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Anna Haining Swan et Martin Van Buren Bates - le plus grand couple du monde

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Anna Haining Swan et Martin Van Buren Bates - le plus grand couple du monde

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Martin Bates y esposa, una pareja de gigantes

El capitán Martin Van Buren Bates, conocido como “el gigante de Kentucky”, es una figura histórica destacada debido a su gran estatura. Nacido el 9 de noviembre de 1837 en Letcher County, Kentucky, Bates medía aproximadamente 2,28 metros de altura. Su esposa, Anna Haining Swan, también era excepcionalmente alta, con una estatura de 2,27 metros. Martin Bates sirvió como capitán en el Ejército…

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More Giants of Kentucky

The Bible says, There were giants . . . in those days, and clearly, it was right. The archaeological record for ancient giant humanoids in North America (and especially Kentucky) is considerable.

In 1519, explorer Alonzo Alvarez de Pineda reported encountering giants on the Mississippi River. Pandilo de Narvaez and Cabeza de Vaca made a similar discovery in Tampa Bay in 1528. And in 1539, the explorer Hernando do Soto found giants in Florida, including the Native American cacique Tuscaloosa and his son.

Were these mere ancient anomalies? Maybe not. Martin Van Buren Bates of Whitesburg was over six feet tall at the age of sixteen and didn't stop growing until he was twenty-eight, at which time he had reached seven feet eight inches. He left a successful military career to join the circus, where he met and ultimately married Anna Haining Swan, who was even taller. They entered the record books as the tallest married couple ever. She died in 1888, he in 1919.

The highly controversial "UFO preacher," Sherry Shriner, claims that the gigantism that affected Bates, as well as Louisville's own Jim Porter, is caused by deliberate genetic interference by extraterrestrials. Some proof of that comes from Holly Creek, where in 1965, Kenneth White unearthed a humanoid skeleton that was almost nine feet tall. Interestingly, the eyes on the massive thirty-inch-circumference skull were slits, not round sockets, fitting the popular description of a typical extraterrestrial alien. The nasal passages on the skull were similarly slitlike, rather than normal open sockets. The late Kentucky folklorist Michael Paul Henson actually traveled to Wolfe County to examine the remains personally before White insisted on giving the body a decent reburial.

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🔵 Anna Haining Swan e Martin Van Buren Bates: la coppia gigante che raggiungeva quasi i 5 metri 👉 L’articolo lo trovi qui: https://medicinaonline.co/2023/04/03/anna-haining-bates-e-martin-van-buren/ ✅  #gigantismo #EmilioAlessioLoiacono #MedicinaOnLine

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🔸 The Giants of Seville: Anna Haining Swan and Martin Van Buren Bates, the Tallest Married Couple Ever. Martin and Anna married and moved to Ohio in 1871. They were declared to be the world’s “Tallest Married Couple Ever” by Guinness World Record. The couple purchased 130 acres (53 ha) of land and had furniture made to their specifications. Anna conceived two children with Martin. Anna died of heart failure in her sleep at her home on August 5, 1888, one day before her 42nd birthday. #victorianchaps #oldphoto #pastlives #vintage #victorian #edwardian #goodolddays #big #portrait #retro #nostalgia #wtf #history (at Seville, Ohio) https://www.instagram.com/p/CaAzgZ5AtYM/?utm_medium=tumblr

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The Giants of Seville: Rare Photos of Anna Haining Swan and Martin Van Buren Bates, the Tallest Married Couple Ever https://ift.tt/3d4wEx5

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In June 1871, 8’1 Anna Haining Swan and 7’9 Martin van Buren Bates became the tallest married couple ever. The two fell in love when they met each other as employees of a circus. After moving in to a custom made house, the two were unfortunately unable to have a healthy baby as their first child died in a few hours and their second child that weighed 23 pounds survived for 11 hours. Their second child has the record for being the heaviest baby. When Anna died in 1888, Martin ordered a statute of her from Europe.

