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Height. 8 ft 11.1 in (272.0 cm) Robert Pershing Wadlow (February 22, 1918 – July 15, 1940), also known as the Alton Giant and the Giant of Illinois, was an American man who was the tallest person in recorded history for whom there is irrefutable evidence. He was born and raised in Alton, Illinois, a small city near St. Louis, Missouri.
4 feet 11 inches. It's hard to think of actress and broadway star Kristin Chenoweth as anything but adorable given her sub-five-foot height. When she was only 12, she performed a song ...
Thus thousands of men under this height were denied the opportunity to fight in the war. As a result of pressure to allow them entry, special "Bantam Battalions" were created composed of men who were 4 feet 10 inches (147 cm) to 5 feet 3 inches (160 cm). By the end of the war there were 29 Bantam Battalions of about 1,000 men each.
7 feet 11 inches (2.41 m) Spouse. Martin Van Buren Bates. . . (m. 1871) . Anna Haining Bates (née Swan; August 6, 1846 – August 5, 1888) was a Canadian woman notable for her great stature of 7 feet 11 inches (2.41 m). [1][2] She was one of the tallest women ever. Her parents were of average height and were Scottish immigrants.
180.3 cm (5 ft 11 in) 167.4 cm (5 ft 6 in) 1.08: 19: 0.2% [173] Measured: 2011 [174] Solomon Islands: 166.4 cm (5 ft 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) 155.7 cm (5 ft 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) 1.07: 25–64 (N= m:688 f:1018) 68.3%: Measured: 2006 [175] South Africa: 168 cm (5 ft 6 in) 159 cm (5 ft 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) 1.06: 19 (N= m:121 f:118) 3.6%: Measured: 2003 [176] Spain ...
Spierer was only 4-foot-11 inches and weighed 90 pounds and would have been easy prey in an intoxicated state. Just a few months ago, the FBI dug up farmland in Indiana but didn't find her body.
Metric (SI) units. 25.4 mm. A fire hydrant marked as 3-inch. The inch (symbol: in or ″) is a unit of length in the British Imperial and the United States customary systems of measurement. It is equal to 1 36 yard or 1 12 of a foot. Derived from the Roman uncia ("twelfth"), the word inch is also sometimes used to translate ...
In one foot impression the big toe, ball, arch, and heel are clearly discernible, [6] with a maximum depression of 3.2 cm. [1] Roberts thinks that the prints belong to an ancient female about 1.5 metres (4 feet 11 inches) tall.