• What are conjoined twins Krista and Tatiana Hogan doing now? (marriedbiography.org)
  • Krista and Tatiana Hogan, conjoined twins from British Columbia, Canada, gained much more prominence after the CBC documentary, "Inseparable: Ten Years Joined At The Head," covered their story in 2017. (marriedbiography.org)
  • Krista and Tatiana Hogan are craniopagus conjoined twins - joined at the head, they share a neural bridge. (wisciblog.com)
  • It was bedtime for Krista and Tatiana Hogan, and the 4-year-old twin girls were doing what 4-year-olds everywhere do at bedtime. (wisciblog.com)
  • a single fertilized egg does not fully split during the process of forming identical twins. (wikipedia.org)
  • Are They Identical Twins? (picklebums.com)
  • Some Identical twins share and some have separate placentas, but if there is one placenta the twins must be identical. (picklebums.com)
  • Some identical twins also have separate chorions and amnions, but some share an outer membrane with a thin inner membrane separating them (as in our case) and a small percentage share both outer and inner membranes (this causes an increased risk for both babies). (picklebums.com)
  • It only occurs in identical twins who share a placenta. (picklebums.com)
  • This happens when there is an incomplete separation of identical twins who form when one egg splits. (thatviralfeed.com)
  • Conjoined for Life The fascinating, sometimes tragic lives of identical twins joined in utero who beat the odds, survived infancy, and became people of interest around the world. (ranker.com)
  • The twins that look alike are called identical twins. (hercottage.com)
  • However, some notable changes that can be traced in the identical twins that vary due to their difference of placement in the womb and on the space, they occupy in there. (hercottage.com)
  • Ruby and I are identical twins and would be identical looking, having high foreheads like our mother and wide, full mouths, except that Ruby's face is arranged quite nicely (in fact, Ruby is very beautiful), whereas my features are misshapen and frankly grotesque. (canadianliving.com)
  • literally gold and silver, this brilliant couple also had the strange characteristic of not having the same blood type even though it was proven that they were indeed identical twins, but before their death they lived long and rich lives, where combined between them they had six children. (youtuberead.com)
  • Moreover, Tatiana and Crista are craniopagus twins, meaning that they are joined at the head, which only happens to one of 2.5 million twins. (marriedbiography.org)
  • We're known to the world medical community as the oldest surviving craniopagus twins (we are twenty-nine years old) and to millions around the globe, those whose interest in people like us is more than just passing, as conjoined craniopagus twins Rose and Ruby Darlen of Baldoon County. (canadianliving.com)
  • The hospital said the twins, Ervina and Prefina, were born on June 29, 2018 in a village about 60 miles outside Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • Mariella Enoc, president of the Bambino Gesù, met the twins in July 2018, during a visit to Bangui, where the sisters had been transferred after their birth. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • The two sisters from Bangui, Central African Republic, were brought to Italy in September 2018 after the hospital's president met the twins and their mother at a medical centre where they were born. (24newshd.tv)
  • In following months, both girls endured more surgeries to supplant parts of their skulls, and physical therapy to fortify their immature legs. (socialnewsdaily.com)
  • Their skulls were fused such that their tiny bodies together made the shape of an open hinge, the girls facing the same direction but essentially away from each other. (brucegrierson.com)
  • The way the girls' brains formed beneath the surface of their fused skulls, however, makes them beyond rare: their neural anatomy is unique, at least in the annals of recorded scientific literature. (wisciblog.com)
  • Twins conjoined by the skull are extremely rare, or approximately one case every 2.5 million live births, the hospital said, adding that in Europe in the past 20 years only two cases of separating twins joined at the top of their skulls had been successful. (24newshd.tv)
  • More than a year after being surgically separated, physicians say that conjoined twins Erin and Abbey are both doing dandy and living well. (socialnewsdaily.com)
  • Doctors have removed the fetus of a twin that was surgically removed from the skull of its one-year-old sister - in a medical anomaly only ever recorded a handful of times. (thatviralfeed.com)
  • In addition they had large blood vessels connecting their hearts. (photoshelter.com)
  • Aside from skin, the twins were connected by brain tissue and blood vessels, meaning disconnecting them would be extremely complex and risky. (socialnewsdaily.com)