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on less idiotic (But still weird fact) The tallest married couple ever recorded was Anna Haining Swan (7'11") and Martin Van Buren Bates (7'9"). Swan also gave birth to a 22-pound baby. think on that.

This isn’t an ask. 

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Giant couple Anna Haining Swan and Martin Van Buren Bates were married in 1871, both were reported to be around 8 feet-tall.

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Anna Haining Swan was born in Nova Scotia in 1846, by the age of 17 she was 7 feet 11.5 inches tall. She married Martin van Buren Bates, who was also around 8 foot tall, in 1871. They had the largest newborn ever recorded at 23 lbs and 12 oz, and 30 inches long.

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A photograph of  Anna Haining Bates and her husband, Martin Van Buren Bates, standing with two average height people

Martin was 7 ft 9 in, and Anna stood at 7 ft 11.5 in, making her the second tallest, officially verified, woman in history.

They are also the tallest known married couple in history, and had two children together. Their first, a daughter, weighed 18 pounds and died at birth. Their second child, a son, only survived for 11 hours. He weighed  23 pounds 9 ounces, and holds the Guinness World Record for largest baby at birth.

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2010 Movie Awards

Best Picture: Black Swan Blue Valentine I Am Love Rabbit Hole The Social Network HONORABLE MENTION: A Prophet, True Grit, Toy Story 3, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Dogtooth, The Kids Are All Right, Inception, Mother, Tiny Furniture, Never Let Me Go Best Director: Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan Jacques Audiard, A Prophet Ethan Coen & Joel Coen, True Grit David Fincher, The Social Network Luca Guadagnino, I Am Love HONORABLE MENTION: Banksy, Exit Through the Gift Shop; Lisa Cholodenko, The Kids Are All Right; Derek Cianfrance, Blue Valentine; Lena Dunham, Tiny Furniture; Bong Joon-ho, Mother; Giorgios Lanthimos, Dogtooth; John Cameron Mitchell, Rabbit Hole; Christopher Nolan, Inception; Mark Romanek, Never Let Me Go; Lee Unkrich, Toy Story 3; Edgar Wright, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Best Actor: Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network Colin Firth, The King's Speech James Franco, 127 Hours Ryan Gosling, Blue Valentine Tahar Rahim, A Prophet HONORABLE MENTION: Javier Bardem, Biutiful; 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Matt Damon, True Grit; Michael Douglas, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps; Edoardo Gabbriellini, I Am Love; Andrew Garfield, Never Let Me Go; Andrew Garfield, The Social Network; John Hawkes, Winter’s Bone; Bill Murray, Get Low; John Ortiz, Jack Goes Boating; Flavio Parenti, I Am Love; Christos Passalis, Dogtooth; Sam Rockwell, Conviction; Mark Ruffalo, The Kids Are All Right; Justin Timberlake, The Social Network Best Supporting Actress: Amy Adams, The Fighter Marion Cotillard, Inception Melissa Leo, The Fighter Mia Wasikowska, The Kids Are All Right Dianne Wiest, Rabbit Hole HONORABLE MENTION: Marisa Berenson, I Am Love; Helena Bonham Carter, Alice in Wonderland; Helena Bonham Carter, The King’s Speech; Barbara Hershey, Black Swan; Anna Kalaitzidou, Dogtooth; Keira Knightley, Never Let Me Go; Chloe Grace Moretz, Kick-Ass; Chloe Grace Moretz, Let Me In; Maria Paiato, I Am Love; Daphne Rubin-Vega, Jack Goes Boating; Kristin Scott Thomas, Nowhere Boy; Tessa Thompson, For Colored Girls; Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom; Olivia Williams, The Ghost Writer Best Original Screenplay: Blue Valentine - Derek Cianfrance, Joey Curtis & Cami Delavigne I Am Love - Barbara Alberti, Ivan Cotroneo, Walter Fasano & Luca Guadagnino Inception - Christopher Nolan The Kids Are All Right - Stuart Blumberg & Lisa Cholodenko A Prophet - Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain, Abdel Raouf Dafri & Nicolas Peufaillit HONORABLE MENTION: Animal Kingdom, Black Swan, Dogtooth, Easy A, The King’s Speech, Mother, The Other Guys, Somewhere, Tiny