10. Sudha Chandran (1964)

Disability: Amputee

Sudha Chandran was born to family in Chennai, South India. She completed her Masters in Economics from Mumbai. On one of her return trips from Mumbai to Chennai she met with an accident resulting in the amputation of her right leg. She was given an artificial leg and despite this terrible disability, she became one of the most accomplished and acclaimed dancers of the Indian Subcontinent. She has received and still receives invitations to perform all over the world. She has been honored with numerous awards and has performed all over the world. She appears often on Hindi television and in films.

9. Marla Runyan (January 4, 1969)

Disability: Blind

At the age of nine, Runyan developed Stargardt’s Disease, which is a form of macular degeneration that left her legally blind. Marla Runyan is a three time national champion in the women’s 5000 meters. She won four gold medals in the 1992 summer Paralympics. In the 1996 Paralympics she won silver in the shot put and gold in the Pentathlon. In 2000 she became the first legally blind paralympian to compete in the Olympic games in Sydney, Australia. She holds various American records such as 20,000 Road (2003), All-female Marathon (2002), 500m (2001) , Heptathlon (1996). In 2001, she co-wrote and published her autobiography ‘No Finish Line: My Life As I See It’

8. Vincent Van Gogh (30 March 1853–29 July 1890)

Disability: Mental Illness

Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch Painter and is regarded as one of the greatest painters the world has ever seen. His paintings have immensely contributed to the foundations of modern art. In his 10 year painting career he produced 900 painting and 1100 drawings. Some of his paintings today are the most expensive: Irises was sold for $53.9 Million and Portrait of Doctor Gachet was sold for $82.5 Million. Vincent Van Gogh suffered depression, and in 1889 was admitted to a psychiatric hospital. His depression worsened over time and on July 27, 1890 at the age of 37 Van Gogh shot himself in the chest. He died two days later. His last words were “the sadness will last forever”.

7. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Disability: Deaf

Beethoven is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers in history. He gave his first public performance as a pianist when he was only 8 years old. He studied in Vienna under the guidance of Mozart. By his mid-twenties he had earned a name for himself as a great pianist known for unpredictable and brilliant improvisations. In the year 1796 Beethoven began losing his hearing. In spite of his illness he immersed himself in his work and created some of the greatest works of music. Beethoven’s finest works are also the finest works of their kind in music history: the 9th Symphony, the 5th Piano Concerto, the Violin Concerto, the Late Quartets, and his Missa Solemnis. And he achieved all this despite being completely deaf for the last 25 years or so of his life.

6. Frida Kahlo (July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954)

Disability: Polio

Frida Kahlo was a renowned Mexican painter who created striking paintings, most of them being self-portraits reflecting her pain and sorrow. She painted using vibrant colors that were influenced by the cultures of Mexico. She was the first Mexican artist of 20th century whose work was purchased by an international museum. Kahlo contracted polio at age six, which left her right leg thinner than the left, which Kahlo disguised by wearing long, colorful skirts. It has been conjectured that she also suffered from spina bifida, a congenital disease that could have affected both spinal and leg development. Although she recovered from her injuries and eventually regained her ability to walk, she was plagued by relapses of extreme pain for the remainder of her life. The pain was intense and often left her confined to a hospital or bedridden for months at a time.

5. Christy Brown (June 5, 1932 – September 7, 1981)

Disability: Cerebral Palsy

Christy Brown was an Irish author, painter and poet who had severe cerebral palsy. Born in Crumlin, Dublin to parents Bridget and Paddy, he was one of 13 surviving children (out of 22 born) in a Catholic family. He was disabled by cerebral palsy and was incapable for years of deliberate movement or speech. Doctors considered him to be intellectually disabled as well. However, his mother continued to speak to him, work with him, and try to teach him. One day, he famously snatched a piece of chalk from his sister with his left foot to make a mark on a slate.
At about five years old, only his left foot responded to his will. Using his foot he was able to communicate for the first time. He is most famous for his autobiography My Left Foot, which was later made into an Academy Award-winning film of the same name. The Irish Times reviewer Bernard Share said the book was “…the most important Irish novel since Ulysses”. Like Joyce, Brown employed the stream-of-consciousness technique and captured the Dublin culture in his use of humor, language and unique character description.

