What inaccurate historical factoid do you just go with?SSTF@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world – 65 points – 1 years ago77Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsShow the parent commentHe was short. But so was everyone else then.He was 5'10" which at the time was considered 'normal'.Dude 5’ 10 is slightly above average for men today. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_human_height_by_country Napoleon was 5’ 6”, but again, average for the time. https://www.history.com/news/napoleon-complex-short#As a 5’11 guy you’ve just made my day*5’6”, which was actually a little above average.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_complex#:~:text=He%20was%20actually%205%20feet,French%20adopted%20the%20metric%20system. Both 5'7" and 5'10' are listed here but I see no 5'6".1.67 Meters https://www.history.com/news/napoleon-complex-shortI wonder why the height differs so much between sites?Usually I’m a huge champion of Wikipedia, but my guess is someone on Wikipedia not accurately converting between archaic French inches/metric/imperial
He was short. But so was everyone else then.He was 5'10" which at the time was considered 'normal'.Dude 5’ 10 is slightly above average for men today. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_human_height_by_country Napoleon was 5’ 6”, but again, average for the time. https://www.history.com/news/napoleon-complex-short#As a 5’11 guy you’ve just made my day*5’6”, which was actually a little above average.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_complex#:~:text=He%20was%20actually%205%20feet,French%20adopted%20the%20metric%20system. Both 5'7" and 5'10' are listed here but I see no 5'6".1.67 Meters https://www.history.com/news/napoleon-complex-shortI wonder why the height differs so much between sites?Usually I’m a huge champion of Wikipedia, but my guess is someone on Wikipedia not accurately converting between archaic French inches/metric/imperial
He was 5'10" which at the time was considered 'normal'.Dude 5’ 10 is slightly above average for men today. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_human_height_by_country Napoleon was 5’ 6”, but again, average for the time. https://www.history.com/news/napoleon-complex-short#As a 5’11 guy you’ve just made my day*5’6”, which was actually a little above average.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_complex#:~:text=He%20was%20actually%205%20feet,French%20adopted%20the%20metric%20system. Both 5'7" and 5'10' are listed here but I see no 5'6".1.67 Meters https://www.history.com/news/napoleon-complex-shortI wonder why the height differs so much between sites?Usually I’m a huge champion of Wikipedia, but my guess is someone on Wikipedia not accurately converting between archaic French inches/metric/imperial
Dude 5’ 10 is slightly above average for men today. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_human_height_by_country Napoleon was 5’ 6”, but again, average for the time. https://www.history.com/news/napoleon-complex-short#As a 5’11 guy you’ve just made my day
*5’6”, which was actually a little above average.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_complex#:~:text=He%20was%20actually%205%20feet,French%20adopted%20the%20metric%20system. Both 5'7" and 5'10' are listed here but I see no 5'6".1.67 Meters https://www.history.com/news/napoleon-complex-shortI wonder why the height differs so much between sites?Usually I’m a huge champion of Wikipedia, but my guess is someone on Wikipedia not accurately converting between archaic French inches/metric/imperial
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_complex#:~:text=He%20was%20actually%205%20feet,French%20adopted%20the%20metric%20system. Both 5'7" and 5'10' are listed here but I see no 5'6".1.67 Meters https://www.history.com/news/napoleon-complex-shortI wonder why the height differs so much between sites?Usually I’m a huge champion of Wikipedia, but my guess is someone on Wikipedia not accurately converting between archaic French inches/metric/imperial
1.67 Meters https://www.history.com/news/napoleon-complex-shortI wonder why the height differs so much between sites?Usually I’m a huge champion of Wikipedia, but my guess is someone on Wikipedia not accurately converting between archaic French inches/metric/imperial
I wonder why the height differs so much between sites?Usually I’m a huge champion of Wikipedia, but my guess is someone on Wikipedia not accurately converting between archaic French inches/metric/imperial
Usually I’m a huge champion of Wikipedia, but my guess is someone on Wikipedia not accurately converting between archaic French inches/metric/imperial
He was short. But so was everyone else then.
He was 5'10" which at the time was considered 'normal'.
Dude 5’ 10 is slightly above average for men today. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_human_height_by_country
Napoleon was 5’ 6”, but again, average for the time. https://www.history.com/news/napoleon-complex-short#
As a 5’11 guy you’ve just made my day
*5’6”, which was actually a little above average.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_complex#:~:text=He%20was%20actually%205%20feet,French%20adopted%20the%20metric%20system.
Both 5'7" and 5'10' are listed here but I see no 5'6".
1.67 Meters
https://www.history.com/news/napoleon-complex-short
I wonder why the height differs so much between sites?
Usually I’m a huge champion of Wikipedia, but my guess is someone on Wikipedia not accurately converting between archaic French inches/metric/imperial