The four-storey museum houses more than 12, 500 shoes from different cultures spanning 4, 500 years of history, including pairs of 16th-century Venetian platform shoes known as chopines (which range between 15 and 50cm in height, sometimes too tall for a woman to walk unaccompanied), bear fur boots worn by the Japanese samurai and golden stilettos by modern designer Manolo Blahnik.
The penthouse apartment has ceilings befitting a man of his height, with a very tall shelf in one corner housing his nine Tonys.
When I first spotted the video on Gawker, I remarked that TSA patdowns should be like rides at the fair, with a minimum height requirement of four feet tall.
Tall Club President Barry Hanold (6-foot-3) believes the economic research into the so-called height premium, in which tall people rise faster and earn more than their shorter peers, fails to capture the full picture.
However they were hampered by a lack of height and physical strength against the tall Mozambique defence.
At 453ft (138m) tall - twice the height of Nelson's column - the cranes arrived at the Thames Gateway port from China.
Given that tall men have more children, and that height is, at least in part, inherited, it might be expected that men would prefer tall women because they would produce tall (and so sexually successful) sons.
The 68-square-mile Pinnacles Desert is desolate but for its sentinels--thousands of limestone pillars, most the height of a man, others 20 feet tall, all the progeny of erosion.
The 68-square-mile Pinnacles Desert is desolate but for its sentinels-thousands of limestone pillars, most the height of a man, others 20 feet tall, all the progeny of erosion.
The garage is so tall, it required a 55-foot height variance, Mr. Cary says.
In the 2005 movie, Kong appears to be about 25 feet tall in a crouch --about seven times the height of an actual silverback gorilla.
Five hours later we were climbing snow slopes to the base of Cerro Standhardt (just under 9, 000 feet tall), the shortest of three peaks rising in increasing height and elegance on the Cerro Torre massif.
This increased number of children would counterbalance the sexiness of the sons of tall women, resulting in equal numbers of grandchildren and explaining why height per se is irrelevant to a woman's attractiveness to men.
When it comes to physical features, height is one that is particularly difficult to change since your genetic background greatly predicts how tall you will ultimately become.
The tower stands 114.5 meters (375 feet) tall, making it Britain's biggest sculpture, more than twice the height of Nelson's Column, almost six times the height of the Angel of the North, and 22 meters taller than the Statue of Liberty.
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