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On this day in 1890 Joseph Merrick died. Merrick was better known as The Elephant Man because of his unusual physical deformities that were, at the time, thought to be unique. Although an intelligent man Merrick was exploited throughout his whole life, first by showmen who would make money by exhibiting him (some did give him a decent cut of the takings and look after him, but these were few and far between) and then by eminent doctors out to make a name for themselves by parading him around naked in lectures which amounted to more or less the same thing as the showmen were doing but with “science”offered up as a fig-leaf of respectability.
And now the news:
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Half a billion-year-old shrimp with a modern heart...
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Enormous alligator snapping turtle rescued from dr...
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Name of new weakly electric fish species reflects ...
Pygmy blue whale tracked for first time
South Africa losing 18 rhinos a week – 277 so far ...
Recreating what Merrick's voice
may have sounded like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CejyfdIaCQ0
http://cryptozoologynews.blogspot.com/
On this day in 1890 Joseph Merrick died. Merrick was better known as The Elephant Man because of his unusual physical deformities that were, at the time, thought to be unique. Although an intelligent man Merrick was exploited throughout his whole life, first by showmen who would make money by exhibiting him (some did give him a decent cut of the takings and look after him, but these were few and far between) and then by eminent doctors out to make a name for themselves by parading him around naked in lectures which amounted to more or less the same thing as the showmen were doing but with “science”offered up as a fig-leaf of respectability.
And now the news:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CejyfdIaCQ0
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