Furniture Best Adapted Screenplay: Rabbit Hole - David Lindsay-Abaire Scott Pilgrim vs. the World - Michael Bacall & Edgar Wright The Social Network - Aaron Sorkin Toy Story 3 - Michael Arndt, John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich True Grit - Ethan Coen & Joel Coen HONORABLE MENTION: The Ghost Writer, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, How to Train Your Dragon, The Illusionist, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, Let Me In, Never Let Me Go, 127 Hours, Tangled, Winter’s Bone Best Ensemble: The Kids Are All Right Rabbit Hole Scott Pilgrim vs. the World The Social Network Toy Story 3 HONORABLE MENTION: Animal Kingdom, Black Swan, The Company Men, Dogtooth, Easy A, The Fighter, For Colored Girls, I Am Love, Inception, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, The King’s Speech, Shutter Island, Tiny Furniture, True Grit, Youth in Revolt Best Limited Performance - Male: Gabriele Ferzetti, I Am Love Michael Gambon, The King's Speech Frank Langella, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps Barry Pepper, True Grit Douglas Urbanski, The Social Network HONORABLE MENTION: Dan Byrd, Easy A; Michael Caine, Inception; Chris Cooper, The Town; John Doman, The Company Men; Ralph Fiennes, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1; Derek Jacobi, Hereafter; Joseph Mazzello, The Social Network; Yum Ou-hyung, Mother; Pete Postlethwaite, The Town; Garry Shandling, Iron Man 2; Timothy Spall, The King’s Speech; David Threlfall, Nowhere Boy; Eli Wallach, The Ghost Writer; Eli Wallach, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps; Jonathan B. Wright, Youth in Revolt Best Limited Performance - Female: Sally Hawkins, Never Let Me Go Rooney Mara, The Social Network Elizabeth Marvel, True Grit Sandra Oh, Rabbit Hole Imelda Staunton, Another Year HONORABLE MENTION: Patricia Clarkson, Easy A; Patricia Clarkson, Shutter Island; Macy Gray, For Colored Girls; Ellie Kemper, Somewhere; Lisa Kudrow, Easy A; Juliette Lewis, Conviction; Charlotte Rampling, Never Let Me Go; Nathalie Richard, Never Let Me Go; Winona Ryder, Black Swan; Merritt Wever, Tiny Furniture Breakthrough Performance: Lena Dunham, Tiny Furniture Jennifer Lawrence, Winter's Bone Noomi Rapace, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit Miles Teller, Rabbit Hole HONORABLE MENTION: Marcela Alvarez, Biutiful; Christina Aguilera, Burlesque; Portia Doubleday, Youth in Revolt; James Frecheville, Animal Kingdom; Greta Gerwig, Greenberg; Alex Karpovsky, Tiny Furniture; Jemima Kirke, Tiny Furniture; Ellen Wong, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Best Film Editing: Black Swan - Andrew Weisblum I Am Love - Walter Fasano Scott Pilgrim vs. the World - Jonathan Amos & Paul Machliss The Social Network - Kirk Baxter & Angus Wall True Grit - Roderick Jaynes HONORABLE MENTION: Animal Kingdom, Blue Valentine, Dogtooth, Exit Through the Gift Shop, The Fighter, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Inception, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, The Kids Are All Right, The King’s Speech, Marwencol, Mother, Never Let Me Go, 127 Hours, A Prophet, Rabbit Hole, Tiny Furniture Best Cinematography: Black Swan - Matthew Libatique I Am Love - Yorick Le Saux Inception - Wally Pfister 127 Hours - Enrique Chediak & Anthony Dod Mantle True Grit - Roger Deakins HONORABLE MENTION: Animal Kingdom, Biutiful, Blue Valentine, Dogtooth, The Fighter, The Ghost Writer, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, The King’s Speech, Let Me In, Mother, Never Let Me Go, A Prophet, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, The Social Network, Somewhere, The Town Best Original Score: Inception - Hans Zimmer Never Let Me Go - Rachel Portman 127 Hours - A.R. Rahman Rabbit Hole - Anton Sanko The Social Network - Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross HONORABLE MENTION: Alice in Wonderland, Biutiful, Despicable Me, The Ghost Writer, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, How to Train Your Dragon, The Illusionist, The King’s Speech, Let Me In, A Prophet, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Toy Story 