Episode 63: Did a girl from Cork become a Moroccan Empress and other stories

Robert Chambers. 1868. Traditions of Edinburgh. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/61314/pg61314-images.html 

Elizabeth Ewan, Rose Pipes, Jane Rendall, Siân Reynolds. 2018. The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women. 

William Lempriere. 1793. A tour from Gibraltar to Tangier, Sallee, Mogodore, Santa Cruz, and Tarudant; and thence over Mount Atlas to Morocco. Including a particular account of the royal harem, &c. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/evans/N20724.0001.001/1:5.5?rgn=div2;view=fulltext

The Adventures of John Renton. The Colonist. 2 November 1875. P.3 https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TC18751102.2.15 

The Recovery of John Renton from the Solomon Islands. Rockhampton Bulletin 17 September 1875. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/51781654 

Nigel Randell. 2004. The White Headhunter: The Story of a 19-Century Sailor Who Survived a South Seas Heart of Darkness. 

Lindsay Fitzharris. 2015. The Insane Story Of A Man Who Was Born A Dwarf And Died A Giant. Business Insider. https://www.businessinsider.com/adam-rainer-was-both-a-dwarf-and-a-giant-2015-1?r=US&IR=T 

The Secret Life of a White Headhunter. The Scotsman 2 March 2003. https://www.scotsman.com/news/secret-life-white-headhunter-2473475 

Oscar Hirsch. 1961. Two Different Types of Gigantism Due to Similar Tumors. Discussion of Growth. Confina Neurologica 21. 345-356.

The Tallest Man. 2015. Adam Rainer. https://web.archive.org/web/20171219045451/http://www.thetallestman.com/adamrainer.htm 

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https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1c1/caddell-james

https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/32138/john-rutherford-pakeha-maori

https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/30233/barnet-burns-pakeha-maori

https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/26792/tom-adamson-kupapa-pakeha-maori

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/01-07-2020/how-we-uncovered-the-oldest-surviving-photograph-of-a-maori-person/

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