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Subject: [Leica] I am visiting Australia
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Fri Mar 17 08:28:53 2006

Good Lord! Taller than the Watusies or some of the Nuba people of the Sudan,
first photographed by George Roger, one of the Magnum co-founders?


On 3/16/06 6:42 PM, "GREG LORENZO" <gregj.lorenzo@shaw.ca> wrote:

> Rick Dykstra <rdcb37@dodo.com.au> writes in part:
>> 
>> Its an interesting thing that, that the Dutch are the tallest race in
>> the world.  I suppose that's natural selection for you, in a country
>> that's muchly 6 foot below sea level, that the average height is a
>> 
>> little over 6 foot.  :-)
>> 
> 
> Rick,
> 
> I believe the people of Crete are the tallest people, as a group, in 
> Europe.
> In North America, it is the Peigan Tribe, who are Blackfoot. These two 
> peoples
> were the tallest people in the world at one time. Not long ago at that.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
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