Archive for June, 2005
MAKE POVERTY HISTORY
This will be my only post that sways from the usual topics at NOT MUCH FITS. But this is the most important issue in the world today.
Clothes shopping when tall
If you know different, please post any example of any shop that caters for tall clothing.
Karlovic, at 6ft 10ins (2.08m) the tallest player in professional tennis, matched the number of clean service winners served up by Joachim Johansson at the Australian Open earlier this year.
MP makes tall order on doors
Daniel Kawczynski - the tallest member of Parliament in history at a lofty 6ft 8.5ins - is spearheading a campaign to increase the national standard height of doors.
Above the 95th Percentile
Anthropometry is defined as the study of human body measurement for use in anthropological classification and comparison.
Tall people put in danger
Can tall people escape a car crash unhurt? probably not because of a lack of thinking for the tall minority by the undersized majority.
Anyone is likely to be hurt in a car crash. But tall people are more likely to be injured due to poor ergonomics. If you don’t believe me have a look at […]
The Dutch are tallest in the world. The study of auxology is a cross-disciplinary field involving historians, economists, biologists, anthropologists, and physicians who accept that height is a response to both nature and nurture.
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