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  Encyclopedia: Zip the Pinhead
Zip the Pinhead, born William Henry Johnson, (1842 Liberty Corners, New Jersey – April 28, 1926 New York, New York) was an American freak show performer famous for his oddly tapered head.
Zip was unskillful with the instrument to say the least, but it is reported that audiences loved seeing Zip play his fiddle and dance about with it.
Zip the Pinhead, William Henry Johnson, was buried in Plot 399 of the Bound Brook Cemetery.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Zip-the-Pinhead   (1931 words)

  
 Zip the Pinhead -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Zip also traveled extensively with the (Click link for more info and facts about Ringling Brothers) Ringling Brothers (A genus of haws comprising the harriers) circus.
It was said that he purchased the fiddle in (A state in east central United States; a border state during the American Civil War; famous for breeding race horses) Kentucky and that it had once belonged to (An American pioneer and guide and explorer (1734-1820)) Daniel Boone.
In his later years Zip eschewed traveling in favor of displaying himself at (A section of Brooklyn on the Atlantic; known as an amusement center) Coney Island.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/z/zi/zip_the_pinhead.htm   (1058 words)

  
 Zip the Pinhead - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Throughout this period Zip's best friend and manager was Captain O.K. White.
When his condition worsened he was moved to Bellevue Hospital in New York City where he passed away.
His funeral was attended by the greatest side show acts of the days, including Madame Olga, the Bearded Lady; Frank Graf, the tattooed man; and many more.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zip_the_Pinhead   (997 words)

  
 Zip, the What is It?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
As Zip, the "What is It?" he exhibited for close to 70 years with such large shows as P.T. Barnum's and the Ringling Brothers.
Zip was born in 1842 in either New Jersey or Connecticut.
The carved monkeys and the furry suit refer to the fashion in which Zip was exhibited.
www.hollywoodstudios.org /~holley/zip.html   (404 words)

  
 Weird NJ Stories, Zip, the What Is It
Zip's agent, seeing the success the boy was having, decided to show him to P.T. Barnum, in hopes of selling him to the world's greatest collector of human oddities.
Zip was not a true pinhead, or "microcephalous", but his conical head and small face made him the prize of the circus sideshows.
Zip's mortal remains were interred in the Bound Brook Cemetery on April 26, 1926 at 2:30 pm.
www.weirdnj.com /stories/_local04.asp   (1892 words)

  
 Freaks - A Collection From The Sideshow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The son-in-law was given a life system, his wife, Mary, was sentenced to 12 years in prison, she maintains to this very day that she did what she had to do to save her family and to protect them.
Zip had picked up the habit of smoking cigars from John Ringling North, proprietor of the circus.
(Zip's money was invested by Capt. White in several ventures, including a chicken farm in Nutley, NJ.) Finally, Zip's last words were to his sister, Mrs.
www.francesfarmersrevenge.com /stuff/freaks   (1514 words)

  
 FREAKS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In her prime she made nearly a thousand dollars a week, with which she bought a large farm for her father and put her brothers and sisters through college.
Zip, The Pinhead, was described as P.T. Barnum's original "What-Is-It?" Advertisements for his show said that he had been found by adventurers on the River Gambia with a race of beings never before discovered.
The truth was that Zip was really a fl American with a condition called microcephalus.
www.geocities.com /mypinkmagazine/freaks.html   (389 words)

  
 Famous freaks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Barnum quickly displayed the pinhead as the “missing link”, asking people, "What is it?", mentioning that "it" could be a lower form of man or a higher form of ape.
Barnum put his hand on the pinhead children in 1849 after they were purchased in Salvador by an adventurer.
In a pamphlet "recording" their lives, the story goes that the two were found in an ancient Aztec temple at Iximaya, and were being worshiped as Gods by the local peoples.
freaks.monstrous.com /famous_freaks.htm   (2684 words)

  
 zip   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Zip drive -- disk format popularised by Iomega in the late 1990s
Zip the Pinhead -- circus freak show performer
This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
www.yourencyclopedia.net /ZIP.html   (172 words)

  
 Morbid Fact Du Jour Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
I present the following fact as a warning to all football fans on this opening day of the season: San Francisco 49er fan George North was celebrating a victory by riding a rolling trash bin down a stadium ramp when the bin flipped over a cement wall and North fell 42 feet to his death.
Zip the Pinhead was billed as an exotic humanoid from the deepest jungles of Africa - "the last survivor of a dying race".
In actuality, it was claimed that he was a gentleman from Harlem with an oddly shaped head.
asylumeclectica.com /morbid/archives/morb996.htm   (1806 words)

