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2 unusual facts about Taller


Efraín Huerta

From 1938 to 1941 he worked on the literary magazine Taller alongside several of his university colleagues who had taken the path of literature, including Alberto Quintero Álvarez, Octavio Paz and Rafael Solana.

Taller

William II Sánchez of Gascony perpetrated a major defeat of the Vikings at Taller in 982 and they vanished as a serious threat thereafter.


Blaffer Art Museum

The Blaffer Art Museum was honored by the Institute of Museum and Library Services on November 4, 2009 when first lady Michelle Obama awarded the gallery with the Coming Up Taller Award.

Chain Gate, Wells

An undated sketch by Henry Edridge (1768 - 1821) shows the Chain Gate in the late 18th or early 19th century, with a much taller wall than exists today alongside the road approaching the gate.

Clipperton Island

These plants compose a shrub cover up to 30 cm in height and are intermixed with Eclipta, Phyllanthus, and Solanum, as well as a taller plant, Brassica juncea.

Diorhabda sublineata

By August 2010, the STB had defoliated about 23 miles of tamarisk along the Rio Grande near Presidio, but it was causing concern by also defoliating the related but non-target athel tamarisk (Tamarix aphylla) trees, a taller species of tamarisk used around Presidio and neighboring Mexican communities for shade (Haines 2010).

DN Tower 21

The taller 21-storey building (at 99.8 metres in height) began construction in 1988 and was completed in 1993, and was designed by the Irish-American architect Kevin Roche.

Erasto Cortés Juárez

In 1986, the Puebla state government created the Museo Taller Erasto Cortés to promote the life and work of the artist.

Erwin, North Carolina

The 219.75 foot structure is about eight feet taller than the previous record holder, the Union Watersphere in Union, New Jersey.

Firdaus Kanga

Sixth Happiness is about Brit - a boy born with brittle bones who never grows taller than four feet.

Galanthus nivalis

'Sandersii' was the first to be named (as G. nivalis var. sandersii) in 1877; it was found near Belford, Northumberland; 'Flavescens', a taller, finer clone, was found in a cottage garden in Whittingham, Northumberland in 1889 (and named G. flavescens).

Gary Medel

Despite being short, he has great jumping and heading skills, this being shown in 2009, in a friendly against Denmark, when he was marking Arsenal striker Nicklas Bendtner, 25 cm taller than Medel.

Height restriction laws

Whitehorse: No buildings should be taller than four stories due to the nearby fault line.

Hog's Back Road

It goes over the dam creating Mooney's Bay and Hog's Back Falls, and continues over the Hog's Back swing bridge over the Rideau Canal, to allow taller boats navigating the canal to pass.

Illinois State Capitol

The only state capitols taller than it are the non-classical designs found in Florida, Louisiana and Nebraska, the governments of which opted for more modern buildings for their current capitols.

Jimmy Clitheroe

He never grew any taller than 4 feet 3 inches, and could easily pass for an 11-year-old boy, the character he played in The Clitheroe Kid.

John Philpott

As he shared the same first name as taller co-star John McIndoe, Philpott was referred to as "Little John" to differentiate between the two actors.

Justin Melton

He's compared to Nate Robinson of the National Basketball Associaton for being a pint-sized guard who can dunk over taller players.

Keep case

Before the standard, commonly used DVD case was invented, early CD-ROM based video games such as Sega CD and early PlayStation titles, would often come in thicker and taller jewel case.

Leopoldo Méndez

In 1958/1959 Méndez left the Taller de la Gráfica Popular due to ideological differences and founded a new publishing concern called the Fondo Editorial de la Plástica Mexicana along with Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Carlos Pellicer, Rafael Carrillo Azpeitia and Ricardo J. Zevada.

Lightweight

Lightweight rowing was a category entered into the Olympic sport, originally due to countries of smaller stature competing with an unfair disadvantage, as rowing favors the taller athlete who has more leverage.

Maria Stepanova

These players such as Margo Dydek, at 7 ft 2 in (2.18 m), Heidi Gillingham at 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m), and Allyssa DeHaan at 6 ft 9 inches (2.06m) are taller than her.

