Philippines man crowned world's shortest. 12 June 2011Last updated at 07:08 Junrey's father said he stopped growing at age two A teenager from a poor family in the rural Philippines has been declared the world's shortest man as he turned 18. Guinness World Records presented Junrey Balawing, who is 59.93cm (23.6 inches) tall, with a certificate at his birthday party.
Mr Balawing stopped growing when he was two, his father said. He is more than 7cm shorter than the previous record holder, Khagendra Thapa Magar from Nepal, who had held the record since last October. Relatives say he has difficulty standing and walking, but the community was protective of him. "Officially he is the world's shortest man," declared Guinness World Records official Craig Glenday in front of cheering relatives and friends at his birthday party in the rural town of Sindangan on Mindanao island in the southern Philippines. "Thank you to all of you for supporting my son, the world's shortest man," Mr Balawing's father said. Chase Britton, Boy Without a Cerebellum, Baffles Doctors. Heather and David Britton want everyone to understand a few things about their giggling, bespectacled 3-year-old son, Chase. "He's happy. We call him the Little Gremlin. He loves to play tricks on people. He loves to sing.
His goal in life is to make people smile," Heather Britton told AOL News. "He's got so much love around him. But to an outsider, the Brittons' story might seem heartbreaking. Another son, Trey, was born 11 weeks early and only expected to live moments. Chase was also born prematurely, and he was legally blind. "That's when the doctor called and didn't know what to say to us," Britton said in a telephone interview. Chase is not a vegetable, leaving doctors bewildered and experts rethinking what they thought they knew about the human brain. "There are some very bright, specialized people across the country and in Europe that have put their minds to this dilemma and are continuing to do so, and we haven't come up with an answer," Dr.
"So it is a mystery. " Sponsored Links. General Tom Thumb. General Tom Thumb was the stage name of Charles Sherwood Stratton (January 4, 1838 – July 15, 1883), a little person who achieved great fame under circus pioneer P.T. Barnum. Early life[edit] Stratton circa 1848 Stratton was a son of a Bridgeport, Connecticut, carpenter named Sherwood Edward Stratton. Sherwood was the son of Seth Sherwood Stratton and Amy Sharpe. Sherwood married his first cousin Cynthia Thompson, daughter of Joseph Thompson and Mary Ann Sharpe. Charles Stratton's maternal and paternal grandmothers, Amy and Mary Ann Sharpe, were allegedly small twin girls born on 11 July 1781/83 in Oxford, New Haven, Connecticut. Born in Bridgeport to parents who were of medium height, Charles was a relatively large baby, weighing 9 pounds 8 ounces (4.3 kg) at birth.[1] He developed and grew normally for the first six months of his life, at which point he was 25 inches (64 cm) tall and weighed 15 pounds (6.8 kg).
Under Barnum[edit] Circa 1861 P.T. Marriage and later life[edit] Death[edit] Joseph Merrick - Elephant man. Joseph Carey Merrick (5 August 1862 – 11 April 1890), sometimes incorrectly referred to as John Merrick, was an English man with severe deformities who was exhibited as a human curiosity named the Elephant Man. He became well known in London society after he went to live at the London Hospital. Merrick was born in Leicester, Leicestershire and began to develop abnormally during the first few years of his life. His skin appeared thick and lumpy, he developed an enlargement of his lips, and a bony lump grew on his forehead. One of his arms and both feet became enlarged and at some point during his childhood he fell and damaged his hip, resulting in permanent lameness. When he was 10, his mother died and his father soon remarried. In 1884, after four years in the workhouse, Merrick contacted a showman named Sam Torr and proposed that Torr should exhibit him.
In Belgium, Merrick was robbed by his road manager and abandoned in Brussels. Merrick died on 11 April 1890, aged 27. Europe[edit] WEREWOLF SYNDROME – Hypertrichosis | The Human Marvels. The Wolf Boy, Living Werewolf or Dog-Faced Boy have been fixtures of the sideshow world for centuries. Jo-Jo, the Dog-Faced Boy is likely the most famous of the lot however cases of hypertrichosis have been reported and documented long before Jo-Jo. Hypertrichosis is really a blanket medical term that refers to excessive body hair. It can actually be generalized, symmetrically affecting most of the torso and limbs, or localized, affecting only a small area or location. The term is, however, usually reserved to refer to very above-average amount of normal body hair that is unwanted.
Nearly all the skin of the human body – with the exception of the palms and soles of the feet – are covered with hairs or hair follicles. The density of the hairs per square centimeter, the thickness of the hairs, color of the hairs, speed of hair growth, and qualities such as kinkiness tend to vary from one part of the body to another and also from one person to another. Wolfboys Performers. Hypertrichosis. Hypertrichosis. Hypertrichosis (also called Ambras syndrome) is an abnormal amount of hair growth over the body;[1][2] extensive cases of hypertrichosis have informally been called werewolf syndrome,[3] because the appearance is similar to the werewolf.
The two distinct types of hypertrichosis are generalized hypertrichosis, which occurs over the entire body, and localized hypertrichosis, which is restricted to a certain area.[1] Hypertrichosis can be either congenital (present at birth) or acquired later in life.[3][4] The excess growth of hair occurs in areas of the skin with the exception of androgen-dependent hair of the pubic area, face, and axillary regions.[5] Several circus sideshow performers in the 19th and early 20th centuries, such as Julia Pastrana, had hypertrichosis.[6] Many of them worked as freaks and were promoted as having distinct human and animal traits.
Classification[edit] Congenital[edit] Hypertrichosis lanuginosa Generalized hypertrichosis Terminal hypertrichosis Acquired[edit] The Human Marvels. Seth Cook early aging disorder The Remarkable Seth Cook. Abigail & Brittany Hensel (Age 19) Two minds one body.