General Thom Thumb (Charles S Stratton) the American dwarf. On the right he is portraying Napoleon at the Princess's Theatre, London. Stratton was a sexual ateliotic and it would seem likely that both his parents, who were first cousins, carried a recess

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General Thom Thumb (Charles S Stratton) the American dwarf. On the right he is portraying Napoleon at the Princess's Theatre, London. Stratton was a sexual ateliotic and it would seem likely that both his parents, who were first cousins, carried a recess

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