I actually wanted to do this blog yesterday
Because it was valentine I needed to focus my attention otherwise, but i was fascinated by this story that I heard on the radio..It's the story of Julia Pastrana, Once elected as the ugliest women on earth. She was born in 1843 and she had some rare diseases.. Because of that she looked uhmm somewhat different.. well just look for yourself..
In those days she wasn't even seen as a real human. People figured she was a crossing of a human and a orangutan. Her later to be husband bought her and put her on a freak show to travel the world with her.. Even after her death, she and her son were balsemed and preserved so Her agent (husband) could keep touring with her and keep making money with her.
She died in 1860 in Russia, her body somehow ended up in Norway.. but now after all these years.. she finally was returned to her place of birth in mexico where last tuesday, she finally had a token of acceptance to humanity.. she finally was burried as a human.. I hope she will rest in peace.
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There were sporadic calls for the return of her remains, beginning in the 1940s, but the case became prominent only after Stephen Jay Gould wrote The Hottentot Venus in the 1980s. After the victory of the African National Congress in the South African general election, 1994, President Nelson Mandela formally requested that France return the remains. After much legal wrangling and debates in the French National Assembly, France acceded to the request on 6 March 2002. Her remains were repatriated to her homeland, the Gamtoos Valley, on 6 May 2002 and they were buried on 9 August 2002 on Vergaderingskop, a hill in the town of Hankey over 200 years after her birth.
can read more:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saartjie_Baartman
Can't believe people actually were used like this in europe and its not even all that long ago.
how are you tonight ?
Kn, I hope so too.
i'm ok thankyou
some dermatological diseases are treatable --
but in cases of diseases that are rare , often money will not be found to fund research for cures unfortunately .
and please send my regards to your special lady
Joseph Merrick[ Elephant man] Chose to go on public display. Yes he was exploited, but it was his choice originally.
Greed is a bad thing.. and he sure was greedy if he felt he could exploit a woman in such a way as he did.