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...This report would substantiate lay testimony about two other dicephalous monsters who lived briefly last century. Ritta & Christina born at Sassari, Italy in 1829, waked & slept, laughed & wept diversely, and caused religious people of the time to debate "whether she had two souls or one." Another Italian, Giovanni & Giacomo, born at Locarno in 1877, could not walk because each head controlled only the leg on its side of the common body. He never learned to place one foot in front of the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Irina & Galina | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

...mainland. Authoress Posse-Brazdova tells a grim tale of a Sardinian private during the War who. told that he could not take to the rear a prisoner he had captured, made sure of him by biting through the artery in his neck, guzzling his blood in great gulps. The Sassari Brigade (Sardinian) was the only one that did not run away at Caporetto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: German Falstaff | 1/16/1933 | See Source »

Died. Ornato Succu, 35, Sardinia's last brigand chief, killer of more than 60 men; by a shot from the Royal Italian Police, near Sassari, Sardinia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 11, 1927 | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

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