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The westerlies, anti-trades, [2] or prevailing westerlies, are prevailing winds from the west toward the east in the middle latitudes between 30 and 60 degrees latitude. They originate from the high-pressure areas in the horse latitudes (about 30 degrees) and trend towards the poles and steer extratropical cyclones in this general manner. [ 3 ]
Dwarfism is caused by several different types of medical conditions, and is typically defined as an adult A with a height of 147 cm (4 ft 10 in) or less. [1] [2] Records or mentions of people with dwarfism have not always been kept well, resulting in estimated heights that were taken from eyewitnesses. In some given cases the height of the ...
In 2012, though, it became known that Chandra Bahadur Dangi of Nepal stood only 1 ft 9.5 in (54.6 cm) tall. Today, Pauline Musters is regarded as the fourth shortest documented person (after Muhammed, Dangi, and Junrey Balawing of the Philippines) and as the shortest documented woman of all times.
The term originally derives from the early fourteenth century sense of trade (in late Middle English) still often meaning "path" or "track". [2] The Portuguese recognized the importance of the trade winds (then the volta do mar, meaning in Portuguese "turn of the sea" but also "return from the sea") in navigation in both the north and south Atlantic Ocean as early as the 15th century. [3]
6 ft 10 cm Tallest female volleyball player. [180] born 2000 Tharjini Sivalingam: Sri Lanka: 208 cm 6 ft 10 in She was a center and one of the most dominant netball players in the history of the game. [181] born 1977 Maci Currin United States: 208 cm 6 ft 10 in Guinness World Record holder for the world's longest legs on a woman. [182] born 2003
Up next for Keys is No. 2 seed Iga Swiatek, who cruised past No. 8 seed Emma Navarro in the other women’s quarterfinal Wednesday to spoil a chance at an All-American semifinal.
Mme Abomah. Ella Grigsby was born in October 1865, just 10 months after the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution abolished slavery.As a teenager, she began working for Elihu and Harriet Williams, and chose to take their surname as her own, possibly because her parents had been slaves owned by the Grigsby family.
A western disturbance is an extratropical storm originating in the Mediterranean region that brings sudden winter rain to the northwestern parts of the Indian subcontinent, [1] [2] which extends as east as up to northern parts of Bangladesh and South eastern Nepal. [3] It is a non-monsoonal precipitation pattern driven by the westerlies.