GIANTS FROM TIMES PAST
from
Steve Qualye Giants Site
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Anna Swan
7' 9" 1846-1888
Anna Swan
husband Martin
Baines, wed 1871
Angus McAskill
7' 9" 1825-1863
Femur
Femur
Russian giant
Machnov; 7' 11"
1882-1905
Machnov in
London at the
Hippodrome
Maximilian
late 1400s -
early 1500s
Maximilian
Christopher
Miller
1674-1734
Mongolian man,
7' 5"; photo: 1922
Patrick Cotter
O'Brien
mid-late 1700s
Russian giant
Machnov 7' 11"
1882-1905
Constantin
Russian giant
Cornelius
Magrath
died 1760
Ella Ewing, 8' 4"
Gorin, Missouri
1872-1912
view her home
Chinois
Chwang-in-sing
Hugo, age 25
8' 2-1/2"
Chang Woo Gow
8' 2" 1841-1893
William Olding,
age 19 in 1942
Lutteur Ant,
age 22
Eisenmann
New York
1875
Indiana boy
unidentified
Geant de Trapani
El Popo 8' 6", born 1726 Bezzecca, Italy
William Bradley,
Yorkshire,
England, 7'
9"
1787-1820
"K", tambour-
major of the
101st regiment
Edouard
Beaupre, 8' 3"
1881 - 1904
Willow
Bunch,
Saskatche-wan
Big Gust,
7' 6" - postcard
cancelled 1914,
Crantsburg,
WI
Johan Aason,
8' 9-1/4";
weight 503 lbs;
circa
1900
Antoine and Baptiste Hugo
Robert Wadlow
8' 11.1",
size 37
shoe
1918-1940
Martin Chambi 1929
warring giants
6 fingered
GIANTS in RECENT TIMES
Johann
Svarfdælingur/
Petursson;
El Paso
1951
Johann
Svarfdælingur/
Petursson; 8'
8"
1913-1984
Al Tomaini
8' 4.5"
1912-1962
Naseer
Ahmaad Soomro
Pakistan;
1970-
Robert Wadlow
8' 11.1",
size 37
shoe
1918-1940
Giant of
Rotterdam 7' 9", 460 pounds
1926 - 1959
Henry Hite, claimed 8' 2" actual height 7' 6-3/4"; 1915-
Leonid
Stadnik, 8' 4"
440 pounds
1971 -
giant Nazi
Clifford Thompson
"Count Olaf"
8' 6";
1906-
Traits often found in giants are 6-fingered hands, double sets of teeth
Drawing of
male giant
mummy
found in
Utah
Drawing of
female giant
mummy
found in
Utah
Copper seals of giants
found in Utah
9' giant in Utah grave
giant in Afghanistan with US soldier
28' tomb of 10' giant
