Number of View: 257Youngsters who make up the South Pasadena Children’s Orchestra returned as champions from a recent trip to Carnegie Hall, earning top rankings for their performance. After a series of benefits and donations helped the students raise the $60,000 they needed for the trip, the orchestra – made up of children ages 5 [...]
May 29, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Number of View: 638A dramatic vertical greenhouse shaped like the wings of a dragonfly could revolutionise farming in cities around the world, according to its architect. The bizarre looking 600m tall building was designed by Belgian designer Vincent Callebaut and would be based on Roosevelt Island in New York. Spread across 132 floors it would [...]
May 27, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Number of View: 151Agatha Christie has set a new world record – for the book with the thickest spine. Measuring over a foot long, with 4,032 pages, the volume contains the complete Miss Marple stories – all 12 novels and 20 short stories. With 252, 16-page hand-sewn sections, the production values of this limited edition [...]
May 25, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Number of View: 17519-year-old Erik Kloeker of Florence, KY recently returned from his record-breaking trip to Europe with not one, but TWO new Guinness World Records. Kloeker broke the records while on the set of the Guinness World Records Television Show in Milan, Italy. During his international debut Kloeker set his sights on breaking the [...]
May 23, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Number of View: 308All the soul-searching, sleep specialists and acupuncturists seem to have paid off – singer, rapper, musician and producer Gonzales has beaten the world record for the longest solo concert. The Canadian artist played for 27 hours, three minutes and 44 seconds at Paris’s Ciné 13 Théâtre. The previous record, set by India’s [...]
May 21, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Number of View: 707An 11-year-old Utah boy covered his face with 43 live snails to break a world record of putting the most snails on face. Fin Keheler from Sandy allowed 43 of the slimy mollusks to be put on his face Saturday. He wants the Guinness World Records to verify his effort. Keleher had [...]
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Number of View: 295The nearly complete and remarkably preserved skeleton of a small, 47 million-year-old creature found in Germany was displayed Tuesday by scientists who said it would help illuminate the evolutionary roots of monkeys, apes and humans. Experts praised the discovery for the level of detail it provided but said it was far from [...]
May 19, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Number of View: 500When her husband shot her five years ago, Connie Culp was left without a nose, a palate or lower eyelids, but on Tuesday she revealed her new face. Culp’s was the world’s first near-total facial transplant and the fourth known facial transplant to have been successfully performed to date. The 46-year-old mother [...]
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Number of View: 343When the Las Vegas mayor stepped out Thursday to blue skies and 90-degree temperatures, he declared the year’s hottest season had officially arrived.“The mayor of Las Vegas controls the universe,” Goodman joked during a proclamation ceremony in front of the world-famous “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign. The event marked the 50th [...]
May 16, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Number of View: 389A FLAWLESS vivid blue diamond weighing 7.03 carats sold on Tuesday for a record 10.5 million Swiss francs (S$14 million), the highest price paid per carat for any gemstone at auction, Sotheby’s said. The rectangular-shaped blue stone, the rarest to enter the international market this year, went to an anonymous buyer bidding [...]
May 16, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Number of View: 132IT was a spectacle of a unique kind. Not just one or tens, hundreds or thousands but more than one and a half lakh people participated in mass-singing of seven sankirtans of saint-composer Annamacharya at Parade Grounds in Secunderabad on Sunday. In the end, the one-and-a-half lakh singers and the organisers achieved [...]
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Number of View: 312An Austrian carpenter has found a macabre way of getting into the Guinness Book of Records: Over a 30-year career, he’s built 707,335 coffins. Officials in Austria’s Salzburg province say Herbert Weber has been honored for constructing more caskets than any other known carpenter. Weber says he started making coffins in May [...]
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Number of View: 1048New Delhi Making and breaking records come naturally to Biswaroop Roy Chowdhury. At 35, he has already been setting world records for past 10 years. “I like to do something creative each day and test myself,” he says. With two Guinness world records to his name, one in 2006 for memorising 14 [...]
May 16, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Number of View: 132It was the ultimate bromance: Two Pennsylvania men spent most of March sending each other constant text messages. In the end, more than 217,000 messages were sent and one of the friends ended up with a $26,300 bill. “It pretty much started as a joke. I don’t personally really like texting all [...]
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Number of View: 111A New York man has become the first person to simultaneously hold 100 titles in the Guinness Book of World Records following a mass poetry reading. Ashrita Furman, 54, obtained his 100th simultaneous record Tuesday by organizing a group that read a poem, “Precious” by late Indian spiritual leader Sri Chinmoy, in [...]
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