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Little Egypt causes a sensation when she dances at The World's Columbian Exposition for Chicago Day, in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Billed as "The Bewitching Bellyrina", her real name was Fahreda Mahzar Spyropoulos and she became "a pioneer of burlesque", doing a dance which came to be known as the hoochie-kootchie. She also provided the inspiration for The Coasters 1961 hit Little Egypt.