4. John Nash (June 13, 1928)

Disability: Schizophrenia

John Forbes Nash is an Noble laureate American mathematician whose work in game theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations are considered ground breaking. At a young age he was interested in scientific experiments which he carried out in his room. He studied Chemical engineering, chemistry and mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University. Later he was awarded a Fellowship at Princeton. In 1959 John Nash started showing severe signs of paranoia and started behaving erratically. He believed that there was an organization chasing him. In the same year he was admitted involuntarily to the hospital where he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. After treatment he was again admitted to the hospital this time voluntarily for 9 years were he given shock therapy. After returning from the hospital in 1970 he gradually started recovering. His work was becoming more successful and resulted in various awards and recognition. Prominent among them are John von Neumann Theory Prize in the year 1978 and Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in the year 1994. An Academy Award winning film named ‘A beautiful Mind’ starring Russell Crowe was made which was loosely based on his biography.

3. Jean-Dominique Bauby (April 23 1952 – March 9, 1997)

Disability: Locked-in Syndrome

Jean-Do was a well-known French journalist and author and editor of the French fashion magazine ELLE. In 1995 he suffered a massive heart attack causing him to go into a coma for 20 days. After coming out of the coma he found himself with a very rare neurological disorder called Locked-in syndrome, in which the mental state is perfectly normal and stable but the body is paralyzed from Head to Toe. In the case of Jean-Do he was able to move only his left eyelid. Despite his condition, he wrote the book The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by blinking when the correct letter was reached by a person slowly reciting the alphabet over and over again. Bauby had to compose and edit the book entirely in his head, and convey it one letter at a time. To make dictation more efficient, Bauby’s interlocutor, Claude Mendibil, read from a special alphabet which consisted of the letters ordered in accordance with their frequency in the French language. The book was published in France on 7 March 1997. Bauby died just two days after the publication of his book.

2. Stephen Hawking (8 January 1942)

Disability: Motor Neuron disease or a variant of ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis)

Stephen William Hawking is a British theoretical physicist, whose world-renowned scientific career spans over 40 years. His books and public appearances have made him an academic celebrity and he is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a lifetime member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and in 2009 was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States. Stephen Hawking is severely disabled by motor neuron disease, likely a variant of the disease known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (or ALS). Symptoms of the disorder first appeared while he was enrolled at Cambridge; he lost his balance and fell down a flight of stairs, hitting his head. Worried that he would lose his genius, he took the Mensa test to verify that his intellectual abilities were intact. The diagnosis of motor neuron disease came when Hawking was 21, shortly before his first marriage, and doctors said he would not survive more than two or three years. Hawking gradually lost the use of his arms, legs, and voice, and as of 2009 was almost completely paralyzed.

1. Hellen Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968)

Disability: Blind and Deaf

Helen Adams Keller was an American author, political activist and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. The story of how Keller’s teacher, Annie Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, has become known worldwide through the dramatic depictions of the play and film The Miracle Worker. Sullivan taught Helen to communicate by spelling words into her hand, beginning with d-o-l-l for the doll that she had brought her as a present. A prolific author, Keller was well traveled and was outspoken in her opposition to war. She campaigned for women’s suffrage, workers’ rights, and socialism, as well as many other progressive causes. In 1920, she helped to found the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Keller and Sullivan traveled to over 39 countries, making several trips to Japan and becoming a favorite of the Japanese people. Keller met every US President from Grover Cleveland to Lyndon B. Johnson and was friends with many famous figures, including Alexander Graham Bell, Charlie Chaplin, and Mark Twain.

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Here is the Picture that show Eva Uhlin who has recovered from that disease

The potentially fatal condition – Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis – gripped her entire body, causing her skin to burn up and scab over before falling off. The illness left the Swede, who currently works as a waitress, lying in a hospital bed for weeks as it ran its devastating course.

Forty per cent of people who contract the disease do not survive. Now, more than four years later, Miss Uhlin is finally comfortable revealing her face to the world for the first time after completely growing back all her skin.

This is Eva Uhlin before she gain back her entire face and skin

Her nightmare began as a 15-year-old in September 2005 when she suddenly fell ill while holidaying in her home country. She was diagnosed with a fever and told to take a couple of paracetamol tablets to relieve her symptoms. But the combination of her virus and the drug created a reaction nobody could have predicted, triggering a disease that has taken Miss Uhlin years to fully recover from.

This is Eva Uhlin after the Recovery

She woke up the next day to find blisters covering her face and spreading over the rest of her body. The teenager was rushed to the University Hospital of Linkoping on September 12, where she was admitted to the burns unit.

