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In Search of the Biddenden Maids

By Lee Weinstein: My wife, Diane, and I traveled to the UK in late summer of 1995 to attend the World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow. Along the way, both before and after the Worldcon, we stopped at a number of places that we wanted to see in person. We visited Loch Ness; Findhorn; Glamis

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In Search of the Biddenden Maids

By Lee Weinstein: My wife, Diane, and I traveled to the UK in late summer of 1995 to attend the World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow. Along the way, both before and after the Worldcon, we stopped at a number of places that we wanted to see in person. We visited Loch Ness; Findhorn; Glamis

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A 600-year-old Kent mansion that was the happy refuge of a King in exile

A 600-year-old Kent mansion that was the happy refuge of a King in exile
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Stale of the century! 200-year-old BISCUIT baked in honour of conjoined twins to go to auction

Share The sisters are reputed to have bequeathed land to the village, known as the Bread and Cheese Lands, the rent from which was used to pay an annual dole of food and drink to the poor at Easter. Since at least 1775 the dole included Biddenden Cakes, bearing the effigy of the conjoined maids. A depiction of Mary and Eliza Chulkhurst, known as the famous Biddenden Maids There are many different depictions of the Biddenden Maids created over the years How rare is having conjoined twins? Conjoined twins occur once every 200,000 births and develop from the same fertilized egg. The developing embryo starts to split into identical twins during the first few weeks after conception but stops before the process is complete. The partially separated egg then develops into a conjoined fetus.

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