June Gibbons (born 11 April 1963 [2]) and Jennifer Gibbons (11 April 1963 – 9 March 1993) were identical twins who grew up in Wales. They became known as "The Silent Twins", since they only communicated with each other. They wrote works of fiction. Both women were admitted to Broadmoor Hospital, where they were held for 11 years. The Twins, also known as the Hutt Twins, [2] referred to a Hutt brother and sister who were crime lords during the New Republic Era. They were cousins of Tatooine crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure, and when Boba Fett usurped the throne of Tatooine from Bib Fortuna as the new Daimyo, the Twins traveled to Mos Espa and confronted Lord Fett, laying claim to Jabba's territory. They were carried on a litter through the streets of Mos Espa, and employed many servants, a drummer, as well as the gladiator and bounty hunter Krrsantan. [1] As a father, I know how hard it is to communicate big ideas to little kids. For example, how do you teach an eight-year-old boy about the free market in a way that will be relevant to him? How can a six-year-old girl understand property rights? How can your child learn about and remember the Golden Rule?

Meanwhile the twins get to know the other girls in their form. There is the forthright Janet, the steady Hilary, the shy Kathleen and the snobbish Sheila. The latter of these two provide the main 'lessons' of the book, with Kathleen emerging as a thief who steals to earn friendship and Sheila a girl from a poor family made good who is unsure of how to act in her new social position and consequently over-acts. The term ends with both of these girls settling down as integrated members of the form. In a narrative told simply, with emotion and astonishing restraint, The Twins of Auschwitz shares the inspirational story of a child's endurance and survival in the face of truly extraordinary evil. In 1960, Aubrey went to stay with a relative in Coventry and soon qualified as a staff technician. Gloria followed, with Greta and David, several months later. [5] The twins were born on 11 April 1963, at a military hospital in Aden, Yemen, where their father had been deployed. The family soon relocated, first to England, and, in 1974, to Haverfordwest, Wales. [3] The twin sisters were inseparable and their language, a sped-up Bajan Creole, made it difficult for people to understand them.Shakespeare was interested in twins. He included not one but two pairs of identical twins in The Comedy of Errors, as well as Viola and Sebastian in Twelfth Night. The latter are obviously not identical, but after Viola disguises herself as a man, they apparently become indistinguishable (some suspension of disbelief is required). This leads to all manner of comedic confusion. Of course, Shakespeare himself was also the father of twins, Hamnet and Judith. Hamnet died at 11, about five years before Twelfth Night was written, and this knowledge gives added poignancy to Viola and Sebastian’s reunion at the end of the play, each having believed the other dead. At the inquest, June revealed that Jennifer had been acting strangely for about a day before their release; her speech had been slurring, and she had said that she was dying. On the trip to Caswell, she had slept in June's lap with her eyes open. [19] On a visit a few days later, Wallace recounted that June "was in a strange mood." She said, "I'm free at last, liberated, and at last Jennifer has given up her life for me". She also described it as a tsunami, washing her of her sins and being free of her sister. [2] Jennifer was interred in St Martin's Cemetery, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales. [20] Easily one of the most captivating books I've read this year' Emma Christie, author of Find Her First

Identical twins, Patricia and Isabel O'Sullivan, begin their secondary school education on a sour note. They want to attend Ringmere— a kind of Roedean clone where their good friend Frances has been enrolled but Mr ... Mrs O'Sullivan are under the impression their daughters have acquired a certain amount of snobbishness from the last school they attended ( Redroofs) and have opted for St Clare's which they view as a Sensible establishment. The twins' decision regarding this outrageous deviation in their lives is that they will turn their noses up at anyone and everything and show the other girls that they are Somebodies— And Don't You Forget It!! After all they were head-girls at their old school and the decided opinion (Pat's admittedly) is that she and Isabel are good at nearly everything as well as being pretty and amusing. I find that statement pretty amusing because people who call themselves pretty and amusing are often ugly and boring. Fortunately for the O'Sullivan Twins, they are essentially success-driven which is a quality inherited, no doubt, from their Sensible parents. The Twins are preoccupied with the debauchery of Hutta to bother with any ambitions on Tatooine." ―Madame Garsa Fwip, and Daimyo Boba Fett [1] Take it from me — I’ve been blown away at how well kids understand and love these ideas when you explain them simply, with fully illustrated, fun stories. (See examples below!) The twins either died from drugs, had seizures due to withdrawal, or entered into some unknowable suicide pact. Fellow doctors at the time proposed a kind of Columbo killer mystery method that involved injecting poisons into the body in places where you would never find it, like a hemorrhoid. "I will tell you something: any smart physician could dispose of himself by a mechanism which could never be discovered by anyone, including his insurance companies," one of the doctors cryptically explained. "I have no evidence, but I know the way I’d do it if I were going to... I can tell you this: you’re not gonna find out."Each day we hear from families who have newly discovered these materials, expressing their gratitude. Sometimes they’re even upset… that they didn’t find the books years ago! Philosophical banter … Matt Lucas as Tweedledee and Tweedledum in Tim Burton’s film Alice in Wonderland. Photograph: Disney/Allstar Shapiro, Harriet (27 October 1986). "A British Journalist Unravels the Tale of the Twins Who Wouldn't Talk". People . Retrieved 29 April 2019. A complicated twin relationship if ever there was one, involving not only rivalry and scheming but also incest. Jaime and Cersei are of course baddies, and Cersei in particular seems irredeemably evil (she is considerably less sympathetic in the books than in the TV series, which is quite a feat). But there is still something touching about the love they have for each other. It is Cersei’s only humanising quality. According to Wallace, the girls had a longstanding agreement that if one died, the other must begin to speak and live a normal life. During their stay in the hospital, they began to believe that it was necessary for one of them to die, and after much discussion, Jennifer agreed to make the sacrifice of her life. [16] In March 1993, the twins were transferred from Broadmoor to the more open Caswell Clinic in Bridgend, Wales. On arrival, Jennifer could not be roused. She was taken to the hospital, where she died soon after of acute myocarditis, a sudden inflammation of the heart. [17] [2] There was no evidence of drugs or poison in her system. [18]

A reimagining of Sophocles’ Antigone, this moving, elegant novel follows twins Aneeka and Parvaiz and their older sister Isma as they grapple in strikingly different ways with the tension between family loyalty and the laws of society. After Parvaiz joins Isis and is killed, Aneeka mounts a vigil in protest against the UK’s refusal to repatriate his body. In exploring complex questions of duty and identity, Shamsie delivers a novel that feels both timeless, and distinctly of its time. There aren’t any other children’s books that present a vast array of free-market topics in such a fun way. The books teach relevant freedom-based concepts that most of us were never taught as kids. But it’s not too late!

a b Wallace, Marjorie (2008). The Silent Twins. London: Vintage. p.293. ISBN 978-0-09-958641-8. OCLC 60262552. From a bad beginning which includes a fight with one of the teachers, the twins' better sides become apparent and they begin blending a little and enjoying the reactions of their educators to the japes of one irrepressible girl in their class. As in our own schools there are some extremely talented students at St Clare's and you will be amazed by their prowess. There is a class-clown and a brilliant one at that. You'll meet her. Pat and Isabel even attend an enormous birthday supper which includes such delicacies as sardines, a pork pie, a cake with almond icing surrounded with sugar-roses, peppermint creams, and to make it more exciting it takes place at 12a.m — (yes a.m) and it's all strictly against the rules but who cares?