save gaza

1. Gaza was invaded by Israel in 1967 & ever since then Israel is illegally occupying the whole of Gaza strip. 2. Gaza is surrounded on three sides by Israel blocked all these three sides by Israeli army & navy & one side by Egypt where the Egyptian army along with Israeli & UN observers & monitors blocks the entry of any body from Gaza.So Gaza is literally huge prison where not even a bird can enter without Israel’s permission. 3. Gaza has no sea port or airport or even a train station. 4. Gaza residents cannot leave Gaza as they don’t even have passports. Plus there are Israeli checkpoints in every place. Also no one from any country can enter Gaza without Israel’s permission which is impossible to get , forget about ordinary man even the top politicians of powerful countries had been denied entry in Gaza by Israel. Gaza is a place which is totally cutoff from the rest of the world. 5. Each and every daily use commodities comes through these Israeli check points. Even the milk, wheat medicines all items come through these Israeli check points. Israel charge taxes on all the items witch goes through these check points. 6. Gaza is like a big jail. It is entire country under seize. Even inside Gaza Israel have several check posts at important junctions. The Israeli army harasses and humiliates Gaza citizens every day as the Gaza citizens cross these check posts. 7. The UN has urged Israel numerous times to remove this illegal seizure of Gaza but Israel never listen to UN . More then 50 resolutions have been passed by UN against Israel but with USA always on its side so Israel just doesn’t care. 8. The food and essentials are always in short supply in Gaza as Israel delays, discourages and harass its imports in Gaza. Shops don’t have enough rations, hospitals don’t have enough and essential medicines. Power is in short supply, petrol and gas is in shortage too. The inflation is highest in the world in Gaza as a result of it. The poverty is rising at the highest rate also. The Gaza children’s are among the worst malnutrition children now. 9. There are no specialized doctors or equipments to treat the serious injury or disease in any hospitals. Every now and then Israeli army bomb Gaza and the innocent civilians get hurt during bombing. These wounded civilians plead and beg in the check points to let them out for treatment but they kind Israeli army never let them. So the wounds which could have been treated become more severe and often the wounded becomes handicapped for the rest of their lives. 10. Once a thriving society and rich people now have become beggars & prisoners in their own country.Can you imagine the trauma the humiliation the harassment the pain in the hearts of these people who have been invaded and made prisoners and slaves in their own country? They have been struggling for their independence since almost 50 years now. With each passing day Israel is constructing new settlements for its Israeli citizens in their land. With each passing day their hope of independence, a hope to live a normal life like any other human is fading away. Every night they sleep in pain and every morning they wake up with sorrows. In the pretext of peace talks Israel actually is delaying their independence to capture more and more of their land everyday by constructing new Israeli homes and settlements. The Palestinians know this and they are watching it helplessly. Just like a goat watch the lion eats its children but can do nothing. They are shedding tears of blood. With Israeli soldiers harassing them , cursing them, abusing them mocking them, hurting them , killing them everyday in their very own land, all Palestinians can do is watch and cry. What suggestions do you have now? The western paid media is making & broadcasting news in such a manner that one should feel as if Gaza residence are the one who are occupying Israel and Israel is fighting for the freedom of its citizen. So that people can only curse and blame Gaza residents. Can you try to feel their misery and helplessness? We can not even imagine spending even one day in the jail called Gazah and they are living in it...

