Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Ella Harper (5 January 1870 – 19 December 1921), known as \"The Camel Girl\", was born with a very rare orthopedic condition that caused her knees to bend backwards, called congenital genu recurvatum. Her preference to walk on all fours resulted in her nickname \"Camel Girl\". In 1886 she was featured as the star in W. H. Harris’s Nickel Plate Circus, appearing in newspapers wherever the circus visited. The back of her pitch card reads:I am called the camel girl because my knees turn backward."@en }
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- Ella_Harper comment "Ella Harper (5 January 1870 – 19 December 1921), known as \"The Camel Girl\", was born with a very rare orthopedic condition that caused her knees to bend backwards, called congenital genu recurvatum. Her preference to walk on all fours resulted in her nickname \"Camel Girl\". In 1886 she was featured as the star in W. H. Harris’s Nickel Plate Circus, appearing in newspapers wherever the circus visited. The back of her pitch card reads:I am called the camel girl because my knees turn backward.".