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  2. Midget - Wikipedia

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    Singer's Midgets toured the US from 1910 to 1935 and were "enormously successful". [1]Midget (from midge, a tiny biting insect [2]) is a term for a person of unusually short stature that is considered by some to be pejorative due to its etymology.

  3. Dwarfism - Wikipedia

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    Dwarfism is a condition of people and animals marked by unusually small size or short stature. [1] In humans, it is sometimes defined as an adult height of less than 147 centimetres (4 ft 10 in), regardless of sex; the average adult height among people with dwarfism is 120 centimetres (4 ft).

  4. List of dwarfism organizations - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 31 October 2024, at 04:36 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  5. List of people with dwarfism - Wikipedia

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    Court dwarf English court dwarf and jester to Charles I. [91] 1619–1682 Russia: 102cm (40 in) Hasbulla: Internet Personality: Russian social media personality. 2002 - Holy Roman Empire: 104 cm (41 in) [92] Hedsor Conrad Ernest Coppernin Court dwarf Served as a page to Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha making him the last court dwarf. [93] [94 ...

  6. Pygmy peoples - Wikipedia

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    In anthropology, pygmy peoples are ethnic groups whose average height is unusually short. The term pygmyism is used to describe the phenotype of endemic short stature (as opposed to disproportionate dwarfism occurring in isolated cases in a population) for populations in which adult men are on average less than 150 cm (4 ft 11 in) tall.

  7. Height discrimination - Wikipedia

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    In 1987 the BBC comedy series A Small Problem imagined a totalitarian society in which people under the height of 5 feet (1.5 m) were systematically discriminated against. The program attracted considerable criticism and complaints which accused the writers of reinforcing prejudice and of using offensive terms; the writers responded that their ...

  8. Dwarf-tossing - Wikipedia

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    The mayor of the small French town of Morsang-sur-Orge prohibited dwarf-tossing. The case went through the appeal chain of administrative courts to the Conseil d'État, which found that an administrative authority could legally prohibit dwarf-tossing on grounds that the activity did not respect human dignity and was thus contrary to public ...

  9. Dwarfs and pygmies in ancient Egypt - Wikipedia

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    [3] [5] [7] As in other periods, dwarfs were particularly valued as treasurers or jewellers, as their very distinctive appearance would make any dishonest dealings on their part that much more difficult to get away with. Zoo-keeping seems in fact, in the surviving evidence, the most common work performed by dwarfs.