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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Vern, post: 31439, member: 347&quot;]Known by her stage name of “Little Egypt”, Fahruda Manzar Spyropoulos born in Syria in 1871 became famous for her belly dancing at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893. She apparently danced in Skagway and went to the Klondike. Much later, in 1933 she danced in the Chicago World of Progress Fair and then drifted into obscurity.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1898 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain" rel="nofollow">Mark Twain</a> had a near fatal heart attack watching Farida go through her paces.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Egypt_(dancer)#cite_note-2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Egypt_(dancer)#cite_note-2" rel="nofollow">[2]</a></p><p><br /></p><p>YA National Museum Of Canada Collection #816; Wikipedia</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>She almost killed Twain!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry guys, I was posting through the process of enlightenment on this.&nbsp; It is kind of cool that my discovery got documented here.&nbsp; I love history, I love this stuff.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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