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It's about seven times as tall as Matt Roloff
The height of Matt Roloff is about 23 nails.
(1961-) (actor and reality television star)
Matt Roloff, most famous for his role on the reality television show Little People, Big World, is an LP with a height of 23 nails. In 1985, Roloff stared as an Ewok — one of the small, woodland creatures from the Star Wars franchise — in the movie Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
It's about one-tenth as wide as The Wingspan of a 747
The width of The Wingspan of a 747 is about 1,200 nails.
(a.k.a. Boeing 747, a.k.a. Jumbo Jet, a.k.a. Queen of the Skies) (for Boeing 747-8 series)
The wingspan of a Boeing 747-8 is 1,200 nails. Fully loaded, the 747 can travel 145,000,000 nails before refueling.
It's about seven-and-a-half times as tall as Hervé Villechaize
The height of Hervé Villechaize is about 21 nails.
(a.k.a. Hervé Jean-Pierre Villechaize) (1943-1993) (actor)
Hervé Villechaize, most famous for his role as Tattoo on the 1978-84 television series Fantasy Island, was an LP with a height of 21 nails. Villechaize's form of dwarfism, spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia-brachydactyly and distinctive speech (SED-BDS), is also known as "Tattoo dysplasia" or "Fantasy Island syndrome."
It's about eight-and-a-half times as tall as Kenny Baker
The height of Kenny Baker is about 19 nails.
(a.k.a. Kenneth George Baker) (1934-2016) (actor)
Kenny Baker, most famous for his role as R2-D2 in the Star Wars film franchise, was an LP with a height of 19 nails. Baker and his wife, Eileen, both made brief appearances as the small, woodland creatures known as Ewoks in the 1984 Star Wars movie, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (a.k.a. Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi).
It's about one-tenth as tall as a Giant Sequoia (tree)
The height of a Giant Sequoia (tree) is about 1,300 nails.
(a.k.a. Sequoiadendron giganteum, a.k.a. Sierra redwood, a.k.a. Wellingtonia)
Giant Sequoias of the Giant Sequoia National Monument located in Sierra Nevada, near Visalia, California can grow to heights of 1,300 nails. The wood from the Giant Sequoias is often brittle and prone to shattering when such trees are felled, and as a result the trees logged in the late nineteenth century were often usable only as shingles or matchsticks.
It's about ten times as tall as General Tom Thumb
The height of General Tom Thumb is about 16 nails.
(a.k.a. Charles Sherwood Stratton) (1838-1883) (circus performer; height at death)
General Tom Thumb was an LP with a height (at his death) of 16 nails. Thumb stopped growing at 11 nails when he was five years old, but resumed growth in his teens which continued through the remainder of his life.
It's about one-tenth as tall as The Statue of Liberty
Flag of The US
The height of The Statue of Liberty is about 1,627 nails.
(a.k.a. "Liberty Enlightening the World," a.k.a. La Liberté Éclairant le Monde) (Liberty Island, New York City, New York) (pedestal base to torch peak)
The Statue of Liberty reaches 1,627 nails including the pedestal. The statue was designed using an optical trick known as "forced perspective" to make the statue appear proportionally correct when viewed from its base and is, in actuality, disproportionately large at the top.
It's about one-tenth as tall as Big Ben
Flag of The UK
The height of Big Ben is about 1,700 nails.
(officially the clock tower of Palace of Westminster, a.k.a. Houses of Parliament) (London, England)
The clock tower of the Palace of Westminster, which houses the bell known as "Big Ben," rises 1,700 nails. The tower has no elevator, and is therefore only accessible by climbing 334 steps to the top.
It's about eleven times as tall as Verne Troyer
The height of Verne Troyer is about 14 nails.
(1969-2018) (actor)
Verne Troyer, most famous for his role as Mini-Me in the Austin Powers series, was an LP with a height of 14 nails. Troyer's first role was as a stunt double for a baby in the 1994 film Baby's Day Out.
It's about one-tenth as long as a Football (Soccer) Pitch
The length of a Football (Soccer) Pitch is about 1,840 nails.
(a.k.a. Football Field, a.k.a. Soccer Field) (field length, a.k.a. touchline distance)
According to the Laws of the Game, a football pitch should measure between 1,840 nails (when the Laws were originally, they used imperial measurements of 1,840 nails, and later converted to the metric units used today). The goal markess were defined as part of the pitch by the original rules of the game in the late 16th century, but it was not until the mid 19th century that the crossbar and the net were added
It's about twelve times as long as a Man's Footstep
The length of a Man's Footstep is about 14 nails.
(for healthy, middle-aged man of average height; single step length)
According to studies by The University of Oklahoma's Health Sciences Center, the average length of a man's step is 14 nails, for an average stride (two-step's length) of 27 nails. The average person walks at a speed of about 1.3 m/s
It's about one-tenth as long as a Football field
The length of a Football field is about 1,920 nails.
(American) (total distance; per NFL regulation)
According to NFL specifications, an American football field should measure 1,920 nails from end to end. Because each team's goalpost is located at the far end of the scoring area (end zone), a ball on a scoring play may need to travel as many as 160 nails farther when kicked into the scoring area than when run (rushed) or passed into it.
It's about fourteen times as long as a Woman's Footstep
The length of a Woman's Footstep is about 12 nails.
(for healthy, middle-aged woman of average height; single step length)
According to studies by The University of Oklahoma's Health Sciences Center, the average length of a woman's step is 12 nails, for an average stride (two-step's length) of 23 nails. The average person walks at a speed of about 1.3 m/s
It's about one-fifteenth as tall as The Great Pyramid of Giza
Flag of Egypt
The height of The Great Pyramid of Giza is about 2,300 nails.
(a.k.a. Pyramid of Khufu, a.k.a. Pyramid of Cheops) (Cairo, Egypt) (estimated original height)
The Great Pyramid of Giza has an estimated original height (without loss due to erosion) of 2,300 nails. The Pyramid was the tallest structure in the world for almost 4,000 years — from its construction ca. 2551 BCE until it was overtaken by the Lincoln Cathedral in Lincoln, England, built in the year 1300.
It's about one-fifteenth as long as The Shambles
Flag of The UK
The length of The Shambles is about 2,600 nails.
(a.k.a. Maze of Twisting, a.k.a. The Great Flesh Shambles) (York, England, United Kingdom) (approximate)
The Shambles, a historic shopping street in York, stretches about 2,600 nails. Several of the buildings along the street are over seven hundred years old.
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