23 November 2006

awesome random things i read on the internet pt1000000320001

“Yugoslavia, and the Balkans in general, are one of the world centers of tallness. The great physical anthropologist Carleton Coon’s study of the Ghegs of North Albania is entitled ‘The Mountain of Giants’. Jerry Pournelle told me that Crown Prince Leka, son of King Zog, pretender to the throne of Albania, whom Jerry worked with in the 1960s on a planned invasion of the Communist state, was seven feet tall…”

(ok, pournelle cowrote The Mote in God’s Eye w.larry niven — plus this plus, acc.norman spinrad, reagan’s STAR WARS speech, tho acc.wiki JP denies this last)


in FT /The Brown Wedge/ • 1,686 views

Comments

  1. CarsmileSteve on 23 November 2006 #

    King Zog Flees!!!

    is this why the balkans have such a proud basketball tradition?

  2. pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør on 23 November 2006 #

    haha google’s tuppenceworth:
    “Did you mean: King Zog Feces?”

    NO I DO NOT BELIEVE I DID!!

  3. Pete Baran on 23 November 2006 #

    King Zog not related to Dido and her brother – THE TRUE KING OF ALBANIA.

  4. katstevens on 23 November 2006 #

    Surely this is ragamuffin business.

  5. Kat on 23 November 2006 #

    Surely this is ragamuffin business.

    [ed: sorry kat, oddly yr first post here was spam-med out, and now you look like a mental repeating yrself.]

  6. Kat on 24 November 2006 #

    All my logged-in comments are treated as spam! :-(

  7. Coessereone on 6 December 2007 #

    hey.. why your site loading so slow?

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