["RECORDMANIA Big Fruit & Veg Heaviest red cabbage Longest gourd Heaviest jack o\u2019lantern On 29\u00a0Sep 2018, a red cabbage On 21 Sep 2019, a gourd of the Kikinda The Cosumnes Community Services District (USA) weighing 23.7\u00a0kg (52\u00a0lb 4\u00a0oz) was variety was measured to be 3.954\u00a0m presented a jack o\u2019lantern weighing 942.11\u00a0kg rati\ufb01ed at the CANNA UK National (12\u00a0ft 11\u00a0in) in Mozirje, Slovenia, with (2,076\u00a0lb 15\u00a0oz) on 6\u00a0Oct 2018 at the 24th annual Giant Vegetables Championship in the achievement veri\ufb01ed by the Great Elk\u00a0Grove Giant Pumpkin Festival in California, Malvern, Worcestershire, UK. The Pumpkin Commonwealth. The gourd USA. The pumpkin, which was weighed before colossal brassica \u2013 more than three was\u00a0cultivated by Goran Lazic (SRB). carving, was grown by Josiah Brandt and carved times the weight of a bowling ball by Mike Brown, Deane Arnold and Brandy Davis. \u2013 was grown by Tim Saint (UK), a Longest parsnip veteran of growing competitions. Champion grower Joe Atherton (UK, see longest turnip below) presented a Largest orange by circumference An orange measuring 63.5\u00a0cm (2\u00a0ft 1\u00a0in) 6.55-m-long (21-ft 5-in) parsnip at the UK around\u00a0its widest point was rati\ufb01ed on National Giant Vegetables\u00a0Championship 22\u00a0Jan 2006. The 2.27-kg (5-lb) specimen grew in the garden\u00a0of Patrick and Joanne on 23\u201324\u00a0Sep 2017 in\u00a0Malvern, Fiedler in\u00a0Fresno, California, USA. Worcestershire. Largest bunch of bananas At the same show, Atherton unveiled A cluster of 473\u00a0individual bananas the longest radish, measuring 6.7\u00a0m weighed\u00a0in at 130\u00a0kg (286\u00a0lb 9\u00a0oz) on (21\u00a0ft 11\u00a0in). His green \ufb01ngers have 11\u00a0Jul\u00a02001, on\u00a0the island of El Hierro also been behind the longest beetroot in the\u00a0Canary Islands, Spain. Grown by (7.95\u00a0m; 26\u00a0ft 1\u00a0in) and the longest carrot Kabana\u00a0SA and Tecorone SL (both ESP), it\u00a0was harvested at the Finca Experimental (6.24\u00a0m; 20\u00a0ft\u00a05\u00a0in). de las Calmas. The bonanza bunch was the\u00a0result of a 30-year project\u00a0by farmers Heaviest grapefruit Longest asparagus to develop a desert area of the island into A white grapefruit grown by Douglas and Mary On 2\u00a0Oct 2004, Harry and Carson a\u00a0tropical fruit\u00a0farm. Beth Meyer (both USA) tipped the scales at 3.59\u00a0kg Willemse (both CAN) presented (7\u00a0lb 14\u00a0oz), as veri\ufb01ed on 19\u00a0Jan 2019 in Slidell, a 3.51-m-long (11-ft\u00a06-in) spear GARDEN GOLIATHS Louisiana, USA. The Meyers\u2019 six grandchildren of asparagus at the Port Elgin helped tend to the giant citrus fruit, which was Pumpkinfest\u00a0in Ontario, Canada. so\u00a0heavy it required a purpose-built hammock for\u00a0support while it grew on the tree. Longest courgette (zucchini) A courgette measuring 2.52\u00a0m (8\u00a0ft\u00a03.2\u00a0in) long \u2013 more than twice the\u00a0length of a baseball bat \u2013 was grown by Giovanni Batista Scozzafava (ITA) and measured on 28\u00a0Aug 2014 in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. Giovanni claimed not to have used\u00a0fertilizer or manure, but he did give the\u00a0plant plenty of\u00a0water. Tallest Brussels sprout plant A Brussels sprout plant growing in the\u00a0garden of Patrice and Steve Allison (USA) reached a height of 2.8\u00a0m (9\u00a0ft 2\u00a0in) in Newport Beach, California, USA.\u00a0It\u00a0was\u00a0measured on 17\u00a0Nov 2001. 4.a0Wnb6yd4oL\u00a0\u00a0rJormcoaneet2(gs1iA8te\ufb013e\u00a0tsSe\u00a0rhftdestethpir4uni\u00a0t2\u00a0rrio0eMnnn,1)ai,U9(pglUKvrKeo,\u00a0r)ownnn, g(UHrBoKrewia6)dUnav4gKni.be8ed,,y3s\u00a0NoGtr\u00a0gnaogr(rt6oa2it\u00a0oe\ufb01A.h2mse\u00a0uY8edgeo\u00a0boirW2enzk0r)a,Es1rhtg9ysitoroenn, Heaviest tomato Heaviest bell pepper 4.377 kg (9\u00a0lb 10\u00a0oz), grown 720\u00a0g (1\u00a0lb 9\u00a0oz), grown 23bGa.9ynwK9JdHee5avnGe\u00a0mkitana,givrUeF(ie5KCoet2hrso,\u00a0ttuo,lebMbnry1tea2(n4ea3ret\u00a0ljo\u00a0rylMoz-oUr)Faoi,Keoygt)rra2tion0new1dy9n by Steve and Jeanne Marley by Ian Neale (UK) and rati\ufb01ed in Malvern, (both USA) and weighed Worcestershire, UK, on on 20\u00a0Sep 2019 in Clinton, 29\u00a0Sep\u00a02018 New\u00a0York, USA 100","RECORDMANIA Horticultural heavyweights Fruit\/vegetable Weight Grower Date 24\u00a0Oct 2005 Apple 1.84\u00a0kg (4\u00a0lb 1\u00a0oz) Chisato Iwasaki (JPN) 29\u00a0Sep 2018 19\u00a0Jul 2018 Aubergine 3.06\u00a0kg (6\u00a0lb 11\u00a0oz) Ian Neale (UK) 5\u00a0Aug 2019 9\u00a0Sep 2017 Blueberry 15\u00a0g (0.5\u00a0oz) Agricola Santa Azul SAC (PER) 21\u00a0Apr 2014 1\u00a0Feb 2019 Cantaloupe melon 30.47\u00a0kg (67\u00a0lb 1.8\u00a0oz) William N McCaslin (USA) 26\u00a0Sep 2015 28\u00a0Aug 2015 Carrot 10.17\u00a0kg (22\u00a0lb 6\u00a0oz) Christopher Qualley (USA) 6\u00a0Oct 2018 Cauliflower 27.48\u00a0kg (60\u00a0lb 9\u00a0oz) Peter Glazebrook (UK) 31\u00a0Aug 2012 25\u00a0Jan 2008 Cherry 23.93 g (0.8\u00a0oz) Frut\u00edcola Patagonia (CHL) 29\u00a0Aug 2007 30\u00a0Aug 2006 Cucumber 12.9\u00a0kg (28\u00a0lb 7\u00a0oz) David Thomas (UK) 29\u00a0Sep 2018 Fig 295\u00a0g (10.4\u00a0oz) Lloyd Cole (UK) 8\u00a0Jan 2003 27\u00a0Aug 2009 Gourd 174.41\u00a0kg (384\u00a0lb 8\u00a0oz) Jeremy Terry (USA) 26\u00a0Sep 2009 12\u00a0Sep 2014 Green cabbage 62.71\u00a0kg (138\u00a0lb 4\u00a0oz) Scott Robb (USA) 23\u00a0Sep 2011 11\u00a0Nov 2011 Jicama 21\u00a0kg (46\u00a0lb 4\u00a0oz) Leo Sutisna (IDN) 29 Nov\u00a02011 24\u00a0Jul 2012 Kale 48.04\u00a0kg (105\u00a0lb 14\u00a0oz) Scott Robb (USA) 27\u00a0Nov 2017 Kohlrabi 43.98\u00a0kg (96\u00a0lb 15\u00a0oz) Scott Robb (USA) 4\u00a0Sep 2011 9\u00a0Oct 2016 Leek 10.7\u00a0kg (23\u00a0lb 9\u00a0oz) Paul Rochester (UK) Largest bunch of grapes Jan\u00a02002 On 4 Aug 2018, a bunch Lemon 5.26\u00a0kg (11\u00a0lb 9\u00a0oz) Aharon Shemoel (ISR) 9\u00a0Feb 2003 of grapes weighing 10.12\u00a0kg 7\u00a0Oct 2017 (22\u00a0lb 4\u00a0oz) \u2013 about the same as Mango 3.43\u00a0kg (7\u00a0lb 9\u00a0oz) Sergio and Maria Socorro Bodiongan (both PHL) 28\u00a0Jan 2015 20 soccer balls \u2013 was veri\ufb01ed in Los Palacios y 28 Sep\u00a02013 Villafranca, Spain. It was grown by Sebasti\u00e1n Marrow 93.7\u00a0kg (206\u00a0lb 9\u00a0oz) Bradley Wursten (NLD) 8\u00a0Mar 2004 G\u00f3mez Falc\u00f3n (pictured right) and the Delegaci\u00f3n 13\u00a0Oct 2009 de Agricultura del Ayuntamiento de Los Palacios Onion 8.5\u00a0kg (18\u00a0lb 11\u00a0oz) Tony Glover (UK) 1\u00a0Sep 2004 y Villafranca (both ESP). The previous record of 4\u00a0Oct 2013 9.4\u00a0kg (20\u00a0lb 11\u00a0oz) had stood since 1984. Parsnip 7.85\u00a0kg (17\u00a0lb 4\u00a0oz) David Thomas (UK) 100% Pear 2.94\u00a0kg (6\u00a0lb 8\u00a0oz) JA Aichi Toyota Nashi Bukai (JPN) Pineapple 8.28\u00a0kg (18\u00a0lb 4\u00a0oz) Christine McCallum (AUS) Plum 323.77\u00a0g (11.4\u00a0oz) Minami-Alps City JA Komano Section Kiyo (JPN) Pomegranate 2.60\u00a0kg (5\u00a0lb 11\u00a0oz) Zhang Yuanpeng (CHN) Potato 4.98\u00a0kg (10\u00a0lb 15\u00a0oz) Peter Glazebrook (UK) Pumpkin 1,190.49 kg (2,624\u00a0lb 9\u00a0oz) Mathias Willemijns (BEL) Quince 2.34\u00a0kg (5\u00a0lb 2\u00a0oz) Edward Harold McKinney (USA) Radish 31.1\u00a0kg (68\u00a0lb 9\u00a0oz) Manabu Oono (JPN) Squash 960.70\u00a0kg (2,117\u00a0lb 15\u00a0oz) Joe Jutras (USA) Strawberry 250\u00a0g (8.8\u00a0oz) Koji Nakao (JPN) Swede 54\u00a0kg (119\u00a0lb) Ian Neale (UK) Sweet potato 37\u00a0kg (81\u00a0lb 9\u00a0oz) Manuel P\u00e9rez P\u00e9rez (ESP) Taro 3.19\u00a0kg (7\u00a0lb) Fuding Tailao Mountain Admin Committee (CHN) Turnip 17.78\u00a0kg (39\u00a0lb 3\u00a0oz) Scott and Mardie Robb (both USA) Watermelon 159\u00a0kg (350\u00a0lb 8\u00a0oz) Chris Kent (USA) All \ufb01gures correct as of 12\u00a0Jan 2020 Tallest sweetcorn plant Heaviest nectarine Jason Karl (USA) produced a sweetcorn Eleni Ploutarchou (CYP) grew plant that stretched up to 10.74\u00a0m (35 ft 3\u00a0in) a smooth-skinned peach \u2013 almost twice the height of an adult male weighing 500\u00a0g (1\u00a0lb\u00a01\u00a0oz),\u00a0as giraffe. It was measured on 22\u00a0Dec 2011. veri\ufb01ed on 30\u00a0Jun 2018 in Ayioi Vavatsinias, Cyprus. Eleni had Tallest tomato plant been farming for more than A tomato plant grown by Nutriculture Ltd in 65\u00a0years before producing the Mawdesley, Lancashire, UK, reached 19.8\u00a0m huge\u00a0nectarine, which is more than (64\u00a0ft 11\u00a0in) on 11\u00a0May 2000. three times heavier than average. Heaviest celery graonwWd4no2rar\u00a0bkctygei\ufb01Gs(t9eaed2rr\u00a0ysilbnhHi9Mre\u00a0eeoa,kzlUv)s,eK(rU,nK,) on 29\u00a0Sep 2018 Heaviest avocado 50LSa.o5tbn\u00a0n\u00a0yGdcgmJame\u00fclsl(ree1tgan\u00a0cfsW,thuS7iirwel.e8lsdiiltiipniz(nee)C,rpJHgloparEneon)arwd,,n Heaviest chilli pepper on\u00a030\u00a0Sep 2018 420\u00a0g (14.8\u00a0oz), 2.55\u00a0kg (5\u00a0lb 9\u00a0oz), grown by Mark, Juliane and Loihi grown by Dale\u00a0Toten (UK) Pokini (all USA) in Kahului, and rati\ufb01ed in Malvern, Hawaii, USA, and con\ufb01rmed Worcestershire, UK, on 14\u00a0Dec\u00a02018 on 29\u00a0Sep 2018 101","RECORDMANIA Food Feats Longest egg noodle LARGEST... (hand-made) Japanese chef Hiroshi \u00b7 Artichoke salad: On Kuroda created an egg 15\u00a0Sep 2019, Universidad noodle with a length San Ignacio de Loyola and of 183.72\u00a0m (602\u00a0ft Danper (both PER) served 9\u00a0in) \u2013 about the same as Seattle\u2019s Space an artichoke salad Needle stands tall \u2013 on weighing 784.53\u00a0kg 20\u00a0May\u00a02019 in Tokyo, (1,729\u00a0lb 9\u00a0oz) \u2013 heavier Japan. The noodle, which had to be made as a single than a Holstein cow \u2013 continuous strand from in\u00a0Trujillo, Peru. dough, required an hour of \u00b7 Falafel: A 101.5-kg cooking in a hot wok. (223-lb 12-oz) patty made of chickpeas, Largest coffee-grounds mosaic (image) spices and herbs was On 12\u00a0Sep 2019, BrainFarm (PTY) and artist Percy prepared by Hilton Maimela (both ZAF) produced an artwork from Dead Sea Resort coffee grounds measuring 25.96\u00a0m2 (279\u00a0sq\u00a0ft). & Spa (JOR) in The portrait, of record producer DJ Black Coffee, Sweimeh,\u00a0Jordan, was created by Maimela in just four hours at the on 31\u00a0May 2019. Sandton City mall in Johannesburg, South Africa. Tallest chocolate fountain \u00b7 Green-bean casserole: Largest cream-tea party On 11\u00a0Apr 2019, ma\u00eetre chocolatier Frozen vegetable brand In 2019, the world went cream-tea crazy! On Helmut Wenschitz (AUT) put Willy Green Giant (USA) produced 23\u00a0Oct, a total of 1,054\u00a0people celebrated the Wonka to shame by building a a 457-kg (1,009-lb) helping National Lottery\u2019s 25th birthday with scones, jam, 12.27-m-tall (40-ft 3-in) chocolate of this classic Thanksgiving clotted cream and tea at the Sage Gateshead in dish on 20\u00a0Nov 2019 Gateshead, UK (main picture). This was promptly fountain. The three-storey confection in New\u00a0York City, USA. beaten on 29\u00a0Nov, when Beijing Mercedes-Benz celebrated the opening of Helmut\u2019s Afterwards, it was\u00a0donated Sales Service (CHN) served a cream tea for Pralinenwelt (\u201cPraline World\u201d) to\u00a0Citymeals on\u00a0Wheels. 1,088\u00a0people (inset) in Xiamen, Fujian, China. chocolate factory in Allhaming, Austria. \u00b7 Serving of mango sticky\u00a0rice: The Tourism cchaaors(co2cTou,ahlsn2adued0tepe0f1spo\u00a0w\u00a0luootboenfr)nti.tlgsianqhieuninidg \u00b7 Gazpacho: On 9\u00a0Jun Authority of Thailand Longest baguette Longest cooking marathon Most blueberries 2019, Unica Group (ESP) prepared 4.5 tonnes On 16\u00a0Jun 2019, a Chef Lata Tandon (IND) stuffed\u00a0in\u00a0the mouth produced a cold vegetable (9,920\u00a0lb) of the traditional baguette measuring cooked a range of Indian Serial record-breaker soup measuring 9,800\u00a0litres dessert khao neeo mamuang 132.62\u00a0m (435\u00a0ft dishes for 87\u00a0hr 45\u00a0min on David Rush (USA) found (2,588\u00a0US gal) in Almer\u00eda, in Bangkok, Thailand, on 1\u00a0in) was unveiled 3\u20137\u00a0Sep 2019 in Rewa, India. room in his mouth for 20\u00a0Jan 2019. The prodigious in Como, Italy. Stood She more than doubled the 124\u00a0blueberries on 16\u00a0Jun Spain. That is enough to pudding weighed the same on end, it would be previous record. 2019 in Boise, Idaho, USA. \ufb01ll 30\u00a0bath\u00a0tubs. as three pick-up trucks! more than twice the He beat his own record by \u00b7Mille-feuille: On \u00b7 Serving of\u00a0pro\ufb01teroles: height of the Leaning Longest tiramisu just a single blueberry. 23\u00a0Feb 2019, a French On 15\u00a0Sep 2019, a mound Tower of Pisa. The On 16\u00a0Mar 2019, culinary pastry slice that tipped of chocolate-drizzled baguette was created school students together Most people eating the scales at 673.5\u00a0kg pro\ufb01teroles weighing 430\u00a0kg by Croce Rossa with Galbani Santa breakfast in bed (1,484\u00a0lb 13\u00a0oz) was (947\u00a0lb 15\u00a0oz) was served Italiana \u2013 Comitato Lucia (ITA) prepared a A total of 574\u00a0people ate prepared in Trieste, Italy. up by Consorzio Centro della Provincia di 273.5-m-long (897-ft 3-in) breakfast in bed on 30\u00a0Mar It was the work of shopping Commerciale Latina\ufb01ori Como (ITA) as part of coffee dessert in Milan, Italy. 2019 in Johannesburg, centre Torri D\u2019Europa, in (ITA) in Latina,\u00a0Italy. a\u00a0fundraising event. The students were directed South Africa. The event collaboration with Tess by chef and Masterchef Italia was\u00a0organized by juice and Pasticceria Bom winner Stefano Callegaro. brand Cappy (ZAF). Bom (all ITA).","Lean, mean eating machine FASTEST TIME TO\u00a0EAT... A hot dog: 21.60\u00a0sec, \u00b7 A raw onion: 29.56\u00a0sec, FASTEST TIME \u00b7 Milk: one pint Leah Shutkever (UK, below) is a competitive without using the hands, by by\u00a0Yusuke Yamaguchi TO\u00a0DRINK... in 3.97\u00a0sec, by eater who follows a strict \ufb01tness regime between \u00b7 Bananas: eight peeled and (JPN)\u00a0on\u00a031\u00a0Dec 2013 James McMillan gastronomic guzzles to keep \ufb01t. And nothing eaten in 60 sec, by Patrick Michelle Lesco (USA) \u00b7 Coffee: one cup in (NZ) on 26\u00a0Jul 2015 makes her hungrier than the prospect of a GWR \u201cDeep Dish\u201d Bertoletti on 13\u00a0Dec 2018 Pasta: 150\u00a0g in 26.69\u00a0sec, 4.35\u00a0sec, by Andr\u00e9 Ortolf Soda: two litres title\u2026 On 15\u00a0Jun 2018, Leah achieved the fastest (USA) on\u00a014\u00a0Jan\u00a02012 \u00b7 A KitKat: 22.52\u00a0sec, by Michelle Lesco on (DEU) on\u00a08\u00a0Aug 2019 through a straw in time to eat a Chocolate Orange, devouring the without using the hands, 18\u00a0Sep\u00a02017 1\u00a0min 21.09\u00a0sec, by Kevin sweet treat in 1\u00a0min 5\u00a0sec. On 1\u00a0May 2019, she Bhut jolokia by Daniel Dickinson (UK) \u00b7 Peanut butter and jelly Gravy: one litre in 1\u00a0min Strahle on 24\u00a0May 2017 followed up with the fastest time to eat three chillies: three in on 31\u00a0Aug\u00a02016 sandwiches: six in 60 sec, 12.5\u00a0sec, by Steven Ruppel \u00b7 Water: 500\u00a0ml through pickled eggs \u2013 7.80\u00a0sec; Leah annihilated the 9.75\u00a0sec, by Mike Jack \u00b7 A jam doughnut: by\u00a0Patrick Bertoletti on (USA) on 25\u00a0Apr 2018 a\u00a0straw in 7.30\u00a0sec, by previous best of 21.09\u00a0sec by gulping the eggs (CAN) on 26\u00a0Jan 2019 11.41\u00a0sec, without using 14\u00a0Jan 2012 \u00b7 Ketchup: one bottle in Andr\u00e9\u00a0Ortolf on\u00a04\u00a0Dec\u00a02019 whole. 