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Dolichostenomelia

Medical description of people who are tall and slender with long limbs (dolichostenomelia) and digits (arachnodactyly)

Emins

Emims are giants like the Anakims referenced in the Bible.

"The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims";Bible Deut.2:10

Adora

Adroa is a god of the Lugbara people of central Africa. Adroa has two aspects: one good and one evil. He is the creator of Heaven and Earth, and he appears to those about to die. Adroa is depicted as a tall, white man with only half a body – one eye, one arm, one leg, one ear.

Tall Blacks

The Tall Blacks is the nickname of New Zealand's national men's basketball team. The name was chosen as it reminds people of New Zealand's Rugby Union team, the All Blacks. For sponsorship reasons, they are often referred to in New Zealand media as the Burger King Tall Blacks.

The Tall Blacks competed at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and finished with a 1-5 record, their only win coming against Angola in the playoff for eleventh.

In 2001 they defeated Australia in a three-game series to qualify for the 2002 FIBA World Championships in Indianapolis. At the tournament they finished fourth, after beating Puerto Rico in the quarter-finals before losses to Yugoslavia and Germany. Tall Blacks captain Pero Cameron was the only non-NBA player named to the all-tournament team in Indianapolis.

The Tall Blacks qualified for the 2004 Athens Olympics but again finished with a 1-5 record and lost to Australia in the playoff for ninth place. Their most noted moment was on the 7th day of the games, when they beat Serbia and Montenegro (the world champions) 90:87.

Probably the most well-known New Zealand player in the National Basketball Association is San Antonio Spurs forward Sean Marks, who is in his fifth NBA season. Another New Zealand player, former University of Wisconsin star Kirk Penney, signed in 2005 with two-time defending Euroleague champions Maccabi Tel Aviv.

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Giraffes are one of the world's tallest mammals. They are well known for their long necks, long legs, and spotted patterns. Giraffes have small "horns" or knobs on top of their heads that grow to be about five inches long. These knobs are used to protect the head in fights.  Yes, I do identify with the giraffe.

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"AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (Sept. 15) - Most of us are taller than our parents, who probably are taller than their parents. But in the Netherlands, the generational progression has reached new heights.

In the last 150 years, the Dutch have become the tallest people on Earth - and experts say they're still getting bigger. It is a tale of a nation's health and wealth."

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"Yao, from a poor farming family in eastern China's Anhui province, measures 7-foot 9-inches, Chinese doctors say. That is two inches more than Sandy Allen of the United States, who is currently listed by Guinness World Records as the world's tallest woman.

Yao suffers from a large tumor in the pituitary gland of her brain, which has stimulated her body to release excessive amounts of growth hormone and made her bones weak, doctors say."

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"Hollywood beauty Uma Thurman and hotelier Andre Balazs have rekindled their romance - after announcing their split last month. The pair have been photographed enjoying passionate embraces on the beaches of celebrity Caribbean hideaway, St. Barts. The Kill Bill actress declared the end of their relationship on March 6 after her lone appearance at the previous day's Academy Awards sparked speculation their two-year romance was over. However, new pictures show their passion is very much alive. Thurman has two children, Maya and Roan, from her six-year marriage to Ethan Hawke and was previously married to English actor Gary Oldman."

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 "Maggie Dixon was a person who saw the good in everyone and a coach who made "once-intangible dreams" come true for her players.

On Tuesday, about 1,200 mourners attended Dixon's funeral in her childhood parish, five days after the 28-year-old Army women's basketball coach died following a sudden episode of irregular heartbeat.

"She made reality out of our once-intangible dreams," Army forward Ashley Magnani told the congregation. 'Coach Dixon, our angel, we promise to make you proud.'"

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Jerry Hall has revealed she asked ex-husband Mick Jagger's new girlfriend to her home for tea.

She made the gesture to L'Wren Scott, 37 - who lives with Mick next door - for the sake of the former couple's four children.

Jerry, 49, said:"When they started dating I invited her round for tea. "Ithought I should get to know her as she was spending time with my children.

"I was being friendly and L'Wren is a a very sweet girl, so it wasn't hard."

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BANKS PROVES HER BREASTS ARE REAL      
      

Supermodel TYRA BANKS is so eager to refute accusations she's had breast implants, she removed her bra on her new talk show to prove to the world her assets are real. The catwalk beauty, whose self-titled chat show debuted in the US last week (ends18SEP05), is fed up with constant jibes that her boobs are enhanced, insisting their perky look is the result of using push-up bras.

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By DEVLIN BARRETT

WASHINGTON Jun 7, 2006 (AP)— New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton accused commentator Ann Coulter of making a "vicious, mean-spirited attack" on outspoken 9/11 widows whom the television pundit described as "self-obsessed" and enjoying their husbands' deaths.

Coulter writes in a new book, "Godless: The Church of Liberalism," that a group of New Jersey widows whose husbands perished in the World Trade Center act "as if the terrorist attacks happened only to them."

She also wrote, "I've never seen people enjoying their husbands' deaths so much."

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