The exhibition is based on the views and experiences of these three Japanese men; through new finds, historic works, and documents, including objects from Japanese and Ä°stanbul museums that are displayed for the first time, it conveys the Ottoman Empire and Turkey impressions of Japanese from the Meiji period.
If anyone wonders if basketball players like Kobe Bryant and Lebron James could ever make it in the NFL, Harold Carmichael provides the best example for them. At 6'8 and 225 lbs., he is the tallest WR in NFL history and he had a good career. Throughout his career, he was viewed as a fan favorite, which included being selected as the Philadelphia Eagles Man of the Year in 1980.
Ian Spofforth (listed as Ian Spofford in two of the newspaper clippings below) was billed at a height of 7'3 in Guinness Book of Records, but was 7'2 according to himself. He was listed as the tallest man in Britain, until George Gracie overtook him. More images of Ian Spofforth: Click on thumbnail to enlarge.