In Hollywood, he gained recognition with teen audiences for his role in the college student film Where the Boys Are ( 1960 ), where he appeared with Paula Prentiss, an actress he would be teamed with in several of his early films, in part because they were the tallest contract players of their time ( Hutton at 6 ' 5 " and Prentiss at 5 ' 10 ").

* 1991 – The Warsaw radio mast, at one time the tallest construction ever built, collapses.

* 1918 – Robert Wadlow, World's tallest ever human ( d. 1940 )

* 1974 – Completion of the Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built at the time.

* Taipei 101 became the tallest building in the world ever built after it officially opened on December 31, 2004, a record it held until the opening of the Burj Khalifa ( Formerly known as Burj Dubai ) in January 2010, standing at 828 m ( 2, 717 ft ).

* February 10 – William Bradley, Britain's tallest man ever 7 ft 9 in.

** The Warsaw radio mast is completed, the second tallest structure ever built ( it collapses on August 8, 1991 ).

* August 8 – The Warsaw radio mast, the tallest construction ever built at the time, collapses.

* July 15 – Robert Pershing Wadlow, tallest man ever ( infection ) ( b. 1918 )

* Home Insurance Building, the first skyscraper in history, becomes the tallest man-made structure ever built after it officially opened in 1885.

** Trijntje Keever, presumed to have been the tallest woman ever ( d. 1633 )

* July 22 – Trijntje Keever, presumed to have been the tallest woman ever ( b. 1616 )

* May 30 – William Bradley, Britain's tallest ever man ( b. 1787 )

Burj Khalifa ( " Khalifa Tower "), formerly known as Burj Dubai, is a supertall skyscraper in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and is the tallest man-made structure ever built, at.

One of the tallest bowlers ever to play Test cricket, Garner appeared in 58 Tests between 1977 and 1987 and took 259 wickets at an average of barely above 20, making him statistically one of the most effective bowlers of all time.

One of the world's tallest Douglas fir trees ever recorded was in the town of Mineral within Lewis County, attaining a height of.

Despite popular belief, no law has ever limited buildings to the height of the United States Capitol or the Washington Monument, which remains the District's tallest structure.

* Gheorghe Mureşan ( born 1971 ), former professional basketball player ; at 7 ' 7 " ( 2. 31 m ), he is arguably the tallest man to ever play in the NBA.

The highest were in Salem, Massachusetts, composed of as many as forty tiers of barrels ; these are the tallest bonfires ever recorded.

Lomu, a wing, had unique physical gifts ; even though he stood 1. 96 m ( 6 ft 5 in ) and weighed 119 kg ( 262 lb ), making him both the tallest and heaviest back ever to play for New Zealand, he could run 100 metres in under 11 seconds.

The pinnacle of Il-Khanate architecture was reached with the construction of the Mausoleum of Öljaitü ( 1302 – 1312 ) in Zanjan, Iran, which is topped by a dome that measures 50 m in height and 25 m in diameter, making it the 3rd largest and tallest masonry dome ever erected.

The ceremonial architecture at Quiriguá is quite modest, but the site's importance lies in its wealth of sculpture, including the tallest stone monuments ever erected in the New World.

Robert Grebler, probably because he spent so much time demonstrating Jenga in its early years, may have built the tallest Jenga tower ever at 40 levels.

It is the tallest construction that has ever been moved to another position, relative to the surface of the Earth, and is among the largest and most complex engineering projects in history.

The Troll A platform has an overall height of 472 metres, weighs 683, 600 tons ( 1, 2 million tons with ballast ) and has the distinction of being the tallest structure ever moved by mankind.

Bresslaw, at exactly 6 ft 7 in ( 2. 01 m ), was the tallest of the Carry On cast, head and shoulders over fellow Carry On regular, Barbara Windsor, who is.

The cathedral was named the tallest building ( the lantern tower with the cast iron spire of the 19th century ) in the world ( 151 m ) from 1876 to 1880.

The Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Portman's first atrium hotel, would lead to many more iconic hotels and multi-use complexes with atria, including the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles ( 1974 – 1976 ), the New York Marriott Marquis ( 1982 – 1985 ), and the Renaissance Center in Detroit ( first phase 1973-1977 ), whose central tower has remained the tallest hotel in the Western Hemisphere.

In 1996, SHKP was the lead developer which had bid the sum of HK $ 5. 5 billion to acquire the rights to develop Hong Kong's tallest building, the International Finance Centre.

It was the tallest building in Hong Kong and Asia from 1989 to 1992, and it was the first building outside the United States to break the 305 m ( 1, 000 ft ) mark.

This was the tallest building in Hong Kong and Asia from 1990 to 1992, the first building outside the United States to break the 305 m ( 1, 000 ft ) mark, and the first composite space frame high-rise building.

That also means it was the tallest outside the United States from its completion year, 1990.

The blue tower in the centre, the Basler Messeturm | Messeturm, was Switzerland's tallest building 2003-10 ; the bridge on the extreme right is the Wettsteinbrücke, Basel's second oldest bridge but recently replaced by a new structure.

It was the tallest building in Asia from 1992 to 1996, until the Shun Hing Square in Shenzhen, People's Republic of China, was built.

Central Plaza was also the tallest reinforced concrete building in the world, until it was surpassed by CITIC Plaza, Guangzhou.

Hence the reinforced concrete structure was adopted and Central Plaza is now one of the tallest reinforced concrete buildings in the world.

The clearest symbol of the whole effort was the ambitious Canary Wharf project that constructed Britain's tallest building and established a second major financial centre in London.

Although it was the world's tallest structure when completed in 1889, the Eiffel Tower has since lost its standing both as the tallest lattice tower and as the tallest structure in France.

Initially at, the Great Pyramid was the tallest man-made structure in the world for over 3, 800 years.

The pyramid remained the tallest man-made structure in the world for over 3, 800 years, unsurpassed until the 160-metre-tall spire of Lincoln Cathedral was completed c. 1300.

It was also the second tallest building in Asia at the time.

When the Hancock Tower was finished in 1976, it was the tallest building in New England.

With a height variously estimated at somewhere between, it was for many centuries among the tallest man-made structures on Earth.

The king, who was walking in his garden when the messenger arrived, made no reply, but kept striking off the heads of the tallest poppies with his stick.

Until Lincoln Cathedral was finished in AD 1311, it was the tallest building in the world.

At the time of its completion, it was the tallest secular building in the world.

At the time of its completion in 1973, it was the tallest building in the world, surpassing the World Trade Center towers in New York, and it held this rank for nearly 25 years.