Children
scoop marshmallows out of a mug holding nearly 500 gallons of hot
chocolate, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2009 at Bryant Park in New York, during the
American Dairy Association's attempt to set a new world record for the largest mug of
hot chocolate.
Indian
born British strongman Manjit Singh, 59, pulls a double decker bus using
ropes attached to his hair in London,
Englandon November 12, 2009. Singh broke the world record Thursday
by pulling the bus a total of 21.2 metres.
Street
performer Chayne Hultgren (a.k.a. 'The Space Cowboy'), re-enacts his
18-sword swallowing attempt for a Guinness World Record in front of the
Sydney
Opera House on February 8, 2010. The Australian beat his own world
record when he simultaneously swallowed 18 swords, each blade measuring
50.8cm by 1.3cm, in the lead-up to International Sword Swallowing Day on
February 28.
A base
jumper leaps backwards off the Menara
Kuala Lumpur Tower, Malaysia, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009. A group of
base jumpers were attempting to set a Guinness
World Record striving to have 24 people base jump every hour for 24
hours from the the 915 feet high communication tower
Filipino
chefs and students stand beside dishes as they attempt to break a Guinness
World Record for "The Most Number of Dishes On Display, In A Single Day"
in suburban Quezon city, north of Manila, Philippines on Monday Dec. 14,
2009. The organizers hope to be considered for the record as they make
more than 5,000 cheese-inspired dishes to beat the previous record of
4,668 set by India
in 2007.
Life Time
Fitness broke the Guinness World Record for the largest cycling class with
1,052 cyclists. The class was held at Target Center arena in downtown
Minneapolis, Minnesota.
An
Israeli school boy plays in a large Jerusalem flag as it is unfurled at
Teddy
Stadium in Jerusalem, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009. The flag was
stamped by the Guinness World Records as the world's largest flag on April
11, 2009 and measures 44,404 square meters.
Bryan
Berg of the U.S. poses at his creation of the replica of The
Venetian Macao-Resort- Hotel, as he breaks his own Guinness World Record
for the largest house of Freestanding playing cards on Wednesday, March
10, 2010. Berg used 218,792 playing cards to build a replica of The
Venetian Macao-Resort- Hotel during the 44 day project. The final
composition is 35 feet long, 10 feet tall and weighs
272kg.
Chinese
104-year-old twins, Cao Daqiao (senior, right) and Cao Xiaoqiao talk at
home in Weifang, east China's
Shandong province on November 29, 2009. According to the Shanghai Guinness World Records, these twin
sisters, who were born in 1905, are the oldest living twins in the world
as they are also listed on the Guiness World of Records for the oldest
twins.
Lebanese
celebrate entering the Guinness Book of
Records in Beirut October 24, 2009 after producing what they
believe to be the biggest plate of hummus in the world. The dish, weighing
2,056 kg, was filled with 1,350 kg of the chickpea-based dish. The
organisers claimed world records for both the size of the dish and the
quantity of hummus produced.
Lebanese
chefs prepare a giant tabbouleh to set a new world record in Beirut on
October 25, 2009. Under the watch of a Guinness adjudicator, 250
sous-chefs and their 50 bosses from the state-run culinary school chopped
and sliced over three and a half tons (7,000 lbs) of the salad, using
1,600 kg (3,520 lbs) of parsley, 1,500 kg (3,300 lbs) of ripe tomatoes and
420 kg (926 lbs) of onions.
Chef
Matthew Mitnitsky cheers after his meatball weighed in, breaking the world
record for the largest meatball, in Concord, N.H., Sunday, Nov.
1,2009. Palestinians stand near a large embroidered dress as it is
presented to the media at a stadium in the West Bank city of Hebron
October 25, 2009. The dress, which took several months to sew, is expected
to be officially measured next month in an attempt to be entered as a
Guinness World Record.
The Burj
Dubai tower is pictured during the opening ceremony of the Burj
Dubai tower on January 4, 2010 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.The
Burj Dubai, which in Arabic means Dubai Tower, is at 824.55 meters the
world's tallest man-made structure.
Around 15,000
people participate in a tug-of-war during an annual event in Naha, in
Japan's southern island of Okinawa, on October 11, 2009. The rope
used in the event - 200 meters long, 156 cms in diameter, weighing 43 tons
and made from harvested straw - was recognized in the Guinness Book of
World Records as the world's largest rope.
Thousands of
Mexicans take part in the "I do dance Thriller" event which attempted to
break the Guinness World Record for the biggest mass "Thriller" dance, in
Mexico City, on August 29, 2009. Up to 15,000 people were expected to take
part in the mass performance of Michael
Jackson's famed "Thriller" dance on the day he would have turned
51.
Norman Surplus from Larne, Northern Ireland,
waves to the media from his autogyro at Duxford, England, Thursday, March,
11, 2010. Surplus is to attempt a circumnavigation of the globe in the
autogyro, starting from Larne on March 18, depending on the weather. With
its open cockpit it will be flying through 26 countries, 27,000 miles
including 4,300 miles over water, in an expedition that will raise
awareness and money for bowel cancer. The specially adapted machine will
have collapsible fuel tanks that will give it a range of some 900
miles. Egyptian Mohammed Ali
Zinhom, 25, attempts a new Guinness World Record for doing push ups on the
2 fingers of his right hand only, in front of the historical site of the
Giza Pyramids, Egypt, Monday, March 8, 2010. Zinhom recorded 46 push ups
in 49 seconds.
Indonesians take part in an attempt to break a world record for
the most sky lanterns flown simultaneously in Jakarta, Indonesia, late
Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009. At least 10,000 lanterns were released into the
sky to break the world record, organizer said.
The world's tallest horse, Luscombe Nodram, or 'Noddy', stands
with his owner Jane Greenman before they depart on major tour which will
include appearances at the Sydney Royal
Easter Show and Brisbane, in Melbourne on March 19, 2010. TheShire
horse is seven-years- old, stands at 20.2 hands high (2.05 meters)
and at 1.5 tons weighs three times more than the average thoroughbred
racehorse. The Shire horse is now endangered with approximately 2,000 left
in the world with very few of them being gray.
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