tallest man in the world?
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Two years ago Russian newspapers published a dramatic story about Leonid Stadnik, a village resident of Ukrainian province. The man suffer from his own height: Leonid was 254 centimeters tall back in those days. It has recently become known that the tallest man in the world is still growing. \n  \nLeonid Stadnik \n   \nLeonid Stadnik lives in his house in a small Ukrainian village of Podolyantsy. The man has to take quite an effort to be able to enter the house: he is almost twice as high as the doorway. Stadnik, 35, is a huge man indeed, although he is very kind and absolutely not aggressive despite all of the problems that he has to experience in his everyday life. His unique height as well as the size of his hands and feet is not of natural origin. Leonid became a giant because of doctors’ efforts. He used to be a common boy, a straight-A student at school. The mutation happened after the removal of the brain tumor. Neurosurgeons said that the tumor was the size of hypophysis. Doctors touched the brain organ during an operation. The incident subsequently gave rise to anomalous processes in the body of a healthy sixth-grader. In addition, Leonid mother, Galina, said that the surgeons also damaged the optic nerve during the operation. \n\nThe shoes that Leonid wears nowadays are 62 centimeters long. It is very hard for him to walk and even to move: Leonid can hardly control his own legs. When he walks he needs to hold on to something – it could be a tree or the roof of his house. \n\nLeonid’s mother has recently been operated on. The woman had a thigh-bone fracture, which was further aggravated with poor treatment at a local hospital. The gigantic man’s mother had to be operated on repeatedly in Kiev . This time the operation became possible owing to the help from Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko. \n\n“When I started growing they took me to the Institute of Neurosurgery in Ukraine. The doctors said that all internal organs were developing proportionately to my increasing height,” Leonid said. \n\nLeonid has been declared a disabled person. He receives 326 hryvnas (the Ukrainian currency, the amount equals $60) of pension according to his status. The pension of Leonid’s mother is a little higher – 386 hryvnas. Needless to say that the family lives from hand to mouth.  \n\nhttp://img1.travelblog.org/Photos/5144/14212/t/61765-Tallest-man-in-world-at-Ripleys-0.jpg
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1. De-Fen Yao from China stands 7'8 1/2" \n(Yao Defen was born in Shucha Town of Liuan City in Shuchen County, Anhui Province in 1972. )\n2. Sandy Allen from Shelbyville IN (USA) at 7' 7  1/4" \n3. Maria Feliciana Santos (Brazil) at 7' 4 1/2" \n\nAlso one to remember from the past:\nTrijintje Keever who passed away in 1633 from The Hague  supposedly stood at 8' 4.4"\n\nThe worlds tallest woman (in history) Trijntje Keever (1616-1633) traveled to The Hague in 1625  with the traveling circus. She was at that time 2 meters tall. She would return to The Hague every year until she died of Cancer at age 17 in 1633. At that moment she was 2m55 tall.
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wide variety of factors influence human body dimensions, including the following categories. "Clinical normality" in height is defined as about the range 54"-79". The average stature worldwide is 64.96" ´ 3.15" for men and 60.5" ´ 2.95" for women.\nshortest people in the world are the Efe & Basua "pygmies" in Africa. There men are 56.61" ´ 2.79" for men and 54.01 ´ 3.07"for women. The largest are in southern Sudan, are the Dinka Nilotles with men at 72" ´ 2.4" and women at 66.49" ´ 2.28". The smallest living person is 29 1/2", a male Portuguese professional drummer. The smallest person ever recorded was a Dutch woman at 23.2" tall (1876-1895). The tallest living person is a Pakistani male at 94.09" tall. The tallest ever recorded was an American man at 107 1/2" tall (1918-1940). (He had to eat ~ 8000 calories per day).
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The term "largest" needs clarifying as the tallest may not be the heaviest, longest etc.\n\nHowever I would suggest the Carribou (?) \n\nSurely the Grizzly lives in the mixed forests of N America and is not native to the pure pine forests of Norway etc.
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The world's tallest building is Taipei 101 in Taipei, Taiwan.  It towers above the city at 101 stories.
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Paul McCartney's height is 5 ft 10 in (178 cm)\nPeak height was 5 ft 11 in (180 cm)\n\n\nThe Beatle was the biggest of the Fab Four. Lennon was marginally shorter. These days McCartney looks around 5ft 10, in the heydays of Beatles maybe 5ft 11. The shortest of the beatles was Ringo who is listed as being 5ft 8 but I suspect was closer to 5ft 7, with a paunchant for wearing cuban heels from the pictures I've seen!
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What do you mean by the longest man?  is that a movie, or are you referring to anatomy?
