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Strongwomen
A strongwoman is a woman who performs feats of strength in a show or circus, or a woman who competes in strength athletics. Traditionally, strongwomen have had a special appeal, as women involved in demonstrated feats of strength were exceptions. Modern day strongwoman competitions test athletes physical strength and endurance through a variety of heavy lifts and events. Traditional strongwomen Traditionally, strongwomen were featured as performers in a circus, or in vaudeville, music halls, or other venues, and engaged in feats of strength such as barbell lifting and human juggling. Some famous traditional strongwomen include: *Miss Athléta (Athleta Van Huffelen) - Belgium (1865 – 1927) * Marie Sirois - Quebec, Canada (1865 – 1920) *Minerva (Josephine Blatt ''née'' Wohlford) - New Jersey, USA (1869 – 1923) *Vulcana (Miriam Kate Williams aka Kate Roberts) - Abergavenny, Wales (1874 – 1946) *Miss Apollina (Elise Gillaine Herbigneaux) - Belgium (1874 &n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbye "Pudgy" Stockton
Abbye "Pudgy" Stockton, Eville (August 11, 1917 – June 26, 2006), was an American professional strongwoman and forerunner of present-day female bodybuilders, who became famous through her involvement with Muscle Beach in the 1940s. Early life Abbye Eville was born on August 11, 1917, and moved to Santa Monica, California, in 1924. She acquired the nickname "Pudgy" as a child, and the name stuck, even though she weighed approximately 115 pounds at a height of 5'2". She began dating UCLA student Les Stockton during her senior year of high school; they were married in 1941.Todd, Jan"The Legacy of Pudgy Stockton" ''Iron Game History'', January, 1992 Career Stockton and her husband were frequent visitors to Muscle Beach, where they primarily worked on acrobatics and gymnastics. One of their most famous feats involved Pudgy serving as the "understander", supporting Les (180 pounds) over her head in a hand to hand stand. Pudgy quickly became a media favorite, and was inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Sirois
Marie Sirois (Septembre 2, 1865 – January 18, 1920), erroneously known as Marie-Louise,Martin, Gabriel, « Marie Sirois (1865-1920), femme la plus forte du monde », Montréal, Histoire Québec, 21 mars 2017, vol. 22, no 4, p. 21-25. was a French-Canadian strongwoman who was promoted as the strongest woman in the world. By age 17, she was noted for having lifted barrels weighing 115 kilograms. After her family moved to Salem, Massachusetts, she married fellow Quebec strongman Henri Cloutier and performed at his gym in Salem. Édouard-Zotique Massicotte, ''Athlètes canadiens-français. Recueil des exploits de force, d'endurance, d'agilité, des athlètes et des sportsmen de notre race, depuis le XVIIIe siècle'', Montréal, Librairie Beauchemin, 1909, p. 209-215. She became a professional athlete at age 25 and became known for lifting a 1,300-kilogram platform on her back and also restraining a pair of 635-kilogram horses in a similar manner as done by Louis Cyr. Her performa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katie Sandwina
Katie Sandwina (born Katharina Brumbach and also known as Katie Brumbach; 1884 – 21 January 1952) was an Austrian-American circus strongwoman. Life in the circus Katie Brumbach was one of fourteen children born to circus performers Philippe and Johanna Brumbach. In her early years, Katie performed with her family. Katie's father would offer one hundred marks to any man in the audience who could defeat her in wrestling; no one ever succeeded in winning the prize. It was during one such performance that Katie met her husband of forty-two years, Max Heymann. In 1902 Brumbach defeated the famous strongman Eugen Sandow in a weightlifting contest in New York City. Katie lifted a weight of 300 pounds over her head, which Sandow managed to lift only to his chest. After this victory, she adopted the stage name "Sandwina" as a feminine derivative of Sandow. Sandwina worked in the United States with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus for many years, until she was nearly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charmion
Laverie Vallee (née Cooper; July 18, 1875 – February 6, 1949), best known by her stage name Charmion, was an American vaudeville trapeze artist and strongwoman. One of her risqué trapeze acts was captured on film in 1901 by Thomas Edison. Career According to the ''Journal of Sport History'' article "Flying, Flirting, and Flexing: Charmion's Trapeze Act, Sexuality, and Physical Culture at the Turn of the Twentieth Century", she made her debut on December 25, 1897, at Koster and Bial's Music Hall, Koster and Bial's vaudeville theatre in New York City. A native of Sacramento, Charmion built her act around a memorable routine which opened with her on-stage entrance dressed in full Victorian fashion#Women's clothing, Victorian street attire. She subsequently mounted the trapeze and disrobed down to her Acrobatics, acrobat leotards in the midst of the trapeze's swinging motion. She appears to have begun performing while in her late teens, and this was part of her repertoire a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vulcana
Miriam Kate Williams (6 May 1874 – 8 August 1946) sometimes called Kate Roberts and better known by her stage name Vulcana, was a Wales, Welsh strongwoman. With Strongman (strength athlete), strongman William Hedley Roberts, better known as Atlas, she toured music halls in Britain, Europe, and Australia. The couple performed as The Atlas and Vulcana Group of Society Athletes. Early life Kate Williams was born to Ireland, Irish parents in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire (historic), Monmouthshire; her father was a local preacher. Kate worked at a tannery in Abergavenny as a young woman. She met William Roberts at the local women's gymnasium he ran in 1890, when she was fifteen. They fell in love; in spite of Roberts already having a wife and family, they left town together and were never parted for the rest of their lives. Performing career Williams's first professional appearance was as a replacement act at a fete hosted by Roberts in Pontypool, Wales. They began to be billed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josephine Blatt
