The record for the longest road train is 1,474.3 m (4,836 ft 11 in) where a single Mack Titan prime mover, driven by John Atkinson (Australia), towed 113 trailers for a distance of approximately 150 m (490 ft) in an event sponsored by Hogs Breath Café, in Clifton, Queensland, Australia on 18 February 2006. This length is the equivalent of 156 London buses!
The world’s longest running TV variety show is Sábado Gigante (Univision Television Network, USA), which has been broadcast every Saturday evening since 8 August 1962. The show was created and has been continually hosted by Mario Kreutzberger (Chile) or ‘Don Francisco’ as he is known. Sábado Giante (Giant Saturday) was originally broadcast in Chile (Channel 13, Catholic University Television Corporation of Chile), before moving to its current production site in Miami, Florida, USA where the first US transmission was on 12 April 1986. It is
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The longest rug measured 797.51 m (2,616 ft 5 in) in length and was manufactured by Hemtex AB (Sweden) and was laid out along Götgatan in Stockholm, Sweden, on 26 August 2010. The rug was a ‘rag’ rug and was 70 cm (2 ft 3 in) wide.
The longest rubber dam measures 1,135 m (3,723 ft) long and consists of 16 sections, each section being 70 m (229 ft) long. The Xiaobudong rubber dam is situated on the Yihe river, Shandong Province, China and was completed 1 July 1997
The longest running classical music TV programme is Daimei no Nai Ongakukai (TV Asahi, Japan) which has been aired continuously since 6 July 1969. The weekly programme first aired on 1 August 1964 but it briefly finished in September 1968. It features a full orchestra on each show.
The longest running civil court case has been led by James Martin (USA) since 14 December 1972, when the issue in the Martin v. Sample case was filed; it was then appealed to the US Supreme Court, Washington, DC, USA in October 1981, and docketed as case number 81-6884, on 14 June 1982. Following a summons by the Selective Service System (Pennsylvania, USA), Mr Martin attended a three-day pre-induction physical exam to assess his fitness for military service in the Vietnam War; he was subsequently
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The longest running children’s magazine is “Murzilka”, a monthly literary and art publication for children aged 6 to 12 published by UAB “Editors Murzilka” (Russia). Murzilka launched on 16 May 1924 and has appeared monthly and without interruption for its 87 years of existence since, except for 25 double issues in the years 1931 to 1933 and 1939 to 1946. Overall, 1,015 issues were produced as of 28 December 2010. Prominent past contributors include Agniya Barto, Kornej Chukovsky, S. Marshak, M. Prishvin, K. Paustovsky, S.
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Since January 1940, Jim Russell (b. 26 March 1909, d. 15 Aug 2001) of Kirrawee, New South Wales, Australia, drew the comic strip The Potts, published in Smiths Weekly until 1950 and then daily in the Melbourne Herald until his death. Thus, it ran for over 61 years. The Potts were originally created by Stan Cross, who worked for Smiths from 1920 until 1939. Russell was his assistant, but was nominated to take over drawing all his features. When Smiths closed down, Rupert Murdoch bought
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Established in 1732, Bertrand bookshop, located in Lisbon, Portugal, is the oldest operating bookshop. Today, Bertrand is part of a whole nationwide book-chain of 47 other stores throughout the country.
The longest running agricultural experiment in the world is the Broadbalk Experiment, Rothamsted, Hertfordshire, UK. It has continuous data from 1843 to present day. Its aims have been to measure the effects of fertiliser on crops.