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Robert Pershing Wadlow (February 22, 1918 – July 15, 1940), also known as the Alton Giant and the Giant of Illinois, was an American man.He is the tallest person in recorded history for whom there is irrefutable evidence.
Angus MacAskill (1825 – 8 August 1863) was a Scottish-born Canadian giant. In its 1981 edition the Guinness Book of World Records stated he was the strongest man, the tallest non-pathological giant and the largest true giant in recorded history at 7 feet 9 inches (2.36 m), he also had the largest chest measurements of any non-obese man at 80 inches (203 cm).
Golden State Model Railroad Museum, Point Richmond, Richmond, California [8] Highland Park Society of Model Railroad Engineers, also known as the Highland Pacific Club of San Gabriel, CA [9] San Diego Model Railroad Museum, San Diego, CA [10] Tech Model Railroad Club, HO scale, student organization at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT ...
Tallest Man in History: Robert Wadlow The world's tallest man was 3 feet tall as a toddler, could carry his father at age 9, and stretched to a fantastic height of 8 feet 11 inches.
Edmund C. Jaeger – early school teacher (1905) in Palm Springs and noted naturalist [2]: 109 George Wharton James – author of the 1906 Wonders of the Colorado Desert [2]: 106 June McCarroll – nurse and physician with the Southern Pacific Railroad [nb 1] [2]: 84 Jimmy Swinnerton – cartoonist and painter [2]: 110 [3]: 176
Tallest living man in Ethiopia. [137] born 1997/98 (aged 24 as of March 2022) Ivo Höger Czech Republic: 225 cm: 7 ft 4.6 in: Tallest living man in the Czech Republic. Former professional basketball player. [138] born 1982 Jannik Könecke Germany: 225 cm: 7 ft 4.6 in: Tallest living man in Germany. [139] born 2000 Mark Eaton: United States: 224 ...
NO. 508 TEHACHAPI LOOP - From this spot may be seen a portion of the world-renowned Loop completed in 1876 under the direction of William Hood, Southern Pacific railroad engineer. In gaining elevation around the central hill of the Loop, a 4,000-foot train will cross 77 feet above its rear cars in the tunnel below. [17]
Jon Brower Minnoch (September 29, 1941 – September 4, 1983) [2] was an American man who is the heaviest recorded human in history, weighing approximately 1,400 lb (635 kilograms; 100 stone) at his peak. [3] [note 1] Obese since childhood, Minnoch normally weighed 800–900 lb (363–408 kilograms; 57–64 stone) during his adult years.