This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. My guest has written a new book that raises fascinating historical, cultural and existential questions. It's about two people who you could also describe as one ...

Even after a century, ears perk up at the mention of Chang and Eng Bunker, the original Siamese Twins joined at the chest by a salami-sized strip of flesh. Curiosity runs especially high across North ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Cultural scholar Cynthia Wu has spent years studying Chang and Eng Bunker, a pair of Asian-born, co-joined, entrepreneurial, self-promoting "human marvels." "The Bunker twins," she ...

Chances are good that when you think of Siamese twins - we call them conjoined twins now - you think of an old black-and-white photo of Chang and Eng Bunker, arguably the most famous such twins. Bay ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. Chang and Eng Bunker are buried in picturesque Mount Airy, an area where ...

This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. My guest has written a new book that raises fascinating historical, cultural and existential questions. It's about two people who you could also describe as one ...

With Chang and Eng, however, their arrangement - not just the mental mastery but also through these very rigid arrangement - and they stuck to it actually all those years - which is that for three ...