wake up muslims

most of you would have read prophet Muhammad SAW hadiths about last hour. The Jews are to go back to their original places I-e Egypt and Israel so soon I see that egyprian policies are heading towards a time where they could lead an invasion from Israel and would be taken over. The silence of Middle Eastern Leaders over palestine proves the prophecy that we will be in a huge quantity but it would be like we do not exist. See around the world, there are over 1.6 billion muslims, we make nearly 1/4th of the world, we have every thing on our possession, yet we are still alone and are following laws of dajjal. There is a lot of Alharj Alharj now, bloodshed. Prophet Muhammad SAW said that the last hour will not arrive until there is much bloodshed even the killer would not know that why he is killing and the victim would not know why he is being killed. Look around and see, people mostly don't even know why are they killing each other... there are a lot more signs to appear but unfortunately, we are going to go through this hard time. Please! try to support our brothers and sisters in this hard time as we are doing and try not to be part of dajjal's followers. I don't believe that America is dajjal itself but there has to be the signs of his appearance, he wil not appear till he has most followers on earth and that is going to be a hard time for muslims, It is all proving to be right. Allah knows the best. It is all my understanding from prophet SAW hadiths. I am sorry if it differs from anyone elses opinion. Lets become one ummah than Sunni, Shia or any other classes. Kafir know this weakness, they dont have to kill us themselves, they are just funding those acts, See in Syria, Iraq, egypt and other parts of muslim countries, we are killing each other. But Please! Please! Spread this hadith that prophet Muhammad SAW mentioned in many ocassions that two muslims killing each other will go to Hell, the victim and the killer both. (But it is in state of a fight not when a muslim kills the other muslim without him knowing or an innocent.) He even mentioned that a muslim killing a muslim is kafir. Please!! Spread this hadith so it can reach to those brothers who are killing to prove their class or school of thought being right. Tell them that Prophet SAW said, "a muslim killing another muslim is kafir" May Allah show us the right path and make us one ummah, May He keep us on Islam and when we die may we die on Imaan Ameen..

muslims

Muslims are Terrorists? Who started the 1st World War? Muslims? Who started the 2nd World War? Muslims? Who threw nuclear bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Muslims? Who kills approximately 20 million aborigins in Australia? Muslims? Who kills more than 100 million red indians in North America? Muslims? Who kills more than 50 million red indians in South America? Muslims? Who took about 180 million Africans as slaves and kills 77% of them? Muslims? When America takes 1 million lives in Iraq for oil - Not terrorism When Serbs rape muslim women in Kosovo/Bosnia - Not terrorism When Russians kill 200,000 chechens in bombing - not terrorism When Jews kick out Palestinians and take their land - Not terrorism When American drones kill entire family and Afghanistan/Pakistan - Not terrorism When Israel kills 10,000 lebanese civilians due to two missing soldiers - Not terrorism When Muslims retaliate and show you how you treat us - TERRORISM? IT SEEMS LIKE THE WORD "TERRORISM" IS ONLY DESERVED FOR MUSLIMS. TERRORIST IS NOT A RELIGION YOU ARE ALL STUDY AT THE GREAT UNIVERSITIES BUT YOUR STUPIDITY NEVER END.

