Number of View: 874Around 7,500 students in Vadodara city of Gujarat, made a 4.2 kilometres long painting to enter the Guinness Book of World Records on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi’s 140th birth anniversary on Friday. The painting highlights and draws public attention on traffic rules and road mannerism as its theme. Municipal school students [...]
Number of View: 317The soccer ball sculpture that had been constructed at Telkom’s Lukasrand tower, in Pretoria, has set a Guinness World Record in the ‘largest football sculpture’ category, while a second similar structure at Telkom’s Hillbrow tower, in Johannesburg, was under construction. The 50-t structure in Pretoria was constructed out of fibreglass shells that [...]
Number of View: 465Aug. 24, 2009 shows the profile of a colossal crock of black and white porcelain, which stands at 1.36 meters in height, measures 6.8 meters in perimeter, with a caliber of 2 meters and a total weight of over 1,500 kg, in Jingdezhen, east China”s Jiangxi Province. It took local porcelain artisan [...]
Number of View: 306Following the success of last year’s record-breaking Pennies for the Park project organized by the Youth Activities Team, Mercy Health System of Kansas is gearing up for its own world record attempt. On Saturday, Sept. 26, Mercy officials, sponsors and other volunteers will try to create the world’s largest cup of tea, [...]
Number of View: 340Trying to stave off restlessness after he’d sold his share of his construction company, Markley “Mark” Noel had this bright idea: He’d take down a tree from his property and carve it into a wooden chain, perhaps making something long enough to qualify him for a Guinness World Record. He figured he [...]
Number of View: 179The 2008 Beijing Olympics brought China to the world, and featured a number of stunning performances. One year after, the people of China have turned in their own stunning performance. This morning, a new Guinness World record was set as 33 thousand, 9 hundred and 96 people performed taichi at the National [...]
Number of View: 252Verizon Wireless, the company with the nation’s largest and most reliable wireless voice and data network, is sponsoring a Nebraska farmer’s efforts to create the world’s largest corn maze and be recognized in the Guinness World Records book. The 54.428 acre maze is part of Benson Farms, which is located in Denton, [...]
Number of View: 292FUKUYAMA, Hiroshima–Paper airplane enthusiast Takuo Toda has rewritten the Guinness World Record for the longest flight time by a paper airplane. Folded from paper made from sugarcane, Toda’s record-breaking airplane weighs only 2 grams. On April 11, it was thrown to a height of 18 meters at a gymnasium in Fukuyama and [...]
Number of View: 306Saudi citizen Mohammed Alasiri, who claims to have made the longest rosary in the world, shows his rosary in the Disabled Children”s Association in Riyadh June 17, 2009. Alasiri will be listed in the Guinness world Records if his accomplishment is accepted by the organization. The rosary is about length of 150meters [...]
Number of View: 332Himanshu Agrawal from Origami Mitra Club (www.origami-mitra.com) along with nine students from IIT-Bombay spent 12 hours folding one sheet of paper-35 feet x 35 feet – to create a 20 feet high origami giraffe which sets the world record for the Largest Origami Giraffe. “Usually this design for a giraffe from origami [...]
Number of View: 177Government agencies will take a crack at a Guinness World Record by rolling out the largest photo mosaic, featuring 1,000 pictures of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. The 180 x 160-foot tarpaulin print will be unveiled at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila at 11 a.m. on Sunday, the President’s 62nd birthday, Malacañang said in [...]
Number of View: 711She is the first woman in the Middle East to enter the Guinness World Records book. And she’s just 25. Meet Emirati Reem Al Gurg, who made it to the record books by creating what has been officially declared as the world’s largest bead mosaic. Called Sahara Vision, the 3.75 square-metre artwork [...]
Number of View: 384An Abu Dhabi resident is attempting to make the largest handmade flag with beads to enter Guinness World Records. Indian expatriate Jeyaraman Ravi, 41, is giving final touches to the UAE national flag after a 14-month-long endeavour. “I have completed two decades of my life here and wanted to give a tribute [...]
