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  2. Human height - Wikipedia

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    The average height of 19-year-old Dutch orphans in 1865 was 160 cm (5 ft 3 in). [77] From 1830 to 1857, the average height of a Dutch person decreased, even while Dutch real GNP per capita was growing at an average rate of more than 0.5% per year. The worst decline was in urban areas that in 1847, the urban height penalty was 2.5 cm (1.0 in).

  3. Average human height by country - Wikipedia

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    Below are two tables which report the average adult human height by country or geographical region. ... Mexican American, 20–39 (N= m:283 f:303) 2.8% [213] Measured ...

  4. Great Divergence - Wikipedia

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    During 17th and 18th centuries, at the height of Dutch Golden Age, the average height was 166 centimeters, about 4 centimeters lower than in 14th and early 15th century. This most likely indicates consumption declines during the early modern period, and average height would not equal medieval heights until the 20th century.

  5. The height differences between all the US presidents and ...

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    Here is the height difference of every US president and first lady we could find. George and Martha Washington: 1 foot 2 inches Shayanne Gal and Samantha Lee/Business Insider

  6. English alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The word alphabet is a compound of alpha and beta, the names of the first two letters in the Greek alphabet. Old English was first written down using the Latin alphabet during the 7th century. During the centuries that followed, various letters entered or fell out of use. By the 16th century, the present set of 26 letters had largely stabilised:

  7. Heights of presidents and presidential candidates of the ...

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    Since 1776 only [two Presidents,] James Madison and Benjamin Harrison[,] have been below-average height. The easiest way to predict the winner in a United States election is to bet on the taller man: in this century you would have had an unbroken string of hits until 1972 when Richard Nixon beat George McGovern."

  8. Medieval weights and measures - Wikipedia

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    The best-attested of these is the perch, which varied in length from 10 to 25 feet, with the most common value (16 1 ⁄ 2 feet or 5.03 m) remaining in use until the twentieth century. [1] Later development of the English system continued in 1215 in the Magna Carta. [2] Standards were renewed in 1496, 1588 and 1758. [3]

  9. File:Average height of men by year of birth (NCD-RisC (1896 ...

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    English: :Average height of men by year of birth Mean height of adult men by year of birth. Data for the latest cohort (the year 1996) is therefore the mean height of men aged 18 in 2014.