The earliest flight around the world was by two US Army Douglas DWC seaplanes in 57 “hops” between 6 April and 28 September 1924, beginning and ending at Seattle, Washington, USA. The Chicago was piloted by Lieutenant Lowell H. Smith and Lieutenant Leslie P. Arnold, and the New Orleans by Lieutenant Erik H. Nelson and Lieutenant John Harding (all USA). Their flying time for the 42,398-km (26,345-mile) trip was 371 hr 11 min.
The Montreal Canadiens in the 1976/77 season lost just eight games, the fewest ever in a season of 70 or more games, from 80 played (60 wins and 12 ties, a record 132 points).
The fastest time to complete a marathon on each of the seven continents (male) is 21 days, 5 hours and 33 minutes, and was achieved by Wendelin Lauxen (Germany), from 31 October to 21 November 2012.
Colonel Meow, a Himalayan-Persian cross-breed holds the world record for longest fur on a cat. The two-year old has fur that reaches 22.87cm (9in). The incredible feline from Seattle, Washington, USA was named ‘Colonel Meow’ by his owners, Anne Marie Avey and Eric Rosario, because of his “epic frown and fur”. Anne Marie said: “We already knew that he was the best cat in the world, but to be recognised in the Guinness World Records book takes it to the next level.” However, there is
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Comprising 242 individual frames with a frame size of only 45 nanometres by 25 nanometres (45 x 25 billionths of a metre), the smallest stop-motion film was created by IBM Research Laboratories in San Jose, California, USA, from 29 January to 6 February 2013. Individual molecules of carbon monoxide were “placed” as pixels on a copper sheet to create each frame of the film. The molecules were positioned using a Scanning Tunnelling Microscope (STM), which uses an ultra-fine metal tip to move the molecules with
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Four sets were born to the wife of Feodor Vassilyev (Russia, 1707–c.1782) who lived in Shuya, Russia. She also holds the record for being the most prolific mother.
Queen Alexandra (1844-1925), the consort of King Edward VII (reigned 1901-10), was: 56 years 53 days at the start of her reign as Queen Consort. in 1901.
Currently, the longest-reigning, living queen is Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (b. 21 April 1926), who succeeded to the throne on 6 February 1952 on the death of her father, King George VI. Elizabeth II is Queen of the United Kingdom and head of the Commonwealth. The year 2002 saw The Queen’s Golden Jubilee, marking 50 years since The Queen’s Accession . The year 2012 saw The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, marking 60 years since the Queen’s Accession.
The most people to complete CPR training in 24 hours was 20,035 people achieved at an event organized by the Taoyuan County Government, Taoyuan City, Chinese Taipei, on 7 December 2012
All photos courtesy Nathan Allred You might not recognize a streamlined motorcycle as being a motorcycle at first glance. But all it takes is to catch one in action to know that those who ride them are literally pushing the edges of extreme speed. More than 50 years after the first modern, fully streamlined motorcycle was designed and concepted, Rocky Robinson of the USA broke the record for the fastest land speed on a motorcycle. Riding his Top Oil-Ack Attack on 25 September 2010, Robinson
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