Israel : the real terrorists

Question: Which country alone in the Middle East has nuclear weapons? Answer: Israel Question: Which country in the Middle East has just recently used a weapon of mass destruction, a one- ton smart bomb, dropping it in the center of a highly populated area killing civilians including children? Answer: Israel Question: What country in the Middle East was cited by Amnesty International fordemolishing more than 4000 innocent Palestinian homes as a means of ethnic cleansing? Answer: Israel Question: What country on Planet Earth has the second most powerful lobby in the United States , according to a recent Fortune magazine survey of Washington insiders? Answer: Israel Question: Which country in the Middle East receives U.S. weapons for free and then sells the technology to the Republic of China even at the objections of the U.S. ? Answer: Israel Question: Which country in the Middle East regularly violates the Geneva Convention by imposing collective punishment on entire towns, villages, and camps, for the acts of a few, and even goes as far as demolishing entire villages while people are still in their homes? Answer: Israel Question: Which country in the Middle East routinely kills young Palestinian children for no reason other than throwing stones at armored vehicles, bulldozers, or tanks? Answer: Israel Question: Which country in the Middle East refuses to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and bars international inspections? ? Answer: Israel Question: Which country in the Middle East seized the sovereign territory of other nations by military force and continues to occupy it in defiance of United Nations Security Council resolutions? Answer: Israel Question: Which country in the Middle East routinely violates the international borders of another sovereign state with warplanes and artillery and naval gunfire? Answer: Israel Question: What American ally in the Middle East has for years sent assassins into other countries to kill its political enemies (a practice sometimes called exporting terrorism)? Answer: Israel Question: In which country in the Middle East have high-ranking military officers admitted publicly that unarmed prisoners of war were executed? Answer: Israel Question: What country in the Middle East refuses to prosecute its soldiers who have acknowledged executing prisoners of war? Answer: Israel Question: What country in the Middle East created millions of refugees and refuses to allow them to return to their homes, farms and businesses? Answer: Israel Question: What country in the Middle East refuses to pay compensation to people whose land, bank accounts and businesses it confiscated? Answer: Israel Question: In what country in the Middle East was a high-ranking United Nations diplomat assassinated? Answer: Israel Question: In what country in the Middle East did the man who ordered the assassination of a high-ranking U.N. diplomat become prime minister? Answer: Israel Question: What country in the Middle East blew up an American diplomatic facility in Egypt and attacked a U.S. ship, the USS Liberty, in international waters, killing 34 and wounding 171 American sailors? Answer: Israel Question: What country in the Middle East employed a spy, Jonathan Pollard, to steal classified documents from USA and then gave some of them to the Soviet Union ? Answer: Israel Question: What country at first denied any official connection to Pollard, then voted to make him a citizen and has continuously demanded that the American president grant Pollard a full pardon? Answer: Israel Question: What Middle East country allows American Jewish murderers to flee to its country to escape punishment in the United States and refuses to extradite them once in their custody? Answer: Israel Question: What Middle East country preaches against hate yet builds a shrine and a memorial for a murderer who killed 29 Palestinians while they prayed in their Mosque.? Answer: Israel Question: Which country in the Middle East deliberately targeted a civilian U.N. Refugee Camp in Qana , Lebanon and killed 103 innocent men, women, and especially children? Answer: Israel Question: Which country in the Middle East is in defiance of 69 United Nations Security Council resolutions and has been protected from 29 more by U.S. votes? Answer: Israel Question: Which country in the Middle East receives more than one-third of all U.S. aid to the world yet is the 16th richest country in the world? Answer: Israel Question: Which country in the Middle East had its Prime Minister announce to his staff not to worry about what the United States says because "We control America ?" Answer: Israel Question: Which country in the Middle East signed the Oslo Accords promising to halt any new Jewish Settlement construction, but instead, has built more than 270 new settlements since the signing? Answer: Israel Question: Which country in the Middle East has assassinated more than 100 political officials of its opponent in the last 2 years while killing hundreds of civilians in the process, including dozens of children? Answer: Israel