3, True Grit Best Original Song: Burlesque - "You Haven't Seen the Last of Me" - Diane Warren Despicable Me - "Prettiest Girls" - Pharrell Williams Scott Pilgrim vs. the World - "Black Sheep" - Emily Haines & James Shaw Tangled - "Mother Knows Best" - Alan Menken & Glenn Slater Waiting for "Superman" - "Shine" - John Legend HONORABLE MENTION: Burlesque - “Show Me How You Burlesque”; Country Strong - “Coming Home”; Country Strong - “Country Strong”; Despicable Me - “Despicable Me”; Greenberg - “Oh You (Christmas Blues)”; How to Train Your Dragon - “Sticks & Stones”; 127 Hours - “If I Rise”; Scott Pilgrim vs. the World - “Garbage Truck”; Tangled - “I See the Light”; Tangled - “When Will My Life Begin?”; Toy Story 3 - “We Belong Together” Best Art Direction: Black Swan - Therese DePrez & Tora Peterson Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 - Stuart Craig & Stephenie McMillan I Am Love - Francesca Balestra Di Mottola & Monica Sironi Inception - Larry Dias, Guy Hendrix Dyas & Doug Mowat True Grit - Jess Gonchor & Nancy Haigh HONORABLE MENTION: Alice in Wonderland, Dogtooth, Iron Man 2, The King’s Speech, Made in Dagenham, Never Let Me Go, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Shutter Island, The Social Network Best Costume Design: Black Swan - Amy Westcott Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 - Janty Yates I Am Love - Atonella Cannarozzi The King's Speech - Jenny Beaven True Grit - Mary Zophres HONORABLE MENTION: Alice in Wonderland, Dogtooth, Get Low, Inception, Iron Man 2, Made in Dagenham, Never Let Me Go, Nowhere Boy, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Sex and the City 2, Shutter Island, The Social Network Best Makeup: Black Swan Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 A Prophet Shutter Island True Grit HONORABLE MENTION: Alice in Wonderland, Barney’s Version, Burlesque, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, I Am Love, Kick-Ass, The King’s Speech, Let Me In, 127 Hours, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, The Runaway, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Best Sound Mixing: Inception 127 Hours Scott Pilgrim vs. the World The Social Network True Grit HONORABLE MENTION: Alice in Wonderland, Black Swan, Burlesque, The Fighter, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, How to Train Your Dragon, Iron Man 2, Kick-Ass, The King’s Speech, Let Me In, Mother, A Prophet, Shutter Island, Tangled, The Town, Toy Story 3 Best Sound Editing: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 Inception 127 Hours A Prophet True Grit HONORABLE MENTION: Alice in Wonderland, Black Swan, Despicable Me, Hereafter, How to Train Your Dragon, Iron Man 2, Kick-Ass, Let Me In, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Shutter Island, The Town, Toy Story 3 Best Visual Effects: Alice in Wonderland Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 Inception Iron Man 2 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World HONORABLE MENTION: The A-Team, Black Swan, Hereafter, How to Train Your Dragon, Kick-Ass, Let Me In, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Shutter Island, Toy Story 3 Best Foreign-Language Film: Biutiful - Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Dogtooth - Yorgos Lanthimos I Am Love - Luca Guadagnino Mother - Bong Joon-ho A Prophet - Jacques Audiard HONORABLE MENTION: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Illusionist, White Material Best Documentary: Best Worst Movie - Michael Stephenson Exit Through the Gift Shop - Banksy Marwencol - Jeff Malmberg Restrepo - Tim Hetherington & Sebastian Junger Waking Sleeping Beauty - Don Hahn HONORABLE MENTION: Catfish, Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, Gasland, Inside Job, Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, The Tillman Story, Waiting for “Superman”, Waste Land Best Animated Film: Despicable Me - Pierre Coffin & Chris Renaud How to Train Your Dragon - Dean DeBlois & Chris Sanders The Illusionist - Sylvain Chomet Tangled - Nathan Greno & Byron Howard Toy Story 3 - Lee Unkrich HONORABLE MENTION: Megamind, Shrek Forever After Every 2010 Film I've Seen: Ranked