Josephine Schauer Blatt (1869 – September 1, 1923), best known by her stage name Minerva, was an American strongwoman. She married strongman Charles Blatt in 1888. Early life Blatt was born in New York, the ninth child of German immigrants Joseph and Louisa Schauer. Her father immigrated in 1858 and her mother two years later. Nineteenth-century accounts differ as to the place and time of her birth. In an interview in ''The Mirror'' of Manchester, New Hampshire, she claimed to have been born in 1865 in Hamburg, Germany. The ''Guinness Book of World Records'' listed her as an American, born in 1869, and various accounts place her either in Hoboken or Elizabethtown, New Jersey in her youth. World weightlifting record dispute In the July 1937 issue of '' Strength & Health'' magazine, Rosetta Hoffman made the claim that Minerva had lifted 23 men and a platform, in a 3,564–lb hip-and-harness lift. For several years, the ''Guinness Book of World Records'' listed Minerva as havi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macarte Sisters
The Macarte Sisters were a trapeze and high wire act of the late 19th and early 20th-centuries noted for their feats of strength during their performance. Early life They were born into a dynasty of acrobatic and circus performers dating back at least to the early 19th-century (they claimed to the early 18th) who all adopted the surname Macarte in place of their actual surname of Macarthy. An earlier generation of females in the family - their aunts- were using the stage name 'Sisters Macarte' from at least 1870. Their parents were Regina ''née'' Mauthner (1860–1892), a Budapest-born Hungary, Hungarian acrobat and dancer with the Hungarian ballet, and Lambeth-born Henry Macarthy (1853–1924), a circus acrobat who had been performing since the age of 6. They married in the British Embassy in Vienna in 1877. Their grandparents Michael 'John' Macarthy (1820–1856) and Marie Macarte, Marie Elizabeth Macarte ''née'' Ginnett (1827–1892) ran Macarte's Monster Ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luisita Leers
Hacienda Luisita is a 6,453-hectare sugar plantation located in the province of Tarlac. The hacienda spans 11 barangays in three towns of Tarlac. Most of the original farmworkers reside in 10 villages – Barangays Balete, Cutcut (or Sta. Catalina), Lourdes (formerly Texas), Mapalacsiao (formerly Luisita), Asturias, and Bantog in Tarlac City; Barangay Motrico in La Paz town; and Barangays Parang (formerly San Sebastian), Mabilog (formerly Pasajes) and Pando in Concepcion town. The original estate includes the Central Azucarera de Tarlac (CAT) sugar mill and a golf course. The eleventh village is Barangay Central in Tarlac City which houses the CAT sugar mill, the St. Martin de Porres Hospital and the Our Lady of Lourdes Church. It features Luisita Golf and Country Club, a golf course and Las Haciendas de Luisita Subdivision, a 5-interconnected luxury subdivision. Originally owned by the Compañía General de Tabacos de Filipinas (Tabacalera), it is now owned by the family of Jos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
England
England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It shares Anglo-Scottish border, a land border with Scotland to the north and England–Wales border, another land border with Wales to the west, and is otherwise surrounded by the North Sea to the east, the English Channel to the south, the Celtic Sea to the south-west, and the Irish Sea to the west. Continental Europe lies to the south-east, and Ireland to the west. At the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census, the population was 56,490,048. London is both List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, the largest city and the Capital city, capital. The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Paleolithic. It takes its name from the Angles (tribe), Angles, a Germanic peoples, Germanic tribe who settled du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estonia
Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Russia. The territory of Estonia consists of the mainland, the larger islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa, and over 2,300 other islands and islets on the east coast of the Baltic Sea. Its capital Tallinn and Tartu are the two largest List of cities and towns in Estonia, urban areas. The Estonian language is the official language and the first language of the Estonians, majority of its population of nearly 1.4 million. Estonia is one of the least populous members of the European Union and NATO. Present-day Estonia has been inhabited since at least 9,000 BC. The Ancient Estonia#Early Middle Ages, medieval indigenous population of Estonia was one of the last pagan civilisations in Europe to adopt Christianity following the Northern Crusades in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total population of over 84 million in an area of , making it the most populous member state of the European Union. It borders Denmark to the north, Poland and the Czech Republic to the east, Austria and Switzerland to the south, and France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands to the west. The Capital of Germany, nation's capital and List of cities in Germany by population, most populous city is Berlin and its main financial centre is Frankfurt; the largest urban area is the Ruhr. Settlement in the territory of modern Germany began in the Lower Paleolithic, with various tribes inhabiting it from the Neolithic onward, chiefly the Celts. Various Germanic peoples, Germanic tribes have inhabited the northern parts of modern Germany since classical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York (state)
New York, also called New York State, is a U.S. state, state in the northeastern United States. Bordered by New England to the east, Canada to the north, and Pennsylvania and New Jersey to the south, its territory extends into both the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Lakes. New York is the List of U.S. states and territories by population, fourth-most populous state in the United States, with nearly 20 million residents, and the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 27th-largest state by area, with a total area of . New York has Geography of New York (state), a varied geography. The southeastern part of the state, known as Downstate New York, Downstate, encompasses New York City, the List of U.S. cities by population, most populous city in the United States; Long Island, with approximately 40% of the state's population, the nation's most populous island; and the cities, suburbs, and wealthy enclaves of the lower Hudson Valley. These areas are the center of the expansive New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