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Sold at Serendipity 3 and made in partnership with Swarovski\u00ae and the Crystal Ninja in New York City, USA. $100 (\u00a375) 104 105","RECORDMANIA Mass Participation Music & dance: Largest... Record People Location Date Bharatanatyam 10,176 Chennai, Tamil\u00a0Nadu, India 8\u00a0Feb 2020 dance Bharatanatyam 416 Chennai, Tamil\u00a0Nadu, India 2\u00a0Feb 2020 dance\u00a0lesson Drum crescendo 556 St Petersburg, Russia 26\u00a0May 2019 Ladakhi dance 408 Hemis, Ladakh, India 20\u00a0Sep 2019 Matouqin ensemble 2,019 Qianguo, Songyuan, Jilin, 13\u00a0Jul 2019 China Samba dance lesson 643 Hong Kong, China 19\u00a0May 2019 Schuhplattler dance 1,312 Antdorf, Bavaria, Germany 30\u00a0May 2019 Singing relay 384 Shef\ufb01eld, South 7\u00a0Nov 2019 Most people scuba diving (multiple\u00a0songs) Yorkshire,\u00a0UK simultaneously On 3\u00a0Aug 2019, the Indonesia Largest music lesson Most people dressed as Smurfs Women\u2019s Organisation held a mass A total of 2,869\u00a0primary school On 16\u00a0Feb 2019, a total of 2,762\u00a0fans scuba dive with 3,131\u00a0participants students attended a beginner\u2019s of the famous Belgian comic in\u00a0Manado, North Sulawesi, lesson on how to play the ukulele characters gathered in Lauchringen, Indonesia. They followed up by on\u00a015\u00a0May\u00a02019 at SJKC Kuo Germany, to paint the town blue. To producing the largest \ufb02ag unfurled Kuang\u00a02 in Johor, Malaysia. With qualify for the record, participants underwater \u2013 1,014\u00a0m\u00b2 (10,914\u00a0sq\u00a0ft). the help of instructor Ric Cho, had to wear blue body paint or This was their third GWR title, they learned how\u00a0to hold their blue clothing, while classic red or having formed the longest human instrument and strum a chord or white Smurf hats were an essential chain underwater \u2013 578 people \u2013 two. The 33-min class \ufb01nished with accessory. Many came dressed as two days earlier. They had spent a a group performance of the popular year preparing for the event. children\u2019s song \u201cBaby\u00a0Shark\u201d. speci\ufb01c characters, such as Papa\u00a0Smurf or Largest human image of a... toS2Mtph5raaee\u00a0HSnctdIuaeseanrzopyStnzuest2earar0ldinataf1ialetol9eetinig.wro.hHontneal Smurfette. The event was organized by D\u00e4 Record People Location Date Traditionsverein (DEU). 13\u00a0Jul 2019 Bicycle 2,620 Moscow, Russia 14\u00a0Oct 2019 Burger 1,047 Madrid, Spain 8\u00a0Jul 2019 14\u00a0Oct 2019 Cloud 1,207 Qingdao, Shandong, China 29\u00a0Jun 2019 Fingerprint 800 Hebron, Palestine 2\u00a0Oct 2019 Maple leaf 3,942 Quinte West, 20\u00a0Aug 2019 Ontario,\u00a0Canada Peace sign 1,076 Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India Pencil 761 Rydalmere, New South Wales, Australia Largest human image of a rocket To celebrate the achievements of Hazza al Mansouri, the \ufb01rst Emirati to go into space, the PACE Group (UAE) arranged a human image of a rocket with 11,443\u00a0school children and staff members\u00a0on\u00a028\u00a0Nov 2019 in Sharjah, UAE. The\u00a0children were drawn from \ufb01ve schools and\u00a0represented 21\u00a0different nations. 106","RECORDMANIA Largest gathering of people dressed... Record People Location Date 29\u00a0Jun 2019 As brides 1,347 Petrer, Alicante, Spain 9 Nov 2019 25\u00a0Jan 2019 As Ji Gong 339 Hong Kong, China 5\u00a0Jan 2019 As scarecrows 2,495 Ilagan, Isabela, Philippines 27\u00a0Jul 2019 As wizards 440 National Harbor, Maryland, USA 7\u00a0Sep 2019 In tartan 1,359 Kenora, Ontario, Canada 23\u00a0Jun 2019 Most people... 7\u00a0Jul 2019 Making bouquets 339 Newport, New Hampshire, USA 12\u00a0Aug 2019 simultaneously 3\u00a0Jun 2019 Longest line of human mattress dominoes Performing the 623 Shanghai, China Globo Comunica\u00e7\u00e3o e Participa\u00e7\u00f5es and Ortobom (both BRA) chair pose (yoga) 17\u00a0Oct 2019 organized a giant game of human mattress dominoes with simultaneously 22\u00a0Sep 2019 2,019\u00a0people on 6\u00a0Aug 2019 at Riocentro in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. They beat the previous record by three people. The topple took Picking tea leaves 576 Kamo, Gifu, Japan 30\u00a0Sep\u20132\u00a0Oct 2019 11\u00a0min 13\u00a0sec, with the mattresses donated to charity afterwards. simultaneously 10\u00a0Oct 2019 Largest orchestra Using manual 564 Cerkno, Slovenia 17\u00a0Apr 2019 A total of 8,097\u00a0musicians came together to mowing\u00a0tools perform the Russian national anthem on 30\u00a0Oct 2019 1\u00a0Sep 2019 in St Petersburg, Russia. The event, Wearing sock puppets 628 Birmingham, West Midlands, UK 13\u00a0Oct 2019 organized by Gazprom\u2019s Fund for Supporting (single venue) 30\u00a0Oct 2019 Social Initiatives (RUS), drew performers from 26\u00a0Oct 2019 181 orchestras and 200 choirs from across the Most contributors to a... 16\u00a0Nov 2019 country. The performance was followed by a 17\u00a0May 2019 live screening of a Russian football match. Colour by numbers 2,462 Dubai, UAE 23\u00a0Apr 2019 LEGO\u00ae-brick miniature 1,025 Shanghai, China 7\u00a0Sep 2019 city in eight\u00a0hours 13\u00a0Nov 2019 21\u00a0Jun 2019 Rubik\u2019s Cube mosaic 308 London, UK 25\u00a0Aug 2019 Largest lesson in... 4\u00a0Jul 2019 Archaeology 299 Ostroh, Rivne, Ukraine Arti\ufb01cial intelligence 846 Dallas, Texas, USA programming Biology 5,019 S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil Calligraphy 2,671 Macau, China Employability skills 330 London, UK Football (soccer) 835 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Gardening 286 Kuwait City, Kuwait Laundry 400 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Software 775 Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico Largest... Coffee tasting 2,133 Moscow, Russia Game of freeze tag 2,172 Phoenix, Arizona, USA Human knot 123 Jeju, South Korea Laser tag winner- 978 Farmington, Michigan, USA stays-on tournament Paper ball \ufb01ght 653 Morgantown, Kentucky, USA Largest Mexican folk dance On 24\u00a0Aug 2019, a total of 882\u00a0participants dressed in traditional charro and caporal costumes took part in a Jalisco dance for 6\u00a0min 50\u00a0sec on the Plaza de la Liberaci\u00f3n in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. The record attempt, which almost doubled the previous best of\u00a0457, was organized by C\u00e1mara de Comercio and Servicios y Turismo de Guadalajara (both MEX). The PACE Group\u2019s image depicted 107 a space shuttle mounted on three giant\u00a0rockets.","RECORDMANIA RECORDMANIA Big Stuff Largest mailbox Wishwyeorue here! POCSaTfrosCmeAyRD Largest golf club Largest golf tee IllinoisThe small town with a big appetite for records! Largest rocking chair and largest clogs Largest key Largest barber\u2019s pole Largest pitchfork","Largest golf tee Largest mailbox 20\u00a2 Here in Casey, Illinois, USA, mdTiaesktaresiuactrt,erwsiph1te1or.0et9ho\u00a0emudrloloawnrnggtebolywe4tnt.e4br1u-\u00a0hmsionldeessr our small town has some gailfohnouiucaicsngarnaihcdbtstte\u00a0elu(bie3d.opiT6wnried\u00a0nhafircnt-elt!sa4choFigh\u00a0zeipien,enepaaddnxonccist1rdnrhto4eglses\u00a0ofatsithoatsit5kinoohd\u00a0sdinpednosetes)ou,.rntiaLtrctsteoi\u2019lsetkievamdefteiu.rrobalwnlalulyapoyf Largest golf club very BIG attractions. We If you\u2019ve got time to play nine currently hold 11 GWR titles, Largest To\u2026 tIchotlo\u2019u\u00a0sylbeog,suu\u00a0m,radrdeoaarnnis\u2019vtuteefresoidnr\u2013ggtieof1tya3yod.o9udu5crs\u00a0maoCnma(4se5ed\u00a0yfi-tss9tia\u00a0zinendc).e all for super-sized objects rocking\u00a0chair pick it up, that is! created by local businessman and-sisteae1l 7r.o0cT9ko-iwmneg-tracinhllga(5ior6v. -eIftrt\u2019sM19-ai.9nin9) \u00a0wSmtoroede-t *W\u0100\u00fbPG\u00f5U\u0003\u0128QT\u00fdF\u0003\u011dGE\u00fa\u00f7F\u00f5\u000f\u0003\/Q\u00fbF\u00fa\u00fb Jim Bolin (USA). Down at the (32\u00a0ft 9.5\u00a0in) wide and weighs Largest key Country Club, our giant golf 20.9\u00a0tonnes (46,200\u00a0lb). A \u201cdove from\u2026 A replica of the key tee measures 9.37\u00a0m (30\u00a0ft 9\u00a0in) of hope\u201d is carved into to Jim Bolin\u2019s Chevy long, has a head diameter of the head rest. And while &C\u00f5\u0104[\u000f\u0003,N\u00fd\u0100PQ\u0100\u00f5\u000f\u0003 Silverado truck 1.91\u00a0m (6\u00a0ft 3\u00a0in) and a shaft you\u2019re there, don\u2019t miss (as 86\u0109\u000f\u0003\u0019\u0015\u0017\u0015\u0013 stands 8.58\u00a0m (28\u00a0ft width of 64\u00a0cm (2\u00a0ft 1\u00a0in). It was if you could!) the largest 1\u00a0in) tall \u2013 that\u2019s shaped from a\u00a0block of yellow clogs. They measure nearly twice the pine boards using chainsaws. 3.5\u00a0m (11\u00a0ft 5\u00a0in) long \u2013 height of a double- which is a shoe size Largest barber\u2019s pole decker bus! It also has In need of a trim? At 4.46\u00a0m of about a maximum width of (14\u00a0ft\u00a07\u00a0in), our barber\u2019s 390! 3.47\u00a0m (11\u00a0ft 4\u00a0in). If\u00a0Jim\u2019s pole will point you in truck were scaled up to the right direction. Largest pitchfork the same size, it would It was dreamed up itRt1mthAthhh8eedteeea.sri6Catnlssie5atasipanozu\u00a0usmlgeuaegrreayyetro(.h,ens6fmNwd1ta2ooi\u00a0e\u2013f.ofgn5tt\u2019aurahho61etnbtir\u00a0\u00a0smnyimpdoingdfwri)aa(oefi8lllrluioy\u00a0Rlmpnfudnotiigsucgt5otctha\u2019.o\u00a0frvhiTlaoanoelfrehltuo),egdyiwrrwoss\u2019!ksatihYti,dFgshaoiaecari1unbsihra0\u2019cidmlbgnulta,edi\ufb01lmbttnutoeedrursatl be the length of the\u00a0Queen by our \u201cBig Things Elizabeth\u00a02 ocean liner. in a Small Town\u201d Casey-sized appetite, be initiative, which sure\u00a0to try the pie! offers residents and city of\ufb01cials the chance to decide what outsized object to create next. Casey has fewer than 3,000 residents. Jim\u00a0Bolin 108 started\u00a0the \u201cBig Things in a Small Town\u201d initiative 109 to\u00a0draw visitors to the area.","RECORDMANIA Footwear feats Shoes Fastest\u2026 Time Holder 100 m in clogs 13.16 sec Andr\u00e9 Ortolf (DEU) 100 m in high heels 13.55 sec Majken Sichlau (DNK) 100 m in ski boots 13.85 sec Andr\u00e9 Ortolf (DEU) 100 m in ski boots (female) 16.86 sec Emma Kirk-Odunubi (UK) 100 m on high-heeled 26.10 sec Marawa Ibrahim (AUS) roller skates Half marathon in flip-flops 1 hr 30 min 23 sec Rakshith Shetty (IND) Half marathon in ski boots 3 hr 7 min 35 sec Emilie Cruz (FRA) Marathon in 3 hr 21 min 27 sec Damian Thacker (UK) Wellington boots Marathon in flip-flops 3 hr 42 min 29 sec Pardip Singh Minhas (UK) Marathon in ski boots 5 hr 30 min 27 sec Paul Harnett (UK) Correct as of 5 Dec 2019 Largest collection of\u2026 (9 ft 3 in) tall was unveiled in Sfax, Tunisia, Shoes: at the last count on 20 Mar 2012, Darlene Flynn (USA, on 20 Apr 2019. The shoe was the result of a collaboration between the Tunisian above) owned 15,665\u00a0shoes and shoe-related items. fashion designer Ahmed Gargouri, the Sneakers: as of 17 May 2012, Jordy Geller (USA) had amassed Dido Fashion Club, Complexe des Jeunes de Sfax, CNCC (Tunisia\u2019s National Leather and a\u00a0total of 2,388 pairs of trainers (above right). Shoe Centre) and UTICA\u00a0Sfax (the country\u2019s Converse: at the last inventory, on 8 Mar 2012, Joshua Mueller industry, trade and handicraft union). (USA, right) owned 1,546 different pairs of the classic sports shoe. They were archived in Lakewood, Washington, USA. While this Tunisian shoe is a one-off, the highest-heeled shoes commercially 1. Largest hiking boot 2. Largest cowboy boot available went on sale to the public at On 30 Sep 2006, Schuh Marke (DEU) presented On 24 Jan 2008, Belachew Tola Buta (ETH) boldnbootiful.com in Feb 2004. Produced a walking boot 7.14\u00a0m (23\u00a0ft 5\u00a0in) long, 2.5\u00a0m (8\u00a0ft presented a black leather cowboy boot by James Syiemiong (IND), the extreme 2\u00a0in) wide and 4.2\u00a0m (13\u00a0ft 9\u00a0in) tall in Hauenstein, measuring 2.5\u00a0m (8\u00a0ft 2\u00a0in) tall and 2.38\u00a0m footwear boasted platforms measuring Germany. It\u2019s twice as long as a Mini Cooper, wider (7\u00a0ft 9\u00a0in) long in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 43\u00a0cm (1\u00a0ft 5\u00a0in) high and heels reaching than a London TX4 taxi and almost as tall as a 51\u00a0cm (1\u00a0ft\u00a08\u00a0in) \u2013 taller than a bowling pin! Routemaster bus! The giant-sized footwear weighs 3. Largest shoe in at some 1,500\u00a0kg (3,306 lb), or around the same Electric sekki (HKG) displayed a trainer Most valuable boots as a forklift truck, while the 35-m-long (114-ft 6.4\u00a0m (20\u00a0ft 11\u00a0in) long, 2.39\u00a0m (7\u00a0ft 10\u00a0in) In Dec 2013, Antwerp diamond company 9-in) lace is nearly four\u00a0times longer than a typical wide and 1.65\u00a0m (5\u00a0ft 4\u00a0in) tall on 12 Apr Diarough\/UNI-Design and fashion house stretch limo. 2013 in Hong Kong, China. It was modelled AF\u00a0Vandevorst (both BEL) unveiled a pair on a Superga 2750 shoe. of\u00a0size-6 ankle boots. Made with 4.73\u00a0kg (10\u00a0lb 7\u00a0oz) of gold and covered in 39,083 4. Largest high-heeled shoe natural fancy coloured diamonds weighing A high-heeled shoe measuring a total of 1,550\u00a0carats, they were valued at 3.96\u00a0m (12\u00a0ft 11\u00a0in) long and 2.82\u00a0m $3.1\u00a0m (\u00a31.8\u00a0m). Oldest leather shoe In 2008, archaeologists discovered a 5,500-year-old leather shoe inside the Areni-1 cave in the south-eastern Vayots Dzor province of Armenia. The shoe is 24.5\u00a0cm (9.6 in) long, made from a single piece of hide leather and shaped to \ufb01t the wearer\u2019s foot. It is complete and well preserved thanks to the thick layer of sheep dung in which it was covered and the cool, dry conditions inside the cave. 3 12 110","RECORDMANIA Most expensive shoes sold at auction Oldest athletic shoe endorsement Largest Wellington boot race \u2022 Film prop: the ruby slippers (top right) worn by In 1923, US sportsman Chuck On 11\u00a0May\u00a02014, a total of 3,194 participants US actress Judy Garland in the \ufb01lm The Wizard of Oz Taylor became the \ufb01rst athletic shoe donned wellies to run at the Glen\ufb02esk GAA (USA, 1939) sold at Christie\u2019s in New York City, USA, endorser. His name was added to the (IRL) club in Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland. on 24\u00a0May 2000 for $666,000 (\u00a3450,621). ankle patch of shoes in the Chuck Taylor \u2022 Sneakers\/trainers: on 23\u00a0Jul 2019, a pair of Converse All-Star brand to honour his On 12\u00a0Oct 1996, Finland\u2019s Teppo Luoma unworn 1972 Nike Waf\ufb02e Racing Flat \u201cMoon Shoe\u201d contribution to basketball. achieved the farthest distance to throw sneakers (top left) realized $437,500 (\u00a3350,395) a Wellington boot (\u201cwellie wanging\u201d) \u2013 at\u00a0Sotheby\u2019s in New York City, USA. They were Heaviest shoes walked in 63.98\u00a0m (209\u00a0ft 10\u00a0in) \u2013 in H\u00e4meenlinna, hand-made by Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman. On 18 Nov 2010 in London, UK, Finland. The female record is 40.87\u00a0m (134\u00a0ft \u2022 Sneakers\/trainers (worn): the signed size-13 Ashrita Furman (USA) walked 10\u00a0m 1\u00a0in), by Sari Tirkkonen (FIN) on 19\u00a0Apr 1996. Converse trainers (above right) worn by Michael (32\u00a0ft\u00a09\u00a0in) in a pair of shoes weighing Jordan (USA) during the 1984 Olympics fetched a\u00a0total of 146.5\u00a0kg (323\u00a0lb) \u2013 equivalent Fastest time to lace a shoe $190,372.80 (\u00a3149,323) at an SCP auction on to\u00a0a\u00a0full beer keg on each foot! On 27 May 2018, Jane Pearce (UK) laced 11\u00a0Jun 2017. The gold-medal game against Six years later, on 4 Dec 2016, he a single shoe featuring 10\u00a0eyelets in just Spain on 10\u00a0Aug 1984 was Jordan\u2019s last performed the most skips of a rope 22.83\u00a0sec during a GWR Live! event at the before he turned pro and signed with Nike. wearing ski boots in one minute (161) Vitality Westminster Mile in London, UK. in Ipswich, Suffolk, UK. Oldest footwear dated directly Largest footwear brand (current) In 1938, archaeologist Luther Cressman Most shoes shined in eight hours Based on retail revenue, the best-selling (USA) of the University of Oregon discovered Vickrant Mahajan (IND) polished up footwear brand in 2019 was Nike (USA) with a number of ancient sandals in Fort Rock 251\u00a0pairs of shoes in eight hours, at an sales of $31.55\u00a0bn (\u00a324.88\u00a0bn) according to Cave, Oregon, USA. Ten specimens have average of nearly two pairs per minute, Euromonitor as of 27\u00a0Feb 2020. been carbon-dated to 9,300\u201310,500 years in\u00a0Indora, India, on 1\u00a0Jun 2016. old. These distinctive shoes, made of Most shoes collected sagebrush, were likely to have been worn by The most people polishing shoes is 800, for recycling native North Americans. Since Cressman\u2019s achieved at an event organized by Asakusa Students Run LA discovery, \u201cFort Rock\u201d-style sandals have Polishing Shoes World Challenge Executive (USA) spent nearly been found at many other sites in south-east a year gathering Oregon and northern Nevada, USA. Committee (JPN) at 18,302\u00a0shoes Asahi Shopping to recycle in The oldest pair of socks dates to the Street in Tokyo, California, USA, 4th\u00a0century CE and were discovered in the Japan, on as rati\ufb01ed on ancient city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. The 22\u00a0Nov 2013. 