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square cube law: tall tales
Above and beyond the call of duty. A Gulliver among the Lilliputians. Robert Wadlow was the tall boy. The beanstalk. Wadlow didn’t mind the jokes about the weather up there, but there were worse drawbacks to being the tallest man … Continue reading
gulliver’s unravels
Robert Wadlow. The tallest man in the United States. …By his twentieth birthday, when he was 8 feet 6 3/4 inches tall, Wadlow’s step had slowed to an elephantine shuffle. He was infuriated now by those self-styled comedians who several … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Rainer giant, Gulliver's Travels, J.B.S.Haldane, John Rogan tallest human, Jonathan Swift, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Potsdam Giants, Ripley's Believe It or Not, Robert Pershing Wadlow, Robert Wadlow, square-cube-law Galileo, World's Tallest Man
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TIME WAITS FOR EVERYONE
Hop on the train of dreams. Humankind appears to be the only species troubled by Time, and from this preoccupation comes much of the finest art, some religion and most of science. Reincarnation, prophecy, resurrection and worship of the heavenly … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged 2012, Albert Einstein, Aldous Huxley, Bernard Bergonzi, Egyptian Zodiac, Einstein, George Orwell, H.G. Wells, J.B.S.Haldane, Jorge Louis Borges, maya, maya 2012, Mayan Calendar, Mayan Steles, mayans, Rainer Maria Rilke, Stonehenge, Sundial Chartres, The Time Machine
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