Doctors immediately gave her morphine and applied soothing ointment to her face and chest. But her skin began to fall off on a doctor’s fingertips as he examined her eyes.

Over the next few years she lost most of the surface of her face. Parts of her chest, arms, back and stomach also fell away and she even lost her eyelashes, fingernails, toenails and some of her hair.

Miss Uhlin said: ‘It felt like something was crawling around under my skin, I was in total shock – it was like something out of a horror film. ‘I couldn’t believe what was happening, I had taken paracetamol many times before and doctors still aren’t sure why I had this extreme reaction to it on that occasion. ‘It was terrifying, because at the time they didn’t know what was wrong with me or what would happen to me. ‘When I looked in the mirror for the first time after it happened I didn’t recognise myself. ‘I’ve always been a positive person, and I didn’t let myself think about the chance that my skin would never be normal again. ‘I thought to myself – this is what has happened and now I have to deal with this. ‘As well as the pain, the affect that the reaction had on my confidence for that time was pretty terrible. I was so ashamed of the way I looked, I hated anybody to see me.’

Fifteen doctors examined Miss Uhlin in her first 48 hours in hospital. At one point during her month-long stay her mouth and lips were so badly damaged they grew together. The resulting pain meant she was unable to sleep for most of the time.

Miss Uhlin was discharged in October 2005 but had to return to hospital for regular check-ups on her skin and eyes for months. Today, she still takes eye drops twice a day and has skin remains sensitive to bright sunlight.

Professor Folke Sjvberg, who treated Miss Uhlin, said he was pleased she had made such a good recovery. He said: ‘The condition is very uncommon and it strikes only one in a million people.’When it is really bad it manifests itself in the way it had done with Eva. At its worst it covers all the skin on the body and can scab over the eyes and mouth.

‘In very basic layman’s terms the skin reacts against itself because of the allergic reaction – it is very much like a burn injury, although it does tend to heal much better. ‘It was caused by the combination of a paracetamol and a viral infection Eva was suffering from at the time.

‘It is treated like a burn with pain relief and fluid replacement, you just have to try and make the skin function properly again. ‘With this condition you have to just let it run its course because there is no way to stop it.’

The skin disease can kill and 40 per cent of sufferers do not survive the condition, due to the fact it leaves patients vulnerable to other dangerous infections.

It is also known as Lyell’s syndrome and is characterised by the detachment of the top layer of skin from the lower layers all over the body.

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Are you a smoker?? if you’re a smoker so you have to read this story… this is story of a man who is an active smoker for a long time, and he had a mouth cancer because of that.. so pity take a look of the picture below.. i hope this story and this case might be a hard warning for every smoker in the world… stop your smoking habit before you got a mouth cancer like this guy..

Quit Smoking before you got this Disease

Stop Smoking Right now and lead a better life

Smoking isn't good for health

Really disgusting huh?? so if you wanna stay healthy without that… stop your smoking habit right now.. remember smoking has many negative effect for your body..

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Soak your troubles away in a mammoth glass of champagne, or bubble away in a beer spa.lists some of the most unique places in the world to take a bath.
1. Beppu, Japan

This town on the coast of Kyushu is associated in Japanese minds with one thing: hot springs. Millions of liters of steaming hot water spill daily out of around 3000 springs, providing a dazzling array of bath-time treats.

On offer for your bathing pleasure are mammoth modern indoor spa complexes, small outdoor springs, simmering mud baths and even “sand baths” where you can be buried up to your neck in hot sand by a lady with a shovel.

When you’re done getting wet, it’s time to discover why Beppu is nicknamed the “Las Vegas of Japan”.

2.Budapest is a city famed for its thermal baths, and was dedicated a spa city as far back as the 1930s.

Sample the city’s bathing habits at the Széchenyi Baths – a meandering neo-baroque complex of pools, ranging from icy cold to steaming hot – smack bang in the middle of the city park. Originally a medical treatment centre, this is the place to come for a massage, a sauna and a dip in the huge open-air thermal pool filled with local families, tourists and gentlemen playing chess on floating boards.

Budapest is a city famed for its thermal baths, and was dedicated a spa city as far back as the 1930s

3.Blue Lagoon, Iceland

Iceland’s answer to Disneyland and the country’s number one tourist attraction, the Blue Lagoon is sometimes dismissed as overcrowded and overpriced. But what’s not to like about floating in a steaming pool of milky blue (at a spot-on 38°C), surrounded by a landscape of dark and twisted lava fields, with a futuristic geothermal plant puffing away in the background?