Israel : the real terrorists

Question: Which country alone in the Middle East has nuclear weapons? Answer: Israel Question: Which country in the Middle East has just recently used a weapon of mass destruction, a one- ton smart bomb, dropping it in the center of a highly populated area killing civilians including children? Answer: Israel Question: What country in the Middle East was cited by Amnesty International fordemolishing more than 4000 innocent Palestinian homes as a means of ethnic cleansing? Answer: Israel Question: What country on Planet Earth has the second most powerful lobby in the United States , according to a recent Fortune magazine survey of Washington insiders? Answer: Israel Question: Which country in the Middle East receives U.S. weapons for free and then sells the technology to the Republic of China even at the objections of the U.S. ? Answer: Israel Question: Which country in the Middle East regularly violates the Geneva Convention by imposing collective punishment on entire towns, villages, and camps, for the acts of a few, and even goes as far as demolishing entire villages while people are still in their homes? Answer: Israel Question: Which country in the Middle East routinely kills young Palestinian children for no reason other than throwing stones at armored vehicles, bulldozers, or tanks? Answer: Israel Question: Which country in the Middle East refuses to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and bars international inspections? ? Answer: Israel Question: Which country in the Middle East seized the sovereign territory of other nations by military force and continues to occupy it in defiance of United Nations Security Council resolutions? Answer: Israel Question: Which country in the Middle East routinely violates the international borders of another sovereign state with warplanes and artillery and naval gunfire? Answer: Israel Question: What American ally in the Middle East has for years sent assassins into other countries to kill its political enemies (a practice sometimes called exporting terrorism)? Answer: Israel Question: In which country in the Middle East have high-ranking military officers admitted publicly that unarmed prisoners of war were executed? Answer: Israel Question: What country in the Middle East refuses to prosecute its soldiers who have acknowledged executing prisoners of war? Answer: Israel Question: What country in the Middle East created millions of refugees and refuses to allow them to return to their homes, farms and businesses? Answer: Israel Question: What country in the Middle East refuses to pay compensation to people whose land, bank accounts and businesses it confiscated? Answer: Israel Question: In what country in the Middle East was a high-ranking United Nations diplomat assassinated? Answer: Israel Question: In what country in the Middle East did the man who ordered the assassination of a high-ranking U.N. diplomat become prime minister? Answer: Israel Question: What country in the Middle East blew up an American diplomatic facility in Egypt and attacked a U.S. ship, the USS Liberty, in international waters, killing 34 and wounding 171 American sailors? Answer: Israel Question: What country in the Middle East employed a spy, Jonathan Pollard, to steal classified documents from USA and then gave some of them to the Soviet Union ? Answer: Israel Question: What country at first denied any official connection to Pollard, then voted to make him a citizen and has continuously demanded that the American president grant Pollard a full pardon? Answer: Israel Question: What Middle East country allows American Jewish murderers to flee to its country to escape punishment in the United States and refuses to extradite them once in their custody? Answer: Israel Question: What Middle East country preaches against hate yet builds a shrine and a memorial for a murderer who killed 29 Palestinians while they prayed in their Mosque.? Answer: Israel Question: Which country in the Middle East deliberately targeted a civilian U.N. Refugee Camp in Qana , Lebanon and killed 103 innocent men, women, and especially children? Answer: Israel Question: Which country in the Middle East is in defiance of 69 United Nations Security Council resolutions and has been protected from 29 more by U.S. votes? Answer: Israel Question: Which country in the Middle East receives more than one-third of all U.S. aid to the world yet is the 16th richest country in the world? Answer: Israel Question: Which country in the Middle East had its Prime Minister announce to his staff not to worry about what the United States says because "We control America ?" Answer: Israel Question: Which country in the Middle East signed the Oslo Accords promising to halt any new Jewish Settlement construction, but instead, has built more than 270 new settlements since the signing? Answer: Israel Question: Which country in the Middle East has assassinated more than 100 political officials of its opponent in the last 2 years while killing hundreds of civilians in the process, including dozens of children? Answer: Israel

Israel : the real terrorists

Question: Which country alone in the Middle East has nuclear weapons? Answer: Israel Question: Which country in the Middle East has just recently used a weapon of mass destruction, a one- ton smart bomb, dropping it in the center of a highly populated area killing civilians including children? Answer: Israel Question: What country in the Middle East was cited by Amnesty International fordemolishing more than 4000 innocent Palestinian homes as a means of ethnic cleansing? Answer: Israel Question: What country on Planet Earth has the second most powerful lobby in the United States , according to a recent Fortune magazine survey of Washington insiders? Answer: Israel Question: Which country in the Middle East receives U.S. weapons for free and then sells the technology to the Republic of China even at the objections of the U.S. ? Answer: Israel Question: Which country in the Middle East regularly violates the Geneva Convention by imposing collective punishment on entire towns, villages, and camps, for the acts of a few, and even goes as far as demolishing entire villages while people are still in their homes? Answer: Israel Question: Which country in the Middle East routinely kills young Palestinian children for no reason other than throwing stones at armored vehicles, bulldozers, or tanks? Answer: Israel Question: Which country in the Middle East refuses to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and bars international inspections? ? Answer: Israel Question: Which country in the Middle East seized the sovereign territory of other nations by military force and continues to occupy it in defiance of United Nations Security Council resolutions? Answer: Israel Question: Which country in the Middle East routinely violates the international borders of another sovereign state with warplanes and artillery and naval gunfire? Answer: Israel Question: What American ally in the Middle East has for years sent assassins into other countries to kill its political enemies (a practice sometimes called exporting terrorism)? Answer: Israel Question: In which country in the Middle East have high-ranking military officers admitted publicly that unarmed prisoners of war were executed? Answer: Israel Question: What country in the Middle East refuses to prosecute its soldiers who have acknowledged executing prisoners of war? Answer: Israel Question: What country in the Middle East created millions of refugees and refuses to allow them to return to their homes, farms and businesses? Answer: Israel Question: What country in the Middle East refuses to pay compensation to people whose land, bank accounts and businesses it confiscated? Answer: Israel Question: In what country in the Middle East was a high-ranking United Nations diplomat assassinated? Answer: Israel Question: In what country in the Middle East did the man who ordered the assassination of a high-ranking U.N. diplomat become prime minister? Answer: Israel Question: What country in the Middle East blew up an American diplomatic facility in Egypt and attacked a U.S. ship, the USS Liberty, in international waters, killing 34 and wounding 171 American sailors? Answer: Israel Question: What country in the Middle East employed a spy, Jonathan Pollard, to steal classified documents from USA and then gave some of them to the Soviet Union ? Answer: Israel Question: What country at first denied any official connection to Pollard, then voted to make him a citizen and has continuously demanded that the American president grant Pollard a full pardon? Answer: Israel Question: What Middle East country allows American Jewish murderers to flee to its country to escape punishment in the United States and refuses to extradite them once in their custody? Answer: Israel Question: What Middle East country preaches against hate yet builds a shrine and a memorial for a murderer who killed 29 Palestinians while they prayed in their Mosque.? Answer: Israel Question: Which country in the Middle East deliberately targeted a civilian U.N. Refugee Camp in Qana , Lebanon and killed 103 innocent men, women, and especially children? Answer: Israel Question: Which country in the Middle East is in defiance of 69 United Nations Security Council resolutions and has been protected from 29 more by U.S. votes? Answer: Israel Question: Which country in the Middle East receives more than one-third of all U.S. aid to the world yet is the 16th richest country in the world? Answer: Israel Question: Which country in the Middle East had its Prime Minister announce to his staff not to worry about what the United States says because "We control America ?" Answer: Israel Question: Which country in the Middle East signed the Oslo Accords promising to halt any new Jewish Settlement construction, but instead, has built more than 270 new settlements since the signing? Answer: Israel Question: Which country in the Middle East has assassinated more than 100 political officials of its opponent in the last 2 years while killing hundreds of civilians in the process, including dozens of children? Answer: Israel

