In 1958, in Palisades, New Jersey, a performer named Jimmy Armstrong, known as The Dwarf Clown, entertained the audience at Clyde Beatty Circus. This moment was captured by photographer Bruce Davidson as part of his renowned 'Circus' series.
"He was standing alone outside the tent, smoking a cigarette," Davidson said upon seeing Armstrong for the first time. Dressed in a tuxedo and a top hat, he held a small bouquet of paper flowers and stood there pensively, immersed in the privacy of his inner thoughts."
"He seemed to know that it was the inner moment I was drawn to and not his clown face or physical appearance. We became friends, although we seldom spoke to one another."
"I found something in Jimmy that was more than loneliness, it was a story about surviving" - Bruce Davidson.
Photographed around the year 1911, Chester E. Macduffee, an inventor, introduced his recently patented diving suit made of aluminum alloy weighing 250 kg (551 lbs). According to an article published in Popular Mechanics magazine in 1914, this innovative suit was successfully used to reach a depth of 212 ft (65 meters) in Long Island Sound, setting a new record for deep-sea diving in the United States.
Italian singer Adriano Celentano released a song in the 70s with nonsense lyrics meant to sound like American English, apparently to prove Italians would like any English song. It was a hit