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Bao Xishun
Bao Xishun (also known as Xi Shun; born November 2, 1951) is a Chinese herder, herdsman from Chifeng, Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, recognized by ''Guinness World Records'' as one of the world's tallest living men at tall. He was formerly certified as the tallest living man by the ''Guinness World Records''. On September 17, 2009, Sultan Kösen overtook Bao Xishun as the tallest living man. Career Xishun Bao claims to have been of normal height until he was sixteen years old. He served in the People's Liberation Army for three years. He later returned to Inner Mongolia to live with his mother and worked at the Chifeng City local hospital for several months. In 2005, he became the world's tallest man. Bao suffers from rheumatism. In December 2006, Xishun Bao was asked by veterinarians to assist them in removing shards of plastic from the stomachs of two dolphins. The dolphins had accidentally swallowed the shards, which had settled in their stomachs and caused a loss of appetite and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chifeng
Chifeng,; also known as Ulanhad ( (Улаанхад хот), ''Ulaɣanqada qota'', , "red cliff") also known as Ulankhad in Mongolian, is a prefecture-level city in Southeastern Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China. It borders Xilin Gol League to the north and west, Tongliao to the northeast, Chaoyang, Liaoning, Chaoyang (Liaoning) to the southeast and Chengde (Hebei) to the south. The city has a total administrative area of and as of the 2020 census, had a population of 4,035,967 inhabitants (4,341,245 in 2010). However, 1,175,391 of those residents lived in the built-up (or metro) area made of the 2 urban districts of Hongshan District, Chifeng, Hongshan and Songshan District, Chifeng, Songshan, as Yuanbaoshan is not conurbated yet. However, a large part of Songshan district is still rural and Yuanbaoshan district a de facto separate town 27 kilometers away from the core district of Chifeng. The city was the administrative center of the previous Ju Ud League.; History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Öndör Gongor
Öndör Gongor (, "Tall Gongor locals called him өндөр өвөө", c. 1880/85 – late 1920s), whose full name was Pureviin Gongor (), was a man in early-20th century Mongolia, who suffered from gigantism. He was measured high by Roy Chapman Andrews,M. Nyamaa, ''Khövsgöl aimgiin lavlakh toli'', Ulaanbaatar 2001, p. 49f. but some other sources even give . He is known all over Mongolia, and also mentioned or pictured in some accounts of contemporary western travellers.Frans August Larson, ''Duke of Mongolia'', Boston 1930, p. 129f.Ladislaus Forbath, Joseph Geleta, ''The New Mongolia'', London 1936, pp. 247, 259. According to an interview with his daughter G. Budkhand, published in 1997, Gongor was the third child of a herder named Pürev, who lived in the Dalai Choinkhor wangiin Banner (Inner Mongolia), khoshuu what is today Jargalant, Khövsgöl, Jargalant sums of Mongolia, sum of Khövsgöl Province, Khövsgöl aimag. He was not particularly big as a child. He only had long ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shepherds
A shepherd is a person who tends, herds, feeds, or guards flocks of sheep. Shepherding is one of the world's oldest occupations; it exists in many parts of the globe, and it is an important part of Pastoralism, pastoralist animal husbandry. Because the occupation is so widespread, many religions and cultures have symbolic or metaphorical references to shepherds. For example, Jesus called himself the Good Shepherd, and ancient Greek mythologies highlighted shepherds such as Endymion (mythology), Endymion and Daphnis. This symbolism and shepherds as characters are at the center of pastoral literature and art. Origins Shepherding is among the oldest occupations, beginning some 5,000 years ago in Asia Minor. Sheep were kept for their milk, their sheep meat, meat and especially their wool. Over the next thousand years, sheep and shepherding spread throughout Eurasia. Henri Fleisch tentatively suggested that the Shepherd Neolithic industry (archaeology), industry of Lebanon m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese Soldiers
Chinese may refer to: * Something related to China * Chinese people, people identified with China, through nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity **Han Chinese, East Asian ethnic group native to China. **''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation ** List of ethnic groups in China, people of various ethnicities in contemporary China ** Ethnic minorities in China, people of non-Han Chinese ethnicities in modern China ** Ethnic groups in Chinese history, people of various ethnicities in historical China ** Nationals of the People's Republic of China ** Nationals of the Republic of China ** Overseas Chinese, Chinese people residing outside the territories of mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan * Sinitic languages, the major branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family ** Chinese language Chinese ( or ) is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and List of ethnic groups in China, many minority ethnic groups i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. By adding an article to this category, it marks them with a notice about sources whenever someone tries to edit them, to remind them of WP:BLP (biographies of living persons) policy that these articles must maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and be properly sourced. Recent changes to these articles are listed on Special:RecentChangesLinked/Living people. Organization: This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally sorted by family name In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give .... Maintenance: Individuals of advanced age (over 90), for whom there has been no new documentation in the last ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1951 Births
Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory, with the writing off of £36.5M debt. * January 11 – In the U.S., a top secret report is delivered to U.S. President Truman by his National Security Resources Board, urging Truman to expand the Korean War by launching "a global offensive against communism" with sustained bombing of Red China and diplomatic moves to establish "moral justification" for a U.S. nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. The report will not not be declassified until 1978. * January 15 – In a criminal court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radhouane Charbib
Radhouane Charbib ( ''Ridwan Sharbeeb'', born October 27, 1968) was recognized by the Guinness Book of Records as the tallest living man, until January 15, 2005 when Bao Xishun was measured at Chifeng City Hospital, Inner Mongolia, China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ..., and was recorded as being 2 millimeters taller. References Living people 1968 births People from Bizerte Governorate People with gigantism 21st-century Tunisian people {{Tunisia-med-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zeng Jinlian
Zeng Jinlian ( zh, s=曾金莲, t=曾金蓮, p=Zēng Jīnlián, 26 June 1964 – 13 February 1982) was a Chinese teenage girl who is the tallest woman verified in modern times at , surpassing Jane Bunford's record. Following the death of Don Koehler, Zeng was the tallest living person from 1981 to 1982, during which time she surpassed fellow "eight-footers" Gabriel Estêvão Monjane and Suleiman Ali Nashnush. Biography Zeng was born on 26 June 1964 in Yuanjiang, Hunan, to a poor farming family, as the youngest of four children, growing up in Nanzui Town by Muping Lake. Her parents Zeng Xianmao and Yu Xuemei were and respectively, with all her siblings being in within similar height range, with a brother being measured at at age 18. According to the family genealogy, however, Zeng had a great-granduncle who was recorded at in height. The cause of Zeng's gigantism was a tumor that caused her pituitary gland to overproduce human growth hormone. Her abnormal height develo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chandra Bahadur Dangi
Chandra Bahadur Dangi (30 November 1939 – 3 September 2015) (, , or ) was a Nepali man who was the shortest man in recorded history, measuring . He broke the record previously set by Gul Mohammed (1957–1997), whose height was . Dangi came to the attention of the media when a wood contractor saw him in his village in the Dang district of Nepal. He was awarded the title of shortest adult human ever recorded, after his height was measured in February 2012. He was subsequently included in the ''Guinness World Records''. Biography Dangi was born in Salyan, Salyan District, Nepal, on 30 November 1939. It is unknown what medical condition stunted his growth. He had five brothers and two sisters. Three of his five brothers were less than tall, while his sisters and two other brothers were of average height. He lived in a remote village, Reemkholi, approximately away from Kathmandu, Nepal's capital. Before being recognised by ''Guinness World Records'' as the world's shortest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gigantism
Gigantism (, ''gÃgas'', "wiktionary:giant, giant", plural γίγαντες, ''gÃgantes''), also known as giantism, is a condition characterized by excessive growth and height significantly above average height, average. In humans, this condition is caused by over-production of growth hormone in childhood. It is a rare disorder resulting from increased levels of growth hormone before the fusion of the Epiphyseal plate, growth plate which usually occurs at some point soon after puberty. This increase is most often due to abnormal tumor growths on the pituitary gland. Gigantism should not be confused with acromegaly, the adult form of the disorder, characterized by Somatic (biology), somatic enlargement specifically in the extremities and face. Cause Gigantism is characterized by an excess of growth hormone (GH). The excess of growth hormone that brings about gigantism is virtually always caused by pituitary growths (adenomas). These adenomas are on the Anterior pituitary, anteri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yao Defen
Yao Defen (; July 15, 1972 – November 13, 2012) was a Chinese woman who was the tallest living woman, as recognized by Guinness World Records. She stood at 7 ft 8 in tall and weighed 346 lb (157kg). Her gigantism was due to a tumor in her pituitary gland. Early life Yao Defen was born to poor farmers in the town of Liuan in the Anhui province of Shucheng County. At birth she weighed . When she was eleven years old she was about 188 centimetres (6 ft 2 in) tall. She was 210 centimetres (6 ft 11 in) tall by the age of fifteen years. The story of this "giant woman" began to spread rapidly after she went to see a doctor at the age of fifteen for an illness. Medical doctors (who also saw her after years) properly diagnosed the illness but decided not to cure her, because her family did not have the 4000 yuan for the surgery. After that, many companies attempted to train her to be a sports star. The plans were abandoned, however, because Yao was too weak. Because s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
