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Antonio Pigafetta recorded that the Moluccan pilot of the ship Vittoria told a story about the people of Aracheto. The men and women were 1.5 feet high; their food was the pith of a tree; and they dwells in caverns under ground. Their ears were as long as their bodies; so that when they lay down one ear served as a mattress and the other as a ...
Ahu Tongariki, with mount Poike in the background: the beginning of the Poike ditch where the final battle is supposed to have taken place.. The Hanau epe (also, hanau eepe: supposed to mean "Long-ears") were a semi-legendary people who are said to have lived in Easter Island, where they came into conflict with another people known as the Hanau momoko or "short-ears".
Long ear is a condition in which the ears are unusually long from top to bottom. This is defined as the median longitudinal ear length being over 2 SD from the mean external ear length (superior to inferior aspect).
This word, whencesoever it comes, is often mentioned as the longest word known. [61] Commenting on this, antiquarian Joseph Hunter wrote in 1845: This Dr. Johnson calls a word, and says that "it is the longest word known." This is a very extraordinary hallucination of a mind so accustomed to definition as his was, and so apt to form definitions ...
Autophony is the unusually loud hearing of a person's own voice. Possible causes are: The "occlusion effect", caused by an object, such as an unvented hearing aid or a plug of ear wax, blocking the ear canal and reflecting sound vibration back towards the eardrum. [1] Serous otitis media
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The longest beard ever measured belonged to Hans Langseth of Norway; at his death in 1927 it was 5.33 metres (17.5 ft) long. [35] [36] The longest ear hair belongs to Victor Anthony of India, measuring 18.1 centimetres (7.12 inches). [37] The largest feet belonged to Matthew McGrory. His left foot measured 17 inches (43 cm) and he wore size 29 ...
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