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Tuần này trong dòng lịch sử: Gà không đầu sống được 17 ngày ở Sault Ste. Marie
22 Dec, 2023
In November 1904, a headless hen (gà không đầu, cụt đầu), intended to be someone’s dinner, instead became a popular town attraction (thu hút) for over two weeks, as it outlived (sống lâu hơn) what should have been certain death.
It’s not uncommon (không thường thấy, hiếm thấy) for a chicken to run around after its head has been chopped off (bị chặt). But it usually lasts for no more than a few minutes.
For seventeen days Sault Ste. Marie resident Herbert Hughes - the landlord (chủ nhà) at the Belvidere Hotel - kept the chicken alive by feeding it gruel (cháo) from a syringe (ống tiêm). They welcomed onlookers (người xem) to observe the chicken, as many found such a claim hard to believe.
On Nov. 15, 1904, three days after the hen’s head was chopped off, the headline in the Evening News published out of Sault Ste. Marie read, “Headless Hen Lives; Mysterious freak (kì lạ) of nature at Belvidere Hotel.”
For the subsequent (kế tiếp) weeks the Evening News followed the story.
On Nov. 17, 1904, the paper advertised that Hughes of the Belvidere would “exhibit the curiosity, the headless hen, at his place of business hereafter. The bird will probably draw (thu hút) a big crowd.”
In an attempt (nỗ lực) to prove the authenticity (tính xác thực) of the bird, Hughes took to capturing photographs to show townsfolk (người dân thị trấn). “Hughes had a picture of the headless hen taken this morning so there is no reason why posterity should be denied a look at the present day mystery that has attracted so much attention from frequenters of that hostelry,” read an article on Nov. 25, 1904.
Later that week, Hughes received a generous offer from St. Louis, proposing to ship the headless hen and feature it as an exhibit (vật trưng bày) in the world fair.
At the end of November, though, the hen finally died. On Nov. 29, 1904, a final notice was published in the Evening News.
source: 9and10news,
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