The highest margin of victory in National Basketball Association (NBA) playoff history is 58 points in a game won by the Denver Nuggets (USA), 121-63, over the New Orleans Hornets (USA) on 27 April 2009, matching the Minneapolis Lakers (USA) victory over the St. Louis Hawks (USA), 133-75, in 1956
The highest mountain climbed on stilts was Mount Baden-Powell at an elevation of 2,864.8 m (9,398 ft 11 in) by Ashrita Furman (USA) in the San Gabriel Mountains in Wrightwood, California, USA, on 7 August 2011. Furman wore steel peg stilts which were 46 cm from ground to ankle and 104 cm high in total. The hike lastesd 1 hr 52 min 23 sec. All rest breaks were taken while remaining on the stilts.
The highest full size motorcross bike bunny hop is 30.48 cm (12 in) and was achieved by Travis Pastrana (USA) at Godfrey Trucking/Rocky Mountain Raceway in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, on 17 November 2008 for the MTV show ‘Nitro Circus’. The GWR episode will air January 2009.
The King Abdullah Mosque on the 77th floor of the Kingdom Centre building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is 183 m (600 ft) above ground level and was completed on 5 July 2004. The mosque is open to the public for prayers at the requisite times, and has a caretaker. There is an area designated for washign and ablutions and it is marked as a mosque from the outside. Suggested definition of a Mosque from claimants: The location must be designed as a mosque. The location
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With an altitude of 7,711 feet (2,351 m) above sea surface and 20,000 feet (6,098 m) below sea surface to the sea floor, Monte Pico in the Azores Islands (Portugal) is the highest underwater mountain in the world. The 42 km-long island formed by this volcano is one of the nine islands that conform the Azores and it is also considered to be the youngest.
Olympus Mons is the highest mountain in the solar system. Its peak is 25 km (15 miles) above its base – nearly three times the height of Mt. Everest. Olympus Mons is desginated a shield volcano because of its shape. Despite its great height, it has a very gentle slope. Olympus Mons is over twenty times wider than it is high. It is the same kind of volcano as the active volcanoes currently ‘creating’ the Hawaiian Islands. The line around Olympus Mons is a ‘basal
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The highest non-stop single track cable car is 1,368 m (4,488 ft) and was achieved by Ba Na Cable Car Service Joint Stock Company, Vietnam, in Ba Na Hills, Da Nang City, Vietnam, and was opened to the public on 29 March 2013.
In December 1999 torrential rains fell in Vargas State, Venezuela. The resulting mudslides from the mountainous regions close to the coast caused widespread loss of life. Estimates of the death toll range from 10,000 to 30,000.
Monte Roraima, on the border of Brazil and Venezuela, is a sandstone plateau measuring 2,810 m (9,220 ft) in height. Its harsh environment has resulted in around one third of its plant species being unique to the mountain. Monte Roraima is believed to have been the inspiration for Arthur Conan-Doyle’s (UK) The Lost World.
The Battle of Antietam, which took place in Sharpsburg, Maryland, holds the dubious distinction of being the “bloodiest day” of not only the American Civil War, but of American History. Some 23,100 soldiers were killed, wounded or missing after only twelve hours of combat, some hand-to-hand, on September 17, 1862. Union (the North) losses amounted to 12,410 and the Confederates (the South) lost 10,700 men. General Robert E. Lee led Confederate troops while General George B. McClellan commanded the Union contingent. Although neither side won
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