From a standing start, Maria Skyttä (Finland) leapt a distance of 1.15 m (3 ft 9.24 in) to land on her hands, remaining in a handstand for 5 seconds at the studio of Guinness World Records, Helsinki, Finland on 18 October 2001.
The record for the longest backwards jump from a standing position is 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) by Jan Hempel (Germany) in Munich, Germany for Guinness – Die Show Der Rekorde on 22 February 2002.
The longest journey swimming is 5,268 km (3273.38 miles) and was achieved by Martin Strel (Slovenia) who swam the entire length of the Amazon River, Peru/Brazil, from 1 February to 8 April 2007. Martin swam as little as 9 kilometres one day and as much as 127 kilometres on one day as he swam the length of the river in 67 days. He started in Atalaya, Peru and finished in Belem, Brazil.
The longest wheelbarrow push was one of some 14,500 km (9,000 miles), from 24 April 1975 to 6 May 1978 by Bob Hanley (Australia), starting and finishing at Sydney and pushing through Townsville, Mt Isa, Tennant Creek, Alice Springs, the Nullarbor Plain, Perth, Adelaide and Melbourne.
The location, in 2007, of three German submarines from the second world war scuttled in the Black Sea, has highlighted a remarkable feat of wartime transportation. The submarines, including one U-23 that was originally commanded by Otto Kretschmer (Germany), were located by a Turkish marine engineer, Selçuk Kolay. The route through the Bosporus river to the Black Sea was not open to the Germans during World War II (due to Turkish neutrality), so instead, six submarines belonging to the German Navy’s 30th Flotilla were taken
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The longest kissing chain was achieved by 351 participants at an event organized by Jiayuan.com in Beijing, China, on 11 November 2011.
The longest swing shaft used to successfully complete a 360° rotation in kiiking is 7.02 m (23 ft) by Andrus Aasamäe (Estonia) in Haapsalu, Estonia, on 21 August 2004. Kiiking is a sport in Baltic and Scandinavian countries where the aim is to complete a 360 degree revolution on a swing. The record being based on the length of the shafts for the swing, the longer the better.
The longest kickoff return for a touchdown in NFL history was 108 yards (98.75 m), first by Ellis Hobbs (USA) playing for the New England Patriots against the New York Jets, on 9 September 2007, and later matched by Randall Cobb (USA) playing for the Green Bay Packers against the New Orleans Saints on 8 September 2011. To achieve this, a player must field the kickoff within their own end zone and return the ball the length of the field for a score.
The Roman Empire is considered to have been the most enduring in history. The formal start date of the empire remains the subject of debate, but most historians agree that the clock began ticking in 27 BC, when the Roman politician Octavian overthrew the Roman Republic to become Emperor Augustus. Although Rome later fell to the Germanic “Barbarians” in AD 476, the ensuing “Eastern Empire” based at Constantinople is widely regarded as a continuation of the original Roman one. It wasn’t until the fall of
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Panasonic’s EVOLTA TM (also marketed as EVOIA) produced by Matsushita Battery Industrial Co., Ltd and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd (both Japan) was launched in 2008. In laboratory tests following the international standards, it outperformed the batteries from other leading manufactures by the average of 10-30%.