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 [...]
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Number of View: 787They say they beat it. Thousands of Mexicans claimed they broke the record for most people dancing to “Thriller” simultaneously in one place on Saturday, which would have been Michael Jackson’s 51st birthday. “We did it!” organizer Javier Hildago shouted to thousands of people wearing black fedoras, white gloves, aviator shades and [...]
Aug 31, 2009 | 5 comments | View Post
Number of View: 177The small town of Ehden in north Lebanon gained an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records on Saturday for producing the largest ever kebbe — a dish of minced meat and cracked wheat. A representative of Guinness World Records was on hand to certify that the giant meal prepared in [...]
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Number of View: 256Last month, a Greensboro man was killed in a freak accident at UNC Greensboro. This weekend, the community is coming together to remember him with what they hope will be the world’s record for longest continuous billiards match. Rikki Cunningham, an avid pool player, is in Shooters Sports Bar & Billiards at [...]
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Number of View: 444Freeze-dried food. Autopilot failures. Brutal storms. Accidental dunkings. A 17-year-old British sailor endured all those trials and more to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world. Mike Perham grabbed the record Thursday after sailing 28,000 miles (45,000 kilometers) to cross the finish line off the coast of Cornwall, in [...]
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Number of View: 1315 Filipino couple Sergio and Maria Socorro Bodiongan pose with their 3.5-kilo mango grown at their backyard in Iligan City on Mindanao island which will be submitted to the Guinnees Book of World Records. The mango measures 12 inches in length and seven inches in diametre and was derived from the Florida [...]
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Number of View: 208Triple Olympic and World 100 metres champion Usain Bolt has hinted that his 200 metres world record could be the next to fall at the 12th IAAF World Championships in Berlin. Bolt, who clocked a pheno-menal 9.58 seconds to smash his own world 100 metres record on Sunday, easily won his first [...]
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Number of View: 310Ferndale music cafe owner AJ O’Neil has officially set a Guinness world record for the longest nonstop music concert and he hopes to set another record next year. He hosted the 288-hour Assembly Line Concert at his AJ’s Music Cafe in March to draw attention to the plight of autoworkers and domestic [...]
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Number of View: 289A British-built steam supercar is aiming to break a century-old world land speed record for steam-powered vehicles. The 25ft-long car – dubbed the “fastest kettle in the world” – targets to beat a speed of 127mph reached by American Fred Marriott in a Stanley steam car in 1906 at the Daytona Beach [...]
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Number of View: 296Unveiled on Monday, in Detroit, Michigan, US, the enormous cake – with a whopping circumference of 11ft – was over eight times bigger than the previous record holder. Baked over the course of 12 hours, the gigantic cup cake was made from 200 lbs of flour, 200 lbs of sugar, 200 lbs [...]
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Number of View: 189He was born into a family of stuntmen and performers but today was the day that eight-year-old Tiger Brewer earned his stripes. A thousand feet above Rendcomb Airfield in Gloucestershire, the London schoolboy became the youngest person in the world to wing-walk. Tiger, who lives in Notting Hill in West London, sped [...]
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Number of View: 167A city-based restaurant claimed to have made the world’s longest dosa, 32.5-ft-long in less than 40 minutes. “We have made the world’s largest dosa, 32 feet and five inches long, in record time of less than 40 minutes,” CMD of Sankalp chain of restaurants, Kailash Goenka, said. “We already hold the Guinness [...]
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Number of View: 512Pictured here at the Armscor Shooting Club, Miko loads, aims and fires his semiautomatic weapon at moving targets. Complete with a gun belt, shades and a tailored shirt, Miko travels across the country participating in national junior competitions. Competing against children ten years his senior (in the 9-17 age group), Miko is [...]
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Number of View: 178With “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”, Sony Pictures Animation’s mouth-watering 3-D animated event, about to hit theaters worldwide, the world’s largest meatball ever created has also descended. The announcement was made today by Hannah Minghella, president of production for Sony Pictures Animation, Inc., and Carlos Martinez, adjudicator, Guinness World Records. The [...]
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Number of View: 259Colombian shoemaker Alexander Moreno Rincon won a Guinness World Record by making 20 pair of shoes in less than 10 hours with his own hands. During the International Footwear and Leather Show in Bogota, Alexander Moreno Rincon, also called Alexs Men, designed and made 20 pairs of shoes in 9 hours and [...]
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