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
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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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.