9\u00a0Aug 2014. red woollen socks, each with two toes, were made with a type of single-needle knitting 5. Largest cowboy boot sculpture and may have been designed Bob \u201cDaddy-O\u201d Wade to\u00a0be worn with sandals. (USA, below) built a 10.74-m-tall (35-ft 3-in) sculpture of a pair of cowboy boots, as con\ufb01rmed on 4\u00a0Nov 2014 at North Star Mall in San Antonio, Texas, USA. The vertiginous footwear comprises a criss-cross steel frame (dubbed a \u201cbaby Eiffel Tower\u201d by Wade), covered with a mixture of concrete and \ufb01breglass made to resemble ostrich skin. 5 4 HtohDueCsnoiytee,rsriUaigeTnhriSanhetWAcaehigh,laeblhewysoWtdhsh!oithhetnosiargoteletdfon, 111","RECORDMANIA Collections Valid credit cards Assassin\u2019s Creed memorabilia LEGO\u00ae Mini\ufb01gures Zheng Xiangchen As of 10\u00a0Feb 2019, Carlo Prisco (ITA) had Fabio Bertini (ITA) owned 3,310 LEGO Mini\ufb01gures, as veri\ufb01ed (CHN) had 1,562\u00a0credit 1,030 items related to the award-winning on 1 Dec 2018 in the republic of San Marino. Every item in the cards as of 28\u00a0Aug action game in Pozzuoli, Naples, Italy. collection, which dates back to the 1970s, is part of an original 2019 in Shenzhen, LEGO set and has at least one detail that distinguishes it from Guangdong, Pikachu memorabilia the\u00a0others. Shown above with Fabio are Banana Guy, Chicken China. Following Lisa Courtney (UK) has amassed a Suit\u00a0Guy and President Business. GWR guidelines, 1,293-strong archive based on the each card had a Top Trumps spending\u00a0limit\u00a0of at Pok\u00e9mon star. Her hoard\u00a0was Mark Maggs (UK) owns least $500 (\u00a3407). rati\ufb01ed in Welwyn Garden City, 300\u00a0uniquely themed sets Overall, the collection Hertfordshire, UK, on 7\u00a0Aug 2019. of the card game Top would have offered Lisa also had the largest collection Trumps, as rati\ufb01ed in a minimum credit of Pok\u00e9mon memorabilia \u2013 17,127 London, UK, on 8\u00a0Jul 2019. availability of items \u2013 as of 10\u00a0Aug 2016. He began amassing $781,000 (\u00a3637,010, the \u201cCollectible, as of the date above). Whale-related items Competitive, As veri\ufb01ed on 24\u00a0May\u00a02019, Cynde Compulsive!\u201d cards in McInnis (USA) had acquired 1,347 2002. Subjects include pieces related to these marine \u201cBarbie\u201d, \u201cThe Mary mammals \u2013 from postcards and clothing Rose\u201d and his to\u00a0magnets and jewellery \u2013 stored favourite, \u201cSports in\u00a0Tops\ufb01eld, Massachusetts, USA. Cars\u201d. Top Trumps The largest collection of dolphin- \ufb01rst appeared in related items numbers 3,516, and is the the UK\u00a0in 1978. property of Ausra Saltenyte (LTU) in Vilnius, Lithuania, as counted on 31\u00a0Jan 2019. Sunglasses Lori-Ann Keenan (CAN) owned 2,174 sets of shades in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, as rati\ufb01ed on 29\u00a0Jun 2019. Rolling Stones memorabilia Matthew Lee (UK) has amassed 2,789 pieces of ephemera related to the veteran rockers, as veri\ufb01ed on 14 Nov 2019\u00a0in London, UK. Spider-Man memorabilia As of 27 Apr 2019, Tristan Mathews (USA) possessed 3,089\u00a0items related to the world-famous web-slinger, as con\ufb01rmed in Burbank, California, USA. Aside from comics, Tristan\u2019s Marvel-ous archive includes action \ufb01gures, lamps, lunch trays, videogames, clothing and even themed tins of spaghetti. Fortune-cookie fortunes By 1\u00a0Aug 2019, Kris L Duke (USA) had collected 4,350\u00a0of these \u201cprophetic\u201d notes in Bolton\u00a0Valley, Vermont, USA. fhadSenoeprf#vsihed1oi1aane1tTds2cer,r-6edbWiwMs.etSthehaeapbeennnindoaafegye Perfume bottles As of 13\u00a0Sep 2019, Anna Leventeri (GRC) had sniffed out 5,410 scent bottles, which she keeps stored in Neo Psychiko, Greece. One Piece memorabilia Yoshikazu Sanada (JPN) has an archive of 5,656 items connected to the popular manga series in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan, as veri\ufb01ed on 17\u00a0Jul 2019. Dragon Ball memorabilia Hitoshi Uchida (JPN) has two rooms dedicated to this manga\/anime classic, accommodating 10,098\u00a0items. They were counted in Tokyo, Japan, on 18\u00a0Jun 2019. 112","RECORDMANIA Funko Pop! \ufb01gurines At the last count on 5\u00a0Mar 2020, Paul Scardino\u00a0(USA) had 5,306\u00a0Funko Pop! \ufb01gurines in his basement in Winchester City, Virginia, USA. The\u00a0stylized vinyl models depict licensed characters from comic books, movies and games. Paul\u2019s collection began with a two-pack set featuring Marvel\u2019s Hawkeye and Spider-Man (above). A colleague bought it for him as a birthday\u00a0present, kick-starting his obsession. Largest guitar collection sold at a charity auction Banknotes God of War On 20 Jun 2019, the \u201cDavid Gilmour Guitar Wissam Ali Youssef (LBN) had saved up memorabilia Collection\u201d sale saw 123 guitars owned by the Pink 12,282\u00a0unique banknotes by 2\u00a0Oct 2019, with Emmanuel Mojica Rosas (MEX) Floyd member auctioned by Christie\u2019s in New York a total face value of c. $294,408 (\u00a3239,713). owned 570 items relating to the City, USA. They realized $21,198,250 (\u00a316,823,500), God of War videogame franchise, as with proceeds going to environmental charity Postcards con\ufb01rmed on 3 Mar 2019 in Xalisco, ClientEarth. The Fender Stratocaster shown below As of 28\u00a0Jul 2019, Michael Schefers (DEU) Mexico. He was presented with his bears the coveted serial number 0001. GWR certi\ufb01cate while on a tour of had 15,553\u00a0unique postcards in Hannover, the developers\u2019 studio, where he Germany; each depicts a bridge. Michael was also given the disc on specializes in bridge construction. which God of War was \ufb01rst burned. Digimon memorabilia Ng Tze Ying (HKG) owned 18,264\u00a0pieces inspired by this Japanese digital- monster franchise at the last count on\u00a03\u00a0May\u00a02019 in Osaka, Japan. Videogames Antonio Romero Monteiro of Richmond, Texas, USA, owned 20,139\u00a0items of videogame ephemera as of 2\u00a0Feb 2019. Teddy bears There were 20,367 bears in the archive of arctophile Istv\u00e1nn\u00e9 Arn\u00f3czki (HUN) in Hars\u00e1ny, Hungary, as of\u00a027\u00a0Apr 2019. The pick of the auction was \u201cThe Black Strat\u201d, 113 heard on several classic Pink Floyd albums, including The Dark Side of the Moon (1973) and Wish You Were Here (1975).","RECORDMANIA Fitness Most skips over Michigan, USA, on 12\u00a0Oct 2019. In this Farthest distance rolled on Swiss balls a rope in 24 hours attempt, a participant raises a barbell Nicholas Smith (AUS) travelled for 95.17 m (312\u00a0ft Sella Rosa Rega (USA) above the head, squats while keeping it 2\u00a0in) along a row of Swiss balls in Cubberla Creek skipped a rope 168,394 aloft, rises again and repeats the process. Reserve, Queensland, Australia, on 14\u00a0Aug 2018. times in 24\u00a0hr in Boiceville, New York, Farthest distance pushing a car The most headers of a Swiss ball in 30 seconds USA, on 30 Mar 2019. in 24\u00a0hours (individual) is 53, and was achieved by Josh Horton (USA) On 27\u201328\u00a0Apr 2019, Croatian \ufb01tness coach in Malibu, California, USA, on 16 May 2017. On the way to this Tomislav Lubenjak pushed a 740-kg record, Sella also (1,630-lb) car with driver for 106.93\u00a0km Most live streams of a \ufb01tness workout achieved the most (66.44\u00a0mi). He completed 33\u00a0lengths of a on YouTube skips over a rope in road in Zagreb, Croatia\u2019s capital city. Following the coronavirus outbreak in early 2020, eight hours (70,030), Joe \u201cThe Body Coach\u201d Wicks (UK) began streaming and also in 12\u00a0hours FASTEST\u2026 daily workouts from his home. On 24\u00a0Mar\u00a02020, a (100,364). Her total of 955,185 households joined Joe as he ran, superlative skipping 100 m hula hooping jumped and bunny-hopped ability was honed Thomas Gallant (USA) hula-hooped a around his living room. as part of her mixed distance of 100\u00a0m (328\u00a0ft) in 15.97 sec in martial arts training. St Johns, Florida, USA, on 18\u00a0May 2019. On 5 Jul 2017, Joe oversaw During the attempt, he the largest high-intensity Longest time to hold also achieved the interval training class, a tree pose (yoga) fastest 50\u00a0m putting 3,804 participants M Kavitha (IND) held a yogic tree pose for hula hooping \u2013 through a rigorous exercise 55\u00a0min in Chennai, India, on 19\u00a0Jun 2019. 8.08\u00a0sec. session at the British Summer The position requires the practitioner to Time Festival in Hyde Park, balance on one leg, with the foot of the other London, UK. leg pressed against it. The hands may be raised or held, palms together, at the chest. Most people holding an abdominal plank position On 26\u00a0Jan 2020, Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance (IND) brought together 2,471 people to sustain an abdominal plank pose for 60\u00a0sec in Mumbai, India. Heaviest deadlift in 24 hours On 26\u201327 Oct 2019, Chris Dack (UK) lifted an aggregate weight of 480,000\u00a0kg (1,058,218\u00a0lb) in Norwich, Norfolk, UK. That\u2019s heavier than an Airbus A380, the heaviest passenger aircraft. The most weight lifted by overhead squats in one minute is 2,125\u00a0kg (4,684\u00a0lb), by Casey Lambert (USA) in Owosso, Most lunges in one minute (female) hsitmrPdteEahtahoJietmleoyebnesah\ufb01eacowstcthnipaoooeeiemnudrsd\u201dlesftd!ohhl\u201crhiiasvtethelep Sandra Hickson (IRL) executed 80\u00a0lunges in 60\u00a0sec in Castleisland, Kerry, Ireland, on 25\u00a0Jul 2019. Between them, the super-\ufb01t Hickson family have achieved 10\u00a0GWR titles. On the same day, siblings Sandra and Jason joined legs to run the fastest three-legged mile in 6\u00a0min 52.12\u00a0sec. 114","RECORDMANIA Most one-arm, one-leg place in Bognor\u00a0Regis, West Sussex, UK, on Longest abdominal plank (female) push-ups in one minute 29\u201330\u00a0Nov 2019. Jamie\u2019s attempt raised a Canada\u2019s Dana Glowacka held herself in Thounaojam Niranjoy Singh (IND) total of \u00a321,000 ($27,119) for a local hospice. this demanding position for 4 hr 19 min 55 sec performed 36\u00a0push-ups supporting in\u00a0Naperville, Illinois, USA, on 18 May 2019. himself on one arm and one leg in MOST\u2026 The outright longest abdominal plank lasted Imphal, India, on 14\u00a0Aug 2019. for 8 hr 15 min 15 sec, by former Marine George The most one-arm push-ups Handstand push-ups Hood (USA) at the same location on 15\u00a0Feb 2020. He carrying a 100-lb pack in one in three minutes (male) planned his attempt to serve as a tribute to veterans minute is 20, and was achieved by On 27\u00a0Jun 2019, Armenian of the armed forces. Dana and George are good Patrick Murray (USA) in Hoboken, bodybuilder Manvel Mamoyan friends and he helped her prepare for her record. New Jersey, USA, on 30 Mar 2019. performed 73\u00a0push-ups \u2013 a rate of one every 2.5 sec \u2013 in Moscow, Russia. 200 m backwards Christian Roberto L\u00f3pez Rodr\u00edguez (ESP) Parallel bar dips with a completed a 200-m (656-ft) reverse run in 100-lb pack in one minute 30.99\u00a0sec in Toledo, Spain, on 30 Jul 2019. Denys Havrikov (UKR) carried out 38\u00a0dips on parallel bars while weighed down by The previous month, Christian had a 100-lb (45-kg) pack on 8\u00a0Jun 2019 in juggled and jogged to set the record for Miami, Florida, USA. the fastest 200\u00a0m joggling backwards with three\u00a0objects (in\u00a048.83\u00a0sec) and then Pull-ups with an 80-lb pack in one minute repeated this over 400\u00a0m (in 1\u00a0min 48\u00a0sec). On 8\u00a0Mar 2020, Anthony Robles (USA) carried out 23 pull-ups in 60\u00a0sec while Time to box-jump the height of Everest bearing 80 lb (36.2 kg) of weights Jamie Alderton (UK) took 22\u00a0hr 18\u00a0min in\u00a0Phoenix, Arizona, USA. 38\u00a0sec to scale the equivalent of the highest mountain (8,848 m; 29,029 ft) Jumping jacks in 30 seconds by jumping on to a box. The attempt took On 14\u00a0Nov 2019, Simon Idio (UK) completed 68\u00a0jumping jacks, or star jumps, in half a minute in London, UK. Fastest time to run 100 miles on a treadmill Sri Lanka-born Suresh Joachim Arulanantham (CAN) covered 100\u00a0mi (160\u00a0km) on a treadmill in 13\u00a0hr 42\u00a0min 33\u00a0sec at the Square One shopping centre in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, on 28\u00a0Nov 2004. Suresh is shown below with his GWR certi\ufb01cate for the longest escalator ride. From 25\u00a0to 31\u00a0May 1998, he covered the equivalent of 225.44\u00a0km (140.08\u00a0mi) travelling up and down a moving staircase at West\ufb01eld Burwood shopping centre in New South Wales, Australia. Farthest distance on a penny fertka7oiitm5lcsSt\u00a0keehuiAsirrrnrneeto3gohnsc\u00a0temchdkhh\u2019uliesionnarronagi.rofng:affce-est farthing in one hour (indoor) On 17\u00a0Sep 2019, Chris Opie (UK) 115 rode 34.547\u00a0km (21.466\u00a0mi) on a high-wheeler at the Derby Arena velodrome, UK. He narrowly broke Mark Beaumont\u2019s record of 33.865\u00a0km (21.042\u00a0mi), set shortly before at the same venue. Afterwards, Chris described the ride as \u201cvery painful\u201d. The attempt was organized by the Global Cycling Network.","RECORDMANIA Odd Talents Fastest speed on a motorcycle Highest jump-pot of a billiard ball while performing a headstand Theo Mihellis (USA) pocketed a billiard ball Marco George (UK) achieved by chipping it over a bar set at 63.5\u00a0cm (2\u00a0ft a speed of 122.59\u00a0km\/h 1\u00a0in) in Parkersburg, West Virginia, USA, (76.17\u00a0mph) while balancing on\u00a013\u00a0Oct 2019. upside down on a motorbike. Highest standing jump He performed the daredevil Brett Williams (USA) jumped to a height of stunt at Elvington air\ufb01eld 1.65\u00a0m (5\u00a0ft 5\u00a0in) from a standing start in in North Yorkshire, UK, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, on 2\u00a0Sep 2019. on 17\u00a0Aug 2019. Marco has been a competition stunt Farthest distance walked on toe knuckles rider for \ufb01ve\u00a0years and On 20\u00a0Sep 2019, Narayan Acharya (NPL) practised for this attempt walked 31.5\u00a0m (103\u00a0ft 4\u00a0in) on his metatarsal for seven months. phalangeal joints in Birgunj, Nepal. Farthest distance walked balancing Most layers in a a hand-push lawnmower on the chin bed-of-nails sandwich James \u201cJay\u201d Rawlings (UK, see right) On 23\u00a0Oct 2019, nine hardy people covered 279.1\u00a0m (915\u00a0ft 8\u00a0in) with a manual stacked themselves on top of lawnmower balanced upside down on each other, separated by beds of his chin at the Glastonbury Festival in nails. The\u00a0participants were Vispy Somerset, UK,\u00a0on 27\u00a0Jun 2019. Kharadi, Jecky Patel, Bhavesh Panwala, Khushru Kadwa, Jamshid Farthest trampette dive-roll by a mascot Bhathena, Manan Patel, Abubakar On 12\u00a0Sep 2019, Pierre the Pelican \u2013 the Kadodia, Daraius Cooper and costumed mascot of the New Orleans Rameez Virani (all IND). The feat Pelicans NBA team \u2013 used a small took place in Surat, Gujarat, India. trampoline to launch himself 4.26\u00a0m (14\u00a0ft) over a line of cheerleaders while performing\u00a0a front \ufb02ip in Louisiana, USA. Most baubles in a beard MOST\u2026 On 7\u00a0Dec 2019, Joel Strasser (USA) clipped 302 festive baubles into his voluminous beard Drinks cans placed on in Olympia, Washington, USA. the head using air suction On 1\u00a0Sep 2019, Shunichi Kanno (JPN) Joel holds current records for the most suctioned nine cans on to his face and head chopsticks in a beard (520, pictured in Tokyo, Japan. He beat the previous record, by Jamie \u201cCanhead\u201d Keeton in 2016, by one. below right), the most golf tees (607) and the most toothpicks (3,500). Eggs balanced on the back of the hand He\u00a0is currently in training for jabbing Konok Karmakar (BGD) held 15\u00a0eggs on the back of his hand in Noakhali, Chittagong, the most forks into his facial hair\u2026 Bangladesh, on 11\u00a0Aug 2019. Fakhrul Islam (BNG), Rocco Mercurio and Silvio Sabba (both btdpheilseaahcrscfedootaGlnidr(tcJWt3etitosh1nghRetoeu2er.lrae)marywdbelowsecsbosfoayoitrnsrdea ITA) all matched his feat within the year. 116","Baked beans eaten with chopsticks in one minute Chisato Tanaka (JPN) ate 72\u00a0baked beans \u2013 one at a time \u2013 in 60\u00a0sec with a pair of chopsticks in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, on 8\u00a0Nov 2019. Consecutive eye-to-eye soccer ball rolls Yuuki Yoshinaga (JPN) rolled a football from one eye to the other 776 times in K\u014dt\u014d,\u00a0Tokyo, Japan, on 18\u00a0May\u00a02019. On 9\u00a0Oct 2017, he recorded the most\u00a0soccer\u00a0ball\u00a0touches with the shoulders in\u00a0one\u00a0minute \u2013 230. FASTEST TIME TO\u2026 Most pineapples on heads sliced in 30\u00a0seconds Fold and throw a paper aircraft Heaviest car balanced on the head On 15\u00a0Dec 2019, martial-arts instructor On 