The most professional boxing bouts fought is 60 and was achieved by Stephanie M. Dobbs (United States), between her first bout on 2 March 2002 and 10 August 2009. Stephanie hails from Moore, Oklahoma, United States.
The Ford F-series nameplate has appeared on more vehicles than any other, with more than 29.3 million F-series pickup trucks having been produced. The first in the series, the F-1, was first produced in 1948, and an F-150 truck provided the bodywork for the original Bigfoot monster truck. Between 800,000 and 900,000 F-series trucks are sold annually, largely in North America, accounting for nearly one eighth of Ford’s global sales.
The most prolific professional blogger is Darren Murph (USA) who had composed 17,212 individual contracted blog posts for engadget.com as of 29 July 2010. Darren’s career with engadget began in July 2006, and has averaged 12 blog posts per hour during that time, with an average word count of 266.
SEGA has produced more arcade games than any other company, with 530 games on 23 different arcade system boards since 1981 (2008’s Harley Davidson: King of the Road is pictured). To date, a total of 76 SEGA franchises have made it into the arcades. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamer”s Edition 2010
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno de los Remedios Crispín Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruíz y Picasso (1881-1973) of Spain was the most prolific of all professional painters in a career which lasted 75 years. It has been estimated that Picasso produced about 13,500 paintings and designs, 100,000 prints and engravings, 34,000 book illustrations and 300 sculptures and ceramics. His oeuvre has been valued at £500 million (US$788millon). Picasso was a masterfully erratic pioneer with a hand in every art movement of
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The sisters Delfina and María de Jesús Gonzáles, of Mexico, abducted girls to work in brothels and are known to have murdered at least 90 of their victims. The sisters were sentenced to 40 years imprisonment in 1964
The greatest officially recorded number of children born to one mother is 69, to the wife of Feodor Vassilyev (b. 1707–c.1782), a peasant from Shuya, Russia. In 27 confinements she gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets. Numerous contemporaneous sources exist, which suggest that this seemingly improbably and statistically unlikely story is true. The case was reported to Moscow by the Monastery of Nikolsk on 27 Feb 1782, which had recorded every birth. It is noted
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Perhaps surprisingly, Ian Fleming was not the most prolific write of James Bond novels – between 1981 and 1996, John Gardner (UK) wrote 14 Bond novels and two screenplay adaptations, surpassing Fleming’s output of 12 novels and two short-story collections. The most recent Bond author was Sebastian Faulks (UK), who released Devil May Care on 8 January 2008 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Ian Fleming’s birth.
The most prolific female murderer and the most prolific murderer of the western world, was Elizabeth Bathori, who practised vampirism on girls and young women. Throughout the 15th century, she is alleged to have killed more than 600 virgins in order to drink their blood and bathe in it, ostensibly to preserve her youth. She was a niece of Stephen Bathori, head of an eminent Hungarian family and Prince of Transylvania, who became king of Poland in 1575. Married to Count Nadasdy, she lived
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In the kingdom of the danmaku (bullet curtain) shooters, Japanese cult developer Cave is clearly king. The company started out developing from arcades and has released 48 games in the danmaku genre since they first entered the market with DoDonPachi in 1995. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamers Edition 2011