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Woman on a Wire

The well-dressed woman doing this stunning high-wire act is to this day unknown! The best guess we have is celebrity Bird Millman, although the years on that don’t quite line up.

(via the stellar Two Nerdy History Girls blog)

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P1II-Rv78M)

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