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Robert Pershing Wadlow (February 22, 1918 – July 15, 1940) also known as the Alton Giant and the Giant of Illinois, is the tallest person in recorded history for whom there is irrefutable evidence. The Alton and Illinoismonikers reflect the fact that he was born and grew up in Alton, Illinois.[1]
Wadlow reached 8 ft 11.1 in (2.72 m)[2][3][4] in height and weighed 439 lb (199 kg) at his death at age 22. His great size and his continued growth in adulthood were due tohyperplasia of his pituitary gland, which results in an abnormally high level of human growth hormone. He showed no indication of an end to his growth even at the time of his death.
Early life[edit]
Robert Pershing Wadlow was born to Addie Johnson and Harold Wadlow in Alton, Illinois, on February 22, 1918, and was the oldest of five children. He was taller than his father at age 8, and in elementary school they had to make a special desk for him due to his size. After graduating from Alton High School in 1936, he enrolled in Shurtleff College with the intention of studying law. By the time he had graduated from high school, he was 8 ft 4 in (2.54 m).[1]
Later years[edit]
Wadlow's size began to take its toll: he required leg braces to walk and had little feeling in his legs and feet. Despite these difficulties, Wadlow never used a wheelchair.
Wadlow became a celebrity after his 1936 U.S. tour with the Ringling Brothers Circus and his 1938 promotional tour with the INTERCO. He continued participating in tours and public appearances, though only in his normal street clothes. His shoes were provided to him free of charge by a shoe company for which he did promotional work and appearances.[5]Examples still exist in several locations throughout the US, including Snyder's Shoe Store of Ludington and Manistee, Michigan, and the Alton Museum of History and Art. Wadlow possessed great physical strength, until the last year of his life, in which his strength and his health in general had begun to deteriorate rapidly.[citation needed]
Wadlow was a Freemason. In 1939, he petitioned Franklin Lodge #25 in Alton, Illinois, and by late November of that year[6] was raised to the degree of Master Mason under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Illinois A.F & A.M. Wadlow's Freemason ring was the largest ever made.[citation needed]
One year before his death, Wadlow passed John Rogan as the tallest person ever. On June 27, 1940 (eighteen days before his death), he was measured at 8 ft 11.1 in (2.72 m) by doctors C. M. Charles and Cyril MacBryde of Washington University in St. Louis.[citation needed]
Another life-size statue may be viewed at Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum in Farmington Hills, Michigan. In front of the statue is a small, quarter-operated 'TV-box', which plays a short, documentary movie about the extraordinarily short life of this tall man.
He is still affectionately known as the "Gentle Giant."[9]
In music[edit]
The 1998 song "The Giant of Illinois", by The Handsome Family (and later covered byAndrew Bird) honors Wadlow. In 2005, Sufjan Stevens recorded "The Tallest Man, the Broadest Shoulders" about Wadlow for the Illinois album. A picture of Wadlow with his family is featured on the back cover of the VHS version of the Talking Heads music video compilation, Storytelling Giant.
Height chart[edit]
Wadlow's shoe, size 37AA (US, size),[2] size 36 (UK size), size 71 (European size)
Wadlow's shoe compared to a size 12
Statue of Wadlow in Copenhagen AgeHeightWeightNotesYear
Birth 1 ft 6.25 in (0.46 m) 8 lb 6 oz (3.8 kg) Normal height and weight. February 22, 1918
6 Months 2 ft 10.5 in (0.88 m) 30 lb (14 kg) August 22, 1918
12 Months 3 ft 5.75 in (1.06 m) 45 lb (20 kg) When he began to walk at 11 months, he was 3 ft 3.5 in (1.00 m) tall and weighed 40 lbs. February 22, 1919
18 Months 4 ft 3 in (1.30 m) 67 lb (30 kg) August 22, 1919
2 years 4 ft 6 in (1.37 m) 75 lb (34 kg) 1920
3 years 4 ft 11 in (1.50 m) 89 lb (40 kg) 1921
4 years 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) 105 pounds (48 kg) 1922
5 years 5 ft 6.5 in (1.69 m) 120 pounds (54 kg) Taller than his mother Addie Johnson Wadlow 1923
6 years 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) 160 pounds (73 kg) 1924
7 years 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) 164.5 lb (74.6 kg) 1925
8 years 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) 169 lb (77 kg) 1926
9 years 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) 180 lb (82 kg) Weighing 180 pounds, he was strong enough to carry his father (who was sitting in a living room chair while being carried) up the stairs to the second floor. 1927
10 years 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) 210 lb (95 kg) 1928
11 years 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m) 267.5 lb (121.3 kg) 1929
