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  2. Martin Pistorius - Wikipedia

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    Martin Pistorius (born 31 December 1975) is a South African man who had locked-in syndrome and was unable to move or communicate for 12 years. When he was 12, he began losing voluntary motor control and eventually fell into a vegetative state for three years.

  3. 'Ghost Boy' tells true story of waking from 12-year coma - AOL

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    In 1988, at just 12 years old, Martin Pistorius' health started to decline. He soon went into a coma-like state for 12 years, but now he's awake and telling an amazing story. Pistorius says while ...

  4. 'Ghost Boy' Martin Pistorius gives first American television ...

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    Martin Pistorius was just 12 years old when his health unexpectedly and mysteriously started to decline. From there, he went into a coma-like state for 12 years, but awoke to tell an amazing story.

  5. List of people with locked-in syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Martin Pistorius began developing locked-in syndrome when he was 12 years old. He went into a coma for two to three years, after which point he slowly regained consciousness but was unable to communicate this to others until he was around 19 years of age.

  6. List of people who awoke from a coma - Wikipedia

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    Martin Pistorius: 1975 3 years vegetative. 4 years minimally conscious 5 years able to move only eyes. 1999 South African: In 1999, he fully awakened. He recovered to the point that he was able to become a web designer, developer, and author. In 2011, he wrote a book called Ghost Boy, in which he describes his many years of being comatose ...

  7. Vegetative state - Wikipedia

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    Martin Pistorius – South African man who is a rare example of a survivor as his state progressed to minimally conscious after 3 years, locked in syndrome after another 4 more years, and fully came out of a coma after another 5 years. He is now a web designer, developer, and author.

  8. Trump compares his Jan. 6 crowd to the audience for MLK's 'I ...

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    Trump compared his crowd size on Jan. 6, 2021, to that of the crowd who gathered to hear Martin Luther King Jr.'s iconic speech.

  9. List of speeches - Wikipedia

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    1963: I Have a Dream, Lincoln Memorial speech by Martin Luther King Jr. in which the civil rights leader called for racial equality and an end to discrimination. 1964: The Ballot or the Bullet by Nation of Islam leader Malcolm X , urging African-Americans to exercise their right to vote but warning that if they were prevented from attaining ...