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All other railways use 1,668 mm (5 ft 5 + 21 ⁄ 32 in) (broad gauge); some use 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) metre gauge; Decauville uses 500 mm (19 + 3 ⁄ 4 in) gauge. Planned and under construction high-speed railways to use 1,668 mm ( 5 ft 5 + 21 ⁄ 32 in ) to maintain interoperability with the rest of the network.
Cape gauge (1,067 mm) Standard gauge (1,435 mm) Russian gauge (1,520 mm) Five foot gauge (1,524 mm) Irish gauge (1,600 mm) Iberian gauge (1,668 mm) Indian gauge (1,676 mm) This list presents an overview of railway track gauges by size. A gauge is measured between the inner faces of the rails.
The second-tallest unsuccessful candidate is John Kerry, at 6 ft 4 in (193 cm). The shortest unsuccessful presidential candidate is Stephen A. Douglas, at 5 ft 4 in (163 cm). The next shortest is Hillary Clinton, who lost the 2016 election and is 5 ft 5 in (165 cm). The largest height difference between two presidential candidates (out of the ...
But in real life Bogart's height was only 5 feet 8 inches — and actually an inch shorter than his "Casablanca" lover, Ingrid Bergman, and his movie star and model wife, Lauren Bacall.
The shortest player ever in the old American Basketball Association (1967–76) was Penny Ann Early, a 5-foot-3-inch (160 cm) jockey who took part in one play in one game for the Kentucky Colonels as a publicity stunt in 1969. (The shortest signed ABA players were Jerry Dover and Monte Towe, both 5 feet 7 inches or 170 centimetres.)
Track gauge. Originally, various track gauges were used in the United States. Some railways, primarily in the northeast, used standard gauge of 4 ft 8⁄ in ( 1,435 mm ); others used gauges ranging from 2 ft ( 610 mm) to 6 ft ( 1,829 mm ). As a general rule, southern railroads were built to one or another broad gauge, mostly 5 ft ( 1,524 mm ...
Tolerances. Finland allows its gauge to be 1,520–1,529 mm on first class lines (classes 1AA and 1A, speed 220–160 km/h). [ 17] If the rolling stock's tolerance is kept within certain limits, through running between 1,520 mm ( 4 ft 1127⁄32 in) railways and Finnish 1,524 mm ( 5 ft) railways is allowed.
Thus thousands of men under this height were denied the opportunity to fight in the war. As a result of pressure to allow them entry, special "Bantam Battalions" were created composed of men who were 4 feet 10 inches (147 cm) to 5 feet 3 inches (160 cm). By the end of the war there were 29 Bantam Battalions of about 1,000 men each.