12 years 7 ft 2 in (2.18 m) 287 lb (130 kg) 1930
13 years 7 ft 4 in (2.24 m) 301 lb (137 kg) World's tallestBoy Scout, averaging a growth of 4 inches (10 cm) per year since birth and wearing size 25 (U.S.) shoes.[9] 1931
14 years 7 ft 5 in (2.26 m) 331 lb (150 kg) 1932
15 years 7 ft 8 in (2.34 m) 354 lb (161 kg) 1933
16 years 8 ft 1.5 in (2.48 m) 374 lb (170 kg) 1934
17 years 8 ft 3 in (2.51 m) 382 lb (173 kg) Graduated from high school on January 8, 1936 and was 8 ft 3 in (2.51 m). 1935
18 years 8 ft 4 in (2.54 m) 391 lb (177 kg) 1936
19 years 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m) 480 lb (220 kg) 1937
20 years 8 ft 7 in (2.62 m) 488 lb (221 kg) 1938
21 years 8 ft 8 in (2.64 m) 492 lb (223 kg) 1939
22.4 years 8 ft 11.1 in (2.72 m) 439 lb (199 kg) At death, Robert Wadlow was the world's tallest man according to the Guinness World Records.[2] June 27, 1940
Boruto -Naruto the Movie- Film's Boruto, Sarada, Mitsuki Anime Character Designs Revealed
posted on 2015-05-28 12:45 BST
Sequel film opens in Japan on August 7
This year's 27th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine is revealing the full anime character designs on Monday for Boruto (pictured center in below image) Sarada (pictured right), and Mitsuki (pictured left) from the Boruto -Naruto the Movie- film.
Mitsuki is a new character not featured in the original manga, but he is in the Naruto: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring sequel manga mini-series.
Weekly Shonen Jump describes the story of the new film as follows (Note: the below summary contains spoilers for those who have not finished reading the manga):
Boruto is the son of the 7th Hokage Naruto who completely rejects his father. Behind this, he has feelings of wanting to surpass Naruto, who is respected as a hero. He ends up meeting his father's friend Sasuke, and requests to become... his apprentice!? The curtain rises on the story of the new generation written by Masashi Kishimoto!
The film will open in Japanese theaters on August 7, and tickets will go on sale on June 27. Theatergoers will be able to choose one of two fans designed by Masashi Kishimoto as a special gift. The "Uzumaki Version" will feature Naruto and Boruto and the "Uchiha Version" will feature Sasuke and Sarada. The fans are limited to 100 thousand units.
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For other uses, see New Horizons (disambiguation). New Horizons
Artist's concept of New Horizons when it reaches Plutoin July 2015 Mission typePluto flyby OperatorNASA COSPAR ID 2006-001A SATCAT № 28928 Websitepluto.jhuapl.edu www.nasa.gov Mission duration Primary mission: 9.5 years Spacecraft properties
ManufacturerAPL·Southwest Research Institute Launch mass 478 kilograms (1,054 lb) Power 228 watts Start of mission
Launch date January 19, 2006 19:00 UTC
(9 years, 4 months and 12 days ago) RocketAtlas V 551 Launch siteSpace Launch Complex 41 Cape Canaveral Air Force Station,Florida, United States ContractorInternational Launch Services Flyby of Moon
Closest approach January 20, 2006 04:00 UTC
(9 years, 4 months and 11 days ago) Distance 189,916 km (118,008 mi) Flyby of (132524) APL (incidental)
Closest approach June 13, 2006 04:05 UTC
(8 years, 11 months and 18 days ago) Distance 101,867 km (63,297 mi) Flyby of Jupiter (Gravity assist)
Closest approach February 28, 2007 05:43:40 UTC
(8 years, 3 months and 3 days ago) Distance 2,300,000 km (1,400,000 mi) Flyby of Pluto
Closest approach July 14, 2015 11:49:59 UTC
(43 days to go) Distance 12,500 km (7,800 mi) [show]Instruments New Horizons ' current position
Pluto and Charon – first color image from the New Horizons mission (Ralph; April 9, 2015).[1]
After a brief encounter with asteroid132524 APL, New Horizons proceeded to Jupiter, making its closest approach on February 28, 2007 at a distance of 2.3 million kilometers (1.4 million miles). The Jupiter flyby provided a gravity assist that increased New Horizons ' speed by 4 km/s (14,000 km/h; 9,000 mph). The encounter was also used as a general test of New Horizons ' scientific capabilities, returning data about the planet's atmosphere, moons, and magnetosphere. Most of the post-Jupiter voyage was spent in hibernation mode to preserve on-board systems, except for brief annual checkouts.[4] On December 6, 2014, New Horizons was brought back on-line for the encounter, and instrument check-out began.[5] On January 15, 2015, the New Horizonsspacecraft began its approach phase to Pluto, which will result in the first flyby of the dwarf planet on July 14, 2015.[6]