  • Each had her own organs and limbs, but they shared plenty of blood vessels in the netlike sheath beneath their scalp. (brucegrierson.com)
  • At best it would likely mean, at the end of many complicated operations teasing apart bone, skin, and vessels, some vision and speech impairment for both girls. (brucegrierson.com)
  • The procedure was exceedingly difficult because they shared vital blood vessels needed for their brains to function. (top10junky.com)
  • The greatest challenge facing the team of specialists -- including neurosurgeons, anaesthesiologists, neuroradiologists, plastic surgeons, engineers, and physiotherapists -- was the shared network of blood vessels bringing blood from the girls' brains to their hearts, the hospital said in a statement. (24newshd.tv)
  • Some have theorized that the healthy twin connects to the mother via the placenta, while the other latches onto the twin's blood vessels. (thatviralfeed.com)
  • Blood vessels from the metaphysis (see the image below) invade this zone to lay down minerals into the matrix, and loose woven bone is then laid down in the zone of provisional calcification. (medscape.com)
  • Conjoined twins share a single common chorion, placenta, and amniotic sac in utero, but so do some monozygotic but non-conjoined twins. (wikipedia.org)
  • This is not 'sixth sense," says Douglas Cochrane, a veteran pediatric neurosurgeon at BC Children's Hospital who has been the twins' wingman-their doctor, advocate, and, in a sense, protector-since they were in utero. (brucegrierson.com)
  • Initial tests confirmed the sisters were healthy, but had different blood pressures, indicating that one of the girls' hearts had to work harder to maintain the healthy functioning of their organs, including their brains. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • however, the twins often share a liver, a digestive system, a diaphragm and other organs. (wikipedia.org)
  • Parasitic twins (10%): Twins that are asymmetrically conjoined, resulting in one twin that is small, less formed, and dependent on the larger twin's organs for survival. (wikipedia.org)
  • These twins almost never share any vital organs, with the exception of the liver. (wikipedia.org)
  • Symmetrical conjoined twins generally have all the body parts and organs needed to live as two complete individuals if separated. (top10junky.com)
  • Their brain images reveal what looks like an attenuated line stretching between the two organs, a piece of anatomy their neurosurgeon, Douglas Cochrane of British Columbia Children's Hospital, has called a thalamic bridge, because he believes it links the thalamus of one girl to the thalamus of her sister. (wisciblog.com)
  • Tests conducted in Italy showed the twins to be generally in good health but that one sister's heart was working harder to maintain the "physiological balance of the organs of both, including the brain. (24newshd.tv)
  • because unlike most conjoined twins, such as Abby and Brittany , Daisy and Violet only shared blood circulation and each had their own organs. (ranker.com)
  • Twins who were conjoined at the head are likely to return home within months from the Vatican's pediatric hospital where their bodies were successfully separated by doctors, and they have a high chance of living normal lives, the hospital's chief neurosurgeon told CNA. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • Conjoined twins are typically classified by the point at which their bodies are joined. (wikipedia.org)
  • The most common types of conjoined twins are: Thoraco-omphalopagus (28% of cases): Two bodies fused from the upper chest to the lower chest. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ischiopagus: Fused lower half of the two bodies, with spines conjoined end-to-end at a 180° angle. (wikipedia.org)
  • Conjoined twins are two babies whose bodies are born fused together. (top10junky.com)
  • One of their first memories was having people lift up their dresses to look at their connected bodies and see if they were actually conjoined. (ranker.com)
  • By baring a bit of blood to the world, she reminds readers we're blood-bearing creatures after all, not just selves but bodies with beating hearts. (bookshop.org)
  • They have already turned 18 and are now considered too old for the operation to be possible, but they continue to enjoy their lives as they are, they say they have what they feel are two bodies but one soul and for some twins that is how it feels. (youtuberead.com)
  • a designated twin who is allotted the heart may survive if the other twin is sacrificed. (wikipedia.org)
  • These twins generally cannot survive due to severe malformations of the brain. (wikipedia.org)
  • These twins may be separated to increase the chances that the strong one will survive. (top10junky.com)
