Tuesday 27 November 2007

Week commencing 24th November 2007


Giant Israeli Flag Breaks World Record
The record for the world's largest flag now belongs to an Israeli banner (pictured above) produced by a Filipino evangelical Christian. ...
The newly refurbished High Flux Isotope Reactor has exceeded expectations and apparently established a world record ...
The Walled Lake Central High School Marching Band drum line broke the Guinness World Record for longest group drum line with some help from ...

A set of 14 gunpowder paintings by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang sold for US$9.5 million at an auction in Hong Kong, breaking records for the ...

.. and taxidermy - wants to beat the 'Texas Snakeman' Jackie Bibby, who currently holds the world record by bathing with 87 rattlesnakes for 45 minutes. ...

A world record holder with a staggering vocal range is selling shares in her band to pay for their first album. ...

Chen Ranran, the university student from Wuhan, Hubei Province, has become popular for her ability to calculate. The record was for performing complex ...

A man attempting to break a Guinness World Record of most distance crawled had to stop after a few hours due to bleeding knees ...

Marilyn Manson has revealed that has dreams of breaking a very strange world record which involves sharing a bath with snakes. ...

Putting an exclamation point on a championship season, the Richmond Braves set an official Guinness World Record for the largest number of ...

A man attempting to break a Guinness World Record of most distance crawled had to stop after a few hours due to bleeding knees and sore knuckles. Forty-eight year-old shipping and receiving clerk Tim James explained that the feat was ...

Man Skips Stone a World Record 51 Times by Rob Walker.

New World Record Achieved in Solar Cell Technology.

Stacked: World Record House of Cards Stands Up to Leafblower
newVideoPlayer cardcrash flv Bryan Berg cardstacker extraordinaire tries to take down his world-record setting card tower with a leafblower

Monday 12 November 2007

Week-commencing 4th November 2007


Double gold for Wotherspoon at speed skating World Cup
Wotherspoon (pictured above, courtesy of Rueters) clocked 34.14 seconds just off his 34.03 world record performance on Friday. Lee followed in 34.23 and Fengtong Yu of China was third in 34.49. ...

Texan sets record with 87 rattlers in bathtub
Another day, another bizarre world record for Jackie Bibby, "The Texas Snake Man." Bibby spent about 45 minutes in a see-through bathtub ...

World-class wobblers
The students were given a list of world record attempt options to choose from. Wobble board was the choice. Students have been preparing for the attempt for ...

Kayakers attempt cross-Tasman world record
Two Sydney men will today begin a world first attempt to kayak unassisted from Forster, on the New South Wales mid-north coast, to Auckland in New Zealand. ...

Haile Gebrselassie marathon world record ratified
Haile Gebrselassie's marathon world record of 2 hours, 4 minutes, 26 seconds was ratified Monday by the International Association of ...

Guinness World Record Day stacks up to good time for Cottage Hill ...
The Lake of the Pines school was among many across the country and beyond that took part in the World Sport Stacking Association's Guinness World Record Day ...

Farm Day hayride goes for world record
A Guiness World Record publicist confirmed that the current record is for 224 hayriders in February, 2007 at an event in McKinney, Texas. ...

Finnish long-track speedskater sets world record in 1000 metres
Earlier, Koskela set the world record in the 1000, finishing in 1:07 to erase the record of 1:07.03 set by Shani Davis at the Utah Olympic Oval on Nov. ...

Going for the record
Cawley, 46, participates in the World Natural Power lifting Federation, and Saturday he will attempt to break the world record bench press with a 700-pound ...

Youngest Skydiver-world record set by Valentina Mihanciu
The 9 year old Romanian VALENTINA MIHANCIU has set a world record for the youngest skydiver, after performing a jup in tandem with her ...

Ebanks snags world record
There's a world record holder in Cayman who in any other sport would be a celebrity; only his achievements are in fishing. ...