3\u00a0Aug 2019, Akimichi Hattori (JPN) John Evans (UK) balanced a gutted Harikrishnan\u00a0S (IND) used a samurai sword to folded and launched a paper plane in 7.03\u00a0sec original Mini Cooper car weighing bisect 61\u00a0pineapples balanced on volunteers\u2019 in K\u014dt\u014d, Tokyo, Japan. The guidelines for this 159.6\u00a0kg (352\u00a0lb) on his head for heads in half a minute in Kerala, India. After record required Akimichi to craft a sharply 33\u00a0sec at The London Studios, UK, the event, the fruit was cleaned and distributed pointed seven-fold aircraft and then launch on 24 May 1999. to\u00a0the\u00a0participants and witnesses. it on a \ufb02ight of at least 2\u00a0m (6\u00a0ft 6\u00a0in). Two years earlier, John recorded Iron bars bent with the neck the greatest weight balanced on the in one minute head \u2013 188.7 kg (416 lb) \u2013 in the form Using his bare hands, Indian of 101 bricks, also in London, UK. martial-arts expert Vispy Kharadi \u2013 a\u00a0layer in the record-breaking bed of nails opposite \u2013 folded\u00a021\u00a0iron bars, each measuring 1\u00a0m\u00a0(3\u00a0ft 3\u00a0in) in length, across the back of his neck in 60\u00a0sec in Surat, India, on 23\u00a0Oct 2019. Each bar had to bend to a minimum of 90\u00b0. Countries identi\ufb01ed from their outline Most chairs balanced cett\ufb01rhfhhtoreiaessuiytBnrraaeGglyytccaeTJthoviseamjeirsummedepdhvpesargeimtse.ted.sstHsh:eeed in one minute on the chin On 8\u00a0Oct 2019, Aima\u2019az\u00a0Ali Abro (PAK) James \u201cJay\u201d Rawlings Hit two soccer goalposts and the crossbar correctly recognized 57\u00a0countries from just kept 11\u00a0metal chairs on Going against his footballing instincts, their borders in 60\u00a0sec in Karachi, Pakistan. his chin for 10\u00a0sec on the Ryan Sessegnon (UK) intentionally struck set of Britain\u2019s Got Talent all three sides of the woodwork in 7.75\u00a0sec Fastest mile on crutches on one leg (ITV). His balancing act at St\u00a0George\u2019s Park in Burton upon Trent, Michael Quintanilla (USA) completed took place at the UK\u2019s UK, on 27\u00a0May\u00a02019. Ryan plays for Premier London Palladium on League team Tottenham Hotspur as well as one mile (1.6\u00a0km) hopping on 23\u00a0Jan 2019. the England Under-21 national side. Balls crutches in 11 min 17\u00a0sec at had been lined up along the edge of the his high-school sports track The longest penalty area for Ryan to kick, but he hit the in Portland, Texas, USA, on duration balancing left and right posts with his \ufb01rst two shots 6\u00a0Aug 2019. Michael is a chair on the chin and clipped the crossbar with his fourth. a keen cross-country is 35\u00a0min 10\u00a0sec, by runner but had Konok Karmakar Arrange a chess set broken his foot. (see left) on 19\u00a0Oct Nakul Ramaswamy (USA) set up a chess Eager to get back 2019 in Noakhali, board in 31.55\u00a0sec in Simsbury, Connecticut, on the running Chittagong, USA, on 1\u00a0Aug 2019. track again, Bangladesh. he began Arrange all elements of the periodic table training for this On 27\u00a0Sep 2019, Meenakshi Agrawal (IND) GWR title with sorted the 118 elements of the periodic table help from in 2\u00a0min 49\u00a0sec in Delhi, India. He assembled his team and the table from printed index cards, as the coaches. actual elements would have\u00a0exposed him to\u00a0a great deal of radiation!","RECORDMANIA Juggling Acts Most consecutive Fastest 100\u00a0m joggling chainsaw-juggling with\u00a0\ufb01ve\u00a0objects\u00a0(male) catches In Jul\u00a01988, Owen Morse (USA) ran 100\u00a0m Ian Stewart\u00a0(CAN) in 13.8\u00a0sec while juggling \ufb01ve objects at completed 105 the\u00a0International Jugglers\u2019 Association straight catches of festival in Denver, Colorado, USA. a running chainsaw A\u00a0year later, Owen set the three on 6\u00a0Sep 2019 in objects\u00a0record\u00a0in 11.68\u00a0sec \u2013 that\u2019s only Truro, Nova Scotia, 2.1\u00a0sec off Usain Bolt\u2019s 100-m record. Canada. In 2017, he set the greatest The fastest 100 m joggling with distance travelled three\u00a0objects (female) is 17.2\u00a0sec, while juggling by Sandy\u00a0Brown (USA) in Jul\u00a01990 three\u00a0chainsaws in\u00a0Los\u00a0Angeles, California, USA. \u2013 50.9\u00a0m (167\u00a0ft). Ian\u00a0says that Fastest half marathon joggling Most consecutive overhead juggling catches one\u00a0of the with\u00a0three\u00a0objects (male) with\u00a0seven\u00a0objects greatest On 21\u00a0Oct 2018, Michael Lucien Bergeron Michael Ferreri (ESP) achieved 71\u00a0consecutive catches with seven challenges (CAN) crossed the \ufb01nish line of the balls on 30\u00a0May 2019 in Laguna Hills, California, USA. To qualify of his death- Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Marathon for the record, he had to juggle with his forearms higher than defying act is in 1\u00a0hr 17\u00a0min 9.4\u00a0sec in Ontario, Canada. his upper arms, with all catches and throws performed above the the sheer weight He managed to \ufb01nish the race two seconds shoulders. See opposite page for more of Michael\u2019s records. of\u00a0the\u00a0chainsaws. quicker\u00a0than a rival who had been attempting Farthest distance to claim the\u00a0same\u00a0record. skied while juggling three objects Most \ufb01re whip- Farthest distance travelled on inline On 16\u00a0Mar 2019, Lukas crack juggling skates while juggling three\u00a0objects Pichler (AUT) skied catches in one minute On 3\u00a0Aug 2019, David Rush (USA) covered 569.2\u00a0m (1,867\u00a0ft) (three whips) 1.2\u00a0km (0.7\u00a0mi) on inline skates while while juggling three On 7\u00a0Sep 2019, Aaron juggling a trio of e8\u00a0Pro Gballz in Boise, balls in Kirchbach, Bonk (USA) cracked Idaho, USA. It took David 7\u00a0min 55\u00a0sec to Austria. Lukas is a a trio of blazing passionate skier and whips 82\u00a0times complete three laps of a wanted to break this while juggling them local high-school track record on the Skiing in 60\u00a0sec. He achieved the juggling in a left-right-left- Lift Kirchbach slope. record at his fourth and right pattern. He has earned \ufb01nal show of the day at more than 100\u00a0GWR\u00a0titles. 118 the New York Renaissance Faire in Tuxedo Park, MOST... New\u00a0York\u00a0City, USA. Individual juggling rotations in\u00a030\u00a0seconds (\ufb01ve clubs) Circus artist Victor Krachinov (RUS) completed 508\u00a0individual rotations of a quintet of clubs in half a minute on 12\u00a0Jul 2019. He was performing at the Obhur Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. To qualify for the record, all patterns used had to alternate right-left-right-left, while \u201cmultiplexing\u201d (i.e., throwing more than one object at the same time) was not allowed. ebvfcaleahlnamajunwhiAnigcneaisgetgarahldodeawan.soxsnseaw,wslahistnaoiohsnrddd Consecutive samurai-sword juggling\u00a0catches (three swords) Images of women juggling have been found On 25 Jan 2019, fearless Marcos Ruiz on the walls of a\u00a0tomb in Beni Hasan in Egypt Ceballos (ESP) completed 191\u00a0juggling dating from 2000\u00a0BCE. catches of samurai swords in San Fernando, C\u00e1diz, Spain. Slightly safer \u2013 but no less impressive \u2013 is\u00a0the most hats juggled on to the head in one minute. Marcos placed one of a trio of hats on his head 71\u00a0times in the\u00a0course of juggling them for 60\u00a0sec\u00a0on 7\u00a0Jul 2015. Footballs juggled Victor Rubilar (ARG) juggled \ufb01ve soccer balls at the same time on 4\u00a0Nov\u00a02006 at the Gallerian shopping centre in Stockholm, Sweden. This equals the record held by a number of jugglers, including Enrico Rastelli (RUS), Toni St\u00f6rzenbach (DEU), Eddy Carello Jr (CHE) and Andreas Wessels (DEU).","RECORDMANIA Torches juggled on a balance board Fastest mile EUROPEAN JUGGLING CONVENTION Josh Horton (USA) juggled \ufb01ve torches while bounce-juggling standing on a balance board on 3\u00a0Nov 2017 three basketballs First staged in 1978, the European at Art Factory in Paterson, New Jersey, Bob Evans (USA) ran a Juggling Convention is the largest of USA. Josh set the record for most samurai mile bounce-juggling its kind in the world. The 2019 edition swords juggled \u2013\u00a0four \u2013 on the same day. three basketballs was held on 3\u201311\u00a0Aug in Newark, in 6 min 23.97 sec Nottinghamshire, UK. Always on the 360\u00b0 spins while juggling on 31\u00a0Aug 2019 in lookout for exciting new talent, GWR was three\u00a0objects\u00a0in\u00a0three minutes Warrenton, Oregon, in attendance to adjudicate a number On 7 Nov 2019, Michael Ferreri (ESP, see USA. Bounce jugglers of record attempts. Find out how the left) completed 102\u00a0spins in 180\u00a0sec while transfer objects from jugglers and performers got juggling three objects. This took place\u00a0in hand to hand by on\u00a0below... Lakewood, California, USA. bouncing them off the ground or another Most somersaults Michael has also achieved the most hard surface. Bob on\u00a0a\u00a0Korean\u00a0cradle consecutive backcross juggling catches and his wife Trish in\u00a0one\u00a0minute (three objects) \u2013 433, on 2\u00a0Sep 2019. are\u00a0juggling acrobats. The team of Roisin Morris (IRL) and Massimiliano Juggling catches in one minute Rossetti (ITA) completed while\u00a0hanging suspended 16\u00a0somersaults on a Korean by\u00a0the\u00a0teeth\u00a0(three\u00a0objects) cradle in 60\u00a0sec. They improved On 4\u00a0Jul 2019, Leonardo Costache (ROM) their own world record by completed 195\u00a0juggling catches of three two. Thrower Massimiliano clubs in 60\u00a0sec. The iron-jawed performer stood upright on a raised was hanging suspended by the teeth above platform, catching acrobat a\u00a0circus ring in Gilleleje, Denmark. Roisin between somersaults. A Korean cradle is a piece of Juggling tricks in one aerial circus equipment that minute (three\u00a0balls) allows a standing performer (the Taylor Glenn (USA) performed \u201cthrower\u201d) to swing and toss 39\u00a0tricks \u2013 including behind-the-back and another performer (the \u201c\ufb02yer\u201d) under-the-leg throws \u2013 with\u00a0a trio of balls high above their\u00a0head. in 60\u00a0sec on 16\u00a0Dec 2018. The\u00a0attempt took place at SkillCon in Las\u00a0Vegas, Nevada, USA. Most juggling catches in Most juggling catches three\u00a0minutes (three balls) while blindfolded on a Mark Hanson (USA) made balance board 1,320\u00a0catches of a trio of juggling \u201cJack Flash\u201d, aka Simon West balls in 180\u00a0sec \u2013 seven every (NZ), completed 74\u00a0juggling second \u2013 on 2\u00a0Jun 2019 in Garner, catches, beating the previous Iowa, USA. Mark used the \u201cshower\u201d mark set by David Rush juggling pattern, where the balls are (see\u00a0opposite page) by 23. transferred in a circular motion. He\u00a0kept count with a metronome. Longest duration performing a Most items juggled \ufb01ve-hula-hoop split Eve Everard (AUS) Prop Number Juggler(s) Date spun \ufb01ve hula hoops around separate parts Balls Juggled 11 Alex Barron (UK, pictured above) 3\u00a0Apr 2012 of her body for 5\u00a0min 2.34\u00a0sec.\u00a0Circus artist Flashed* 14 Alex Barron 19 Apr 2017 Eve has performed all around the world. Passed (duo) 15 Chris & Andrew Hodge (both USA) Feb\u00a02011 Clubs Juggled 8 Anthony Gatto (USA) 30\u00a0Aug 2006 Flashed 9 Bruce Tiemann; Scott Sorensen; various Chris\u00a0Fowler; Daniel Eaker (all USA) Passed (duo) 13 Wes Peden (USA) & Patrik Elmnert (SWE) 2009 Rings Juggled 10 Anthony Gatto 2005 Flashed 13 Albert Lucas (USA) 28\u00a0Jun 2002 Passed (duo) 15 Tony Pezzo (USA) & Patrik Elmnert (SWE) Aug\u00a02010 * A \u201cflash\u201d is an exercise that focuses on throwing form. Jugglers throw the objects in a juggling pattern, then catch them without repeating the pattern. The aim is to get the most objects possible in the air at the same time. 119","RECORDMANIA Urban Sports Highest jump on a pogo stick On 20\u00a0Nov 2018, Dmitry Arsenyev (RUS) bounced his way into the record \u2013 3A67ma\u00a0y\u00a09liinmadn.9)l\u0131),Toen4sbshB\u00a0rh(mtyeeTiol2cUgSr(oet2emRer\u2019r6)sdrt(2.\u2013a6t\u00a0hnf\u00a0iftsatn books, clearing a bar set at 3.40\u00a0m (11\u00a0ft 1\u00a0in) on his pogo stick in Rome, Italy. The \u00a0longest jump on a pogo stick is 5.52\u00a0m (18\u00a0ft 1\u00a0in), by multiple world champion Dalton Smith (USA) on 18\u00a0May 2019 in Tokyo, Japan. Most parkour backward somersaults against\u00a0a wall in 30\u00a0seconds On 14\u00a0Jan 2018, Dinesh Sunar (NPL) completed 16\u00a0backward somersaults kicking off a wall in half a minute in Kathmandu, Nepal. Dinesh is a police of\ufb01cer, stuntman Longest underwater walk with one breath and parkour enthusiast. On 11\u00a0Mar 2019, On 25\u00a0Mar 2019, freediver Bilge \u00c7ingigiray (TUR) he achieved the most parkour twisting walked 81.60\u00a0m (267\u00a0ft 8\u00a0in) along the bottom of back\ufb02ips off a wall in 30\u00a0seconds \u2013 12. a swimming pool on a single breath in Istanbul, Longest parkour side \ufb02ip Turkey. That\u2019s four times the length of a tenpin Jacob Major (USA) executed a 5.71-m-long bowling alley. Bilge spent almost two-and-a-half (18-ft 8-in) side \ufb02ip in Indian River, minutes underwater, carrying a dumbbell to Florida, USA, on 13\u00a0May 2015. prevent\u00a0her from \ufb02oating to the surface. She reclaimed the record, having last held it in 2017. Highest bicycle bunny hop Highest unicycle Longest highline walk Rick Koekoek (NLD) bunny-hopped with harness (ISA-veri\ufb01ed) over a bar set at 1.45\u00a0m (4\u00a0ft 9\u00a0in) at platform high jump On 24\u00a0Jul 2019, Lukas Irmler (DEU) and Prudential RideLondon FreeCycle Mia Noblet (CAN) crossed a 1,975-m-long on 29\u00a0Jul 2017 in London, UK. The (male) (6,479-ft) highline at Slackfest in Asbestos, highest bicycle forward step-up \u2013 On 3\u00a0Aug 2018, Quebec, Canada. It took Lukas 58\u00a0min to 1.79\u00a0m (5\u00a0ft 10\u00a0in) by L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Heged\u0171s unicyclist Mike complete his walk; Mia \ufb01nished in 2\u00a0hr (HUN) \u2013 and the longest bar-to-bar Taylor (UK) jumped 10\u00a0min. The line was stretched 250\u00a0m bicycle jump \u2013 2.81\u00a0m (9\u00a0ft 2\u00a0in) by up on to a 1.48-m-tall (820\u00a0ft) above the ground. Andrei Burton (UK) \u2013 were also set (4-ft 10-in) pallet at\u00a0the same event. platform at Longest longline walk without harness Unicon XIX in (female, ISA-veri\ufb01ed) Fastest 50\u00a0m hand skating Ansan, South Annalisa Casiraghi (ITA) traversed a 305-m Mirko Han\u00dfen (DEU) inline Korea. For his (1,000-ft) slackline across a \ufb01eld near Bern, skated 50\u00a0m (164\u00a0ft) on his hands record to count, Switzerland, on 17 Sep 2019. in 8.55\u00a0sec on 16\u00a0Nov 2017 in Mike had to Bocholt, North Rhine-Westphalia, remain mounted Most skateboard ollies in one minute for three seconds On 25\u00a0Aug 2018, Adam \u017baczek (POL) Germany. He trained for four on\u00a0top of the pallet \u2013 landed 82\u00a0skateboard jumps in 60\u00a0sec years to perfect the art of skating as per International in\u00a0Andrespol, \u0141\u00f3dzkie Wschodnie, Poland. Unicycling Federation upside down, and can perform guidelines. The most consecutive skateboard skills including slaloming, ollies is 302, by Nicholas Drachman (USA) front\u00a0and\u00a0back \ufb02ips and on 14\u00a0Oct 2018 in Providence, even a ramp jump. Rhode Island, USA. Longest urban downhill\u00a0bicycle race On 2\u00a0Dec 2018, a group of 26\u00a0daredevil bikers took to the steep streets of Medell\u00edn\u2019s Commune 13 in Colombia to compete on a demanding 2.274-km-long (1.412-mi) course. The Downhill Challenge Medell\u00edn 2018, staged by PX Sports (MEX), featured stairs, hairpin corners and even an escalator. Pedro Ferreira won\u00a0the race in 3\u00a0min 49\u00a0sec. Colombia also hosts the longest downhill bicycle stair\u00a0race. The \u201cDevotos de Monserrate\u201d in Bogot\u00e1 120 measured 2.40\u00a0km (1.49\u00a0mi) on 16 Feb 2019.","RECORDMANIA tthaThleoseihocrse\u00a0iGtgllaonWhecoiblgkiRknrhl\u00a0aitettnoti.teaeltterh\u00a0s,e Highest urban highline walk 121 with\u00a0harness (ISA-veri\ufb01ed) On 8\u00a0Sep 2019, in an event organized by Anna Vlasova of Slackline Tribe and Moscow Seasons (RUS), a line of \ufb02at webbing was stretched at a height of 350\u00a0m (1,148\u00a0ft) between the OKO Tower and Neva Towers in Moscow, Russia. Seven fearless slackliners \u2013 Alexander Gribanov (pictured), Maxim Kagin, Vladimir Murzaev, Gennady Skripko (all RUS), Mia Noblet (CAN), Friedi Kuhne (DEU) and Nathan Pauling (FRA) \u2013 made it across the 216-m-long (708-ft) highline. Their feat was rati\ufb01ed by the International Slackline Association (ISA). Slacklining was invented in the early 1980s by\u00a0climbers Adam Grosowsky and Jeff Ellington in Yosemite National Park in California, USA.","RECORDMANIA Round-Up Farthest distance \ufb01re-walking Csaba Kerekes (HUN) walked 200\u00a0m (656\u00a0ft) on red-hot embers in Szalaf\u0151, Vas, Hungary, on 27\u00a0Sep 2019. Longest duration pole-sitting in a barrel Largest \ufb01rework phrase Most \ufb01re-breathing back\ufb02ips in one minute Vernon Kruger (ZAF) remained atop a 25-m (82-ft) Sheikh Zayed Festival (UAE) Ryan Luney (UK) blew 17\u00a0\ufb02ames while performing pole for 75\u00a0days in Dullstroom, Mpumalanga, spelled \u201cHAPPY NEW YEAR back\ufb02ips in 60\u00a0sec on 21\u00a0Jun 2019 in Antrim, UK. South Africa, from Oct to Dec 2019. In doing so, 2020\u201d with 320 \ufb01reworks On the same day, he also achieved the even trickier he\u00a0surpassed his own record of 67 days 14\u00a0min, set in\u00a0Al Wathba, Abu Dhabi, most \ufb01re-breathing full corkscrew \ufb02ips in one in Dullstroom in 1997. Vernon planned both feats UAE, on 1\u00a0Jan 2020. Each minute \u2013 11 \ufb02ames blown, but with a full 360\u00b0 as fundraising events and donated all\u00a0proceeds word was displayed at an twist incorporated into each back\ufb02ip. to\u00a0charity. interval of one second to celebrate the start Highest launch of an linked up 196,564\u00a0brassieres Largest model train set of\u00a0the\u00a0new year. effervescent tablet rocket in Woonsocket, Rhode Miniatur Wunderland (DEU) is home to a BYU Rocketry (USA) sent Island, USA, on 16\u00a0Oct 2019. model train set with 15.7\u00a0km (9.7\u00a0mi) of track, as Largest Christmas a tablet rocket \ufb01zzing rati\ufb01ed in Hamburg, Germany, on 14\u00a0Aug 2019. snow\ufb02ake ornament 269.13\u00a0m (883\u00a0ft) skywards Longest duration\u2026 Built to a ratio of\u00a01:87, it\u2019s also the largest model On 28\u00a0Oct 2019, Universal at the Kennedy Space Center \u2022 On a slackline between train set (scale length), with an equivalent real- Studios Japan unveiled a Visitor Complex in Florida, two moving cars: On 14\u00a0Dec world extent of 1,367.2\u00a0km (849.5\u00a0mi) \u2013 the distance snow\ufb02ake decoration that USA, on\u00a012\u00a0Dec 2018. 