The largest quadrille dance was achieved by 7,244 participants at an event organised by Urska Dance Center in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on 20 May 2011. During the last moments of the 6-minute dance, participants performed the dance while holding white umbrellas.
The largest raindrops ever directly recorded measure a minimum of 8.6 mm (0.338 in) across. They have been detected on two occasions; September 1995 (Brazil) and July 1999 (Marshall Islands). The raindrops were imaged while falling by a laser instrument on board a research aircraft in studies by Professor Peter V. Hobbs and Arthur Rango (both USA), University of Washington (USA). Their results were published in Geophysical Research Letters on 13/07/2004.
India may have only the fourth largest rail network but it has the distinction of being the largest in the world under single management. It is also the world’s largest commercial employer, with over 1.6 million employees.
The largest rag doll measured 4.62 m (15 ft 2 in) tall and was made by volunteers to support the UNICEF vaccination campaign in Genova, Italy in 2005.
Between 16 and 22 July 1994, more than 20 fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with the giant planet Jupiter. The greatest impact was of the ‘G’ fragment, which exploded with the energy of roughly 600 times the nuclear arsenal of the world, equivalent to six million megatons of TNT. When fragment ‘A’ plunged into the atmosphere at 60 km/s, the Galileo spacecraft detected a fireball with a temperature of 24,000 K and an associated plume reaching 3,000 km high.
The largest member of the ray family is the Atlantic manta ray (Manta birostris) which has an average wingspan of 5.2–6.8 m (17–22 ft). The largest manta ray wingspan ever recorded is 9.1 m (30 ft). Atlantic manta rays are solitary swimmers which are usually found near the surface of the ocean, although they have also been reported at depths of 120 m (394 ft). They are also called “devil rays” because of the cephalic fins at the front of their heads which resemble the
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The longest ravioli measures 29.28 m (96 ft 1 in) and was achieved by Amway Russia (Russia) in St Petersburg, Russia, on 3 August 2013. The ravioli was 6 cm wide and the filling included chicken and onion.
The largest rap was achieved by 7,519 audience participants led by rapper Doppel-U (Christian Weirich) at a concert organised by Megarock Radio (Germany) in Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany, on 23 June 2010. Clickers and log books were used for counting. Participants rapped the words to Schiller’s “Ode to Joy.”
The largest rangoli pattern was made by Nilesh Rajaram Naik and measured 4,900 m² (52,742.95 ft²) at Murda Ground, Tiswadi, Goa, India, on 22 May 2008.
The Satsang Hall within the Govind Devji´s Temple, Jaipur, India, has a reinforced concrete cement flat roof with a single span of 36.27 metres (119 ft). It was designed and constructed by N. M. Roof Designers Ltd, and the hall was dedicated to the public on 23 July 2009. The hall stands on 8 columns at the periphery.