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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. Demographic history of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Many of the colonists, especially from the New England colonies, were already into their fifth generation of being in America. At the time of the American Revolution the foreign born population is estimated to be from 300,000 to 400,000. During the 17th century, approximately 350–400,000 English people migrated to colonial America.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. Body proportions - Wikipedia

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    This canon was already established by the Narmer Palette from about the 31st century BC, and remained in use until at least the conquest by Alexander the Great some 3,000 years later. [3] One version of the proportions used in modern figure drawing is: [4] An average person is generally 7-and-a-half heads tall (including the head).

  8. 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:

  9. 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."