***EXCLUSIVE*** Peggy Samuels was born at the property, which is situated a short walk away from the town centre, on August 20 1919. Bunting had been hung up on the telegraph poles and balloons were tied to the fences for the happy occasion. As Peggy made her grand entrance from the doors of her home, she was visibly moved to see her family and friends and hundreds of local people gathered together. She was presented with a huge birthday cake as well as flowers, chocolate and gifts from residents of every generation. In tears during the presentation as the crowd cheered their birthday wishes, Peggy's day was made extra special by the people she has known during her long life.
***EXCLUSIVE*** Aaliyah Hart was just seven inches (17cm) long and weighed 12 oz (340g) when she was born three months prematurely in May 2003. Doctors gave the tot a one percent chance of survival when they found her lungs had not developed properly but she stunned medics and went on to survive. Aaliyah, who was small enough to sit in the palm of her mother’s hand at birth, went on to defy the odds and started school but only weighed the same as a two-year-old.
***EXCLUSIVE*** These are the haunting portraits of CHILD patients taken at a Victorian imbecile asylum - when just being a „slow” learner could see a child committed to a mental institution for life. The photographs - taken in 1886 - reveal the young inmates of the Imbecile Asylum in Burlington, New Jersey in the United States. Little is known about the young boys and girls pictured other than that they would have been considered mentally disabled by Victorian society and would have likely been kept in care for the rest of their lives. „Imbecility” or „idiocy” in the nineteenth century was the catch-all, legal term used to denote chronic, life-long conditions. These would be understood today as mental or learning disabilities, which were present from birth. However the term could also be cruelly used to denote children who simply had different ways of learning or seemed „slow” and lacking intelligence to Victorian society.
***EXCLUSIVE*** This is the adorable moment a mischievous young fox playfully bit the tail of a golden eagle after the pair formed the most unlikely of friendships. The brave fox trotted up to the glorious eagle and bit the end of the bird's feathers as the two walked around and played with each other. Photographer Guillermo Dominguez Arteaga, 34, captured the adorable exchange while he was hiding in the mountains in Avila, Spain.