Background[edit] New Horizons is the first mission in NASA's New Frontiers mission category, larger and more expensive than the Discovery missions but smaller than the Flagship Program. The cost of the mission (including spacecraft and instrument development, launch vehicle, mission operations, data analysis, and education/public outreach) is approximately $650 million over 15 years (2001–2016). An earlier proposed Pluto mission—Pluto Kuiper Express—was cancelled by NASA in 2000 for budgetary reasons. New Horizons was one of five finalists proposed to NASA by April 6, 2001.[7] On June 6, 2001, NASA selected theNew Horizons and POSSE (Pluto and Outer Solar System Explorer) proposals for a three-month concept study.[8] NASA announced on November 29, 2001 that of the two competing design proposals, New Horizons would proceed with preliminary design studies for a Pluto flyby mission.[9]
Overall control after separation from the launch vehicle is performed at Mission Operations Center (MOC) at the Applied Physics Laboratory. The science instruments are operated at Clyde Tombaugh Science Operations Center (T-SOC) in Boulder, Colorado.[10] Navigation, which is not real-time, is performed at various contractor facilities, while the navigational positional data and related celestial reference frames are provided by the Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station through Headquarters NASA and JPL; KinetX is the lead on the New Horizons navigation team and is responsible for planning trajectory adjustments as the spacecraft speeds toward the outer Solar System.
New Horizons was originally planned as a voyage to the only unexplored planet in the SolarSystem. When the spacecraft was launched, Pluto was still classified as a planet, later to be reclassified as a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Some members of the New Horizons team, including Alan Stern, disagree with the IAU definition and still describe Pluto as the ninth planet.[11] Pluto's satellites Nix and Hydra also have a connection with the spacecraft: the first letters of their names (N and H) are the initials ofNew Horizons. The moons' discoverers chose these names for this reason, plus Nix and Hydra's relationship to the mythological Pluto.[12]
In addition to the science equipment, there are several cultural artifacts traveling with the spacecraft. These include a collection of 434,738 names stored on a compact disc,[13] a piece of Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne,[14] and a flag of the USA, along with other mementos.[15]
About an ounce of Clyde Tombaugh's ashes are aboard the spacecraft, to commemorate his discovery of Pluto in 1930.[16][17] A Florida-state quarter coin, whose design commemorates human exploration, is included, officially as a trim weight.[18] One of the science packages (a dust counter) is named after Venetia Burney, who, as a child, suggested the name "Pluto" after the planet's discovery.
Goal[edit]
The goal of the mission is to understand the formation of the Pluto system, the Kuiper Belt, and the transformation of the early Solar System.[19] The spacecraft will study the atmospheres, surfaces, interiors and environments of Pluto and its moons. It will also study other objects in the Kuiper Belt.[20]
Some of the questions the mission will attempt to answer are: What is its atmosphere made of, and how does it behave? What does the surface of Pluto look like? Are there large geological structures? How do solar wind particles interact with Pluto's atmosphere?[21]
Specifically, the mission's science objectives are to:[22]
Dragon Ball Super TV Anime Debuts on July 5
posted on 2015-06-04 09:00 BST
This year's 28th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine is revealing on Monday that the Dragon Ball Super television anime will premiere in Japan on July 5. The broadcast of theDragon Ball Kai series will end before then.
The issue is also revealing that the new series will have a collaboration with the "treasure hunt" event for the the larger "Odaiba Yume Tairiku ~Dream Mega Natsu Matsuri~" (Odaiba Dream Continent ~Dream Mega Summer Festival~) event on Tokyo's artificial island of Odaiba. The festival will be held from July 18-August 31.
Dragon Ball Super will premiere on Fuji TV and other channels on Sundays at 9:00 a.m. This will be the first new Dragon Ball television series since Dragon Ball GT, which aired from 1996 to 1997. The story of the anime is set a few years after the defeat of Majin Buu, when the Earth has become peaceful once again.
Kazuya Yoshii will perform the opening theme "Chōzetsu☆Dynamic" (Excellent Dynamic) and rock band Good Morning America will perform the ending theme "Hello Hello Hello."
Toyotarō will draw the show's manga adaptation in Shueisha's V Jump magazine.
A new film taking place after the Majin Buu Saga, Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection 'F', premiered in Japan in April. The film will eventually screen in 74 countries worldwide. Funimationhosted the North American premiere of the film on April 11 in Los Angeles. The company plans to release the film in more theaters with an English dub this summer.
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