Guiness World Records
Guinness World Records
GuinessWorld Records, is a book published every year, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.
In 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver, the director of the Guinness Breweries, went to hunt in Ireland and he became had an argument over which was the fastest bird in Europe. That evening, he realised that it was impossible to find in books which was the fastest bird. He knew that there must such questions discussed in Ireland and Britain, but there was no book in the world with answers about records. He realised then that such a book may be popular.
Twins Norris and Ross McWhirter, who had a fact-finding agency in London, were given the project to find records and compile them in a book named The Guinness Book of Records. in August 1954. One thousand copies were printed and sold. The following year it was printed in the U.S., and it sold 70,000 copies. Because the book became a big hit, many more editions were printed, eventually settling into one revision a year. Guinness World Records has offices in New York City and Tokyo but the headquarters are still in London.
Recent editions have focused on records by human competitors. Competitions range from weightlifting to the number of hot dogs that can be eaten in ten minutes! Each edition contains a selection of the large set of records in the Guinness database. The newest records are added, and the records that have been updated are added, too.
In 1976, a Guinness Book of World Records museum opened in the Empire State Building. This museum is now closed. In more recent years the company has opened small museums in towns popular with tourists such as Tokyo, Copenhagen etc.
SOME … EXTREME RECORDS
Largest bubblegum bubble blown
Chad Fell (USA) blew a bubblegum bubble with a diameter of 50.8 cm without using his hands at the Double Springs High School, Winston County, Alabama, USA in April 2004.
Largest playing card structure
The largest playing card structure was a replica of The Venetian® Macao, The Plaza® Macao and Sands Macao. It measured 10.39 m long, 2.88 m tall and 3.54 m wide, and was created by Bryan Berg (USA) in Macau, China, in March 2010. It took Bryan Berg 44 days to complete it and it was made of 218,792 cards.
Longest ears on a dog
The longest ears on a dog were measured 34.9 cm and 34.2 cm for the right and left ears, respectively in September 2004. They belong to Tigger, a bloodhound, who is owned by Bryan and Christina Flessner of St Joseph, Illinois, USA. Tigger has won many awards. Unfortunately Tigger passed away in October 2009.
Smallest living horse
the record for the smallest living horse is Thumbelina, a miniature sorrel brown mare who measures 44.5 cm to the withers and is owned by Kay and Paul Goessling (Both USA) who live Missouri, USA.
Smallest waist – living person
The smallest waist belongs to Cathie Jung (USA, b. 1937), who is 1.72 m and has a corseted waist measuring 38.1 cm. Without a corset it measures 53.34 cm.
Fastest window cleaner
Terry Burrows (UK) cleaned three office windows set in a frame with 9 litres of water in 9.14 sec at the National Window Cleaning Competition in Blackpool, UK, in October 2009.
MOST ONE-ARM PUSH-PS
The record for the most one arm push-ups completed in one hour is 1,868 and was set by Paddy Doyle (UK) at the Munster Arms Hotel, Sparkbrook, UK, in November 1993.
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