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Roofless Toothless said:
William the Conqueror’s wife Mathilda was only four feet two inches tall. She had nine children.
I knew that would be false, just like Napoleon.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_of_Flanders#...
"In 1959 Matilda's incomplete skeleton was examined and her femur and tibia were measured to determine her height. Her height was 5 feet (152 cm), a normal female height for the time.[34] However, as a result of this examination she was misreported as being 4 feet 2 inches (127 cm)[35] leading to the myth that she was extremely small."
bongtom said:
Roofless Toothless said:
William the Conqueror’s wife Mathilda was only four feet two inches tall. She had nine children.
I knew that would be false, just like Napoleon.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_of_Flanders#...
"In 1959 Matilda's incomplete skeleton was examined and her femur and tibia were measured to determine her height. Her height was 5 feet (152 cm), a normal female height for the time.[34] However, as a result of this examination she was misreported as being 4 feet 2 inches (127 cm)[35] leading to the myth that she was extremely small."
Roofless Toothless said:
bongtom said:
Roofless Toothless said:
William the Conqueror’s wife Mathilda was only four feet two inches tall. She had nine children.
I knew that would be false, just like Napoleon.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_of_Flanders#...
"In 1959 Matilda's incomplete skeleton was examined and her femur and tibia were measured to determine her height. Her height was 5 feet (152 cm), a normal female height for the time.[34] However, as a result of this examination she was misreported as being 4 feet 2 inches (127 cm)[35] leading to the myth that she was extremely small."
bongtom said:
Roofless Toothless said:
bongtom said:
Roofless Toothless said:
William the Conqueror’s wife Mathilda was only four feet two inches tall. She had nine children.
I knew that would be false, just like Napoleon.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_of_Flanders#...
"In 1959 Matilda's incomplete skeleton was examined and her femur and tibia were measured to determine her height. Her height was 5 feet (152 cm), a normal female height for the time.[34] However, as a result of this examination she was misreported as being 4 feet 2 inches (127 cm)[35] leading to the myth that she was extremely small."
Roofless Toothless said:
Yes, I think you should. It seems that estimating height by the length of the leg bones is fraught with danger. Just think, at some future date some archaeologist might be trying to work out how tall Lionel Messi was by the same technique and should be warned.
I'm 6ft but have relatively short legs and long back, my friend who's the same height has huge legs so extrapolating from femurs would make him 6'9" and me 5'0" 
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