After the death of her husband & with no breadwinner in the house, Mary Ann Bevan decided to enter a contest and won the offensive title of "ugliest woman in the world" & was hired by a circus. She en... View MoreAfter the death of her husband & with no breadwinner in the house, Mary Ann Bevan decided to enter a contest and won the offensive title of "ugliest woman in the world" & was hired by a circus. She endured the ridicule of of others in order to raise her children & give them a better life.

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Mary Ann Bevan was born in 1874 in London in a middle-class family. With her family being made up of eight children (seven other brothers) the older children were sent off to work in order to keep everyone fed. Once she finished her medical studies, she became a nurse in 1894. In 1903, she got married to Thomas Bevan with whom she established a family of four children. The family was very happy, especially as they were living in prosperous times within London. Three years later, in 1906 Mary Ann was hit with a rare disease that medics at the time didn’t know much about, acromegaly. Acromegaly This rare disease is a hormonal sickness that is provoked by the somatotroph hormone. In simpler terms the hormone that helps our bodies grown and develop. The disease usually shows up after the patient hits puberty and it makes the bones of the body enlarge, usually two to three times bigger than usual.

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"Wear a mask or go to jail" -1918

This would be the last photo ever taken of them and they had no clue.

In 1913, two children were mailed by post and rail. Someone put a stamp on their kids and sent them to another location. Soon after, this practice was outlawed.

Disney rejection letter to a female artist, 1938

A soldier feeding a Polar Bear from his tank in 1950, Chukchi Peninsula, USSR.

This is how a B-17 Ball Turret Gunner did his job.

Hunter Brothers doing some mid-air mechanical checkups during their 23-day-long flight without landing in 1930. Over the 23 days, food and fuel were delivered to them periodically by another airplane.

The Rolling Store truck also known as "The Peddler" was a common and welcome site in isolated rural South areas during the 1920s to the 1950s when towns and stores were inaccessible or too distant.