The longest ramp jump on rollerblades is 30 m (98 ft 5.1 in) and was achieved by Chris Haffey (USA), at the Palais Omnisport Marseille Grand Est, in Marseille, France, on 9 December 2011. Haffey used a wakeboarding zip tow to achieve the required speed for the jump, a novel approach as most attempts rely on a long downhill slope to build up the speed.
The longest ramp jump on a mini bike is 31.87 m (104 ft 7 in) and was achieved by Brent Brady (Australia) on a Moto Vert 150 during the Crusty Demons Night of World Records at Calder Park Raceway in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, on 29 March 2008.
The longest ramp jump on an aquabike is 17 m (55.7 ft)and was set by Henry Charlet (France) the set of L’Été De Tous Les Records in Argeles Gazost, France on 14 July 2004.
The longest ramp jump by a truck cab measured 15.39 m (50 ft 6 in) and was completed by Gregg Godfrey (USA) at Godfrey Trucking/Rocky Mountain Raceway in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, on 17 November 2008 for the MTV show ‘Nitro Circus´. The GWR episode will air January 2009.
The longest ramp jump performed by a remote controlled model car was 36.9 m (121 ft 0.75 in) achieved by a Carson Specter 6S, controlled by Thomas Strobel (Germany) at SPEEDWEEKS 2011 in Sonneberg, Germany on 30 July 2011. Several attempts were made on the day, Strobel initially jumped a distance of 35.2 m (115 ft 5.82 in) before bettering it. The Carson Specter 6S uses a brushless motor powerd by a 22.2V LiPo battery pack.
The longest jump on a snowmobile is 91.7 m (301 ft) by Paul Thacker (USA) in Brainerd, Minnesota, USA on 26 March 2009. Stuart Claxton adjudicated.
The longest reigning queen is Victoria (UK), Queen of Great Britain (1837–1901) and (from 1876) Empress of India, who reigned for 63 years 216 days. Victoria was the daughter of Edward, the Duke of Kent and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg. She was born in Kensington Palace in London on 24 May 1819. In 1837 Queen Victoria took the throne after the death of her uncle William IV. On 10 February 1840, Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Together they bore nine children: Victoria, Bertie, Alice,
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The Nile is credited as the longest river in the world. Its main source is Lake Victoria in east central Africa. From its farthest stream in Burundi, it extends 6,695 km (4,160 miles) in length. The two longest rivers in the world are the Nile, flowing into the Mediterranean, and the Amazon, flowing into the South Atlantic. Which is the longer is more a matter of definition than simple measurement. Not until 1971 was the true source of the Amazon discovered, by Loren McIntyre (USA)
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Nigel Medley (Australia) rode a mechanical rodeo for 2 min 15 sec at the Pub With No Beer, Taylors Arm, New South Wales, Australia on 13 August 2005
The longest rice noodle measured 548.7 m (1,800 ft 2 in) and was made by Council for Hakka Affairs Executive Yuan (Taiwan) at Taipei County Hakka Museum, Sansia, Taiwan, on 28 December 2008. 20 people participated and it took them 7 hours to make the noodle. 420 kg of rice was used to make the dough.