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Music Choices - Ice Dance (so far)

AUSTRALIA Kimberly Hew-Low & Timothy McKernan FD: Exogenesis Matilda Friend & William Badaoui FD: Love Story AZERBAIJAN Anastasia Galyeta & Avidan Brown FD: Cabaret CANADA Marjorie Lajoie & Zachary Lagha FD: Dream (Imagine Dragons) Alicia Fabbri & Claudio Pietrantonio SD: Historia de un Amor; Sweet Like Cola (Lou Bega) FD: El Tango de Roxanne (Moulin Rouge!, comp. Craig Armstrong) Ashlynne Stairs & Lee Royer SD: I Like It Like That (The Blackout All-Stars) FD: A Monster in Paris; La Seine and I (A Monster in Paris) Carolane Soucisse & Shane Firus SD: Bailando, El perdedor, Let me be your lover - Enrique Iglesias FD: Cheek to cheek & I won't dance - Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett Ellie Fisher & Simon Pierre Malette-Paquette FD: La Strada (comp. Nino Rota) Jessica Li & Jacob Richmond FD: Runaway; Conqueror (Aurora) Irina Galiyanova & Tommy Tang SD: Dance With Me (Debelah Morgan) FD: Waltz in the Rain (Shin Jae Young) Valerie Taillefer & Jason Chan SD: Skip to the Bip FD: Closer Than Sisters (Penny Dreadful, comp. Abel Korzeniowski); A Boat to Argentina (Amen, comp. Armand Amar) Jade McCue & Gabriel Clemente SD: Ole Ole Ole (Ricky Martin); I Need to Know (Marc Anthony) FD: Another Day of Sun; City of Stars (Duet); Someone in the Crowd (La La Land, comp. Justin Hurwitz) Olivia Han & Grayson Lochhead SD: I Need to Know (Marc Anthony) FD: Selections from Pirates of the Caribbean (comp. Hans Zimmer) Cassidy McFarlane & Kameron Jeromkin SD: Sway Sarah Arnold & Thomas Williams SD: Besame Mucho FD: Fall for You (Leela James); If I Ain’t Got You (Alicia Keys feat. Usher) Natascha Collier & Philippe Marchand SD: Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps (Pussycat Dolls) FD: Overture; Beauty and the Beast (Beauty and the Beast, comp. Alan Menken) Natalie D'Alessandro & Bruce Waddell SD: I Need to Know (Marc Anthony); Let’s Get Loud (Jennifer Lopez) FD: Your Song (Ellie Goulding); Your Song (Moulin Rouge!, perf. Ewan McGregor) Leia Dozzi & Liam Fawcett SD: Addicted to You ; Don’t Stop the Party (Pitbull feat. TJR) FD: Vinegar & Salt; Amalfi (Hooverphonic) Vanessa Chartrand & Alexander Seidel SD: Samba Pa’ Ti; Oye Como Va (Santana) FD: Lament; You Must Love Me; Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina (Evita, comp. Andrew Lloyd Webber) Gina Cipriano & Jake Richardson FD: Merry Go Round (Howl’s Moving Castle, comp. Joe Hisaichi) Molly Lanaghan & Dmitre Razgulajevs FD: Selections from Mary Poppins (comp. the Sherman Brothers) Katrine Roy & Oliver Zhang FD: Tango Theadora Sauve & Alexandre Faucher FD: Anything Goes; But Beautiful; It Don’t Mean a Thing (perf. Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga) Haley Sales & Nikolas Wamsteeker FD: Out of Africa soundtrack Nina Mizuki & Veniamins Volskis FD: Arrietty’s Song; Sho’s Song (Arrietty, Cecile Corbel) Katerina Kasatkin & Corey Circelli SD: Mujer Latina (Thalia) FD: Faded (Alan Walker feat. Iselin Solheim) Olivia McIsaac & Elliott Graham SD: Quizás, Quizás, Quizás ; Angelina (Lou Bega) FD: Let It Be Me (Ray LaMontagne); What I Wouldn’t Do (Serena Ryder) Kaitlyn Chubb & Alex Gunther SD: Billie Jean - Michael Jackson FD: True colors by Justin Timberlake and Anna Kendrick; September by Earth, Wind and Fire Kaitlyn Weaver & Andrew Poje FD: Spartacus (comp. Aram Khachaturian); choreography by Lori Nichol and Linda Garneau CZECH REPUBLIC Nicole Kuzmichova & Alexandr Sinicyn SD: Magalenha - Antonio Carlos; Fly Love - Jamie Fox; Mas Que Nada - Jorge Ben FD: Cabaret (Willkommen; Money; Mein Herr) - John Kander FINLAND Cecilia Torn & Jussiville Partanen FD: Funny Face; I've Got A Crush On You FRANCE Marie Jade Lauriault & Romain Le Gac SD: "September" & "How deep is your love" FD: Another one bites the dust - Queen Loicia Demougeot & Théo Le Mercier SD: El Pescador by Totó La Momposina; La Collegiala by Rodolfo y su Tipica FD: Light of the Seven by Ramin Djawadi; Strange by Apollo G'eeze Natacha Lagouge & Corentin Rahier SD: "Oye como va" & "Frío sin ti" - Navajita plateá FD: Theme : the life of Coco Chanel [Little Black Baby - Scott Joplin (ragtime); (tango); Tema per una donna sola by Ennio Morricone (waltz); Cocomotion by El Coco (disco) GERMANY Katharina Müller & Tim Dieck SD: Dibby Dibby (Samba); I am not the only one - Sam Smith (Rhumba); Campo Grande (Samba) FD: Bodyguard musical soundtrack Kavita Lorenz & Joti Polizoakis SD: Aguanile - M. Anthony (Salsa); Mil Pasos - Soha (Remix) (Rhumba); Quimbara - C. Cruz (Salsa) GREAT BRITAIN Penny Coomes & Nicholas Buckand SD: Remix of Rhumba D'Amour by Torvill and Dean, choreography by Christopher Dean FD: Battle Remembered -  Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, choreography by Christopher Dean Sasha Fear & George Waddell FD: Coldplay Medley (Sky full of stars; Fix You; Viva la vida) Leticia Marsh & Elliot Verburg FD: Moulin Rouge ISRAEL Isabella Tobias & Ilia Tkachenko SD: Shape of You - Ed Sheeran ; She Will Be Loved - Rhythms del Mundo ; Fireball - Pitbull FD: Samson et Dalila-Camille Saint-Saëns ITALY Charlene Guignard & Marco Fabbri SD: Salsa; Rhumba; Samba FD: Exogenesis Symphony Part III - Muse Jasmine Tessari & Francesco Fioretti FD: La Tosca - G. Puccini JAPAN Kana Muramoto & Chris Reed FD: Music Medley from Ryuichi Sakamoto Misato Komatsubara & Tim Koleto SD: Ahora Quien - Marc Anthony; Samba do Brasil (Radio Remix) - Bellini ​FD: Yentl soundtrack (“Where is it Written?” and “A Piece of the Sky”); Sabrina soundtrack ( John Williams’ instrumental End Credits) LATVIA Aurelija Ippolito & Malcolm Jones FD: Alex Clare - Damn Your Eyes; Cover of Tainted Love POLAND Natalia Kaliszek & Maksym Spodyriev   SD: mix of Luis Fonsi, Prince Royce & Shakira ​FD: swing, quickstep and foxtrot or waltz RUSSIA Anastasia Shpilevaya & Grigory Smirnov SD: Cha Cha (Tom Jones Kiss) and samba (Dominó-Baila Baila Comigo) FD: Love Story; choreographer Irina Zhuk Anastasia Skoptsova & Kirill Aleshin SD: rhumba, Cha-cha, salsa FD: Tango (Vuelvo Al Sur, Paris, Texas – Gotan Project) Sofia Shevchenko & Igor Eremenko SD: cha cha and samba - MC Mario (Let's Cha Cha), Max Sedgley (Happy) FD: Drehz (Heart Cry); Yann Tiersen (La Boulange) ​Sofia Polishchuk & Alexander Vakhnov FD: Black Swan Sofia Evdokimova & Egor Bazin FD: Ave Maria Victoria Sinitsina & Nikita Katsalapov ​FD: Vocalise, Piano concerto nr.2 - Rachmaninoff SOUTH KOREA Yura Min & Alexander Gamelin SD: Despacito - Luis Fonsi; My All - Mariah Carey; Mujer Latina -  Thalia ​FD: Arirang Alone - Sohyang SPAIN Olivia Smart & Adria Diaz ​FD: "A Mans World" & "Natural Woman" Sara Hurtado & Kirill Khalyavin ​SD: Santana FD: Don Quixote (Flamenco), Choreography by Antonio Najarro USA Christina Carreira & Anthony Ponomarenko ​SD:  "Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps" - Pussycat Dolls; "Conga" - Gloria Estefan FD: Dance for Me Wallis; Abdication (comp. Abel Korzeniowski) Julia Biechler & Damien Dodge ​SD:  Into You (Ariana Grande); I Know You Want Me (Pitbull) FD: American Woman (Lenny Kravitz); I Put a Spell On You (Joe Cocker); Seven Nation Army (The White Stripes) Rachel Parsons & Michael Parsons SD: Everybody’s Got to Love Sometime ​FD:  South American music, based on the contemporary ballet “Ghost Dances” by Inti-Illimani Lorraine McNamara & Quinn Carpenter SD: Mambo Italiano ​FD:  Argentine Tango [Anime Contro Vento by Medialuna Tango Project] Madison Hubbell & Zachary Donohue ​SD:  "Cuando Calienta el Sol" - Talya Ferro; "Le Serpent" - Guem FD: Across the Sky Instrumental - Rag N' Bone Man; Caught Out In the Rain - Beth Hart Madison Chock & Evan Bates FD: La la Land, Choreography by Christopher Dean Elliana Pogrebinsky & Alex Benoit SD:  "Baddest Girl in Town" (Pitbull feat. Mohombi and Wisin);"Lo So Che Finera" (Anna Tatangelo); "Bailar" (Deorro feat. Elvis Crespo) FD: Desire (Rock Blues) [I Put a Spell on You (perf. Annie Lennox); original composition] Maia Shibutani & Alex Shibutani SD: Perez Prado FD: Coldplay: Paradise ​​Karina Manta & Joseph Johnson SD: Right Now (Pussycat Dolls); Fireball (Pitbull feat. John Ryan) FD: Moulin Rouge ("One Day I'll Fly Away" and "Your Song" - perf. Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman); Choreography by Christopher Dean Kaitlin Hawayek & Jean-Luc Baker FD: Liebestraum (last season's FD) ​​​​Eliana Gropman & Ian Somerville FD: "Nyah" and flamenco music (Tangos de la Repompa by Susi) ​​​​Alina Efimova & Alexander Petrov Somerville FD: Umbrellas of Cherbourg Claire Purnell & Lucas Purnell FD: Fiddler on the Roof ​​​​​​Katarina DelCamp & Maxwell Gart FD: Motown music ("I Feel Good" and "Try a Little Tenderness") ​​​​​​Isabella Amoia & Luka Becker FD: Michael Meets Mozart - Piano Guys ​​​​​​Chloe Lewis & Logan Bye FD: Child of Light OST by Coeur de Pirate ​​Avonley Nguyen & Vadym Kolesnik SD: cha cha, rhumba, and mambo rhythms FD: West Side Story Molly Cesanek & Nikolay Usanov FD: Romeo & Juliet ​​Sophia Elder & Christopher Elder FD: Alice in Wonderland soundtrack Amanda Miller & Daniel Tsarik FD: Four Seasons Daria Popova & Cameron Colucci FD: La La Land soundtrack Nicolette Fey & Caleb Niva FD: A Thousand Years - Christina Perri Caroline Green & Gordon Green FD: Prince Igor; Stranger in Paradise - Sarah Brightman Jocelyn Haines & James Koszuta FD: Sinatra Medley Allie Rose & JT Michel FD: Bonnie and Clyde theme