2019, Lu Anmin, backed from Madrid in Spain to Rome, Italy. measured 3.196\u00a0m (10\u00a0ft Longest bra chain by Chevrolet (both CHN), 5\u00a0in) on its longest axis in Jennifer Jolicoeur, Athena\u2019s balanced for 1\u00a0min 57.28\u00a0sec 122 Osaka, Japan. Home Novelties and The between two moving Athena\u2019s Cup (all USA) vehicles in Beijing, China. Maintaining the festive \u2022 Spinning a frying pan theme, at the same event the tthwtheGoininwsesTrmaoFrhrisritkinenmBiodkamrfeianlGrlaugisekrncbvr.amaeignlleadis:n on one \ufb01nger: Fayis Nazer company also presented the (IND) spun a pan on a \ufb01nger most lights on an arti\ufb01cial for a digitally demanding Christmas tree \u2013 591,840. 1\u00a0hr 12\u00a0sec in Kerala, India, on 13\u00a0Sep 2019. Largest lightsaber battle \u2022 Live-stream (video): From On 2\u00a0Nov 2019, Kalamazoo 13 to 20\u00a0May\u00a02019, three Wings (USA) brought people in Hulu\u2019s (USA) social together 3,889\u00a0combatants wielding Star Wars-inspired team plus guests took turns lightsabers in Kalamazoo, to watch a 161-hr 11-min Michigan, USA. 32-sec stream of Game of Thrones in its entirety \u2013 twice. The venue was Hulu\u2019s Santa Monica HQ in California, USA. FASTEST\u2026 100\u00a0m zorbing James Duggan (IRL) covered 100\u00a0m (328\u00a0ft) in 23.21\u00a0sec while inside an in\ufb02atable ball in Dunmanway, Cork, Ireland, on 8\u00a0Sep 2019. Marathon wearing geta Hirokazu Fukunami (JPN) ran a marathon in 3\u00a0hr 58\u00a0min 43\u00a0sec in traditional Japanese platform sandals at the Osaka Marathon in Japan on 1\u00a0Dec 2019.","MOST\u2026 RECORDMANIA Monster trucks jumped cbDaea8tnhevo,n0anivodt0eInshSn0rhmam\u00a02oatsi0tomictsoryahepeuerJasetta!rhneorahnsrf,naeasd in a monster truck Colton Eichelberger (USA) 123 launched his big-wheeled behemoth over seven others in Orlando, Florida, USA, on 11\u00a0May\u00a02019. Sword swallows in three minutes On 22\u00a0Dec 2019, Wang Lei (CHN) swallowed a 44-cm (1-ft 7.3-in) sword 22\u00a0times in Dezhou, Shandong, China. Fastest half marathon wearing high heels Consecutive books On 8\u00a0Sep 2019, Holly Ferguson (UK) completed identi\ufb01ed from a half marathon in 3\u00a0hr 35\u00a0min 52\u00a0sec as part of their \ufb01rst sentence the Great North Run in Newcastle upon Tyne, Schoolboy Montgomery- Tyne and Wear, UK. Sporting 10-cm (4-in) heels Everard Lord (UK) named (inset), Holly ran with her \ufb01re\ufb01ghter colleagues, 129\u00a0successive books from all dressed as superheroes and villains. As part their opening lines on 12\u00a0Dec 2019 in Bolton, UK. of her preparation, she ran 28.9\u00a0km (18\u00a0mi) in On 13\u00a0Feb 2020, he also conventional sneakers. set the fastest time to identify 10\u00a0books by main Marathon distance character \u2013 11.15 sec. in\u00a0a\u00a0robotic walking device\u00a0(male) People unboxing Adam Gorlitsky (USA) simultaneously Xiaomi Inc (USA) brought battled pain, exhaustion together 703 individuals to and micro-blackouts unwrap items in New York to complete the City, USA, on 21\u00a0Dec 2019. Charleston Marathon Greatest height achieved in 33\u00a0hr 16\u00a0min 28\u00a0sec by a human cannonball on 11\u00a0Jan 2020 in North David Smith Jr (USA) was projected Carolina, USA. Gorlitsky 27.12\u00a0m (89\u00a0ft) into the air over had competed in more than a Ferris wheel, to land safely 40\u00a0races in his ReWalk on an airbed, in Riyadh, Robotic Exoskeleton as part Saudi Arabia, on 26\u00a0Nov of his nonpro\ufb01t \u201cI Got Legs\u201d 2019. The previous initiative. But this was only year, on 13\u00a0Mar, David the second marathon he travelled the farthest had\u00a0attempted \u2013 and the distance by a human \ufb01rst that he had completed. cannonball \u2013 59.43\u00a0m (195\u00a0ft) \u2013 on behalf of Xbox and Sea of Thieves in Tampa, Florida,\u00a0USA. Most diamonds set on a toilet Aaron Shum Jewelry Ltd (HKG), in collaboration with its Swiss signature brand Coronet, decorated a toilet seat with 40,815\u00a0diamonds, as veri\ufb01ed on 22\u00a0Oct 2019 in Hong Kong, China. The gold- plated, 334.68-carat convenience was valued at $1,288,000 (\u00a3994,000). Possibly to provide an additional level of security, the diamonds in the seat are embedded within bullet-proof glass.","RECORDMANIA RECORDMANIA HAALaLOrOFoFnAMEFotheringhamAhawihrsShoe1loeuwne8fAoeegtaI0hwnlnalrsac\u00b0ltes.a,arWh\u00a0hmo2tWephsgouaev0leeobaiceenrh1srnorwrhno2et.ar\u201ctusan,ahuiIAnstW,nAnaisimssvharawgleakTwereinhbswhvrtiaaheojidtokwaieeotanhnhnihtn2eccnsiweaeaanes0wllktwpbaasalce-lihep1zw\ufb02rlcandoshaHliyih6tn\u201dhrrcn.grsiTaog,hokpkoeoihPSpaueboF\u201csBeetsedpsaWadiitdg\u00a0etviboeMW,dnuepbnreiihhaeifletCCnranyi\ufb01ocXewyd2hhidGinealsgMm\u2013,ghtdrh0lyei-tneafgtlehmywhtaAaphier0ime1Xsrorrhfesr,telihela88aoedma\u201due,ila\u2019arspeBsBc.ae.lrrnllhe(gmd2fsithlocTakoMntsrpocyeoghtt2hhoenneneahxipifyeyXG\u00a0haoanweievedtygns,elsrW-ojcrn,(aedaheeaiaurdciitmsUc\ufb01ltewmicnnowseiscrmhmpstegfperStuaiosh\u2013eetii2epoeohshrlAdpzternrnene0raits(ntaihtaiytsun.tenelUt)ceda1Gn)tvs(ec.t,dlrwgbshod9suttchethRsWSbaerauiewhiitr\u2013ahaaaomatooAtensnlirRatihginhmdstna,8naotdrb)ilhaaeoedntegr.vgsnNie.edh4eiidsetfaetteunn,ttlsGirtee0blhlaooidthoc,Iseohrl\u00a0\ufb01mruatwheusmBhneiediwatoiwnlrnoiromartPaeltoamshrgsCutyis(idihansptitai2tdri.sig.orueltihrswcnee7raOgmreyhrNhavpncinh\u00a0mn.intonfnotlnecuruahhIooiyti)rtniikgn.gboant2sielmie6dnaoAmdedtyhlg,m0aile.ie\ufb01s.c7vlsaip-ano\u00a0mcscpgplsJrshrti\u00a0nrighiuetaouohiirwpicsnmoaiddrranosnltdhsbteunb)aaeewsmv.2re-clistt\u2013lnms,iasoaAehyn0wieeccpaatopid,dana1aitorohkhitngb.te.a8sdrononaaHheWood,tneieyisetot.nheurdvesoeolf.\u2019echeiutssoeofeoninrsdivt\u2013ipuithetawhiins:nsnseiiailtsseoRrlpedndiisorasenfdad\u201cnYsoIo,tn\u2019usakn\u00a0wnooht\u00a0weae,plycroihsuao\u2019irnre..\u201d 1 2 1:2C2\u00a01foa:.aN3npAr3i5btttt:as\u00a0uohramPrk4ourcqeoea:o\u00a0erksCnu(rtA5nd7tefw\ufb02iia:ason0rwh2prihOircr\u00a0pt0fastaomhuohptetlrnowJsefy0erkiaunwelnn-.tiice5lnapnilag2itnc\u00a02knwigiiy5Nthpon0egLh\u00a0oitnoOea1)staoefthv-8\u2013icfhstdsra\u00a0\ufb01h\u00a0th2ae\u2013orpVcrer20inohoesR8ass01pppgri.m2itde034tola-e0lusva8i.0scpa2nnircJ,\u00a0tnamn0jeuaoNgotud1gdcmelneD6m(eue2t2fvphodavol0P7apaaceir1a\u00a0wwdlrfn\u20138Rtrtasrhhhya.ok6,aeeleUm.iym7leemSl\u00a0ellsipAccn\u00a0otphhj.)aui.aaclmliiGerrpsa.tmes FHignaudlilnoounf tFemsasmowreeosraelbcdotriueotcnAoaratdrwosn.wciownm.th\/2e021 3","4 5 Ahsnihisahditsmeeuulfmrscraecoellemlftyssasisannhtfdoveeo,nerhlerevelcedekwsentbleteolarertarssmscsoeippfn.raraoacttciceoticdincte,ievnA\u2013etaspar.onaTnddodotkihwneaeegtps, a sBapoferxrsvecoueWiinnashthpflicobaewelAreenenchas,ldsecerpmidhoobeoaanlnafksrid\u2019c.reas,eskma,bnheyda, s 124 125","Culture & Society Largest cemetery The Wadi al-Salam (\u201cValley of Peace\u201d) in the city of Najaf, Iraq, is a burial ground covering 9.17\u00a0km2 (3.54\u00a0sq\u00a0mi) \u2013 larger than Gibraltar \u2013 and has been in\u00a0continuous use since the seventh century. Shi\u2019ite Muslims from across Iraq, Iran and, more recently, the wider world, choose to be buried in the heart of the holy city, with funeral prayers at the nearby Imam Ali Mosque. The latter contains the tomb of Ali\u00a0ibn Abi Talib, the \ufb01rst Shi\u2019ite imam (religious leader). In Shi\u2019ite Islam, only the Great Mosque of Mecca and the Prophet\u2019s Mosque in Medina, both in Saudi Arabia, are considered more important than this shrine as\u00a0a pilgrimage destination. The graveyard incorporates tens of thousands of crypts, mausoleums and catacombs. Some may 126 hold as many as 50 sets of human remains.","DESTINATIONS 128 Archaeology 130 Wanderlust 132 Maps 134 Young Achievers 136 Espionage 138 Disasters 140 Round-Up 142 Hall of Fame: Greta Thunberg 127","CULTURE & SOCIETY Archaeology MOST HISTORIC SHIPWRECKS\u00a0VISITED Largest pyramid Largest amphitheatre The Great Pyramid of Cholula \u2013 aka The iconic Flavian amphitheatre \u2013 or Colosseum Marine archaeologist Alejandro Tlachihualtepetl (\u201cman-made mountain\u201d) \u2013 in\u00a0Rome, Italy, covers 2\u00a0ha (5\u00a0acres) and Mirabal (CUB) explored the \u2013 in Puebla, Mexico, stands 66\u00a0m measures 187\u00a0m (613\u00a0ft) long and 157\u00a0m (515\u00a0ft) remains of 243\u00a0shipwrecks in (216\u00a0ft) tall and its base covers an area wide. Completed in 80\u00a0CE, the Colosseum staged seas all over the world between of 16\u00a0ha (39.5\u00a0acres). The total volume gladiatorial contests, animal hunts and dramas Dec\u00a01986 and\u00a0Aug\u00a02017. has been estimated at 3.3\u00a0million\u00a0m\u00b3 for up to 87,000\u00a0spectators. Earthquakes and (166\u00a0million\u00a0cu\u00a0ft) \u2013 almost 1\u00a0million\u00a0m\u00b3 stone\u00a0robbers have left it partially ruined. How did you get into more than Giza\u2019s Pyramid of Khufu in\u00a0Egypt. marine\u00a0archaeology? I started free diving at eight years Highest-altitude archaeological\u00a0site old and made my \ufb01rst SCUBA On 16\u00a0Mar 1999, three Incan mummies were immersion at 14. I didn\u2019t know discovered at 6,736\u00a0m (22,100\u00a0ft) above sea about archaeology, I just wanted to level at the peak of the Llullaillaco mountain dive. Then I joined the excavation in Argentina. The frozen remains belonged team for the Nuestra Se\u00f1ora de las to child-sacri\ufb01ce\u00a0victims who had died Mercedes, a galleon in the 1698 Tierra c.\u00a0500\u00a0years ago. The archaeological team Firme treasure \ufb02eet that sank off was led by Dr\u00a0Johan Reinhard (USA) and the western coast of Cuba. I got Dr\u00a0Constanza Ceruti (ARG) and\u00a0funded by hooked, and did my specialization the National Geographic Society. in Maritime Archaeology a year later. The lowest-altitude archaeological\u00a0site, meanwhile, is the Byzantine monastery of Deir \u2019Ain \u2019Abata, which\u00a0is What is the most valuable constructed around a natural artefact\u00a0you have found? cave lying 388\u00a0m (1,272\u00a0ft) For an archaeologist, all artefacts below sea level on the Jordanian are valuable! Our team has south-eastern shore of the recovered items estimated at $220\u00a0m Dead\u00a0Sea. Evidence of Bronze Age [\u00a3178\u00a0m]. Only 108\u00a0astrolabes burials dating between 3000 and [navigational instruments] are 1500\u00a0BCE suggests that the site had known to exist, and I have been a sacred reputation long before lucky enough to \ufb01nd six of them. Christianity arose. Which wrecks are still Oldest mummies on\u00a0your\u00a0must-dive list? The earliest examples of I would love to \ufb01nd the remains of arti\ufb01cial mummi\ufb01cation any of\u00a0Christopher Columbus\u2019s ships have been traced to the Chinchorro, a during his trips to America, such coastal tribe that lived on the fringes as\u00a0the Santa Mar\u00eda or the Vizca\u00edna. of the Atacama Desert (in modern-day Or the lead cof\ufb01n where Sir Francis Peru and Chile) between c. 7020 and Drake was buried at sea off Panama. 1110\u00a0BCE. (By\u00a0comparison, the earliest- known Egyptian mummies date to Any tips for would-be c.\u00a04500\u00a0BCE.) Initially, the Chinchorro culture shipwreck\u00a0divers? took advantage of the arid conditions in Do it responsibly, ethically and this region to naturally preserve their respectfully. Underwater Cultural dead, before developing more complex Heritage sites are non-renewable techniques. These involved removing the resources and we often have only skin, muscles and organs of the deceased one chance to recover the history before \u201creupholstering\u201d the body with contained in them. wood, plants and clay. The skin would then be replaced and smothered with a paste made from substances such as manganese, red ochre or mud. Often, the face would be covered with a clay mask (see inset) painted in the same style. A TASTE OF ANCIENT HISTORY: OLDEST... Leftovers Bread Plants cultivated Alcoholic beverage Wine Beer Chocolate 400,000\u2013200,000\u00a0BCE c. 12,380\u00a0BCE for\u00a0food 7000\u00a0BCE 6000\u20135800\u00a0BCE 3500\u00a0BCE c. 3280 BCE Marrow-rich deer Charred \ufb02atbread 9500\u00a0BCE Chemical evidence Residues of tartaric Detected in remains Evidence of early bones discovered in aged 14,400 years Eight species of found inside pottery acid \u2013 evidence of of a jug found at cacao processing from Qesem Cave near Tel old; unearthed at a Neolithic \u201cfounder\u201d jars excavated at early wine-making Godin Tepe, Iran, in 5,300\u20135,450 years Aviv, Israel. They had dig site in the Black crop domesticated the early Neolithic \u2013 in ancient pottery 1973 during a Royal ago was found at the been stored for future Desert, Jordan, by by early Holocene village of Jiahu in the excavated in Ontario Museum (CAN) Amazon site of Santa use by drying the outer archaeologists from farming communities Yellow\u00a0River Valley, Gadachrili Gora expedition Ana-La Florida in layer of skin and bone the University of in south-west Asia\u2019s Henan, China and\u00a0Shulaveris Ecuador, as revealed Copenhagen (DNK) Fertile Crescent region Gora,\u00a0Georgia on 29 Oct 2018 128","CULTURE & SOCIETY Newest human species Oldest \ufb01gurative art Bog body On 10\u00a0Apr 2019, a new species of human On 11\u00a0Dec 2019, a paper in Nature described a Naturally mummi\ufb01ed corpses found in from the Late Pleistocene era (c. 67,000\u2013 4.5-m-long (nearly-15-ft) cave art panel on the peat bogs can be incredibly well preserved, 50,000 years ago) was described in Nature. Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The artwork owing\u00a0to a lack of oxygen and microbes Named Homo luzonensis, the discovery is depicts a scene of four small buffalo (most likely in this environment. The so-called based on remains excavated on the island anoa) and two wild pigs being hunted by weapon- \u201cKoelbjerg Man\u201d was discovered in 1941 of Luzon in the Philippines. H.