The "Wild Men of Borneo" made an appearance in September 1881, and the "largest living couple," Captain Bates and his wife (the former Anna Swan), were exhibited in December of that year.49 Bunnell also sponsored several special ...
Weird and Wonderful: Neat Bible Stories for Cool Dudes
Learn about the strangest and oddest natural plants on earth—the world's tiniest plant to the world's biggest and heaviest flower, plants that grow in air, plants that eat insects…and many more.
Meet the strangest and oddest animals on earth—a pocket-sized kangaroo with elephant ears, a lizard with horns, a leafy sea dragon that looks like a bunch of floating leaves, a chameleon that looks like a mini dinosaur…and many ...
A wondrous assortment of curiosities attracted the nineteenth-century spectator at the dime museum.
Author Andrea Stulman Dennett recaptures this ephemeral and scarcely documented institution of American culture from the margins of history. 24 illustrations.