  
 The Hellbound Web | Collectibles | Vaporware Video Games
We put a Z80 with DRAM into the video memory, and "dual ported" it so that the nintendo main processor would be able to access it at the same time.
Finally, we added some extra zip by putting the video color palette registers in the same place, so that the Z80 could also change those on the fly.
The idea was that we could alternate colors between scans of the TV and increase the effective number of colors on the screen.
www.cenobite.com /collect/vg.htm   (1546 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Hellraiser (1987): DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Foremost among these frightful visions is the sadomasochistic demon affectionately named Pinhead (so named because his pale, bald head is a geometric pincushion and a symbol of eternal pain).
Pinhead is the leader of the Cenobites, agents of evil who appear only when someone successfully "solves" the exotic puzzle box called the Lamont Configuration--a mysterious device that opens the door to Hell.
But Robinson is unaware that his half brother Frank who is Higgin's ex former lover is hiding upstairs in a gletanious skeletal form and he wants Higgins to bring stray men back to him for their blood in order to regain his skin and look the way he was alive.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6305972001?v=glance   (2866 words)

  
 zip information site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title.
This zip variant index site has been developed to help wayward users find the information they are looking for, no matter how they are mistakenly spelled or mistyped.
If you would like to add to the content of this site, or if you are interested in supporting the efforts of misytped.info by placing your product information on these zip pages, please contact mistype@gmail.com for details.
www.mistyped.info /zip.htm   (205 words)

  
 (GCA8A6) Zippy's Roadside Attractions by Gator Man   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
I am looking for real pictures of the unique roadside attractions Zippy the Pinhead has visited in the comic strip “ZIPPY”, created by Bill Griffith.
Zip the Pinhead, William Henry Johnson, was buried in Plot 399 of the Bound Brook Cemetery in New Jersey.
Zip's last words were to his sister, Mrs.
www.geocaching.com /seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=43174   (1861 words)

  
 Zip the Pinhead   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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Zip the Pinhead, born William Henry Johnson, (1857 Liberty Corners, New Jersey - April 28, 1926 New York, New York) was an Americann freak show performer famous for his oddly tapered head.
In 1860 he was visited at the Museum by the Prince of Wales; his photo (the one pictured above) was taken by famed Civil War photographer Matthew Brady.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/zip_the_pinhead   (1016 words)

  
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Bill Griffith's Zippy the Pinhead is the popular comic strip with its own bizarre answers to this already bizarre world.
The strip has created a reality all its own with a unique cast of characters including Griffy, Zippy's foil; Zerbina, Zippy's wife; and their children, Fuelrod and Meltdown.
Griffith began the Zippy the Pinhead comic strip in 1970, selling it to different underground magazines.
www.kingfeatures.com /features/comics/zippy/aboutMaina.php   (179 words)

  
 uggabugga
Indeed, a majority of Americans are intellectually unable to connect Bush with ANY of his manifest failures.
Worse, goaded on by talk radio and the pinhead posturing of the preznit, most Americans will clamor for more bombing in Iraq, more secret detentions, more torture--more of everything that has proven conclusively counter-productive.
zip code and up will pop up a list of places that are available.
uggabugga.blogspot.com /2005/07/how-not-to-fight-terrorism-ignore.html   (1296 words)

  
 pinhead   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
His most famous character was surely `Zippy the Pinhead` (as in `Zippy for President`), the polka-dotted clownsuit...
The geared-up Croc eventually killed fellow inmate Pinhead during a grudge match (# 81) and escaped with the...
Most of those critics explained that they were huge fans of Zippy The Pinhead and my attacks were cruel and unprovoked.
www.adbd.com /cherche.php?q=pinhead   (779 words)

  
 Zippy Fans, Zippy the Pinhead Meetups, events, clubs and groups in your area - Meetup.com
Zippy Fans, Zippy the Pinhead Meetups, events, clubs and groups in your area - Meetup.com
Meet other local fans of the Zippy the Pinhead comic strip.
local Zippy the Pinhead Meetup is happening in…
zippy.meetup.com   (45 words)

  
 (GCA8A6) Zippy's Roadside Attractions by Gator Man   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
This is the best shot I could get...its from across the street but has the GPS and me in it.
Wild Blueberry Land in Columbia Falls, Maine was featured in a Zippy the Pinhead strip on October 9, 2003.
This edifice is located in the heart of Maine's wild blueberry region, and features all sorts of blueberry-related tourist stuff.
www.geocaching.com /seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GCA8A6&log=y   (5812 words)