\u00a0luzonensis has wielding human-like \ufb01gures. Uranium-series in a bog near Odense in Denmark. Carbon curved \ufb01nger bones, which could indicate dating on overlying deposits of calcium carbonate dating indicates that he died aged 25 years arboreal (tree-dwelling) behaviour. suggests\u00a0that elements of the painting are at least around 8000\u00a0BCE, during the time of the 43,900\u00a0years old. Even older examples of stencilled Maglemosian culture in northern Europe. Longest-surviving hominin art, such as hand prints, have been discovered. Fossil evidence of Homo erectus dated as \u201cChewing gum\u201d recently as 108,000\u2013117,000\u00a0years ago has Largest trove of Birch pitch is a blackish-brown, gum-like been\u00a0found in a bone bed (deposit of bones) Iron\u00a0Age coins substance that was widely used as a form in Central Java, Indonesia, according to a In\u00a02012, a hoard of of adhesive throughout the Neolithic study published in Nature in Dec 2019. The 69,347\u00a0coins dating era. Teeth impressions show that it was earliest H. erectus remains, unearthed in from 50\u00a0BCE to 10\u00a0CE was also chewed \u2013 probably to make it more Africa, have been aged at c. 1.9\u00a0million years discovered by metal pliable for manipulation, but also for its old. This\u00a0means that H.\u00a0erectus lived on Earth detectorists Richard antiseptic qualities and ability to relieve roughly nine times longer than our own Miles and Reg Mead toothache. On 15\u00a0May 2019, the journal species \u2013 H.\u00a0sapiens \u2013 has to date. (both UK, the latter Communications\u00a0Biology reported that birch pictured) in Grouville, pitch aged at 9,540\u20139,880 years old had Jersey, UK. The coins \u2013 been\u00a0excavated in\u00a0western Sweden. found at a depth of 1\u00a0m (3\u00a0ft) \u2013 are believed to have been buried by the Celtic Coriosolitae tribe. The value of the cache has been estimated at \u00a310\u00a0m ($16.1\u00a0m). Longest continuous excavation OLDEST... Oldest pyramid The Roman city of Pompeii, located The Djoser Step Pyramid at Saqqara in Egypt south of Naples in Italy, was buried Shipwreck site was designed c.\u00a02630\u00a0BCE by Pharaoh Djoser\u2019s under volcanic ash and pumice All that remains of the Early Bronze Age royal architect, Imhotep. It began as a \ufb02at-roofed when Mount Vesuvius erupted in \u201cDokos shipwreck\u201d is a pair of stone anchors mastaba or tomb, with additional levels added 79\u00a0CE. In 1748, a full-scale excavation and collection of clay pottery, found 20\u00a0m on top of it. Recent evidence also suggests that began under Spain\u2019s King Charles\u00a0III. (65\u00a0ft) below the sea \u2013 dated to\u00a0c. 2,200\u00a0BCE. an ancient city featuring up to 20\u00a0pyramids was Pompeii was formally identi\ufb01ed in The remnants were found in the Aegean constructed at Caral in Peru around the same time, 1763, and work on\u00a0the site has been Sea off the Greek island of Dokos by Peter perhaps as early as ongoing in some form ever since. Throckmorton of the Hellenic Institute of 2700\u20132600\u00a0BCE. Marine Archaeology in 1975. Surviving wooden building The H\u014dry\u016b-ji temple in Ikaruga, Nara, Japan, was constructed in 607\u00a0CE\u00a0and is one of 48\u00a0buildings in the\u00a0area protected by UNESCO. Analysis of the central pillar of the temple\u2019s \ufb01ve-storey pagoda suggests that the\u00a0wood was initially felled in 594\u00a0CE. Cake Bowl of\u00a0noodles Cheese 2200\u00a0BCE c. 2050\u00a0BCE 1300\u20131201\u00a0BCE Found sealed and Noodles made from Sealed within the vacuum-packed in millet preserved under tomb of Ptahmes, the the grave of Egyptian an upturned bowl, mayor of the city of prince Pepionkh. found 3\u00a0m (10\u00a0ft) below Memphis in Egypt; the Currently displayed the ground at the results were published in the Alimentarium Lajia\u00a0site in Qinghai, on 25\u00a0Jul 2018 Food Museum in Vevey, China in\u00a0Analytical Switzerland Chemistry 129","CULTURE & SOCIETY Wanderlust The female trans-America record is 69\u00a0days 2\u00a0hr 40\u00a0min, by Mavis Hutchison (ZAF) from 12\u00a0Mar to 21\u00a0May\u00a01978. New Zealand Between 1 Jan and 5 Feb 2020, Menna Evans (UK) ran the 2,090-km (1,300-mi) distance between Cape Reinga on North Island and Bluff on South Island \u2013 a total of 35\u00a0days 27\u00a0min. Evans, who ran on behalf of mental- health charities Mind and Save the Brave, said a GWR title was \u201cthe absolute cherry on top of a\u2026 once-in-a-lifetime experience\u201d. Iceland Tom Whittle (UK) ran some 700\u00a0km (435\u00a0mi) across Iceland, north to south, in 10 days 13\u00a0hr 14\u00a0min between 4 and 14\u00a0Oct 2018. Fastest time to visit all sovereign countries Qatar Fastest completion of the Taylor Demonbreun (USA) toured the globe in Jad Hamdan (FRA) crossed the Middle Pieterpad trail by foot 1\u00a0year 189 days, from 1\u00a0Jun 2017 to 7\u00a0Dec 2018. She Eastern state from Al Ruwais to Salwa in Wouter Huitzing (NLD) took 4 days visited the 195\u00a0countries stated in GWR guidelines, 1\u00a0day 23\u00a0hr 56\u00a0min between 6 and 8\u00a0Dec 2019. 2\u00a0hr 16\u00a0min to navigate the 492-km comprising the 193 UN member states, Vatican City (306-mi) Pieterpad trail in the and Chinese Taipei. Taylor began in the Dominican Lebanon Netherlands, \ufb01nishing on 23\u00a0Apr Republic and ended in Canada; above, she is at It took Ali Wehbi (LBN) 1 day 15\u00a0hr 49\u00a0min to 2019. The path begins in Pieterburen Machu Picchu in Peru, the most-visited Inca site. cross Lebanon, from 31\u00a0Mar to 2\u00a0Apr 2018. in the northern part of Groningen Ali began in Arida and ended in Naqoura. and travels south via forests, farmland, villages and cities to end Longest ongoing pilgrimage just south of Maastricht, on Mount As of 24 Apr 2013, evangelist Arthur Blessitt Saint Peter (aka Sint-Pietersberg). (USA) had roamed 64,752 km (40,235 mi) across all seven continents, including FASTEST TIME TO VISIT\u2026 Antarctica, since \ufb01rst setting out on 25\u00a0Dec 1969. He has borne a 3.7-m-tall (12-ft) All countries by public surface transport wooden cross throughout his pilgrimage Graham Hughes (UK) visited every and preaches from the Bible as he goes. sovereign country without \ufb02ying in 4\u00a0years 30 days between 1\u00a0Jan 2009 and 31\u00a0Jan 2013. FASTEST CROSSING BY FOOT All Disney theme parks Canada Fastest time to visit all Munich U-Bahn stations Lindsay Nemeth (CAN) completed her 75-hr Al Howie (UK) ran from St\u00a0John\u2019s in It took friends Alessandro Di Sano (left) and Nils 6-min survey of the world\u2019s 12 Disney theme Newfoundland to the British Columbian Schmalbuch (both DEU) 4\u00a0hr 55\u00a0min 34\u00a0sec to pass parks on 6\u00a0Dec 2017 at Tokyo DisneySea in capital of Victoria in 72 days 10\u00a0hr 23\u00a0min. He through all 96\u00a0U-Bahn metro stations in Munich, Urayasu, Chiba, Japan. began on 21\u00a0Jun and ended on 1\u00a0Sep 1991, Germany, on 17 Sep 2019. having covered 7,295.5\u00a0km (4,533.2\u00a0mi). This was surpassed just over a month later by Between 17\u00a0Apr and 8\u00a0Sep 2002, Adham Fisher (UK), who completed the challenge Ann\u00a0Keane (CAN) achieved the female in 4\u00a0hr 48\u00a0min 53\u00a0sec on 23 Oct 2019. record, going from St\u00a0John\u2019s to To\ufb01no, British Columbia, in 143 days. Her route covered 7,831\u00a0km (4,866\u00a0mi). USA All London Underground stations On 12\u00a0Sep 2016, Pete Kostelnick (USA) set out On 21\u00a0May\u00a02015, Steve Wilson (UK) and from San Francisco City Hall in California AJ (full name and nationality withheld) and reached New York City Hall by 24\u00a0Oct called at all 270 London Tube stations in 2016. His trek lasted 42 days 6\u00a0hr 30\u00a0min. a\u00a0whistlestop tour of 15\u00a0hr 45\u00a0min 38\u00a0sec. Fastest time to visit all NFL stadiums All Paris M\u00e9tro stations It took Jacob Blangsted-Barnor (UK, right) On 23\u00a0Feb 2016, Clive Burgess and Simon 84\u00a0days 3\u00a0hr 24\u00a0min to watch a game in all Ford (both UK) completed a 13-hr 23-min of the USA\u2019s 31 National Football League 33-sec jaunt through the 303 M\u00e9tro stops stadiums between 5\u00a0Sep and 28\u00a0Nov 2019. in\u00a0the French capital. The fastest time to visit all Major League Every location on the Baseball parks is 29 days, by Michael London Monopoly board by foot Wenz and Jacob Lindhorst (both USA) Alex Radford (UK) walked between the from 12\u00a0Jun to 10\u00a0Jul 2005. They 28\u00a0sites on the famous board game in 1\u00a0hr were also required to watch a full 45\u00a0min 35\u00a0sec in London, UK, on 5\u00a0Aug 2018. game at each of the 30 venues. There are 32 NFL teams but only 31\u00a0stadiums, 130 as the New York Giants and New\u00a0York Jets share MetLife Stadium.","CULTURE & SOCIETY MOST\u2026 tmh\u2013eafMoirDtbsurasoahrnereram\u00a0dl2vafsp\u00a0a0aLkta.lie4z1elnroxa9r0geiw()eCcs.sorearbedtye-r Continents visited in one day On 29 Apr 2017, Thor Mikalsen and his son Sondre Moan Mikalsen (both NOR) \ufb02ew between countries on \ufb01ve different continents: Turkey (Asia), Morocco (Africa), Portugal (Europe), the USA (North America) and Colombia (South America). This equalled the feat of Gunnar Garfors (NOR) and Adrian Butterworth (UK), who travelled between Istanbul, Turkey, and Caracas, Venezuela, on 18 Jun 2012. Most sovereign Countries visited by bicycle in 24\u00a0hours Youngest person to visit all sovereign countries capital cities D\u00e1vid K\u0151v\u00e1ri (HUN) rode through seven Lexie Alford (USA, b. 10\u00a0Apr 1998) was aged 21 years 177 days visited in 24 hours by countries on 23\u201324 Aug 2017: Poland, the when she arrived in the \ufb01nal country on her list \u2013 Mozambique \u2013 scheduled transport Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, on 4 Oct 2019. Helpfully, she\u2019d travelled widely with her parents as On 25\u201326 Nov 2018, Slovenia and Croatia. a youngster: aged 18, she\u2019d already been to around 70 countries. Adam Leyton (left) and Chris Fletcher Hungary\u2019s Maja T\u00f3th holds the female The male record holder is James Asquith (UK, b. 30 Dec 1988). (both UK) journeyed record. She cycled between \ufb01ve\u00a0countries He was 24 years 190 days old on 8\u00a0Jul 2013 when he completed to nine capital cities \u2013 Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Slovenia and his globe-trotting odyssey, terminating in the Federated States on planes, trains Croatia \u2013 on\u00a014\u00a0Jun 2018. of\u00a0Micronesia in the Paci\ufb01c Ocean. and buses, starting in London, UK, and The team record is also seven countries. Countries visited by train in 24\u00a0hours ending in Budapest. On 1\u20132 Oct 2016, James van der Hoorn and Alison Bailey, Ian Bailey, John English The duo arrived in Thomas Reynolds (both UK) toured Croatia, and David Kellie (all UK) rode through the Hungarian capital Slovenia, Hungary, Austria, Slovakia and 11\u00a0countries on 1\u20132\u00a0May\u00a01993. Departing with 10\u00a0min to spare! the\u00a0Czech Republic before ending in Poland. from Hungary, it took them 22\u00a0hr 10\u00a0min to\u00a0reach their \ufb01nal stop, the Netherlands. Countries visited by electric car (single\u00a0charge) On 7\u20138\u00a0Jul 2016, Frederik Van Overloop (BEL) drove a Tesla Model\u00a0S across seven nations: Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany, Italy, Slovenia and Croatia. 4. HNL 1. APW UNESCO World Heritage Sites Most countries 5. PPG visited in 24\u00a0hours visited by bicycle On 14\u201315 Nov 2019, Adam Leyton and Chris in seven days International Fletcher (see above left) visited 20\u00a0UNESCO Marek Dzienisiuk Date Line cultural sites in a day. Their 1,930-km (POL) cycled through (1,200-mi) trip took in the Neolithic \ufb02int 14 countries \u2013 from 3. SYD mines of Spiennes in Belgium, the Tower of Promachonas in London and Blenheim Palace (birthplace of Greece to Cieszyn 2. AKL Sir Winston Churchill) near Oxford, UK. in Poland \u2013 between 16 and 23\u00a0Sep 2018. Longest day Music festivals visited in 30 days He passed through Taking advantage of closely grouped time zones bordering the From 24 Jun to 23 Jul 2011, Greg Parmley Greece, Bulgaria, International Date Line, Julian O\u2019Shea (AUS, inset) lived through (UK) attended 26 music festivals, including North Macedonia, a single calendar day lasting 49\u00a0hr on 14 Feb 2019. Starting in Glastonbury, Montreux Jazz and Balaton Albania, Montenegro Apia, Samoa, he journeyed to Auckland (New Zealand), Sydney Sound. His musical pilgrimage took in (above), Serbia, Bosnia (Australia) and Honolulu (Hawaii, USA), ending in Pago Pago Germany, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Herzegovina, (American Samoa). This matched the record of Mariusz Majewski Slovenia and Italy, among other countries. Croatia, Slovenia, (POL), who completed a 49-hr day on 13 Mar 2017. Hungary, Austria, Embassies visited in 24 hours Slovakia, the\u00a0Czech Owing to the number of territories it governs beyond On 26\u00a0Mar 2019, Morocco\u2019s Omar Oualili Republic and Poland. Europe, France is the country with the most time visited 32 foreign embassies in London, zones: 12 (and for a period of the year, 13). UK. He began his diplomatic dash at the 131 Embassy of the\u00a0Republic of Poland and ended the day at\u00a0the Guatemalan embassy. Zoos visited As of 6 Feb 2020, Jonas Livet (FRA) had been to 1,215 zoos, as well as 232\u00a0aquaria. He has worked as a zoological consultant for more than 30\u00a0years. His \u201czo-odyssey\u201d began in 1987 at Tierpark Berlin in Germany.","CULTURE & SOCIETY Maps Tourist guide The Itinerarium Burdigalense is a guide for Christian pilgrims making the journey from the French city of Bordeaux to Jerusalem in the Holy Land. Composed by an anonymous traveller in 330\u00a0CE, it described the locations of hostels and places where pilgrims could take water and exchange horses and donkeys. First interactive 3D map Periplus Youngest drone cartographer The Aspen Movie Map was created A periplus is a navigational guide for On 15\u00a0Apr 2019, Nathan Lu (USA, b.\u00a025\u00a0Sep\u00a02004) between Oct 1977 and Sep 1980 sailors listing the ports and landmarks made his \ufb01rst upload to US digital mapping service by a team at the MIT Media Lab in along a route. The Periplus of Hanno the Soar aged 14\u00a0years 202\u00a0days. He had taken pictures Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. It Navigator records a sea journey to West of a soccer \ufb01eld in Rossmoor, California, USA,\u00a0from comprised a 3D reconstruction of Africa made by Carthaginian seafarer Hanno a height of 113.8\u00a0m (373\u00a0ft\u00a04\u00a0in) using his DJI Mavic the town of Aspen in Colorado, USA, in the early-to-mid \ufb01fth century\u00a0BCE. The Air FC2103 drone. Nathan has been mapping his texture-mapped using photographs oldest edition of the text as it survives today neighbourhood and the surrounding environs taken by stop-motion cameras is a 9th-century-CE Byzantine manuscript. with\u00a0drones since he was 11\u00a0years old. mounted on a vehicle. Users could navigate around the virtual town Map of the New World using a touch-screen display. A chart drawn by Juan de la Cosa (ESP) in 1500 shows the Americas as a large green OLDEST... mass that extends to the left-hand margin Clay tablet map Largest surviving medieval world map of the map. De la Cosa was the captain of Maps inscribed on clay tablets dating to The Hereford Mappa Mundi measures 1.58\u00a0x 1.33\u00a0m the\u00a0Santa Mar\u00eda, one of three ships\u00a0to sail approximately 2300\u00a0BCE were excavated in (5\u00a0ft 2\u00a0in x 4\u00a0ft 4\u00a0in). The vellum map was created with Christopher Columbus in\u00a0search of the 1920s at Nuzi in present-day northern in England around 1300 and shows the world as the\u00a0New World in 1492. Iraq. They depict hills, streams and rivers, it was known to scholars in medieval Europe. It including the Euphrates, as well as includes 500\u00a0illustrations of people, locations MISCELLANEOUS... various settlements. and creatures, as well as events from history and classical mythology. The Garden of Eden is Oldest surviving star chart on paper Silk maps Dating back to c.