Efforts to encourage activities like village tours and handicraft workshops appears to be helping tourism rebound from ...

Ancient times refer to the period spanning from the early development of human civilizations to the end of classical antiquity, roughly 3000 BCE to 500 CE. This era saw the rise of powerful empires, ...

This was no small feat, with each moai measuring between four and 12 feet (1.2m and ... at 481 feet (147m), was the world's tallest manmade structure for nearly four millennia. It is strange to think ...

Meet the tallest people in history! From 19th-century giants to modern record-holders, their heights continue to amaze the world. The tallest person in recorded history, Wadlow reached 8 ft 11.1 in.

George Bell, a Hampton Roads native and former Harlem Globetrotter, was 7-foot-8 and, at one point, held the record as the tallest living man in the U.S. and third-tallest living human in the world.

When he tried out for the LA Clippers in 1988, he briefly qualified as the tallest man on an NBA roster. That dream fizzled. But later on, he wore another crown: Tallest Man in America.

Following the completion of Brazil's tallest skyscraper, we've rounded up the tallest building in each of the South American countries, from Colombia to Argentina. The spread of skyscrapers in ...

Europe’s tallest abandoned building may finally be completed after standing half-finished for four years, as long as it gets enough funding. Construction of the German Elbtower began in 2021 but ...

Bell, who was born in Portsmouth, Virginia in 1957, stood at an astounding seven-foot-eight-inches and was featured in the Guinness Book of World Records in 2007 as the tallest man in America.

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – George Bell, a former Harlem Globetrotter, actor and law enforcement officer who held the record for the tallest man in America, has died at age 67. Called a “gentle ...