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The Railway Regulation (Gauge) Act 1846 was passed to formalise the gauge used on the island of Ireland to 5 feet 3 inches (1600mm). [3][2] As of 2013. [update] the network totals over 2,730 km or 1,696 mi, 2,400 km or 1,491 mi in the Republic of Ireland [17] and 330 km or 205 mi in Northern Ireland. Switzerland.
Muggsy Bogues. Tyrone Curtis " Muggsy " Bogues (born January 9, 1965) is an American former basketball player. The shortest player ever to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA), the 5 ft 3 in (1.60 m) Bogues played point guard for four teams during his 14-season career in the NBA.
The shortest player ever in the old American Basketball Association (1967–76) was Penny Ann Early, a 5-foot-3-inch (160 cm) jockey who took part in one play in one game for the Kentucky Colonels as a publicity stunt in 1969. (The shortest signed ABA players were Jerry Dover and Monte Towe, both 5 feet 7 inches or 170 centimetres.)
5 feet 3 inches . Scarlett Johansson fits a lot of fierce characters into a compact 5-foot-3-inch frame. Her role as Black Widow in a number of Marvel blockbuster hits including "Avengers: ...
A 2011 study showed that men who stand at 5 foot 8 inches or less and women who are no taller that 5 foot 3 inches were up to five times less likely to experience deep vein thrombosis. Number 4 ...
Phife Dawg. Malik Izaak Taylor[2] (November 20, 1970 – March 22, 2016), known professionally as Phife Dawg (or simply Phife), was an American rapper and a member of the group A Tribe Called Quest with Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhammad (and for a short time Jarobi White). He was also known as the "Five-Foot Assassin" and the "Five-Footer ...
Spud Webb. Anthony Jerome " Spud " Webb (born July 13, 1963) is an American former professional basketball player. A 5 ft 6 in (168 cm) point guard, Webb played college basketball at Midland College and at North Carolina State University. He then played for four teams in the National Basketball Association (NBA) in a professional career that ...
The track gauge adopted by the mainline railways in Ireland is 1,600 mm (5 ft 3 in).This unusually broad track gauge is otherwise found only in Australia (where it was introduced by the Irish railway engineer F. W. Sheilds), in the states of Victoria, southern New South Wales (via some extensions of the Victorian rail network) and South Australia, as well as in Brazil.