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Manute Bol, who is from Sudan, played in the NBA at about 7-7.  He is considered the tallest man ever in the league, just above Gheorge Muresan.  While he was more of a show than anything, he blocked many shots, and could hit from outside.  He wasn't heavy, though, and thus got manhandled a lot in the paint.  He has since traveled around the world, and now lives in Connecticut :)
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the people saying "koller" are idiots-\n\n"The tallest player category finds Nikola Zigic of Serbia and Montenegro standing shoulder to shoulder with Koller at 2.02 metres. " --or 6'6" --or 202 centimeters
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President Bush is neither 6'1" nor 6'2". Not even close. He's 5'11" on a good day. His father is 6'2". I do not know how tall John Howard is.
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I think you mean tallest.\n\nRobert Wadlow 8'11 3/4"
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The HIGHEST is Mount Everest at 8,848 metres.\n\nPu'u Wekiu (in Hawaii, USA) is the tallest as it starts from the ocean.\nit is 4208 metres high
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Unfortunately, you are probably done growing.  And no scientist believes riding a bike makes you taller; if that were so, Lance Armstrong would be 42 feet tall.
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The tallest person ever was: Robert Wadlow At the time of his death in 1940 he was 8', 11.1" tall and weighed 439 pounds making him the world’s tallest person in history, according to the Guinness Book of Records, surpassing the record previously held by an 8', 4" inch Irishman who died in 1877.\n \n\nTallest Man - Living in 2006\n   \nWHO: \nXi Shun \nWHAT: \n2 m 36.1 cm\n(7 ft 8.95 in) \nWHERE: \nChifeng, Inner Mongolia, China. \nWHEN: \nJanuary 15, 2005 \n  \nXi Shun (China, b. 1951), measured 7 ft 8.95 in (2 m 36.1 cm) as a result of six measurements taken on January 15, 2005, at Chifeng City Hospital, Inner Mongolia, China.\n\n\nBeating the previous holder Radhouane Charbib (Tunisia) by just 2 mm (0.07 in), Xi Shun claims that his height was normal for his age until he was 16. As a comparison, his father stood at 5 ft 10.8 in (1.8 m) and his mother was 5 ft 2.8 in (1.6 m) tall.\n\nIn his late teens, he experienced a growth spurt that, while not normal, was seemingly without any cause. Doctors who examined him in 2005 discovered no evidence of gigantism or acromegaly, and could not explain why he grew so tall so fast (it took him just seven years to reach his record height).\n\nFollowing a career in the Army – he was recruited for his basketball skills! – he returned to Inner Mongolia and works as a herdsman. He also hires himself out for publicity stunts for a local restaurant and tailor.\n\nHe currently resides with his father and brother at Chifeng.\n \n\n\nTallest Woman - Living in 2006\n   \nWHO: \nSandy Allen \nWHAT: \n2.31 m (7 ft 7 in) \nWHERE: \nIndianapolis, Indiana, USA \nWHEN: \nAs of 1999 \n  \nSandy Allen was a 2.95-kg (6.5-lb) baby, and her abnormal growth began soon after her birth in June 1955. By the age of 10 she stood 1.905 m (6 ft 3 in) tall, and was 2.16 m (7 ft 1 in) by 16 years old. Sandy had a dream to break free of a world, that she felt she had outgrown. In her first letter to Guinness World Records in 1974 she wrote, "I would like to get to know someone that is approximately my height. It is needless to say my social life is practically nil and perhaps the publicity from your book may brighten my life." The accolade did help to bring about a reversal of fortunes for the Indiana secretary. First, there was an offer from film director Federico Fellini to take a role in his film Casanova in 1975, and then her first date with a 7-ft Illinois man. On July 14, 1977, she went into hospital for a pituitary gland operation to stop further growth. Nowadays poor circulation and weak leg muscles mean she is dependent on a wheel chair.
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Ask that giant ape. It is pretty freakin' tall!
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Robert Pershing Wadlow (February 22, 1918 – July 15, 1940) was and is the tallest human recorded in modern times. Wadlow reached 8 ft 11.1in (272cm) in height, it is said that he was still growing prior to his death, and 490 pounds (222 kg/35 stone) in weight before his death at the age of 22. His great size and his continued growth in adulthood were due to a tumour within his pituitary gland.
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Mount Everest in the Himalayas is widely regarded as the tallest mountain in the world. However it's height is only from Sea level.\n\n"Hawaii's Mauna Kea, though, rises an astonishing 33,476 feet (10,203 meters) from the depths of the Pacific Ocean floor. Measuring from base to peak, Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain on earth."