The most eskimo rolls performed in one minute with the hands is 33 by Mario Perez (Spain) on the set of ‘Guinness World Records’, in Madrid, Spain, on 21 January 2009. The record was equalled by Andrea Colombo (Italy) who did 33 eskimo rolls with his hands on the set of Lo Show Dei Record, in Milan, Italy, on 18 April 2009. This was a challenge against Miguel Jimenez (Spain) who managed 20.
The most episodes of the game show ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’ hosted by the same male presenter is 1,593 and belongs to TV presenter Virginio Scotti aka Gerry Scotti (Italy) as certified on the set of Lo Show Dei Record, in Milan, Italy, on 5 May 2011. Gerry Scotti (born on 7 August 1956 in Miradolo Terme, Pavia, Italy as Virginio Scotti) is an Italian television presenter, actor and former member of the Italian Parliament. Since the 1990s, Gerry Scotti has been one
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Masdar City in Abu Dhabi, designed by the British architectural firm Foster and Partners, is the world’s first city designed to be zero-carbon and zero-waste. All of its power is generated from renewable resources, and all waste material is recycled. Cars are banned in favour of electric, driverless, underground vehicles, meaning that the city’s projected 50,000 citizens should leave no carbon footprint.
The most entries in a two-person pantomime animal race was achieved by 53 teams (106 participants) in an event organized by ITV’s This Morning (UK) for the launch of their Christmas appeal “Text Santa”, at the Kempton Racecourse in Middlesex, UK, on 5 December 2013. The event was made up from participants from the British Heart Foundation, Help the Hospices, Barnardo’s, Beat Bullying, Age UK and CLIC Sargent.
With five commercially released games for Nintendo DS and three Japan-only Game Boy Advance titles, the Ace Attorney franchise boasts more entries than any other handheld point n click adventure game series. However, the hugely successful Professor Layton series appears to be a likely contender for this record in the near future, with four releases over the last three years. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamer”s Edition 2010
The most expensive game ever made available on the App Store was Alchemize (Schiau Studios, 2009), which was briefly available for $39.99 (£25) in October 2009 before being dropped back to a more reasonable $2.99 (£1.88). Featured in Guinness World Records Gamers Edition 2011
On Monday 24 January 2011, private contractors working for the UK Ministry of Defence began the dismantling of new and nearly finished Nimrod MRA4 reconnaissance aircraft acquired for the Royal Air Force. One aircraft was already flying, one nearly ready to fly, and the remaining seven were allegedly close to completion for deliveries to begin in 2011. However, as a result of cuts in the defence budget the aircraft have been scrapped. At a reported cost of around £450 million each, it is the most
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The most expensive bottle of water sold at auction was for $774,000 pesos, $60,000 US (£39,357) at an auction organised by Plan3t Foundation A.C. at La Hacienda de los Morales, Mexico City, Mexico on, 4 March 2010. The glass bottle is covered in 24-karat gold and is based on artwork by the late Italian artist Amedeo Clemente Modigliani. The funds raised from the auction were donated to the foundation to battle global warming.
A rare, complete copy of John James Audubon’s Birds of America was sold for £7.3 million ($11.4 million) at Southeby’s in London, UK, on 7 December 2010. The book contains 1,000 life-size illustrations of 435 birds drawn and printed by the West Indian-born American artist Audubon (1785–1851) between 1827 and 1838. The illustrations were originally sold a page at a time to collectors, and only 119 complete editions are known to exist. Prior to the auction, the book formed part of the collection of Frederick
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The most expensive book illustration sold at auction is a Beatrix Potter (UK) watercolour titled The Rabbits’ Christmas Party, created in the 1890’s, it was bought on 17 July 2008 by a British collector for $513,177 (?289,250). From BBC website: “The watercolour was one of 20 Potter illustrations, books, Christmas cards and letters offered for sale from a collection belonging to her brother, Bertram Potter. The entire collection, the most extensive body of Beatrix Potter artwork to have appeared on the market in decades, raised
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