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 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 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