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A family from a Ba Aka pygmy village. The term pygmy, as used to refer to diminutive people, comes via Latin pygmaeus from Greek πυγμαῖος pygmaîos, derived from πυγμή pygmḗ, meaning "short cubit", or a measure of length corresponding to the distance from the elbow to the first knuckle of the middle finger, meant to express pygmies' diminutive stature.
At 54.6 cm (21.5 in), Nepalese-born Chandra Bahadur Dangi was, at the time of his death in 2015, the world's shortest person ever verified. This list includes the shortest ever verified people in their lifetime or profession. The entries below are broken down into different categories which range from sex, to age group and occupations.
The Efé are a group of part-time hunter-gatherer people living in the Ituri Rainforest of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In the depths of the forest they do not wear much clothing, using only leaf huts [1] as shelter for their bodies in the intense heat. The Efé are Pygmies, and one of the shortest peoples in the world. The men grow to an ...
The Toto people are one of the world's smallest indigenous ethnic groups, living in a village of Totopara on India's border with Bhutan. [2] [3] Totos were nearly becoming extinct in the 1950s, but recent measures to safeguard their areas from being swamped with outsiders have helped preserve their unique heritage and also helped the population ...
In 2012, at the age of 72, Dangi met the world's shortest woman, Jyoti Amge of Nagpur, India. The pair posed together for the 57th edition of The Guinness Book of Records in 2013. [ 5 ] On 13 November 2014, as part of Guinness World Records Day , Dangi met the world's tallest living man, Sultan Kösen , at an event in London.
A Luba militia known as "Elements" attacked back, notably killing at least 30 people in the "Vumilia 1" displaced people camp in April 2015. Since the start of the conflict, hundreds have been killed, and tens of thousands have been displaced from their homes. [44] The weapons used in the conflict are often arrows and axes, rather than guns. [45]
2–3 months (except for a short time during the first reign of Sahle Dengel) Proclaimed emperor by Ras Ali II of Yejju: Died, possibly poisoned [40] Florianus Roman Emperor July–September 276 <3 months Proclaimed after the death of his half-brother, Tacitus: Assassinated by his own troops while campaigning against the rebel Probus: Sinmu ...
Khagendra Thapa Magar (Nepali: खगेन्द्र थापामगर) (4 October 1992 – 17 January 2020) [2] was a Nepali once known as the shortest man in the world, measuring 0.67 m (2 ft 2 in). [1] [3] Magar, who was a primordial dwarf, won the title of shortest man from Edward Niño Hernández.