\u00a0649\u2013684\u00a0CE, the Dunhuang In 1973\u201374, a pair of silk maps were pictured inset, Star Chart comprises a sequence of recovered from tombs believed to as an island drawings of sky maps on rolls of vellum date from the 2nd century BCE in ringed with \ufb01re. Hunan, China. Scholars believe and depicts the constellations visible that the maps were created by from the Northern Hemisphere. cartographers in the court of the The atlas was discovered in King of Ch\u2019ang-sha, whose realm 1907 by Hungarian-born included Hunan. archaeologist Aurel Stein in the Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, Gansu, China. Oldest surviving terrestrial globe The Erdapfel (\u201cEarth Apple\u201d) is a globe created in 1492 by German cosmographer and explorer Martin Behaim. The map was painted on to linen by Georg Glockendon just a few months before news of Columbus\u2019 voyage to the Americas reached Europe. The Erdapfel is currently housed in the\u00a0German National Museum in Nuremburg. The Erdapfel globe features Saint Brendan\u2019s Isle, a phantom medieval island once believed 132 to exist in the North Atlantic.","CULTURE & SOCIETY Largest town plan Most expensive atlas Most expensive map The Forma Urbis Romae was a map A medieval version of Cosmographia, by On 23\u00a0Jul 2001, the US Library of Congress of the capital of the Roman Empire the early astronomer and mathematician purchased the only surviving copy of the carved between 203 and 211\u00a0CE on to Claudius Ptolemy (c. 100\u00a0CE\u2014c. 170\u00a0CE), was Universalis Cosmographia for $10,000,000 150\u00a0marble slabs mounted inside the sold for \u00a32,136,000 ($3,990,010) at Sotheby\u2019s (\u00a37,005,500). Created by German cartographer Temple of Peace in Rome. The map in London, UK, on 10\u00a0Oct 2006. The atlas Martin Waldseem\u00fcller in 1507, the printed wall was 18\u00a0m wide and 13\u00a0m high (59\u00a0ft x was printed in\u00a01477 in Bologna, Italy, and map of the world is the \ufb01rst to use the name 42\u00a0ft 7\u00a0in) and featured ground plans covers the known world from the Canary \u201cAmerica\u201d to describe the New World. of every architectural feature in the Islands in the west to parts of south-east city, including small shops, rooms Asia. Longitudes and latitudes are provided Largest engraved atlas and staircases. Only fragments of for more than 8,000\u00a0locations. The Klencke Atlas is 1.78\u00a0m high, 1.05\u00a0m wide and the Forma Urbis Romae have survived. 11\u00a0cm thick when closed (5\u00a0ft 10\u00a0in x 3\u00a0ft\u00a05 in x\u00a04\u00a0in), Smallest map and 2.31\u00a0m wide (7\u00a0ft 6\u00a0in) when open. Each of the Longest-lived phantom island In 1992, Dr Jonathon Mamin of IBM\u2019s Z\u00fcrich atlas\u2019s 41\u00a0maps was printed from hand-drawn Reportedly located north-west of the laboratory used electrical pulses to create copperplate engravings. The Klencke Atlas was Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula in the Gulf of Mexico, a map of the Western Hemisphere from commissioned by a group of Dutch merchants the island of Bermeja was \ufb01rst described by atoms. The map has a scale of one trillion and\u00a0presented to King Charles\u00a0II of England Spanish cartographer Alonzo de Santa Cruz to one and a diameter of about one micron upon\u00a0the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. in\u00a01539. The last signi\ufb01cant map to include (one\u00a0millionth of a metre) \u2013 about one a depiction of Bermeja was the 1921 edition hundredth of the diameter of a human hair. of the Atlas of the Mexican Republic, some 382\u00a0years later. Its invention is probably the result of early cartographical error, but Bermeja could possibly have disappeared beneath rising sea levels. Charles\u00a0II was so pleased with his gift of the Klencke Atlas that 133 he displayed it in his cabinet of curiosities \u2013 a collection of notable and exotic items, popular in the age of enlightenment.","CULTURE & SOCIETY Young Achievers Fastest time to solve MOST\u2026 a Rubik\u2019s Cube on a pogo stick Twelve-year-old George Turner (UK) Times to fold a piece of paper \ufb01nished a 3x3x3 puzzle cube in Aged 16, Britney Gallivan (USA) folded a 22.89\u00a0sec on 29\u00a0Mar 2019, while 1,219-m-long (4,000-ft) piece of tissue paper pogo-sticking in Gerrards Cross, in half 12 times at her school in Pomona, Buckinghamshire, UK. George California, USA, on 27 Jan 2002. Eight\u00a0times was inspired to take up cubing by was thought to be the maximum until then. his father. \u201cI was in such awe of my dad when he solved it\u2026 I just Decimal digits memorized in \ufb01ve minutes really wanted that ability,\u201d he Wei Qinru\u00a0(CHN) recalled\u00a0616\u00a0digits at the ASEAN Junior Memory Open championships revealed. in Nanning, China, held on 28\u201330\u00a0Aug 2019. Finger snaps in one minute On 13\u00a0Sep 2018, Niclas Nadasdy (DEU) \u2013 aged 14 \u2013 snapped his \ufb01ngers 334\u00a0times in 60\u00a0sec in Weissenohe, Germany. Fastest 3-6-3 sport stacking Youngest club DJ Aged 13, Chan Keng Ian (MYS) set up a 3-6-3 Archie Norbury (UK, b. 20\u00a0Nov 2014) was aged just cup stack in 1.713\u00a0sec in Nilai, Malaysia, on 4\u00a0years 130\u00a0days when he played at Bungalow in Hong Kong, 23\u00a0Aug 2018. He went on to set the fastest China, on 30\u00a0Mar 2019. He delighted the crowd with more individual cycle stack \u2013 4.753\u00a0sec \u2013 in than an\u00a0hour\u2019s worth of classic house music, although his Subang Jaya, Malaysia, on 19\u00a0May 2019, and preferred genre is drum and bass. the fastest doubles cycle stack \u2013 5.798\u00a0sec \u2013 with Wong Jun Xian (MYS) on 9\u00a0Jun 2019. Largest water rocket Most consecutive On 10\u00a0Jun 2017, a 4-m-tall (13-ft 3-in) water football touches rocket soared 22.8\u00a0m (75\u00a0ft) off the ground in in one minute with Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The water-powered a ball on the head projectile was created by sibling scientists On 14\u00a0Nov 2019, Eche Aidan and Keeley Aird (both CAN), who are Chinoso (NGA) kept founders of the not-for-pro\ufb01t educational a soccer ball aloft for group STEM Kids Rock, which encourages 60\u00a0sec with his feet other youngsters to engage with the wonders and knees, making of science and technology. The rocket was 111\u00a0touches, all the made for TV series Furze World Wonders, which while balancing is presented by fellow record-setting amateur another ball on his inventor Colin Furze (see p.172). head. Eche performed his skills showcase in Warri, Nigeria. atcoShn1hiseer0Ikivwn-saimt\u00a0nt2lioeg0(slw:7itt1m1oh\u00a0s7i7oneb,o.)p8ol.noe\u00a0icwdiccmeee,st Lowest limbo-skating over 25 m Aged 11, Shristi Sharma (IND, pictured) skated 25\u00a0m (82\u00a0ft) under bars set at a height of just 17\u00a0cm (6.7\u00a0in) in Nagpur, Maharashtra, India, on 7\u00a0Oct 2015. The farthest distance limbo-skating under cars is 115.6\u00a0m (379\u00a0ft 3\u00a0in), by 10-year-old G Devisri Prasad (IND) 134 on\u00a031\u00a0Aug 2017 in Amaravathi, Andhra Pradesh, India.","Magazine editor Eight-year-old Roxanne Downs (AUS) took on the role of editor for It\u00a0GiRL magazine in early 2017. The \ufb01rst issue under her tenure hit the shelves in Australia and New\u00a0Zealand on 6 Apr 2017. On the perks of the job, Roxanne said, \u201cI love coming up with ideas, quizzes and getting to interview people\u2026 The freebies are great too!\u201d Youngest winner of a professional Professional music producer Most Scripps\u00a0National\u00a0Spelling\u00a0Bee winners golf tournament (male) Konomi Yamasaki (JPN, b. 18 Aug 2008) was Established in 1925, the US-based Scripps Josh Hill (UK, b. 27 Mar 2004, above 10\u00a0years 234\u00a0days old when her debut album National Spelling Bee has never had more than left) was aged 15 years 210\u00a0days on Burgm\u00fcller 25 Etudes was released on 9\u00a0Apr two co-winners at one of its contests. That was 23\u00a0Oct 2019 when he won the Al Ain 2019. The album comprises 25 instrumental shattered on 30\u00a0May 2019 when eight competitors Open on the MENA Tour in the UAE. compositions, all arranged by Konomi. correctly spelled every word given to them by the Unfortunately, as an amateur, Josh organizers. All hailing from the USA, the so-called wasn\u2019t allowed to claim the \u00a310,477 Nobel Prize laureate \u201cOctochamps\u201d were: Rishik Gandhasri (aged 13), ($13,553) winner\u2019s prize. He\u2019s shown Malala Yousafzai (PAK, b. 12\u00a0Jul 1997) was Erin Howard (14), Abhijay Kodali (the youngest here with \ufb01ve-time European Tour awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on 10\u00a0Oct of the octet, aged 12), Shruthika Padhy (13), winner Tommy Fleetwood. 2014 at the age of 17\u00a0years 90\u00a0days. She Rohan Raja (13), Christopher Serrao (13), Sohum shared the plaudit with India\u2019s Kailash Sukhatankar (13) and Saketh Sundar (13). YOUNGEST\u2026 Satyarthi. In Mar 2020, Malala met with fellow young trailblazer Greta Thunberg (SWE), who in 2019 became the youngest TIME Person of the Year (see pp.142\u201343). Professional \ufb01lm director Youngest person to achieve nuclear fusion Deuterium Saugat Bista (NPL, b. 6\u00a0Jan 2007) was 7\u00a0years In nuclear fusion, two or more atoms are brought 340 days old when Love You Baba (NPL) was together to form a larger atom, also producing energy. Hours Helium-3 released on 12\u00a0Dec 2014. It claimed two before his 13th\u00a0birthday in 2018, Jackson Oswalt (USA, prizes at\u00a0Nepal\u2019s National Film Awards. b.\u00a019\u00a0Jan 2005) fused two deuterium atoms using a reactor he had built in the playroom of his family home in Memphis, Chess grandmaster Tennessee, USA. Jackson\u2019s passion for building things stems \u2022 Male: On 12 Aug 2002, Sergey Karjakin from an early age. He told GWR: \u201cWhen I was younger, (UKR, b. 12\u00a0Jan 1990) reached the game\u2019s top I\u00a0worked in my grandfather\u2019s wood shop, building rank at the age of 12\u00a0years 212 days. \ufb01gurines and stuff like that\u2026 All that creativity \u2022 Female: Hou Yifan (CHN, b.\u00a027 Feb 1994) eventually led to building something like this.\u201d became a grandmaster at the age of 14\u00a0years 184\u00a0days on 29\u00a0Aug 2008. When he is older, Jackson hopes to start an 135 organization that can fund and support other young scientists and engineers with their home projects.","EspionageCULTURE & SOCIETY sosiftfpareatOtoaFshecmrn,ielaaarli1nCcsltti6hehtnoeeurpnSicsotaheDstenlpeoialasnertnc1odepoo9da-vrfC6rmeor\ufb01o0ergHrle,icrmolraaoiant1wnmUaao4rnauSCmryiat-eAi9b,eiossi)U,aefr.swsatTSFaherhAhoncseii.rhccsiaTcnhepiwehrtsrreaChaeoas-ectsbt1uetaeSi1hrltno9(lnedwnivte\u201c\ufb01eiiheFdsesritltcscpeyUethriincsnnhwutdgiuaocaeBdrcnsdeeo.bssusxeesoncceffadrnunreele\u201dturmljscyeanlicaesatasestircpdohyned BhaapstyeidsfThoodtxevtmelhedhtcairsrteereneieanntecitchortpiaewamirevlavdgdlyoegeyeairrshensilvsyundsaaeoirn.,vncrnlvOpoeayaspetrefnbicuietutrleehirrohltvnaeepiafaeannf,,repeswsaactarspuceeneboyittidttoeatnied\u2019ynnsrnflco.sugyldbhGlygauoaaenihinpnnsvaopetdtedeelaaionadisrfnrgun.utwwuayiAsdbabs,heantlsavopieddhgceouriohclaltfOpionutd,mcoerf\u2019tgoo\ufb01tulhpeqvwkmcnesuetinyteararaaiotkeglatmiweonecoSsrpotvepetioerectoaltdharrrtoldahncesafomtetretmtilsoohauiounemAncaprcntstcgathttaotaaas\u2026hstanpnneueghpicdbrezpierednaleuaohetctbriniaiovleoglinefscn,s.o, ,f LRAhAtodoHgoIihrnsnseneerhihtgcancseayarellocstuie\u00a0dvsonlrtydcsietifPvneaaidop3einginlcfvr0,lbgtatpUePioyiysltrodeSynheotonlshtaetniv(thonUreoi,tsnrsdtnisSFeee.meewABl1endrle6)iIatvc,gtesoheoDahenndenineefncoccs2c2Sceruee581oamrsr-\u00a09vrNygvrece8ieeaeroeer6antdvvtrhNrtteaUo1seoladtn9nire3t2fi8fiied4rn4ooo5e3sg\u00a0nnfr,NmoeahdaewrnolaceasvtoiStnypetcni2ehsdnvioeoc0icfnbtun1rdeifeo5reeaasfmi.s.sygot.syereed Longest prison sentence Highest sum paid for for espionage a piece of intelligence On 10\u00a0May 2002, FBI agent s2oHGaaTm0vgaadhe0eurnoer0ncgsst;iFtgssoaSABiel\u201deehUnIlr(decpSl;koahtsaintoseenieadrettrtnbhhe$lidaeleed7lrkfeiUm\u00a0tgmoSn)Se.ovhtAnT(ilc\u00a3a\ufb01echh1n4eeke0e.dd8n\u00a0irddn\u00a0hbaomoaswaiMyss)kFnssoftoiBaolseavamIcrfst(oaoeRw\u201cirgwrlRUmye.aaSnsowem)tnhrefRoaorK4oernnGNbdBeoervdt and Russian mole Robert Highest-ranked US of\ufb01cer w1H5iat\u00a0cnhosnnsoesnepco(uUstsSiivAbe)illwiitfayesosgfeinvteennces charged with espionage Uipnnafriooornlme(.aaHtniedonhlaattdoertbheReeunSsospviaaise) sting hGIUstsGnOehoepStenerweywAomris1arhrnra4sgamoigl\u00a0lensJgeeyfueayToosn,ntErrfeiftolorr2ceteno\ufb01hvl0nmamiem0cCnsee1Uesgon1d,niSf9atr\ufb01fttSe6soeeo(tR9frUdtil,htritSaahmfeoeeAnnedc1adi)NiiA9mtnwveR9urtipram4leuriirsle.aasliyOmisfnlsg.oiRonaeHbcunenh,e2nesmirci8ednehge\u00a0erfScagJvnuoledouuetnfpi.iddctnil2thtiootnyi0elnnog0oen1fe, l since 1979. 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Remarkably \u2013 especially given that the B-47 was carrying a 3,450-kg (7,600-lb) nuclear bomb \u2013 there were no fatalities. Worst damage toll Costliest year for natural disasters Deadliest airship disaster from a hailstorm According to a report issued by The\u00a0Economist At around 1 a.m. on 4\u00a0Apr 1933, the USS Akron (ZRS-4) broke On 10\u00a0Apr 2001, the on 31\u00a0Mar 2012 and based on \ufb01gures from up in bad weather off the coast of New Jersey, USA. Of the Tristate Hailstorm insurers Swiss Re, there was a global loss 76\u00a0crew, 73\u00a0died. As with most large airships, the Akron (inset, ranged over Kansas, of $362\u00a0bn (\u00a3234.2\u00a0bn) in\u00a02011 from natural seen over downtown New York City, USA) had awkward controls Missouri and Illinois, disasters. The most costly single event was and was vulnerable in high winds. The most famous airships USA. It spawned a few an\u00a0earthquake off the Paci\ufb01c coast of Japan were the British R100 and R101; the American Akron and Macon; small tornadoes and on 11\u00a0Mar (see opposite). minor \ufb02oods, but the and the German Graf Zeppelin worst damage was FIRST\u2026 II and Hindenburg. The last two caused by hailstones, remain the largest airships, at some 7\u00a0cm (2.75\u00a0in) in Rail fatality 213.9\u00a0tonnes (471,570\u00a0lb). Four diameter \u2013 about the On 5\u00a0Dec 1821, a carpenter named of these six were destroyed in same as a cricket ball \u2013 David Brook (UK) was walking accidents, with 111\u00a0lives lost. causing $1.5\u00a0bn (\u00a31\u00a0bn) home from Leeds in Yorkshire, UK, in insured losses. along the Middleton Railway in a Fatal aeroplane crash blinding sleet storm. He was struck Thomas E Selfridge (USA) died on 17\u00a0Sep and fatally injured by an oncoming 1908 when the Wright Military Flyer train of coal wagons. (piloted by Orville Wright), on which he was a passenger, crashed during a test Highest death toll in a terror attack Road fatality \ufb02ight at\u00a0Fort Myer in Virginia, USA. The year 2021 marks the 20th anniversary of an On 31\u00a0Aug 1869, scientist Mary Ward (IRL) event that shocked the world. According to the was killed in an accident involving an Satellite collision of\ufb01cial count, 2,753 individuals died as a result of experimental steam car on the streets of On 10 Feb 2009, the active commercial the attack on the World Trade Center in New York Birr in County Offaly, Ireland. The vehicle, satellite Iridium\u00a033 was struck by the derelict City, USA, on 11\u00a0Sep 2001. A hijacked American built by her cousin, the astronomer William Russian military satellite Kosmos-2251. The Airlines 767 (Flight 11) was \ufb02own into the North Parsons, was jolted by the rough road and impact, which occurred at a relative speed Tower at 8:46 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST). Mary was thrown under the wheels. of 42,120\u00a0km\/h (26,172\u00a0mph), scattered\u00a0some Terrorists had also seized a second 767, United 10,000 pieces of debris in Low Earth Orbit. Airlines (Flight 175), which struck the South Tower at 9:02 a.m. EST. On the same day, a hijacked aircraft\u00a0struck the Pentagon in Washington, DC, USA, with the loss of 189\u00a0lives, and another seized\u00a0plane crashed in a \ufb01eld in Pennsylvania, killing 44\u00a0people. 