Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Alois P. Swoboda (1873–1938) was a Physical Culture mail-order instructor.His course did not use apparatus or exercise equipment. Claims in Swoboda's courses included the ability to regrow lost limbs and heal a heart damaged by a heart attack.Among his alleged students Swoboda counted US Presidents Theodore Roosevelt[citation needed] and Woodrow Wilson, two US Supreme Court Justices including Charles Evans Hughes, world famous escape artist Harry Houdini[citation needed], Ziegfeld Follies Star Anna Held, actress Maxine Elliott and composer Oscar Strauss.[citation needed] The most prominent families of that era had Swoboda students in their ranks including the Rockefellers, Goulds, Armours, Vanderbilts, Huntingtons, Swifts, Guggenheims and Hearsts just to name a few.[citation needed]Charles Atlas who won the title of The Worlds Most Perfectly Developed Man, became an icon of bodybuilding, and created one of the most effective bodybuilding courses of all time said, "Everything that I know I learned from AP Swoboda."[citation needed]Swoboda was born in Vienna on March 8, 1873, and immigrated to the U.S.A. in 1881 with his father, Adolf Swoboda. They settled in Omaha, Nebraska where he quickly found work in the local bathhouses. Mr. Swoboda subsequently worked in Omaha meatpacking factories but did not receive medical training, etc., despite insinuations of a formal education.. }
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- Alois_P._Swoboda abstract "Alois P. Swoboda (1873–1938) was a Physical Culture mail-order instructor.His course did not use apparatus or exercise equipment. Claims in Swoboda's courses included the ability to regrow lost limbs and heal a heart damaged by a heart attack.Among his alleged students Swoboda counted US Presidents Theodore Roosevelt[citation needed] and Woodrow Wilson, two US Supreme Court Justices including Charles Evans Hughes, world famous escape artist Harry Houdini[citation needed], Ziegfeld Follies Star Anna Held, actress Maxine Elliott and composer Oscar Strauss.[citation needed] The most prominent families of that era had Swoboda students in their ranks including the Rockefellers, Goulds, Armours, Vanderbilts, Huntingtons, Swifts, Guggenheims and Hearsts just to name a few.[citation needed]Charles Atlas who won the title of The Worlds Most Perfectly Developed Man, became an icon of bodybuilding, and created one of the most effective bodybuilding courses of all time said, "Everything that I know I learned from AP Swoboda."[citation needed]Swoboda was born in Vienna on March 8, 1873, and immigrated to the U.S.A. in 1881 with his father, Adolf Swoboda. They settled in Omaha, Nebraska where he quickly found work in the local bathhouses. Mr. Swoboda subsequently worked in Omaha meatpacking factories but did not receive medical training, etc., despite insinuations of a formal education.".