Liverpool Mercury - July 26, 1811
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Category: Fashion, World Records, Industry, Factories and Manufacturing, Nineteenth Century
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Food, Holidays, Regionalism, World Records
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Category: Movies, World Records, Dogs, 1900s
Palm Beach Post - June 5, 1972
Miami News - June 5, 1972
1973 Guinness Book of Records
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Category: Architecture, World Records, Martial Arts, 1970s
Itchuuwaaóoshbishish/Red Plume (Feather) At The Temple (born ca. 1750, died in 1836) A Mountain Crow leader during fur trade days and signer of the 1825 Friendship Treaty. Traders and trappers called him Long Hair because of his extraordinarily long hair, approximately 25 feet long. At his death, his hair was cut off and maintained by Tribal leaders.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jul 30, 2020 -
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Category: Human Marvels, World Records, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Hair and Hairstyling, Native Americans
The contest in 1972. Source: facebook
Circa 1971. Source: Digital Maine
image source: Maine Travel Maven
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Category: Sports, World Records, Fish
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Category: Exercise and Fitness, World Records
Arizona Daily Star - Feb 5, 1974
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Category: World Records, 1970s
Posted By: Paul - Sat Jan 18, 2020 -
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Category: Body, Dieting and Weight Loss, Differently Abled, Handicapped, Challenged, and Otherwise Atypical, Enlargements, Miniatures, and Other Matters of Scale, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, World Records, Wrestling, Twentieth Century
Posted By: Paul - Thu Nov 07, 2019 -
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Category: Addictions, Bums, Hobos, Tramps, Beggars, Panhandlers and Other Streetpeople, Eccentrics, Food, Restaurants, World Records, Twentieth Century
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