Do you have a favorite legion?

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We are extremely off-topic and threatening to go even further, so let's bring this back to favorite legions or take it to another thread... but I'll just toss my two cents in... nutrition tends to have a major effect on height and size. Poorly nourished infants do not develop physically or mentally into their full potential. Previous to the meat-glutted Twentieth Century, when the idea of a "chicken in every pot," became an achievable promise in Western countries, most people subsisted primarily on cereals. Low protein diets contribute to shortness; it may well be that Germanics were so tall because as cattle herders rather than true agriculturists they subsisted on dairy-rich high-protein foods.<br>
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As for the Dutch, I've heard one German say that they always have their noses so high in the air, the body must grow to keep up. E EM<br>
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And BTW, when one says "length" instead of "height," it looks a bit odd. There was surely some speculation regarding Caesar's length, but not on account of his soldiering...<br>
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Cheers,<br>
J. <p></p><i></i>