Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

The old saying, Luck of the Irish, doesn't have one definitive origin.

Some say it comes from successful Irish miners who had found their pots of gold while digging

underground.

Others claim its meaning was ironic that the Irish had been treated so poorly abroad

during the potato famine that emigrants were cursed with the luck of the Irish.

Regardless of where it came from, the Irish are considered a lucky people, and none luckier

than Violet Jessup.

Born in Argentina in 1887 to Irish immigrants, Violet was the eldest of nine children.

She took care of her younger siblings to help her parents until she was diagnosed with

tuberculosis.

Doctors gave her months to live, but Violet had a strength unlike some of her siblings,

three of whom had already died young.

She fought the disease, and won, only to lose her father not long after that.

At 16 years old, Violet moved to England with her mother, who took a job as a stewardess

aboard ships while Violet stayed home to raise her younger sister.

Unfortunately, not long after they'd settled into their new home, their mother grew very

ill and it felt a violet to take over as the sole breadwinner for the family.

With few other opportunities available, she applied to be a stewardess like her mother,

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