves the opposite: a woman with supposedly too many legs.
Heather Anne Mills (born 12 January 1968) [1] is an English former model, businesswoman [2] and animal rights activist.. Mills first came to public attention in 1993 when she was a model and was run over by a police motorcycle in London.
Diana Golden Brosnihan (née Diana Golden, March 20, 1963 – August 25, 2001) was an American disabled ski racer.After losing a leg to cancer at age 12, she went on to win 10 world and 19 United States championships between 1986, and 1990 as a three-tracker, or one-legged skier.
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Elizabeth Clarke (c. 1565–1645), alias Bedinfield, was the first woman persecuted by the Witchfinder General, Matthew Hopkins in 1645 in Essex, England. At 80 years old, she was accused of witchcraft by local tailor John Rivet. Hopkins and John Stearne took on the role of investigators, stating that they had seen familiars while watching her.