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Standing on the shoulders of giants! How 5ft6 Rishi Sunak is the shortest PM since WWII hero Churchill at 5ft5... and joins exclusive 'under 5ft7 club' of world leaders from Macron to Zelenksy - but is he taller than Napoleon?
UK Daily Mail ^ | October 25, 2022 | Harry Howard

Posted on 10/25/2022 5:04:49 AM PDT by C19fan

He is rightly being heralded as the UK's first non-white PM, but Rishi Sunak's height is making fewer headlines.

This is despite the fact that, at just 5ft 6inches tall, the former Chancellor is the shortest occupant of Number 10 since Winston Churchill.

At 5ft 5in, Second World War hero Sir Winston was shorter than Mr Sunak, who is now joining the 'under 5ft 7in club' of European leaders.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: History; Society
KEYWORDS: height; men
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Winston Churchill was born in 1874 so 5'5" would have been in the thick part of the bell curve for general population male height. Although he might have been on the short end for his own class. I hope Winston did not run into contemporary Lord Ribblesdale or he would have been absolutely height mogged. Interesting the past two French presidents have been below average height with Sarkozy and Macron. There is a claim in every US Presidential election the taller man has won.
1 posted on 10/25/2022 5:04:50 AM PDT by C19fan
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Napoleon’s height is all over the map. Some put him at 5’5” or 5’6” which was average for a frog at the time. Others point to his autopsy which indicates only 5’2” after dying in exile. Maybe he shrunk with poor health and age, which happens. “Able was I ere I saw Elba.” and all that, wot wot.


2 posted on 10/25/2022 5:18:05 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: C19fan

Now I see what the problem is with Ukraine. Zelinsky has small man disease.


3 posted on 10/25/2022 5:25:06 AM PDT by Roklok
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To: C19fan

The WEF seems to like short perverts


4 posted on 10/25/2022 5:31:44 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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RE: Now I see what the problem is with Ukraine. Zelinsky has small man disease.

And how tall is Putin?


5 posted on 10/25/2022 6:04:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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What is with these power-mad control freak SHORT people???


6 posted on 10/25/2022 6:05:15 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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Some trivia regarding height ( taken by asking SIRI on iPhone )
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Adolf Hitler 5’9”

Joseph Stalin 5’6”

Mao Tze Tung 5’11”

Queen Victoria 5’1”

Emperor Hirohito 5’5”

FDR 6’2”

Harry Truman 5’9”

Gen. George Patton 6”

Sadden Hussein 6’1”

Osama Bin Ladin 6’5”

Bruce Lee 5’8”

Alexander the Great 5’2”

Abraham Lincoln 6’4”

George Washington 6’2”

John Adam’s 5’7”

Thomas Jefferson 6’2”

James Madison 5’4”


7 posted on 10/25/2022 6:19:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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RE: The WEF seems to like short perverts

Here’s what SIRI on iPhone informed me:

WEF promoter Bill Gates is 5’10” is that short?

George Soros is 5’8”, is that short?


8 posted on 10/25/2022 6:27:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Roklok

The looming doofus syndrome is worse. Super tall ones who think they are born to rule. Comey comes to mind.


9 posted on 10/25/2022 6:31:48 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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Noticing that published photos of him are taken from a low angle to make him look like a giant, and never seem to avoid standing him with others!


10 posted on 10/25/2022 6:33:31 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan (CNN)
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Now I see why there is a "short man" syndrome. They way people talk about a guy that is 5'-7" like he is some kind of freak. Heightism is a real thing I guess.
11 posted on 10/25/2022 6:40:57 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: SeekAndFind

You left out Jeb Bush


12 posted on 10/25/2022 6:50:54 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: central_va

The problem is not his height. It is his globalism.


13 posted on 10/25/2022 6:53:06 AM PDT by nwrep
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RE: You left out Jeb Bush

The Bush family is quite tall.

Jeb stands 6’3”
George W. is 6”
Papa Bush was 6’2”

All info provided by SIRI from iPhone


14 posted on 10/25/2022 7:12:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Gates is short
Trudeau is short
Macron is short
Zelensky is short
etc.

And perverts.


15 posted on 10/25/2022 7:20:18 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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I saw a supposed death mask of Napoleon in museum in Florida that was laughably huge. But in the Cabildo museum in New Orleans, the curator said the death mask they have is one of only two made and that it was legitimate. I could have covered his face with one hand.

He said Napoleon was sensitive about his size, always had portrait painters represent him larger, and only had it done, out of vanity, because Roman emperors had it done.


16 posted on 10/25/2022 7:20:59 AM PDT by odawg
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Jeffrey Dahmer and Bill Clinton were tall and perverts.


17 posted on 10/25/2022 7:21:55 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: C19fan

Read later.


18 posted on 10/25/2022 7:44:57 AM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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imho its sad that the brits can’t choose an actual anglo saxon for their leader. what Indian in india would stand for a leader of british descent.


19 posted on 10/25/2022 7:57:00 AM PDT by ckilmer (q)
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RE: Trudeau is short

Trudeau is 6’2”. How tall do you have to be to NOT be considered short?


20 posted on 10/25/2022 8:01:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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