Maria and Teresa Tapia Maria and Teresa Tapia Maria and Teresa Tapia (born April 8, 2010) are formerly conjoined twins born in the Dominican Republic. The twins were joined by their lower chest and abdomen and were therefore classified as omphalopagus sharing a liver, pancreas, and a small portion of their small intestine. On November 7, 2011, the twins underwent a successful separation surgery at the Children's Hospital of Richmond in Virginia. For every 200,000 live births, conjoined twins are born. Conjoined twins are identical and of the same sex one hundred percent of the time and are more common in females than in
Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins it features Tarzan's first meeting with Doctor Karl von Harben, with whom he is already acquainted in "Empire". Because "Twins" is a children's book, however, it is customarily omitted from listings of the main Tarzan series. Thus "Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle" is generally considered the eleventh Tarzan book rather than "Twins". Two schoolboys, Dick and Doc, are cousins who resemble each other because their mothers are twins. As Dick is also related to Tarzan through his father, they become known as the Tarzan Twins. Invited to visit Tarzan's African estate, they become lost in the jungle and are imprisoned