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StoreDot claims to charge your smartphone battery in 30 seconds

An Israel based startup, StoreDot claims to have developed a new battery-technology that claims to charge your smartphone's battery in 30 seconds. The startup unveiled its battery prototype at Microsoft's 'Think Next Conference' in Tel Aviv. The company has developed a charger and a battery. This special charger can charge an empty Samsung Galaxy S4 battery within 30 seconds! The demo with an S4 battery was given by the startup at the conference.

StoreDot's charger produces chemically synthesized bio-organic peptide molecules called 'nanodots', that improves the electrode capacitance and performance, which results in batteries that can be fully charged within seconds instead of hours. The technology is cost effective and is inspired by natural processes.

10 Little Facts About Dwarfs

MIKE DEVLIN APRIL 28, 2014

10Society seems to be as fascinated today with dwarfs as we were when medieval kings kept them as court jesters. Several reality shows demonstrate the trials and tribulations of surviving in a world made for average-sized folk. Little people abound in our film and mythology, and despite their short stature, they have made a massive mark on the world.

The Magic Trick

Photocredit: MGM

We don’t know which entertainer first sawed an assistant in half, but by the 1920s, the illusion had become relatively common. There are many variations on the trick, but the most shocking was a version called “The Miracle of 37” performed by magician Rajah Raboid.

Raboid made use of three people in his act—Johnny Eck, brother Robert Eck, and a dwarf. Johnny Eck had a rare condition called sacral agenesis, which gave him tiny, undeveloped legs and feet without making him a true dwarf. Often billed as the “Half-Boy,” Eck appeared in the cult classic film Freaks, walking around on his hands.

In Raboid’s version of the trick, the dwarf served as the feet poking out of the box, while the fully developed twin Robert served as the head. When the blade ran through the center of the box, the dwarf (dressed up as the legs) ran about while Johnny chased around the rest of his “body” on his hands. They often ran right through the audience, leading to shocked chaos, as people fainted and trampled each other in the rush to escape the horrible scene.

9A Cure

Over 300 different conditions contribute to dwarfism. About 80 percent of dwarfs have achondroplasia, which causes their cartilage to fail to ossify into bone. Many famous dwarfs have achondroplasia, including Peter Dinklage from Game of Thrones and Jason “Wee-Man” Acuña from the Jackass series.

