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8 ft 11.1 in (272.0 cm) Robert Pershing Wadlow (February 22, 1918 – July 15, 1940), also known as the Alton Giant and the Giant of Illinois, was an American man who was the tallest person in recorded history for whom there is irrefutable evidence. He was born and raised in Alton, Illinois, a small city near St. Louis, Missouri.
65606. Area code. 417. FIPS code. 29-00964 [4] GNIS feature ID. 2393937 [3] Alton is a city and the county seat [5] of Oregon County, Missouri, United States. The population was 707 at the 2020 census.
West Alton, Missouri. / 38.86778°N 90.22583°W / 38.86778; -90.22583. West Alton is a city in St. Charles County, Missouri, United States. The population was 359 at the 2020 census. It is located at the tip of the peninsula formed by the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers and is directly across Alton, Illinois .
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Clara Bow. Clara Gordon Bow ( / boʊ /; July 29, 1905 – September 27, 1965) was an American actress who rose to stardom during the silent film era of the 1920s and successfully made the transition to "talkies" in 1929. Her appearance as a plucky shopgirl in the film It brought her global fame and the nickname "The It Girl". [1]
Current River State Park is a public recreation area occupying more than 1,200 acres (490 ha) of land along the Current River north of Eminence in Newton Township, Shannon County, Missouri. The state park consists of land and buildings originally developed as the Alton Club, a corporate retreat used in the 1930s and 1940s by the Alton Box Board ...
Social media users, some of whom are identifying themselves as country music fans, are calling for a boycott of the Country Music Television network after it pulled Jason Aldean's controversial ...
L. Salvia sclarea, the clary or clary sage (clary deriving from Middle English clarie, from Anglo-Norman sclaree, from Late or Medieval Latin sclarēia meaning clear ), is a biennial or short-lived herbaceous perennial in the genus Salvia. [1] It is native to the northern Mediterranean Basin, along with some areas in north Africa and Central ...