  • about half of the twins with this birth disorder are stillborn, and roughly a third of those who survive die within 24 hours. (marriedbiography.org)
  • Twins joined at the head - the medical term is craniopagus - are one in 2.5 million, of which only a fraction survive. (wisciblog.com)
  • Doctors said it had continued to survive a year after birth because it shared a blood supply with its sibling. (thatviralfeed.com)
  • Vanishing twins are a similar condition, except in their case, the parasitic twin does not survive and is assimilated by the body of the viable twin so that it develops usually scar tissue around this "foreign" element in his/her body. (ghosthuntingtheories.com)
  • Omphalo-Ischiopagus: Fused in a similar fashion to ischiopagus twins, but facing each other, with a joined abdomen, akin to omphalopagus. (wikipedia.org)
  • The girls were delivered via C-section on 29 December, 2016, at 35 weeks gestation, weighing a combined 9lbs 12oz (4.4kg) and were conjoined at their chest and abdomen, through the length of their torso and shared the chest wall, pericardial sac (lining of the heart), diaphragm and liver. (photoshelter.com)
  • Ronnie and Donnie Galyon are symmetrical conjoined twins who were born fused together at the abdomen on October 28, 1951, in Ohio. (top10junky.com)
  • As xiphopagus conjoined twins, they were connected by a piece of cartilage straight down the abdomen. (top10junky.com)
  • As one of the twins grows, the smaller one gets absorbed into the abdomen and scientists suggest that this happens because of late cell division. (thatviralfeed.com)
  • Occasionally, monozygotic twins are connected only by a common skin bridge or by a common liver bridge. (wikipedia.org)
  • These twins are also called monozygotic twins, as they are a product of the division of the same zygote. (hercottage.com)
  • The girls were hospitalized for six months but now are able to come home thanks to a miraculous surgery. (fox5atlanta.com)
  • This is miraculous because conjoined twins have a lower chance of survival than the general population. (top10junky.com)
  • Twin sisters #JamieLynn and #AmieLynn were born conjoined at the chest and stomach. (isnewz.com)
  • Their miracle babies, Remi and Jesi, were conjoined twins attached at the stomach, sharing a liver and intestines. (fox5atlanta.com)
  • Twin to Twin Transfusion Syndrome (TTTS) is a complication where the babies don't share the placenta equally. (picklebums.com)
  • As part of a research study we take part in, the girls were tested when they were babies. (picklebums.com)
  • If you always wanted to have twins, you would be thinking more about how you could identify that you are having multiple babies. (hercottage.com)
  • They would need all the comfort they could give for the separation surgery two months later and seven other surgeries before and after, not to mention breathing, blood pressure and electrolyte issues. (fox5atlanta.com)
  • At 16-weeks-old, the twins successfully underwent separation surgery. (isnewz.com)
  • The twins' mother abandoned them after they were born, and the sisters were displayed in sideshows from the age of three through adulthood. (ranker.com)
  • The conjoined burlesque sisters struggled under the heavy hand of their guardians before reaching financial independence. (ranker.com)
  • But the greatest challenge for doctors was that they were joined at a deeper level, sharing membranes inside the skull as well as the venous system, through which blood used by the brain is transported back to the heart. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • These twins' heads may be conjoined at the back, front, or side of the head, but not on the face or at the base of the skull. (wikipedia.org)
  • The hospital said it was the first time in Italy and likely the world -- as such a case had never been cited in medical literature -- that surgeons were able to separate twins joined in such a way, sharing the back of their skull and its venous system. (24newshd.tv)
  • Doctors in Thailand in 2017, found three siblings inside the skull of an unborn girl. (thatviralfeed.com)
  • And they shared something else, too, something believed to be unprecedented among living twins: a "bridge" of tissue connected their otherwise-separate brains amidships, at a crucial relay station called the thalamus. (brucegrierson.com)
  • Plus: "Given the way the brains are packed together-they're physically separate but they sort of interdigitate like the teeth of a zipper-it was clear to me that we'd end up with weakness on one side for one twin and on the opposite side for the other," Cochrane explains. (brucegrierson.com)
  • because the girls are so young and because of the challenges involved in studying two conjoined heads, all the advanced imaging technology available has not yet been applied to their brains. (wisciblog.com)
  • But post-operative controls showed that their brains were "intact," adding that they will have the opportunity to grow normally and "lead a normal life, like all girls of their age. (24newshd.tv)