Scientists at the Centre Mediterraneen de Medecine Moleculaire in France have developed a decoy protein called sFGFR3, which has worked to restore bone growth in mice with achondroplasia-like conditions. There remains much work to be done before this treatment can be applied to humans, but researchers are hopeful.

For now, dwarfs looking for treatment turn to limb-lengthening surgeries, traditionally reserved for people with legs of different lengths. Doctors break the tibia repeatedly over a period of months, forcing the leg to gradually add bone over time and lengthen itself. This extremely painful operation has a grueling recovery process. The best anyone can hope for with current technology is about an extra 7.5 centimeters (3 in) of height.

Many countries have banned this cosmetic surgery completely, and even where it’s legal, it’s far too expensive for many people. Those wishing to undergo the procedure typically become medical tourists in countries such as Russia, where regulations are more slack and care can be had cheaply.

8Pedro’s Good Luck Charm

Historically one of the best teams in baseball, the Boston Red Sox labored for 86 years under the so-called “Curse of the Bambino,” continually falling short of winning the World Series. In 2004, they finally defied the odds and won it all. Precisely what shattered the curse is unknown, but it may well have been the influence of a very, very small man.

At 71 centimeters (2’4″), Nelson “Mahow” de la Rosa was one of the shortest men in history, recognized by Guinness World Records in 1989 as theshortest known adult. Although he would not hold on to this title, he went on to greater fame in 2004, when a mutual friend introduced him to Red Sox pitcher and fellow Dominican Pedro Martinez.

Before his stint as the Red Sox’s good luck charm, de la Rosa was probably best known for serving as Marlon Brando’s assistant in the film The Island of Dr. Moreau. He died on October 22, 2006 from heart failure.

Pedro Martinez was not the only athlete to employ a dwarf. Boxer Sugar Ray Robinson also had one in his entourage, a driver named Chico, who went around armed.

7Eddie Gaedel

Photo credit: Eddie Gaedel Pub

On August 19, 1951, Major League Baseball saw a dwarf at bat for the first and only time in history. St. Louis Browns player Eddie Gaedel was only 109 centimeters (3’7″) tall.

Gaedel wasn’t a legitimate player though—this was a publicity stunt based on the short story “You Could Look It Up,” which featured a dwarf playing baseball. Browns owner Bill Veeck threatened Eddie not to swing on penalty of death. The pitcher of the opposing Detroit Tigers, Bob Cain, threw two genuine attempts at strikes then doubled over with laughter. He lobbed two more balls to walk Eddie to a standing ovation.

Gaedel was promptly replaced by a pinch runner, and the following day, his contract was voided. His story from that point went from mildly sad to outright tragic. In 1961, he was followed home from a Chicago bowling alley and savagely beaten. His mother found his bruised corpse in bed the next day.

The only baseball player to attend his funeral was Bob Cain, the man who had pitched to him a decade before.

6Mozart The Dwarf

Photo credit: Mozarteum, Salzburg

People often find genius disconcerting, and when Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart showed signs of prodigy during his early youth, people looked for some kind of trick. By the time he was six, he was traveling with his family to royal courts to exhibit his abilities. One of Mozart’s skeptics, Daines Barrington of the Royal Society of London, studied the boy closely when he was nine, believing perhaps that he might be some kind of dwarf of advanced age who merely appeared to be a child.

But while young Mozart may have been a genius in many aspects, he was still very much a little boy. He would run around with a stick between his legs, pretending he was riding on a horse. During the tests that Barrington arranged to measure Wolfgang’s talents, he was also easily distracted,preferring to play with a cat than exhibit his abilities on the harpsichord.

5The Wack Pack

Radio shock jock Howard Stern’s formula has always included a retinue of bizarre personalities, a revolving group dubbed “The Wack Pack.” Several of these have been dwarfs, including microcephalic Lester “Beetlejuice” Green and wheelchair-bound Eric “The Midget” Lynch. Their notoriety has earned them several small acting roles.