Robotsausage attempts world record for 'longest sentence'
In the soon to be announced TheSpoof.com Awards 2007, there are some totally 'new categories' up for grabs! Robotsausage looks certain to receive 'the award ...

T-Base Communications celebrates with Canada Post in breaking ...
Canada Post recently received recognition from the Guinness World Records(TM) for helping Santa respond to the largest volume ...

Quickest human calculator breaks new world record
Chen Ranran has set a new record for doing mental arithmetic. The university student from Wuhan, Hubei Province, has become famous for her ability to ...

The North Face Athlete Elizabeth Hawker new World Record on ...
The previous world record was held by Kumar Limbua, a Nepalese runner, who accomplished the feat in 2000 in three days, seven hours and 10 minutes.

Quebec City signs world slam dunk record holder
The ABA Quebec City Kebs today announced the signing of the Slam Dunk world record holders, Wayne Clark. According to Coach Dube-Brais, ...

American Entrepreneur and British Adventurer Set Out to Break ...
On November 20, this first-ever Anglo-American two-man team will embark on the "Sub-Zero Antarctic Expedition" in an attempt to break the world record for ...

Boom Boom or bust - is Afridi a genius or a clown?
He had the world record for hitting sixes but has since been passed by Jayasuriya. He is the only cricketer to have scored more than 5000 ODI runs but with an average of less than 25. His 26 match Test career shows an average of 37.40 ...

YES2 Team Claims A Space Tether World Record
On 25 September, students around the world watched with bated breath as their creation, the second Young Engineers Satellite (YES2) experiment, reached its dramatic conclusion

Reuse a Shoe!
If that isn't enough incentive, National Geographic for Kids is working towards its third Guinness World Record for the longest chain of shoes. Once the magazine reaches its goal, it plans to donate the sneakers to the Nike Reuse-a-Shoe ...

SELL Friendship Teapot set
TV's world record breakers. Sell Leather Wallet, Pures & Winter Glove. Hair Didn't Have Anything To Do With It. ">Oakland welcomes new grocery store owners. Freegate. ">MSN vil bare ikke starte op længere!. ">Elefanten Catalina - $25.90 ...

PS3 Sets Guinness World Record
The under-selling PS3 has actually managed to set a world record – and not for the slowest console take-off either. The Guinness Book of Records has officially named Folding@home project the world's most powerful distributed computing ...

Guinness World Record Week: Day 1
For Day 1 of our Guinness World Record Week, record holder John Cassidy tried to break his current animal balloon record of the most modeling balloon sculptures made in one minute which was 13. For more records and information on how ...

World Record snowmobile jump -- 263.5 ft
The jump was performed at The Compound, the world's largest snowmobile terrain park, located in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. To certify Ross' jump an official world record, the accomplishment is being filed with Guinness World Records.

Making another mark
The Power, with action shots; The Revolutionary, featuring the so-called ball of the century and the world record moment, The Artistry, featuring four specially-commissioned paintings by Australian artist Phillip Howe.

Matt's World Record Pull-up Attempt - Oct 27, 2007
The unofficial total was 417 pull-ups, about 25 short of the world record. Sure, Matt is disappointed, and so was the huge crowd at Fitness Together in Livermore, California. But you know the old cliche, "Winners never quit, ...

Wilkes University Participates in Cans Across America Program ...
Wilkes University will be taking part in Sodexho Campus Dining's attempt to break a Guinness World Record for total pounds of food donated in a 24 hour period.

Oracle® Fusion Middleware Sets World Record Single Node Result
"This world record Java Application Server benchmark result is further validation that Oracle Application Server continues to provide the industry's most .

China begins world-record wheel
China starts work on what is expected to be the world's biggest wheel, standing at 208m over Beijing.

Slashdot PS3 Helps Folding@Home Reach World Record Status
PS3 Helps Folding@Home Reach World Record Status

Friday 2 November 2007

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