The shortest living male twins are John and Greg Rice of the Florida who are 34″ tall. The shortest females are Dorene Williams and Darlene McGregor of USA who are 4ft 1″. The shortest of all time were Matjus and Bela Matina of Hungary (later of USA) who were both 30″ tall.
Here are some helpful tips for those who are expecting to have twins.
1. Join a twins club. Talk with others who have twins.
2. Find distinctive names for both babies to grow into their own people. Please don’t refer to them as the twins!
3. Give them different colored bedding and clothes to be able to tell [...]
Carol Banski writes us: Our twins were born at 124 days early and they are both still alive. Born at 22 weeks we were told we had a zero % chance of survival. Kay was 1lb 2oz and 11 3/4 inches Nick 1lb 5oz and 11 1/2 inches. Despite the fact that they have had [...]
The world’s first test tube twins are Stephen and Amanda Mays born June 5 1981.
Cirque Du Soleil, a French Canadian circus with shows running in Las Vegas and Disneyworld, has 4 sets of twins working for them. Sarah and Karine Steben work in Las Vegas at O at the Bellagio hotel doing trapeze work. Elsie and Serenity Smith are touring Asia and the Pacific with the show Saltimbanco doing [...]
Meet Curtis and Curran Carter. They turned 100 years old in August and have some word joint words of wisdom to share with us.
“It’s also your attitude toward life. You have to look forward to things to keep you here.”
The brothers never have lived far from each other, married their wives in a double ceremony [...]
By definition, twins are born at the same time, right? They share everything, including a birthday. That’s true for the most part, but there are some exceptions. And in some cases, it causes problems. For example, these twin girls born recently in England: Lexus and Amber Conway. They were born on August [...]
Two fetuses found in the tomb of Tutankhamen may have been twins and were very likely to have been the children of the teenage Pharaoh, according to the anatomist who first studied the mummified remains of the young King in the 1960s.
Robert Connolly, who is working with the Egyptian authorities to analyse the [...]
There are only two verified examples of a mother producing two sets of twins with coincident birthdays. The first is that of Laura Shelley (USA), who gave birth to [...]
Oldest Female Twins (Living)
Currently the oldest living female twins in the US (and perhaps the world) may be Estella Oksol and Luvella Olsen were born April 20 1900 and are now 101 years old. They were born in North Dakota and currently live together in Minnesota. The Clarke twins, Alice and Nellie, of England were [...]