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Stuart Claxton, right, head U.S. adjudicator for Guiness World Records, make a confirmation measurement of the legs of Svetlana Pankratova, the woman with the world's longest legs from Russia, during a news conference in New York's Times Square Monday. Standing 6' 5" tall with legs measuring 51.9 inches, Pankratova's first U.S. appearance kicks off a week long national celebration of record-breaking events for Guiness World Records. You write the cutline.

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a. Here's the long and short of it, Svetlana borrowed my full length pink dress for her lofty debut in New York, thus the resulting mini-skirt look -- JeanieSpokane.
2. Svetlana's next feat is to skate on water -- Charlie.
3. The world is getting a lot of mileage out of Svetlana's 51.9-inch legs. "If you look at it that way, they actually stretch around the world," she commented -- Tn_Top_Hat.

HM: Pecky

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