The BBC always has the best visuals or graphs. "Our leader is taller than yours."

[Robeysays]

I lul'd at this. ha ha, it's from this article. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8243486.stm

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Napoleon is taller than I realized.

[MissHoneychurch]

2. It is the hat

:)

[tridim]

3. It's the hat. nt

[Captain Hilts]

5. Not short for his day. Theodore R was 5'8" so, Eleanor was nearly a head taller

when he walked her down the aisle.

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. Yes, 5'6" sounds liek it would be pretty close to average for those days, I would think.

[Warpy]

11. The average in Colonial days was decidedly shrimpy

Most male visitors to the Paul Revere house have to keep their heads on sideways because the ceilings are so low.

I've always wanted to open a chiropractic office next door.

[Captain Hilts]

12. And GW was six feet and TJ six-two. Madison was teensy. nt

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. The doors and bunks on the replica Mayflower are also teensy.

[Warpy]

17. Can you believe how small that thing was?

Marinas are filled with yachts that are bigger.

Those people were brave to the point of being foolhardy!

[GreenPartyVoter]

19. Just the thought of being on it put on the open sea in a storm terrifies me.

[comrade snarky]

29. That's why they were called The Minute Men.

Da du dum!

[lysosome]

14. Wrong in so many ways.

:D

[lumpy]

23. I think you have president Teddy R. and his wife mixed up.

Eleanor was Franklin D's wife. Don't know who Teddy's wife was, never hear anything about her.

[Captain Hilts]

25. Ted was Eleanor' s uncle and 'gave her away' at her wedding. His wife was Edith Kermit.

Eleanor got her height from her mother's side, so she was four inches taller than Ted.

The social pages noted that the head of the bride was a head higher than the head of the head of state.

[Chulanowa]

9. Yup, it's kind of an urban legend

First, the British depicted him as a tiny man for obvious propaganda reasons. Second, his nickname, "le petit caporal" was taken to mean "little" - it was actually a friendly reference from his troops regarding how "soft" he was towards them. And lastly, his personal guards were large men for the time, so he was usually seen in the company of people who were a head or two taller than him. Also, the guy who beat him at Waterloo was practically a giant at the time - nearly six and a half feet tall.

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. I'm sure that's what affected my thinking. I had it in mind that he was 5'2" or something.

[YOY]

18. The most elite and "to have around" troops were the Grenadiers. Grenadiers HAD to be big.

They needed long muscly arms and the backs to hurl those primitive grenades en masse. They also often put big hats on them too to make them look even bigger for intimidation purposes.



Napoleon was notoriously nice to his men: "Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them." Kind of unheard of in the aristocratic time to give such credit to the infantry.

[Captain Hilts]

4. And it matters...why? Folks are so quick to mention sexism and racism. This is another ism.

Yes, we prefer taller leaders.

Yes, taller folks earn more.

We are trained as small children to respect those taller than we are and we never get over it.

[Buzz Clik]

7. We also are revulsed by stupid. Yet another ism.

[YOY]

20. Frank Lloyd Wright had the opposite reaction.

Being a smaller man himself...he picked on taller folks.

Being 5'6" I can honestly say that it's kind of a shame it never caught on...

[rockymountaindem]

28. Yep.

[Fleshdancer]

8. I never would have guessed that Berlusconi is 5'5"

Not that it really matters, it's just interesting how some people look taller or shorter than they are.

[YOY]

10. Le Petite Ogre is still scarier...

http://www.atomicmpc.com.au/News/153821,new-trailer-for-empires-napoleon-expansion.aspx

[FSogol]

16. Our leader can eat more pie and hamburgers than your leaders.

:eyes:

[quiet.american]

21. Cute. nt

[supernova]

22. According to that graph

I could take on Medvedev, Berlusconi, and Sarcozy!

:D

:rofl:

I'm 5' tall, btw.

:D

[imdjh]

24. Is that Al Pacino on the left?

[muriel_volestrangler]

26. Looking at the list of people who have played him, I'd guess Armand Assante

http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0027456/

[eppur_se_muova]

27. I'm taller than most of the leaders of Europe?!? Who knew?

Never thought of myself as even average height.

Guess it's all that good ol' American nutrition. :9