Manny Yarborough is 6'7" tall, weighs over 700 pounds, and is a former amateur world champion sumo wrestler.
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Have you been to the High Line yet? It’s one of Manhattan's newest parks. In the summer, it's full of sunbathers, lush plantings and strolling locals. It’s also about 30 feet above the ground, built on the bed of an old elevated train line. Writer Annik LaFarge talks about the park, five years into its reinvention.
Patricia O'Conner tells Jim Fleming that what Americans think of as a British accent is a fairly recent development.
Massillon, Ohio is obsessed with the town’s high school team, the Tigers. Kenneth Carlson was a Tiger and made a documentary film called “Go Tigers!”
The Carthusian order of Monks believe in complete withdrawal from the world.
Lucasta Miller says that the Bronte sisters cultivated their image as lonely geniuses living in isolation but had to accept the real limitations imposed on women by society.
What is normal? "Normal" is a social construct, not a medical one and society should learn to embrace diversity.
Mark Brend tells Anne Strainchamps about odd inventions like the Ondes Martenot and how composers have used them.
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