  • Parasitic twins and vanishing twin conditions fascinate me because nature can take some freaky turns and, as someone who was in the medical industry, I'm proud of the things we're capable of doing nowadays to help those suffering to have productive and lengthy lives. (ghosthuntingtheories.com)
  • Parasitic twins involve twins in which one has become attached to the other, but is nonviable and yet has to live off the nutrients and blood supply of the viable twin-at the expensive of that twin's health. (ghosthuntingtheories.com)
  • There are only about 100 documented cases of parasitic twins in the world, however. (ghosthuntingtheories.com)
  • Her parasitic twin was fused to her spine and was compromising her blood supply. (ghosthuntingtheories.com)
  • Long ago, those with parasitic twins were given a death sentence. (ghosthuntingtheories.com)
  • Surgery cutting off blood supplies to the parasitic twin were just too risky. (ghosthuntingtheories.com)
  • A multidisciplinary team, including neurosurgeons, anesthesiologists, and plastic surgeons, prepared for more than a year for the operation to separate the twins. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • The operation to separate the twins could take place early next month. (christianitytoday.com)
  • It's an indescribable feeling to look at our girls in two separate beds. (photoshelter.com)
  • CHOP specialists took the next 11 months prepping the girls, and when the surgery day finally came it took a whole 14 hours to separate them. (socialnewsdaily.com)
  • Fraternal twins always have separate chorions (outer membrane of the amniotic sack) and amnions (inner membrane). (picklebums.com)
  • But a delay in the split of the embryonic layers into two separate individuals causes the twins to be conjoined. (top10junky.com)
  • This presents a difficult challenge for medical professionals who wish to separate conjoined twins so that they can live as individual, independent people. (top10junky.com)
  • The other explanation, no longer believed to be accurate, is fusion, in which the fertilized egg completely separates, but stem cells (that search for similar cells) find similar stem cells on the other twin and fuse the twins together. (wikipedia.org)
  • Fetus-in-fetu is the medical term for the rare phenomenon that sees twins fuse together in the womb and one develops physically inside another. (thatviralfeed.com)
  • Like Lori and Reba Schappell, these types of twins often share parts of the brain and cannot be separated. (top10junky.com)
  • How many Types of Twins are there? (hercottage.com)
  • Let us take you on a short tour of how your twin pregnancy will be, the types of twins you can have, how to identify them and much more! (hercottage.com)
  • There are 2 most common types of twins - Identical and Fraternal. (hercottage.com)
  • However, there are some other less common types of twins namely Co-joined, Semi-identical, and more. (hercottage.com)
  • Riley and Heather Delaney found themselves in a pickle years back, when Children's Hospital of Philadelphia ( CHOP ) doctors revealed their unborn twins were joined together at their heads. (socialnewsdaily.com)
  • The girls run and play and go down their backyard slide, but whatever they do, they do together, their heads forever inclined toward each other's, their neck muscles strong and sinuous from a never-ending workout. (wisciblog.com)
  • Video images of a hospital party given for the twins' second birthday with their mother on June 29 showed the girls, their heads wrapped in protective bandages, gesticulating and grabbing at their birthday cake. (24newshd.tv)
  • My sister, Ruby, and I, by mishap or miracle, having intended to divide from a single fertilized egg, remained joined instead, by a spot the size of a bread plate on the sides of our twin heads. (canadianliving.com)
  • Our scalps marry in the middle of our conjoined heads, but my frizzy hair has a glint of auburn, while my sister is a swingy brunette. (canadianliving.com)
  • heads is not a girl with two heads at all, but rather a poorly photoshopped image of a girl with two heads, the other one, well, I don't know, but it sure looks like it could just be a photo of a couple of girls sitting next to each other. (youtuberead.com)
  • If the zygote division occurs after two weeks of the development of the embryonic disc, it results in the formation of conjoined twins. (wikipedia.org)
  • She decided to bring the girls to Rome for surgery. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • The epic surgery was carried out on January 13 and involved planning and preparation before the girls were even born. (photoshelter.com)
  • Ten months later, the twins were separated in an 11-hour surgery that required a team of 30 healthcare professionals. (top10junky.com)
