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Robert Earl Hughes (June 4, 1926 – July 10, 1958) was an American man who was, during his lifetime, the heaviest human being recorded, weighing 1,071 pounds (486 kg). He remains the heaviest human in the world able to walk without the need of assistance. Early life and family Robert Hughes was born in Monticello, Missouri, the son of Abraham Guy Hughes (1878–1957) and Georgia Alice Weatharby (1906–1947). He was born "weighing a hefty but not abnormal" 11 pounds 4 ounces (5.1 kg) and was a "fairly average-size baby until he contracted whooping cough at about five months old." The family moved to Fishhook, Illinois, when Robert was six months old. Career Hughes made some income from selling photographs of himself. During his adult life, Hughes made guest appearances at carnivals and fairs. At age 27, he joined a traveling roadshow, often accompanied by some of his family. Plans to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show variety television program were announced but never materialized. In 1957, traveling with his brother Guy and Guy's wife Lillian, Hughes had bookings throughout the country. Walking, even with his massive cane, had started to be difficult for the 31-year-old. While at a carnival, word reached Hughes that his father had died at age 79 back in Illinois. Guy and Lillian returned to Illinois for the funeral, but Robert stayed on, believing it was his duty to honour his commitments. At season's end, he returned to Guy's farm, unable to walk more than 20 feet (6.1 m) without the assistance of family members, who would follow closely, lugging a five-foot (1.5 m) wide, steel-reinforced chair in case of exhaustion. Death While travelling with the roadshow in Nappanee, Indiana, Hughes developed a rash, and the flesh under his fingernails turned blue. Because he was unable to be moved to the nearest hospital in Bremen, Indiana, doctors treated him at his trailer, and determined he was suffering from measles. He developed uremia. He died on July 10, 1958, at the age of 32. He was buried in a small church cemetery in Benville, Illinois, in Brown County near his hometown, Fishhook. About 2,000 people attended the funeral. See also List of the heaviest people Traveling carnival References Further reading Faig, Kenneth W. (2001). Big Heart: Remembering Robert Earl Hughes, 1926-1958. Issue 8 of Moshassuck monograph series. Moshassuck Press – via Google Books.. Discover the Robert Hughes popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Robert Hughes books.
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A Shropshire Lad and Other Poems
Nick Laird & A.E. HousmanA. E. Housman was one of the bestloved poets of his day, whose poems conjure up a potent and idyllic rural world imbued with a poignant sense of loss. They are expressed in simple ...
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The FSG Poetry Anthology
Jonathan Galassi & Robyn CreswellTo honor FSG's 75th anniversary, here is a unique anthology celebrating the riches and variety of its poetry listpast, present, and futurePoetry has been at the heart of Farrar, St...
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The Faerie Queene
Edmund Spenser, C O'Donnell & Thomas RocheThe Faerie Queene was the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems in the language for later poets from Milton to Tennyson. Dedicating his work to Elizabeth I, S...
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Seven Viking Romances
Penguin Books LtdCombining traditional myth, oral history and reworked European legend to depict an ancient realm of heroism and wonder, the seven tales collected here are among the most fantastica...
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I, Witness
Niki Mackay'A cracking thriller and a great female protagonist.' C.J. Tudor, author of Sunday Times Bestseller The Chalk Man'I couldn't put I,Witness down, this is a 2018 mustread' Phoebe Mor...
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Virdanco Inc. v. Mts International and Robert C. Hughes
Colorado Court of AppealsA hearing panel of the Supreme Court Grievance Committee approved the hearing boards recommendation that the respondent in this attorney discipline proceeding be disbarred, be requ...
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Robert Burns
Patrick Scott HoggFollowing the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns (175996), Patrick Scott Hogg presents the greatest of Scotland's poets within the true context of his times. Exploding ...
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Letters from Black America
Pamela NewkirkLetters from Black America fills a literary and historical void by presenting the pantheon of African American experience in the most intimate way possiblethrough the heartfelt cor...
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Pain Hustlers
Evan HughesThe inside story of a band of entrepreneurial upstarts who made millions selling painkillersuntil their scheme unraveled, putting them at the center of a landmark cri...