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An illustration of Anna Haining Swan and her husband Martin Van Buren Bates. Canadian Anna met Martin, the "Kentucky Giant", in the 1870s when their separate circus tours overlapped in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Their promoters put them together as a single act, and they eventually married and settled down together in Seville, Ohio. According to records held by the village of Seville, Martin stood at 7'8" and weighed 470 lbs. at his maximum. Anna peaked at 413 lbs. with a height of 7'11", one inch shy of eight feet. . #history #viralnetics #usa http://fat.ly/1qtih [ Instagram ]

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Anna Haining Swan était une géante (Mill Brook, Nouvelle Écosse, 7 août 1846 — Seville, Ohio, 5 août 1888). À l’âge de cinq ans, elle mesurait déjà 1,42 m et pesait plus de 45 kg. En 1862, elle se joint au P.T. Barnum’s American Museum, à New York, attirée par le salaire mensuel de 1000 $ et par la possibilité de parfaire son éducation au moyen de cours particuliers. Elle devient l’une des vedettes du musée Barnum. Son travail consistait à être exposée à l’American Museum de New York. Comme elle était la seule femme géante au monde à cette époque, Anna attirait les foules. Selon la publicité, elle mesure 2,46 m, mais sa taille, en réalité, est de 2,28 m (ce qui est déjà pas mal, je vous l’accorde). À 22 ans, elle pèse 160 kg (352 lb). Lors de l’incendie du musée en 1865, il faut 18 hommes et un palan pour la rescaper. En 1871, au cours d’une tournée outre-mer, elle rencontre et épouse Martin Van Buren Bates, un géant du Kentucky. Ils sont présentés à la reine Victoria, voyagent partout en Europe, puis s’installent sur une ferme en Ohio et font des tournées estivales avec le cirque W.W. Cole. Ils se sont mariés en Angleterre le 17 juin 1871 et ont entrepris une tournée ensemble à titre de plus grands mariés au monde. Avant de mourir de la tuberculose, Anna a deux enfants, de taille anormale, qui ne vivent que quelques heures. Cette photo a été prise lors de leur mariage. Le révérend, Rupert Cochrane, qui est à leur côté, mesure 1,91 m, pour vous donner une idée.