When you’re fed up of the main pools, you can have a steam bath in a lava cave, a waterfall massage or a sauna. You’ll no doubt leave with your spirits renewed – and baby-soft skin.

4.Hot Water Beach, New Zealand

Thermal waters brew just below the sand at Hot Water Beach in the North Island. During the peak tourist season it looks like it’s just been set upon by giant rabbits – for two hours, at either side of low tide, you can dig your own hole in the sand with a spade rented from the local café, then sit back, relax and warm your behind in your own natural spa.

Luckily your rapidly roasting limbs will be regularly refreshed by cool waves from the incoming sea water!

5.Vinotherapy, France

Being rubbed with grape seeds, slathered in honey, oil and wine yeast and submerged up to the neck in a wine-casket bath might sound like a hedonistic Roman orgy but it is, in fact, vinotherapy – a spa treatment to be had at Les Sources de Caudalie in Bordeaux using grape extracts. It seems that bathing in the stuff rather than drinking it is one of the best beauty treatments around, with the power (apparently) to reduce wrinkles, stress and even cellulite.

Les Sources is set in a vineyard, so you can also ingest your grapes the traditional way with a glass or two of the local tipple.

6.Champagne Glass Whirlpool Bath, USA

If you’ve ever dreamed of soaking your troubles away in a mammoth glass of champagne this could be your lucky day. That’s right, at Pocono Palace only a couple of hours’ drive away from New York City, you too could be relaxing in a 2.13m tall champagne glass whirlpool bath for two.

If that’s not cheesy enough for you, look around your suite and savour the faux Roman columns, the circular beds, the mirrored walls and the private heart-shaped swimming pool.

7.Les Bains de Marrakesh, Morocco

For a bathing experience that indulges all your Thousand and One Nights fantasies – think glorious sunlit court-yards, tinkling fountains, carved alcoves and scattered rose petals – Les Bains de Marrakech is just the ticket.

As well as the traditional hammam (bathhouse) experience, involving an unceremonious scrub down with black soap and a wire mitten, you can chose from gentler options such as chocolate body massages or candlelit oriental baths for two. In between treatments you’re encouraged to sprawl out on an indecently comfortable pile of cushions and drink your own body weight in mint tea.

8.Dogo Onsen, Japan

Japan’s oldest hot springs facility at a rumoured 3000 years old, Dogo Onsen is at the center of many an old folk tale. Its centerpiece, the Honkan bathhouse, is the oldest public bath house in Japan.

An intricate three-storey timber structure, it looks like a fairy-tale castle and is said to be the inspiration behind the enchanted bathhouse in Miyazaki’s animated film Spirited Away. Splash out on a first-class ticket and you’ll get a hot soak, your own relaxation room, a yukata (kimono) and a post-bath snack of green tea and crackers.

9.Chodovar Brewery Beer Baths, Czech Republic

For the ultimate beer on skin experience, you can relax in the Czech Republic’s first underground beer spa. Large stainless steel Victorian-style tubs (including double tubs for two!) are filled with a specially brewed bathing beer and crushed herbs and topped off with a creamy foam “head”.

As you bubble away in all that malty goodness you can partake in a glass of two of the local brew from the bathside bar. Apparently it’s all excellent for the pores.

10.The Dead Sea, Israel & Jordan

King Solomon, Cleopatra and the Queen of Sheba were among the early believers in the benefIts of a Dead Sea spa, one of the world’s first health resorts owing to the medicinal properties of the area’s waters and minerals. Since then, the climate has inspired a huge array of therapies such as thalassotherapy (bathing in Dead Sea water) and balneotherapy (a treatment using the black mineral mud of the Dead Sea).

There are resorts on both the Israeli and Jordanian sides, offering health packages to cure everything from psoriasis to arthritis.

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This is really bizarre, this Double Headed Snake found in alicante Spain This is a rare two headed snake found by a farmer in a village in Alicante, Spain. The chances of a two headed snake surviving in the wild is very slim as both would often fight over which head will swallow the prey as well as difficulty in deciding which direction to go.
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The biological curiosity has four eyes and two tongues.It also has two sets of fangs, but is not poisonous.

Zoologists at the University of Valencia say the rare reptile can eat using both heads at the same time

Eating is a slow process and the two heads have been known to fight each other for food.

Other double-headed snakes have been found in Honduras, the United States, Sri Lanka and Argentina.

Two headed Snake

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