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Jesus Elusive
Robert HughesModern scholarship has made Jesus into a sage figure, understandable and normal, though with a challenging message. Jesus Elusive restores a mystical quality to the person Jesus by...
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How Lovely the Ruins
Annie Chagnot & Emi IkkandaThis wideranging collection of inspirational poetry and prose offers readers solace, perspective, and the courage to persevere.In times of personal hardship or collective anxiety, ...
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The Shorter Poems
Edmund Spenser & Richard McCabeAlthough he is most famous for The Faerie Queene, this volume demonstrates that for these poems alone Spenser should still be ranked as one of England's foremost poets.Spenser's sh...
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Clash of Empires
Ben KaneHAS ROME FINALLY MET ITS MATCH?'A triumph!' Harry Sidebottom 'Exceptional' Anthony Riches'Fans of battleheavy historical fiction will, justly, adore Clash of Empires' The TimesTHE ...
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To Do Justice
Randall C. JimersonBiography of a civil rights activist who worked tirelessly at the heart of two social and political revolutionsA native Alabamian, Reverend Robert E. Hughes worked fulltime in the ...
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Survivors
William PeskettSurvivors is William Peskett's second book in the Secker & Warburg Poets series. At one level, it marks his move 'From Belfast to Suffolk' (the title of one of the poems), but ...
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Seduction
Karina LongworthIn this riveting popular history, the creator of You Must Remember This probes the inner workings of Hollywood’s glamorous golden age through the stories of some of the dozens of a...
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Idylls of the King
Alfred Lord Tennyson & J. GrayTennyson had a lifelong interest in the legend of King Arthur and after the huge success of his poem 'Morte d'Arthur' he built on the theme with this series of twelve poems, writte...
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Warehouse
Keith Gray'I know a place you can go'. It's a secret place hidden among the rundown buildings of the derelict dockyards. A community of young people have gathered in an old warehouse to get ...
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The unConsciousness Manifesto
Robert HughesThe science of who we are. How does the brain produce our identity? Written in plain words for nonspecialists, The unConsciousness Manifesto describes what it means to be human acc...
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The Spectacle of Skill
Robert Hughes & Adam Gopnik“I am completely an elitist, in the cultural but emphatically not the social sense. I prefer the good to the bad, the articulate to the mumbling, the aesthetically developed to the...
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Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz
Gail CrowtherNamed a Best Book of 2021 by the Los Angeles TimesA vividly rendered and empathetic exploration of how two of the greatest poets of the 20th centurySylvia Plath and Anne Sextonbeca...
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Without Looking Back
Tabitha SuzumaTwelveyearold Parisian boy Louis Whittaker has a lot on his plate his parents are locked in a custody battle over him and his brother and sister, Mum's always working late and...
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How to Work Without Losing Your Mind
Cate Sevilla'Genuinely empowering' Daisy Buchanan'An invaluable guide to surviving professional life' Viv Groskop'Comforting during these uncertain times' Yomi AdegokeAwardwinning journalist a...
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The Making of the British Landscape
Francis PryorThis is the changing story of Britain as it has been preserved in our fields, roads, buildings, towns and villages, mountains, forests and islands. From our suburban streets that s...
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Preoccupations
Seamus HeaneyNobel laureate Seamus Heaney's first collection of prose, Preoccupations, begins with a vivid account of his early years on his father's farm in Northern Ireland and his coming of ...
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Henry Hughes v. Robert A. Heinze
United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.Before HEALY, ORR and HAMLIN, Circuit Judges. HAMLIN, Circuit Judge.
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Petrarch in English
Thomas RocheFranceso Petrarch (13041374), creator of the sonnet form, remained for more than three hundred years the most influential poet in Europe, his works more widely read than even those...
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The Penguin Book of Elegy
Prof Stephen Regan & Andrew Motion'A tremendous sentimental education of a book ... a literary adventure ... chosen with a scholarly discernment mixed with a wildcard flair ... fascinating and unignorable' Kate Kel...
