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  2. Martin Van Buren Bates - Wikipedia

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    Martin Van Buren Bates (November 9, 1837 – January 19, 1919), known as the Kentucky Giant, was an American man famous for his great height. He was 7 ft 9 in (2.36 m) tall [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and weighed 475 lb (215 kg).

  3. Love for Lydia (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    Love for Lydia is a British television serial made by London Weekend Television and broadcast from 9 September to 2 December 1977 on ITV.It is based on the novel by H. E. Bates, first published in 1952.

  4. Billed as the tallest man and woman in the world, the Bates ...

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    Martin Van Buren Bates began a tremendous growth spurt about the age of 6 or 7. By the time he was 12, he was more than 6 feet tall and 200 pounds. In time he would be 7'9" and weigh approximately ...

  5. List of Sydney Taylor Book Award recipients - Wikipedia

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    A Queen to the Rescue: The Story of Henrietta Szold, Founder of Hadassah: Notable Cynthia Levinson: Evan Turk: The People's Painter: How Ben Shahn Fought for Justice with Art: Notable Lee Wind: Paul O. Zelinsky: Red and Green and Blue and White: Notable 2023 Chana Stiefel: Susan Gal: The Tower of Life: How Yaffa Eliach Rebuilt Her Town in ...

  6. Dangerous Women (anthology) - Wikipedia

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    Dangerous Women is a cross-genre anthology featuring 21 original short stories and novellas "from some of the biggest authors in the science fiction/fantasy field", edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, and released on December 3, 2013.

  7. Kathy Bates clarifies retirement comments about new ... - AOL

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    The Oscar-winner had previously said Matlock would be her last role. Don't count Kathy Bates out quite just yet.. The Oscar-winning actress set brows a-furrowed when she said that Matlock, her new ...

  8. WHERE ARE THEY NOW: All 165 cast members in 'Saturday Night ...

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    The 50th season of "SNL" premiered last month. Since the first show in 1975, 165 comedians and actors have been a part of "SNL.". Three new comedians joined for season 50. "Saturday Night Live" is ...

  9. My Uncle Silas - Wikipedia

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    Bates's Uncle Silas figure, and many of the lineaments of his character, were based on a real person named Joseph Betts, the husband of H. E. Bates's maternal grandmother's sister Mary Ann. Betts lived in a village in the Ouse Valley, was born in the early 1840s, and lived to the early 1930s.