Conjoined twins brief career in music before being sent to live in a convent; and Rita and Cristina of Parodi of Sardinia, born in 1829. Rita and Cristina were dicephalus tetrabrachius (one body with four arms) twins and although they died at only eight months of age, they gained much attention as a curiosity when their parents exhibited them in Paris. Several sets of conjoined twins lived during the nineteenth century and made careers for themselves in the performing arts, though none achieved quite the same level of fame and fortune as Chang and Eng. Most notably, Millie and Christine McCoy (or
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