Tag Archives: Robert Wadlow

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

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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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way over yonder up there

Robert Wadlow was the tall boy. He didn’t min the ribbing about the weather up there, but there were worse drawbacks to being the tallest man in the U.S.A. Up where he belongs… Until the last months of Wadlow’s Ringling … Continue reading

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tower of celebrity

The tall boy. Robert Wadlow. Drwbacks to being the tallest man in the United States. At age five, he was 5 feet 4 inches, the same height as his mother… Wadlow was a popular student with both his teachers and … Continue reading

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sky high

The tall boy. Robert Wadlow didn’t mind the jokes about the weather up there, but there were worse drawbacks to being the tallest man in the United States… Alton, Illinois, a small manufacturing city on the Mississippi River twenty miles … Continue reading

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passing the buck

The equal sharing of misery? Hang the rich? The first idea is that inequality is an issue that all of us need to be concerned with.Or, it has always been there but slightly below the radar in our “to do” … Continue reading

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