At six feet, six inches, he would have towered over his contemporaries.
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Ancient Roman Giant Found
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Posted 10 November 2012 - 04:12 PM
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Posted 10 November 2012 - 04:32 PM
He would have been about the size of a basket ball player wouldn't he?
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Posted 11 November 2012 - 05:14 AM
May be this person was not Roman. And they just buryed him.
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Posted 11 November 2012 - 07:18 AM
Maybe he had marphans disease .
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Posted 11 November 2012 - 12:46 PM
Maybe the thread name should not be so misleading...
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Posted 11 November 2012 - 04:25 PM
I'm quite tall...
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Posted 11 November 2012 - 04:46 PM
It's like Abraham Lincoln, who at six feet-four towered above most of his male contemporaries in the 19th Century, and certainly towered above his wife. He often made jokes about it, and even though his enemies called him a baboon and gorilla it obviously didn't stop him from becoming the greatest president in US history.
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Posted 11 November 2012 - 04:52 PM
This was a newspaper cartoon of Lincoln;s victory over George McClellan in 1864. "This reminds me of a little joke."
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Posted 11 November 2012 - 05:16 PM
George Washington is often shown as a little guy. In reality, he was 6 ft 2 in tall. Our second tallest president and also one of the greatest. Must be true, they towered over their contemporaries.
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Posted 11 November 2012 - 10:15 PM
Chris Rock reckons the Afro American basketball players are the result of the Slave owners Pairing off the biggest slaves to breed bigger stronger slaves .
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Posted 12 November 2012 - 12:50 AM
Sean Creaney, on 11 November 2012 - 10:15 PM, said:
Chris Rock reckons the Afro American basketball players are the result of the Slave owners Pairing off the biggest slaves to breed bigger stronger slaves .
Chris Rock the comedian?
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Posted 12 November 2012 - 03:56 AM
Where is the troll icon? This was a burn.
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Posted 12 November 2012 - 06:12 AM
Apparently this person's status didn't necessarily reflect his physical stature, and maybe that's a good thing. Imagine Nero or Caligula an actual giant among the rest.
Imagine Chris Rock being this tall - imagine slaves being this tall; what's the world coming to?
Imagine Chris Rock being this tall - imagine slaves being this tall; what's the world coming to?
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Posted 12 November 2012 - 01:35 PM
Don't know how they treated him but everybody did look up to him !
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Posted 14 November 2012 - 07:48 AM
Coffey, on 10 November 2012 - 04:32 PM, said:
He would have been about the size of a basket ball player wouldn't he?
The pic from the article is good for perspective:
The giant's tibia, or shinbone, compared with that of a normal Roman male of the same period.
Photograph by Simona Minozzi, Endocrine Society
Edited by psyche101, 14 November 2012 - 07:50 AM.
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