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Metromedia Long Distance v. Robert H. Hughes
Supreme Court Of UtahIn 1984, Robert H. Hughes and Johnnie B. Rogers, former legal counsel and investors of LDS, filed suit against Gary Scott, Lyn Hawthorne, and LDS as well as against other parties n...
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Leftovers
Robert HughesLeftovers presents selections from Hughes' published and unpublished writings, chosen by the author, and with commentaries supplied by Hughes regarding their composition, intent, a...
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The House Without Windows
Barbara Newhall FollettEscape into the wild from the comfort of your own home this winter, with a dazzling lost classic of nature writing... Eepersip is a girl with the wild in her heart. She does not wa...
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Robert M. Hughes and Doris M. Hughes v. Commonwealth Pennsylvania Department Transportation
Supreme Court of TennesseeThe three matters listed herein were consolidated at trial due to a similar factual basis and an identical issue, being: whether section 611 of the Eminent Domain Code is unconstit...
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Carol A. Hughes Et Al. v. Robert Jahoda Et Al.
Court of Appeals of New YorkThe order of the Appellate Division should be reversed, with costs, the Town's cross motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint denied, the plaintiffs' motion...
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Songs of the Dying Earth
George R.R. Martin & Gardner DozoisThis tribute anthology celebrates the work of SF/F legend Jack Vance, featuring original stories from George R. R. Martin, Neil Gaiman, Dan Simmons, Elizabeth Moon, Tanith Lee, Tad...
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The Last Confessions of Sylvia P.
Lee KravetzThe Millions Most Anticipated Pick and A GMA March Reads Pick“Lee Kravetz has created a bit of a miracle, a plotdriven literary puzzle box whose mystery lives in both its winding a...
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The History of Alexander
Quintus Curtius Rufus & John YardleyAlexander the Great (356323 BC), who led the Macedonian army to victory in Egypt, Syria, Persia and India, was perhaps the most successful conqueror the world has ever seen. Yet al...
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The Erotic Poems
Ovid & Peter GreenThis collection of Ovid's poems deals with the whole spectrum of sexual desire, ranging from deeply emotional declarations of eternal devotion to flippant arguments for promiscuity...
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The Falling Sword
Ben KaneCAN GREECE RESIST THE MIGHT OF ROME?Get ready for the climax of the Roman invasion of Greece in Sunday Times bestseller Ben Kane's latest historical adventure.ONE FINAL CLASHReelin...
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Virdanco Inc. v. Mts International and Robert C. Hughes
Colorado Court of AppealsDefendant, Alfred P. Reaud, appeals from a judgment of conviction entered upon a jury verdict finding him guilty of making a false report of explosives. We affirm.
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Say Hello to My Little Friend
Nat SegaloffThe author of The Exorcist Legacy: 50 Years of Fear, brings us another sensational Hollywood tellall celebrating the 40th anniversary of Brian De Palma’s legendary 1983 gangster fi...
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Robert D. Hughes v. State Delaware
Supreme Court of DelawareThis is an appeal by Robert D. Hughes (defendant) who was sentenced by the Superior Court after a jury had found him guilty of Murder in the First Degree, 11 Del.C. § 636(a)(1). 1 ...
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The Rectory
Robert HughesWhen Laurel and her family find an old summer house on the far east end of Long Island, they hope also to find peace, as they recover from the sudden death of their young son. Amid...
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To the Moon
Professor Carol Ann Duffy DBECarol Ann Duffy's beautiful anthology features an eclectic mix of poems that chart human fascination with the moon across the centuries and around the world.Carol Ann Duffy on To t...
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E. J. Hughes Paints British Columbia
Robert AmosA retrospective on one of BC’s most famous artists that features beautifully reproduced landscape paintings from all over mainland BC, and unveils new photographs, sketches, and ep...
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Memoirs of My Life
Edward GibbonEdward Gibbon was one of the world's greatest historians and a towering figure of his age. When he died in 1794 he left behind the unfinished drafts of his Memoirs, which were post...
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Robert J. Hughes v. Julie A. Harrelson
Supreme Court of AlaskaRobert Hughes was injured when the motorcycle he was driving collided with an automobile driven by Julie Harrelson. Harrelson was insured under a policy issued by Progr...