His was a face the world recognized on television and the big screen. However, try to name the man who played the ghost in the New York subway who bumped into Patrick Swayze in the movie, Ghost or who took on the role of one of the patients in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest...

While he served as the honorary co-chair of The National Marfan Foundation, Schiavelli did not die from the genetic disorder called Marfan Syndrome from which he suffered...

WHEN people first arrived in the Willandra region about 50,000 years ago they found freshwater lakes brimming with fish...

...One man, estimated to be 194 centimetres tall, accelerates up to 20 kilometres an hour, his pace length increasing from 1.8 metres to 1.9 metres in less than 12 metres. "The surface on which this person was running was drying mud that left detailed impressions of foot architecture, with mud oozing between the toes, and the slight heal slippage on the surface"...

Another man stood an estimated 198 centimetres. Although this is taller than the two skeletal remains Webb has examined, of people 179 and 173 centimetres tall, he suspects the two tall men were of similar robust build, with large jaws and brow ridges...

I am very depressed by the news these days. But, believe me, it's not what you think. It's all because I'm left-handed, an extrovert and a writer of poetry...

Archives of Sexual Behavior reported in June 2005, in an article titled "A Cross-Cultural Investigation of the Role of Foot Size in Physical
Attractiveness," that women with small feet are more attractive to men than those with big feet. Well, the ancient Chinese didn't need a scientific study to know that! Combine this with another study claiming that short women have greater reproductive success than tall women, and the picture certainly starts to become clear...