  • One doctor said that the team had begged the twins not to go through with the surgery. (top10junky.com)
  • The fetus was removed via surgery and its twin was discharged five days after surgery, having made a full recovery. (thatviralfeed.com)
  • It took exceptional surgery and bracing, but the girl is learning to walk. (ghosthuntingtheories.com)
  • The only birth anomalies occur where the twins are fused. (top10junky.com)
  • Instead, they may occur when a fertilized human egg that would have become twins is only partially split. (top10junky.com)
  • Craniopagus conjoined twins only occur in 1 of every 2.5 million live births and represent 2-6 percent of all cases of conjoined twins. (top10junky.com)
  • Believe it or not, the vanishing twins occur in about 1 out of every 8 multifetus pregnancies and the majority of times the host twin has no idea there is a remnant of a dead twin within. (ghosthuntingtheories.com)
  • In November last year, aged 11 months, the twins underwent a surgical procedure to place tissue expanders to allow their skin to grow and stretch ready for their separation. (photoshelter.com)
  • Erin and Abby Delaney are another example of craniopagus conjoined twins who were born on July 24, 2016. (top10junky.com)
  • The hospital's ethics committee contributed to a plan ensuring that the girls would have the same quality of life. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • Menstrual bleeding typically happens approximately once a month when blood and endometrial tissue, or tissue lining the inside of the uterus, sheds from the uterus through the vagina. (asu.edu)
  • To save Jodie the court ruled that the twins must be separated, an operation which physicians say will result in Mary's death. (christianitytoday.com)
  • Conjoined twin girls Anna and Hope Richards, aged one, were were successfully separated at Texas Children's Hospital. (photoshelter.com)
  • A hospital in Rome said on Tuesday it had successfully separated two-year-old twins joined above the nape of their necks, after three risky surgeries. (24newshd.tv)
  • d that the twins could be successfully separated but chose to stay together. (youtuberead.com)
  • It goes far beyond the average and part of that legacy is the twins known as Kin and Jyn who held the title of the world's oldest twins when they died. (youtuberead.com)
  • Sadly, many such twins are stillborn and others die shortly after birth. (top10junky.com)
  • The metaphor may not be apt - because half the conjoined twins are stillborn and an additional one-third die within 24 hours - but it does capture Pakistan's critical role. (eurasiareview.com)
  • From a neurological standpoint, the two little girls are doing very well and have excellent prognosis for normal lives in the future," Dr. Carlo Efisio Marras, director of neurosurgery of the Bambino Gesù hospital told CNA July 8. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • Being so young at separation, the twins will grow up to lead normal lives and never remember being physically connected. (top10junky.com)
  • Their grandmother, Louise McKay, who lives with the girls and their parents in Vernon, a small city in British Columbia, was speaking to them in soothing tones, but the girls resorted to sleep-deferring classics of the toddler repertory. (wisciblog.com)
  • Another case was reported in China back in 2015 when doctors found an unborn fetus inside the scrotal sac of its male twin. (thatviralfeed.com)
  • The model, who has two other children, a girl named Luna and a boy named Miles with Legend, revealed that the couple decided to call their unborn child Jack. (arabnews.com)
  • The girls had "distinct" personalities, the hospital said, Prefina being vivacious and playful with her sister Ervina more serious and quietly observing. (24newshd.tv)
  • But you know… without all the fancy testing and technical talk I think most parents of twins, triplets or more have a pretty good idea if their children are identical or fraternal. (picklebums.com)
  • However, their brain structure makes them the only such twins in Canada and perhaps the world. (marriedbiography.org)
  • An incomparable resource for neuroscientists interested in tracing neural pathways, in the malleability of the brain and in the construction of the self, Tatiana and Krista are also a study in the more expansive neural system of sociology: the feedback loop of how their family responds to difference, how the world outside the walls of their home responds to the family's response and how the girls respond in turn. (wisciblog.com)
  • Ken and Jen, the oldest twins in the world from a historical perspective, people who They reside in countries like China. (youtuberead.com)
  • Eight hours after the twins' birth, a remarkable thing happened, and it immediately transformed the story of two little girls from Vernon, B.C., into something almost mythic. (brucegrierson.com)