  
 WinDrivers Computer Tech Support Forums - Corrupt Iomega File!!
I have a client who backed up her peachtree data to a zip disk and unfortunately recovered the wrong backup in peachtree and is back to the year(s) 2000-2001.
Two seperate techs have suggested that the file is corrupt.
PS--The backup on the zip disk is the only backup she has from 2001 until now.
forums.windrivers.com /showthread.php?t=47095   (279 words)

  
 Internal Zip
For a dictionary definition of the term, please refer to the Wiktionary entry.
2) " Zip" -- As to Internal Zip
Similar searches have yielded these phrases Internal Zip: Free Zip Software, Internal Medicine Residency, Internal Revenue Services, 250 Mb Zip, Internal Controls, Internal Antenna Booster, Sarbanes Oxley Internal Controls, 250 Mb Zip Drive, Zip Discs, Internal Cleansing
www.altvetmed.com /face/27393-internal-zip.html   (259 words)

  
 Pinheads C4D, BodyPaint and Bryce Tutorials   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
I can be contacted, as Pinhead, at 3DCommune.com via site mail.
Bryce 4 Mats, Sky, Bryce 4 scene file and graphic for terrain editing available as zips - linked to the document.
It's a large web document with a ton of pictures so I also have it as a zip if your connection is poor.
pinhead.robbes.com /tutorial/Pinheads3DCTutorials.htm   (2252 words)

  
 *Ø*  Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine | Book of Days | April 28 | Floralia Sabine goddess Flora Florales Ludi ...
Last words of Zip the Pinhead, American sideshow ‘freak’ who died on April 28, 1926; to his sister, Mrs Van Duyne
The Versailles Treaty was signed, settling terms of the post-WWI Europe.
Zip the Pinhead, born William Henry Johnson, of natural causes
www.wilsonsalmanac.com /book/apr28.html   (2989 words)

  
 JerseyGOP.com
From individual state legislatures, the national congress, the President, and the citizenry - there needs to be a major debate on this issue before going forward.
A few pinhead bureaucrats can never be allowed to single-handedly encroach on the individual liberties afforded this nation by our constitution.
Motor vehicle agencies around the country came under major fire in recent years for SELLING personal information of drivers to the highest bidder - and now we are supposed to trust them with the keys to our identities?
www.jerseygop.com /editor1-30-02.html   (677 words)

  
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\par \par Answer: -indifference Curve- \par \par 13) Notable stars included Violet and Daisy Hilton, Johnny Eck, and Zip the Pinhead.
It \par tells the story of Hans, an unlucky midget who falls in love with a predatorial trapeze \par artist named Cleopatra, only to find that she is actually plotting with her strongman lover \par to kill him and inherit his fortune.
quizbowl.stanford.edu /archive/psu98/PENN.rtf   (2671 words)

  
 Whither Zither Peter Berryman Madison Folk Music Society Mad Folk News
Way boring, as you might imagine, and also I think it sounded too much like Totem Talk, triggering the audience's TV brain-shunt.
But just look at the goofiness riches in the Sunday paper, like some endless mantra of Zippy the Pinhead:
Hours vary for one hour photo optical pharmacy and portrait studio where available.
members.aol.com /wzither/wzsep02.html   (789 words)

  
 Freaks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Written by Al Boasberg, Willis Goldbeck, Leon Gordon, Edgar Allan Woolf, from the novel Spurs by Clarence Aaron 'Tod' Robbins
Elvira Snow as Zip the Pinhead (as Zip)
Jenny Lee Snow as Pip the Pinhead (as Pip)
history.acusd.edu /gen/filmnotes/freaks.html   (119 words)

  
 Start a Zippy the Pinhead Meetup Group: meet other Zippy Fans, schedule Zippy the Pinhead events - Meetup.com
Start a Zippy the Pinhead Meetup Group: meet other Zippy Fans, schedule Zippy the Pinhead events - Meetup.com
United Zippy the Pinhead Meetup Day: First Tuesday
Certainly… an environment that encourages and supports my efforts to learn to actually speak more Chinese."
zippy.meetup.com /create   (165 words)

  
 DHM: Library - Basic Search Results : William_Henry_Johnson
DHM: Library - Basic Search Results : William_Henry_Johnson
Zip Grins In Death, Mask Off At Last
Zip, The ‘What Is It?’ Plays Host to All The Other Circus Freaks
www.disabilitymuseum.org /search_lib.php?from=kwlist&q=William_Henry_Johnson   (50 words)

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