Books
May, 1978
You might not know that their first names were Chang and Eng or that in middle life they took Bunker as a last name, but you've heard of them. They were born in 1811 on a houseboat 60 miles from Bangkok; twins connected at the breastbone by an arm-shaped band of flesh just a few inches long and thick. The famous Siamese twins. As infants, they seemed like such a bad-news omen to the king of Siam that he ordered them killed; but he either forgot about it or was convinced by his advisors that thei...