  • That was a hit for their finances because the girls live in Vernon, British Columbia, with mom Felicia Simms, dad Brendan Hogan, grandparents Louise ad Doug McKay , and some aunts and uncles. (marriedbiography.org)
  • Although they can be joined in various ways, there are two distinct categories: symmetrical and asymmetrical conjoined twins. (top10junky.com)
  • The earliest time that you can get to know about the twin or multiple pregnancies is 10 to 14 weeks . (hercottage.com)
  • The girls, Abbey and Erin, were born ten weeks prior to their due date by an emergency c-section. (socialnewsdaily.com)
  • Therefore, the twins share the senses of taste and touch, and Krista can see out of one of Tatiana's eyes while Tatiana can see out of both of Krista's. (marriedbiography.org)
  • Finally, they learned that Tatiana's heart was working harder and supplying some of its blood to Krista's brain, which made Krista's blood pressure higher. (marriedbiography.org)
  • In any other set of twins, the natural conclusion about the two events - Krista's drinking, Tatiana's reaction - would be that they were coincidental: a gulp, a twinge, random simultaneous happenstance. (wisciblog.com)
  • These twins usually share a heart and may also share the liver or part of the digestive system. (wikipedia.org)
  • Because theirs are linked, the sensory input and blood go back and forth, like they are using a switchboard. (marriedbiography.org)
  • Because the thalamus functions as a relay station, the girls' doctors believe it is entirely possible that the sensory input that one girl receives could somehow cross that bridge into the brain of the other. (wisciblog.com)
  • Satisfied that a court order to sacrifice the life of one Siamese twin to save the other does not undermine the belief that all life has equal value, the government attorney representing the girl who would die has agreed not to appeal the ruling. (christianitytoday.com)
  • An Appeal Court judge said she was "draining the life-blood" of her healthier sister, Jodie, and was growing at her expense. (christianitytoday.com)
  • A spokesman from the Pro-Life Alliance supporting Mary's case suggested the parents should take the twins out of the country to avoid "the killing of an innocent life. (christianitytoday.com)
  • Auntie had several men in her life, all of whom the girls called 'Sir. (ranker.com)
  • They experienced life conjoined for their early childhood, and were raised on a military base where they take a bus to an urban school. (getinkspired.com)
  • Fetus-in-fetu (FIF) is a medical phenomenon that happens when a malformed fetus is enclosed within the body of its twin. (thatviralfeed.com)
  • However, the twins found a team of doctors willing to perform the highly risky operation in Singapore. (top10junky.com)
  • It is not yet revealed by the doctors if the surviving twin will suffer long-term damage. (thatviralfeed.com)
  • Born in Iran in 1974, Ladan and Laleh Bijani were one of the saddest cases of conjoined twins ever to live. (top10junky.com)
  • Daisy and Violet's mother, Kate Skinner , was not married when she gave birth to the twins. (ranker.com)
  • It's difficult to explain our locomotion as conjoined twins or how it developed from birth using grunts and gestures and what I suppose must be telepathy. (canadianliving.com)
  • But the most difficult one involved the venous system, that is, the network of vases that brings blood from the heart to the brain to bring oxygen to it. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • They were craniopagus conjoined twins fused at the side of the head who shared some of the brain. (top10junky.com)
  • The hospital said the twins were joined via the back of the head, including the nape, sharing both skin and cranial bones. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • Cochrane viewed his job, in those early days, as articulating what splitting the girls up would mean (in terms of gains and losses), and then stepping back and letting mother Felicia Simms-then just 21-and the rest of the family make the call. (brucegrierson.com)
  • DNA samples are collected either from blood (usually a finger prick) or cheek cells and sent away to the lab… the results came back that our girls are 98.9% genetically identical. (picklebums.com)
  • Released under her own Hot Girl Productions, "Cobra" lyrically touches on Megan's fight to keep her head above water after dealing with back-to-back obstacles. (isnewz.com)
  • CASE REPORT: A 3-year-old Iranian girl presented with abdominal pain, back pain, and constipation for 2 weeks. (bvsalud.org)
  • When my son was born, he was decked out in all blue and people would still say "Is it a girl" or "She's so cute"…grrr. (picklebums.com)
  • Lori and Reba Schappell are craniopagus conjoined twins, two people who are born connected at the head. (top10junky.com)
  • For the right price ( two pennies ), people could examine the girls. (ranker.com)