Another member of the Wack Pack was Hank “The Angry Drunken Dwarf” Nasiff. Hank showed up randomly at the radio station in 1996 and Stern put him on the air. The 125-centimeter (4’1″) Hank was a hit and appeared frequently. In 1998, Hank won People Magazine’s “Most Beautiful” person poll, getting nearly 20 times as many votes as favored candidate Leonardo DiCaprio (fresh off Titanic fame). The press had a field day with the incident, calling it evidence of the emergence of a “digital democracy.” In retrospect, we would probably call this “trolling on a large scale.”

Sadly, the “drunken” part of Hank Nasiff was more than just a nickname—he really did have a terrible drinking problem, and it took a toll on his body. He died in his sleep on September 4, 2001, aged 39.

4Psychosocial Dwarfism

Photo credit: Sarah Hamilton-Byrne

Children suffering abuse naturally experience various complications, but here’s one that you’d never expect: Stress can make a child a dwarf. Even when children receive adequate nutrition and have no congenital issues, they can suffer from a condition called psychosocial short stature or psychosocial dwarfism.

This condition, which generally affects children between 2 and 15 years of age, is caused when the environment is so negative that the body constantly produces stress hormones such as epinephrine. This takes an enormous amount of energy away from the body’s other functions, including digestion and the production of growth hormones. In the most extreme cases, the body completely ceases to grow.

This phenomenon is commonly noted in feral children—scraping to survive in the wild allows little time to properly grow. Then when the children are separated from the animals that raised them, the stresses of being introduced to human society are so traumatizing that all further growth stops.

3The World’s Smallest Person

Many sources legally define dwarfism as standing at less than 147 centimeters (4’10″) at adulthood. This is remarkably short, but many people without medical conditions fall into this range, including Jersey Shorepersonality “Snooki” Polizzi. Some true dwarfs have stood at less than half that size.

According to Guinness World Records, the shortest adult reliably recorded is Chandra Bahadur Dangi, a Nepalese man in his mid-seventies. Dangi is a primordial dwarf only 54.6 centimeters (21.5 in) tall, with a normal-sized head and a tiny body. Precisely what caused this condition is unknown; Dangi is the only one in his family who is not of normal size.

Although he can walk, Dangi only does small tasks around the house. His family reports that he has always been in good health, somewhat surprising since extremely short people tend to have abbreviated lifespans and various health issues.

2The Seven Dwarfs Of Auschwitz

Photo via The Human Marvels

The Ovitz clan hailed from Romania, descended from dwarf Shimson Ovitz, a comedian and rabbi. Ovitz had 10 children, seven of whom were dwarfs, who traveled as entertainers called “The Lilliput Troupe.”

The Ovitzes performed throughout World War II, but they were rounded up in May 1944 and sent to Auschwitz. As the Nazis were not particularly well known for their love of either Jews or those with disabilities, it might seem that their stay in the concentration camp would be a death sentence, but for better or worse, the group instead caught the attention of Dr. Josef Mengele.

Rather than send the Ovitzes to the gas chamber, Mengele performed horrible experiments on the dwarfs. He took their blood, extracted their bone marrow, and ripped teeth from their jaws. However, Mengele made special efforts to keep them healthy so he could continue his tests. The dwarfs had better living conditions and food than other prisoners. The taller family members were kept around to help with various tasks, including carrying around their tiny relatives.

With the exception of one average-sized brother who was killed in an escape attempt, the Ovitzes all survived until Auschwitz was liberated. Later, they immigrated to Israel and continued their entertainment career. The last dwarf survivor, sister Perla, died in 2001.

1Disney’s Nude Pinocchio Dwarfs

Photo credit: Disney History Institute

1937’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was a massive hit for Walt Disney, raising high hopes for the next film from the studio, 1940’s Pinocchio. Unfortunately, World War II limited the number of international theaters that showed the film, and it was initially a box office bomb.

Troubles began right at the start of the release, at its premiere at New York City’s Center Theatre on February 7, 1940. To add excitement to the event, the publicity department hired 11 dwarfs to dress in Pinocchio costumes. They were hoisted atop the marquee, where they were expected to dance around and wave to the children below.

The merry group was plied with booze, and by the afternoon, they’d all stripped nude and begun a raucous game of craps. They refused to put their clothes back on or come down. Eventually, the police were summoned to drape them with pillowcases and drag them from the marquee.