Meridian Gate, Cardiff

Meridian Gate comprises two buildings, the taller of which is 63 metres high, has 21 floors and contains the largest hotel in Cardiff, operated by Radisson Blu.

Messerschmitt Me 209

Nevertheless, the Messerschmitt team made several attempts to improve the aircraft's performance by giving it longer wings, a taller vertical stabilizer, and installing two 7.92 mm (.312 in) MG 17 machine guns in the engine cowling.

Mexican Boarders

Taller, thinner, and slower talking than Speedy, Slowpoke arrives carrying a bindle stick and singing "La Cucaracha".

Mount Aino

At that time, Mount Fuji had not reached its present height, and the second and third mountains (Mount Kita and Mount Hotaka) are presently only 4 and 1 metre taller, respectively.

Multi-Man

Multi-Man, now taller and fitter, is eventually 'volunteered' for the Suicide Squad by his former Injustice League ally, Major Disaster.

Nakajima Ki-43

The pilot also enjoyed a slightly taller canopy and a reflector gunsight in place of the earlier telescopic gunsight.

New Cambridge Shakespeare

They are distinctive in appearance, being taller in shape than most of their competitors and featuring blue covers, with a multicoloured sketch of Shakespeare's face based on a drawing by David Hockney.

New Providence Wharf

The Ontario Tower has already been built but the taller Quebec Tower is apparently on hold.

Peter June Simon

In his first stint with the tricolors, PJ Simon scored 14 points to backup Reynel Hugnatan as the MBA All-Stars opened its 25th William Jones Cup campaign on a high note, tripping the much taller Russian club Lokomotive Novosibirsk, 78-68, at the Taipei Physical Education College Gym.

Phil Pressey

In high school, several YouTube videos of him dunking (often over much taller players) became popular.

Sexual dimorphism in non-human primates

Anthropoid primate male canines have been measured to be almost four times taller than those in females.

Singer House

The management of the Singer Company initially intended to construct a skyscraper, similar to the Singer Building, the company headquarters being built at that time in New York, but the Saint Petersburg building code did not allow structures taller than the Winter Palace, residence of the emperor.

St Georges Terrace

The main streetscape between Barrack Street and William Street in the 1930s and 1940s constituted considerable uniformity of design and building height, by the late 1970s removal of significant older buildings for taller more modern buildings changed this permanently.

St Mary's Church, Hampstead

No taller than houses numbered 4 and 5 to either side, the Church’s distinctive façade with bell tower and statue of Virgin and Child was designed by architect William Wardell as the first addition to the original building at the time the law was changed to allow bells to be rung from Catholic churches in 1852.

Sutton Court

The north front comprises a central three-storey fourteenth century pele tower with a taller circular stair turret and two-storey ranges linking it to the 1558 'Bess of Hardwick Building' to the left and a four bay 1858–1860 servants' wing of three storeys to the right.

The Born Loser

Taller than Brutus, with blond hair, she's rather similar to Edith "Dingbat" Bunker.

The Brand New Monty Python Bok

Examples of the former include an interconnected series of jokes based on figures of speech and an advertisement for the fictional Welsh martial art of Llap Goch, which claims to be able to teach students how to grow taller, stronger, faster, and more deadly in a matter of days.

Tom Mason

Best known as the stand-in for the recently deceased Bela Lugosi in Wood's movie Plan 9 from Outer Space, Mason, who was taller than and bore a questionable physical resemblance to Lugosi, hunched over and held a cape over his face in all of his scenes.

Waterfalls of North Georgia

Some sources, including the 2004 Georgia State Parks guide book, claim that Amicaolola Falls are "the tallest east of the Mississippi River," although Crabtree Falls in Virginia (at 1000 feet) and Glassmine Falls in North Carolina (800 feet) are both taller.

World Cup Fountain

To date, after King Fahd's Fountain (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia), that makes it the second tallest water fountain in the world, taller than the fountain in Fountain Hills, Arizona or the Port Fountain in Karachi, Pakistan.


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