138","Costliest natural disaster Largest accidental According to estimates by The Economist, the marine oil spill earthquake and related tsunami that struck off On 20\u00a0Apr 2010, around the Paci\ufb01c coast of T\u014dhoku in Japan on 11\u00a0Mar 779\u00a0million litres 2011 resulted in an economic loss to the country (205.7\u00a0million US gal) of of $210\u00a0bn (\u00a3130\u00a0bn). Of that \ufb01gure, only $35\u00a0bn crude oil entered the ocean (\u00a321.6\u00a0bn) was insured. Two-thirds of the global after an explosion on the death toll from natural disasters in 2011 was Deepwater Horizon oil-drilling brought about by the quake and its aftermath. rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Elastec\/American Marine, Inc. (USA) deliberately set \ufb01re to the oil on 19 May 2010 in an effort to clear it. This initiated the longest continuous burn of an oil spill, lasting for 11\u00a0hr 48\u00a0min. DEADLIEST\u2026 Deadliest wartime maritime disaster including Austro-Hungarian mountain On 30 Jan 1945, at least 7,000 people died when infantry and a Bosnian support company, Space\ufb02ight disaster the German liner MV Wilhelm Gustloff \u2013 pictured were camped there. Figures for the eventual Seven crew members died on each occasion above in 1938 \u2013 was torpedoed off Danzig (now death toll vary from 270 to 330. when the space shuttles Challenger and Gda\u0144sk, Poland) by the Soviet submarine S-13. Columbia broke apart on 28\u00a0Jan 1986 and There were only around 900\u00a0survivors. The ship Pandemic 1\u00a0Feb 2003 respectively. was transporting civilian refugees and military Peaking between 1347 and 1351, the personnel at the time of the attack. Black Death killed some 75 million people Mountaineering disaster worldwide. Approximately a quarter of the On 13\u00a0Jul 1990, a minor earthquake initiated then-population of Europe perished. The a devastating ice-and-snow avalanche near disease still affects 1,000 to 3,000 people Lenin Peak, on the border between present- day Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. It killed a year, but can now be cured. 43\u00a0out of 45 climbers at a local base camp. At the time of going to press, Avalanche the World Health Organization At 5:30\u00a0a.m. on 13\u00a0Dec 1916, a massive (WHO) was monitoring the avalanche struck wooden army barracks on spread of coronavirus disease the slopes near the Gran Poz summit of Italy\u2019s 2019 (COVID-19). On 11\u00a0Mar Monte Marmolada. At least 332\u00a0people, 2020, it was classi\ufb01ed by WHO as a global pandemic, with cases on\u00a0every populated continent. Worst nuclear reactor disaster On 26\u00a0Apr 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Kiev Oblast, Ukraine, killed 31\u00a0people \u2013 either from injuries sustained in the initial detonation or as a result of radiation poisoning. Some studies suggest that by 2065 there will have been around 30,000 premature fatalities attributable to the effects of the radiation released, while others propose that the death toll may already have reached 50,000. At around 2,600\u00a0km2 (1,000\u00a0sq\u00a0mi), the Chernobyl Nuclear Power 139 Plant Zone of Alienation surrounding the site of the failed reactor is the largest radioactive exclusion zone. Shown above are vignettes from the evacuated landscape.","CULTURE & SOCIETY Round-Up Youngest serving Country with the 53\u00a0\ufb02oors, it depicts iconic Most habitable city prime minister most\u00a0languages city skylines. The project The Austrian capital of Vienna was awarded the Sanna Marin (FIN, Papua New Guinea is was conceived by the title of Most Liveable City for the second year b.\u00a016\u00a0Nov 1985) home to speakers of a total Italian branch of insurance running in 2019, scoring 99.1 points out of 100 was aged 34\u00a0years of 840\u00a0living languages, company Allianz, in on The Economist\u2019s Global Liveability Index. The 24\u00a0days when she according to the 22nd conjunction with street report assesses more than 30 factors across assumed the of\ufb01ce edition of Ethnologue: artists Orticanoodles, and \ufb01ve key areas: stability, healthcare, culture and of Prime Minister Languages of the World, veri\ufb01ed on 5\u00a0Mar 2019. environment, education, and infrastructure. of\u00a0Finland on 10\u00a0Dec published in 2019. These 2019. Previously the languages include Tok Most people Most valuable dreidel transport minister Pisin, Motu and\u00a0English. breaking\u00a0bread Dreidels are four-sided for\u00a0the Social On 4\u00a0Oct 2019, homelessness spinning tops traditionally Democratic Party of Most Blue Flag beaches action group The\u00a0Journey played with on the Jewish Finland, Marin leads The Blue Flag is an Home\u00a0(USA) hosted an holiday of Hanukkah. A a notably youthful international certi\ufb01cation event at which\u00a0478\u00a0people custom-designed piece by \ufb01ve-party coalition awarded to sites that meet came\u00a0together to share Estate Diamond Jewelry government, with four strict environmental, safety bread in\u00a0Baltimore, (USA) was valued at $70,000 of the party leaders and accessibility criteria. Maryland, USA. (\u00a354,375) on 27\u00a0Nov 2019 still in\u00a0their 30s. Spain had 566 Blue\u00a0Flag in New York City, USA. Its beaches as of 30\u00a0Aug 2019. Hebrew letters are made of white gold and encrusted The most Blue Flag with 222\u00a0diamonds. marinas is\u00a0122, in\u00a0the Netherlands. Largest stairwell mural \u201cAround the World in 50\u00a0Floors\u201d is an artwork that covers 2,980.59\u00a0m2 (32,082\u00a0sq\u00a0ft) of the walls of\u00a0the Allianz Tower in Milan, Italy. Actually spread across Oldest continuously staffed Most living \ufb01gures operating\u00a0\ufb01re\u00a0station in\u00a0a\u00a0nativity scene The City of Manistee Fire Department in Michigan, On 20\u00a0Dec 2019, a total of USA, celebrated its 130th anniversary on 17\u00a0Jun 2,101\u00a0people participated in 2019. Driver engineer\/medic Fred LaPoint trawled a nativity scene organized through the local archives to prove that the \ufb01re by the city government station had been staffed 24\u00a0hours a day, 365\u00a0days of San Jose del Monte in a year since it \ufb01rst opened in 1889. A new sign Bulacan in the Philippines. honouring its GWR title now hangs outside. This smashed the previous total of 1,254. Largest prayer wheel Most expensive cardigan sold at auction Prayer wheels are hollow On 26\u00a0Oct 2019, the grey mohair \ufb01ve-button cylinders containing cardigan once worn by Nirvana frontman Kurt replicas of Buddhist mantras Cobain sold for $334,000 (\u00a3260,230) at auction wrapped around a spindle. in New York City, USA. Cobain famously sported The action of turning the the item during his band\u2019s acoustic set on MTV wheel serves to multiply the Unplugged (pictured). The cardigan bears all the number of prayers expressed. scars of the rock \u2019n\u2019 roll lifestyle, with a missing The Nyingma Temple in button, cigarette burns and a mysterious crunchy Gansu, China, has a prayer brown stain around the right front pocket. wheel measuring 35.81\u00a0m (117\u00a0ft 5\u00a0in) in height and a diameter of 12.43\u00a0m (40\u00a0ft 9\u00a0in), as veri\ufb01ed on 31\u00a0Aug 2018. There are 11,000\u00a0Buddhist scriptures stored inside.","CULTURE & SOCIETY Most expensive at textile company Most diamonds set in one ring artwork by a living RenauxView for 81\u00a0years Lakshikaa Jewels (IND) presented a ring artist sold at auction 85\u00a0days in Brusque, Santa adorned with 7,777\u00a0diamonds on 7\u00a0May 2019 in Rabbit (1986) sold Catarina, Brazil. His \ufb01rst Mumbai, India. The jewels are set on an 18-karat-gold for $91,075,000 day was on 17\u00a0Jan 1938. He base and the ring is designed to replicate the Lotus has collected pay in nine Temple in Delhi. A\u00a0team of 12\u00a0crafters, a jeweller and (\u00a370,408,300) on different currencies. a designer worked on the project for 18\u00a0months. 15\u00a0May 2019 at Christie\u2019s in New 100% York City, USA. The stainless-steel 141 sculpture, one of a set of three, is the work of artist Jeff Koons (USA). The most expensive artwork is Salvator Mundi (c. 1500) by Leonardo da Vinci (ITA), which sold for $450,312,500 (\u00a3343,033,000) on\u00a015\u00a0Nov 2017. Largest merengue dance 126th\u00a0descendant of Largest display The merengue is a the\u00a0country\u2019s \ufb01rst ruler, of\u00a0origami... dance originating in the Jimmu, whose reign is \u2022 Butterflies: 29,416, by Dominican Republic. believed to have begun in Juanne-Pierre De Abreu On 3\u00a0Nov 2019, a total 660\u00a0BCE. Naruhito took the (ZAF) on 5\u00a0Dec 2019 in of 844\u00a0participants place of his father, Akihito, Cape Town, South Africa. (422\u00a0couples) took to who is the \ufb01rst Japanese \u2022 Fish: 10,879, by Boek.be the Plaza Espa\u00f1a in the monarch to abdicate the (BEL) on 11\u00a0Nov 2019 in country\u2019s capital, Santo throne. As per tradition, Antwerp, Belgium. Domingo, to dance for a new imperial era was \u2022 Frogs: 3,542, by 5\u00a0min 18\u00a0sec. The attempt also coined to mark the Japan Hospital Clown was organized by AZ Films transition: Reiwa (meaning Association on 16\u00a0Sep Producciones (DOM). \u201cbeautiful harmony\u201d). 2019\u00a0in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. Most people dancing Longest career in with\u00a0swords the\u00a0same\u00a0company Largest company by As part of the coronation As of 12\u00a0Apr 2019, sales market capitalization celebrations of honorary manager Walter Orthmann Based on the total market monarch HH\u00a0Thakore Saheb (BRA) had been working value of a company\u2019s Mandhatasinhji Jadeja of shares and stocks, tech Rajkot, 2,126\u00a0sword dancers giant Microsoft (USA) had a performed on 28\u00a0Jan 2020. value of $905\u00a0bn (\u00a3693.8\u00a0bn) The Rajkot Rajya as of 31\u00a0Mar 2019, and Bhagini Seva according to the annual Foundations and Rani Global Top 100 Companies Saheb Kadambaridevi report produced by Jadeja (all IND) helped to PricewaterhouseCoopers. organize the\u00a0record. For more large-scale dancing First little person on the cover of Vogue displays, turn to p.106. Activist and broadcaster Sin\u00e9ad Burke (IRL) appeared on the front of the Sep\u00a02019 edition Oldest ruling house of\u00a0British Vogue magazine. The cover choice was Emperor Naruhito (JPN), made by the guest editor, Meghan, Duchess of who acceded to Japan\u2019s Sussex, who selected Burke alongside 13 other Chrysanthemum Throne \u201ctrailblazing changemakers\u201d in Britain and on 1\u00a0May 2019, is the Ireland. Burke was\u00a0born with\u00a0achondroplasia, a form of dwar\ufb01sm. The term \u201clittle person\u201d (or\u00a0\u201cLP\u201d) is the language that Sin\u00e9ad prefers, but\u00a0some people favour the term \u201cdwarf\u201d, \u201cperson of\u00a0short stature\u201d or \u201cperson of restricted growth\u201d to describe themselves. As Burke points out in her advocacy, it is important that the personal preference of the individual is respected. Sin\u00e9ad said of her Vogue cover appearance: \u201cThe response I\u2019ve received has been overwhelmingly supportive, uplifting and really quite emotional.\u201d","CULTURE & SOCIETY CULTURE & SOCIETY HGALrSLeOFtaFAMTE hunberga\u00a0BhtohhuwroeUogneameneansnTodvgcliemivnymheheomi,isoforiero3hDpshporocnyvf\u00a0aruUJegnoleaceDceasvrlSprsmumociislnhaaiegetgionuntsDrlmemwoheSil2aertrogiohnienrtrhka0diitConui.amahtistitteegLn0neo.cWahaswtseetitba3tSosiueaghnnlanirohlonaiame,icfem1-npattty\u2019ogfnnctentGocrtcha6stoc\u201ceItrahmtcasaohteohdnwrht\u00a0iwplruahhi.y,e\u201ctecmhlieeeneaoliitcpBecShseaeecEgoterecsthrnhrgrnylaeaawdurae\u201caioldsnrisoeeYfo,pmcwoidTrmopgvtrt.natl\ufb01gewnvrswilw\u2013orlebeadhsiStmehnhsiryedelriuencaemia,dawyn-hrbhoeeis3defssaat2w2tmdfGgsloirarnereteaehooni5efatynmc00lnoedroailutbar\u00a0orae\u00a0at\u2019hp4hcosotcs12aehesmremedmpewrcngvnideara\u00a0ua8cwut0lneandvhoskcedamaoevtskrtsete,im2no\u201dtGaucaiaaom\u00a0illeawe.eeGnogih.snggyve3nokseytmgsarrcaidGfrttiatarenaootsv\u00a0geeeastetlmdehDeiarePirseroGtlmiesh.ethlcnsbnseo\u201delov.oamteaerm;sdmooaatrattrt\u201cnpeebelneti\u201ccm,seeedcrwnyTabesz\u201d,TgdthnlFhewoehnmcdyoeeu2e.sditahasnedtuortIitetaaasu\u00a0ahn0mMdihnnrbiii\u201dithiubwirdsrdornscern.dew1ae-,oTesdeasinEsmaenHeia29,oiGtgsote2orhiibhetjsaythth,n0Pntieekaweefre0eoiedhtgpasunaorsces1selrscres1msBharpwa\u00a0gwtfo.nttitPdlm89rtictsonosheehaeivretonaaerbesm,eatrronodroooaaditwehyednvobseyrsn2vnhntiFtssasdtiaebydensru5ahttinehiutars.teiosmoddgl0peectoee,htencmeoSrau-zouenimceeaNponfneamlrdafhpnodignloPrtoencatuoaneroevio\u201drDoetdynncsotidityptbpeohvangupoyiheeryrnil-cecrnesseoltaaFie2oadmaortnanldr0nr,etsdtneadsb5sg.ady.dnTtu0toecrt.tziuhwesmen,itshp \u2013 oysnaaeGgczvarheeeirtrIntsoanas-litanessaamus2iitrml0iaest1mndrs9aidoit.vtonesl,","N2on0bot1Ghem9erlA,iePnEbbteatauihatytewicoAldeoaphssfPimotarrnoiezaudPet.Mitno 1 21O:isTbGpwaar2lmpeaig:cttrnaOrtaaapoeeep1tntlmartao3eaie\u2019mntttttsc:seoRaahdostteGgiellaChsuahfl,rotfralottehmpoaoSileiehlcefnosd4vrpaftapterad2ahongmae:rttopolwrcne,ceRlhaGbri2priese\u201cteaksnhysnoteseiyisr0o[serptevPshleu5eec\u201cnWpl0oY1GratLCUinaioFtte\u201c:cSolslpn2de,aiorOacyrldeaiSAhrtwnphmlg5svaevk,lflisehiPRttihrpadedeatggorSsGhomcta.2eatpoiderb]iancthbohhiinOrsva5ioesatnyniaeaiseuenetueead)nnsatnsrsrtth(g,utcans1gnuieyereyatCgaGPttdefar1pir9eetos-giohhmo,clotpareidmr5cli2\u201daiuhhnwderieonriem.nrha\u00a0(p7naentMtseei,UeckFtersSt.ahgfasnamDgaaoissiufhSatBwn,otaatnetuethendCitirAewweefzetgaernsdnaudee.ri2edo)rAe1tdaoCigul.gnr;lOta\ufb01au0n1ipsnmeiITehfhhsevwcobsvn1\u00a0rrcrve\u201detIDoae,ekhnoia9eMmesroretnaanrpermwmyt.srhnaE\u201dtene\u00a0ogcielo\u2019TietacslddeaorraonsoC2iaIsewtsnincaMnfC0hetmneo2ctotite1oepsieEvndh5hocolp,9npnire\u00a0ee\u00a0laiePok.acyvaevfr.nrtneacee\ufb01dieioeertlaenrMcer-vGewMoersrshr.emanasrronitaaagwktcecniaodlhnttieeikinarttUvdjhseiga\ufb01idN,scrr,tkes\u2019stgetrumohlFaosaHersigsntaatubdoelpilenpnfoocadeunofmuatmFerrmesaiae,snmnohwogrceeneoesresysrayeolmbsecdfioltbnrtliuoheooctwcelnesGo.arrtedwtsa.wcinowmt.h\/e2021 5 4 100% 143 3 InNaeTOfflthalsceoammetrcpn\u00a02abtGaito0mleelrydl1neee,pe9tntwssal,ateaghiabgbrebietnyceaeitheneaDrlotryeeirln\u2019nes\u2013\u00a0nsMgscaiewscliiiwucdnoatdhonsbtteaoihtencseheeralsepetmwDolisPegmoaeett\u2013rmridaellbdiiboyil.dsl.feI.attsehthee 142","Adventurers Stop 1: TSE Airport Fastest circumnavigation via both Poles by aeroplane Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan Setting out on 9 Jul 2019, Captain Hamish Harding (UK, Start\/end point: third from right below) and crew \ufb02ew a Qatar Executive Kennedy Space Center, USA Gulfstream G650ER jet around the globe via the geographic Poles in 46 hr 40\u00a0min 22 sec. Their attempt was veri\ufb01ed Stop 2: MRU Airport on 11 Jul at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA. Port Louis, Mauritius Dubbed \u201cOne More Orbit\u201d, the attempt was organized Stop 3: PUQ Airport to mark 50 years since NASA\u2019s historic Moon landings Punta Arenas, Chile and the 500th anniversary of the \ufb01rst circumnavigation (see overleaf). Captain Harding is also shown in the inset photo, along with Akbar Al Baker (centre), CEO of Qatar Airways, who were a partner in the project. 144","MoFionokiv-Jlfkmebaetrhonl-ssaemnaeriwaadcntkkts(aeeertilrrmgievhpaettm). DESTINATIONS 146 First Circumnavigation 148 Mountaineering 150 Open-Water Swimming 152 Ocean Rowing 154 Around the World 156 Epic Journeys 158 Round-Up 160 Hall of Fame: Victor Vescovo Shown here are the triumphant crew of circumnavigators. Left\u00a0to\u00a0right: Magdalena Starowicz (Pol\/USA; \ufb02ight attendant), Yevgen Vasylenko (UKR; pilot), Jacob Ove Bech (DNK; pilot), Jeremy Ascough (ZAF; pilot), Colonel Terry Virts (USA; astronaut and \ufb01lm-maker), Hamish Harding (pilot), Benjamin Rueger (DEU;\u00a0lead engineer) and Jannicke Mikkelsen (NOR; \ufb01lm-maker). 145","ADVENTURERS First Circumnavigation TowMrbc\ufb01d(tnSeesse2aorharbamst(pnoeel1cwrsg3oLuuukeuadtek\u00a0lTate)uOetiubnhrditu.rnchtlnaionhghrrctsaFMlmarvniyevlnn,aahetitereibeto\u00a0nioanrtno1ei1rocdwn2slyaysenncgefd5deu5)s7ghEaesmoesefh2iw2mC2\u00a0tbagernutuASlto0oiP2u0hleweerhshsgarlnpna\u00a0.to(Sdpilu.Soeon2cir2ntloaFrMpMwnlceeph\u00a0r0lb)owv1sati\u00faac,e(.pyeev1aeuaee5vicileiOcw)gm,cle9raannct1eg2esalwbntaetno5ur1smuyshwmarseftuel1amdfhodseenurdiodoeue9taoiltvloessrinnofellevnrlIanresoele(clskftwaedaak1Btyastw,ulrhseskmethryass)aeaieoicere,xidieentnsenendrnnrvmeldetplhd2ldcrdoghpddyg\ufb01tretwalolr3s\u2026,leyhiSotdurstatmaeirson9ahoertehgsp\ufb01dtfe(nss\u00a0ors-eaetotemheravdiqheuewhewrrrdnreetficurhaceetisno)uaa\ufb02-FgroiphkniMnrasecunelleenniwe:Msdhalnhdmnc\u00a0ndra(\u00a0dcMtdteiPbidkoidhagd)apeeAnbddiueaauefegdeir-nsscna,uencdgphltm,leutttPtllxdrhidel;rGaaarlieuhr\ufb01hkpllniaaoaeannnnindelWasceinenklafid-dci,leaunitddOdningocenoeRvprtci\u2019eitrgscnnhagyiea\u00edtph\u2013ce.taeierniioewa,nsdnrnieo,sn wcIoaTbEnboCaantntJrSetnFladatomarfsjuihtcdhhee8ocHnkiocsopiastanvmTueaik\u00a0uohiebnaeNotnnctdi\u00a0tallhnrie5\u00a0ektlw1eoutiodohapolnloedgis0e8.lempfrdv.aneey(eianaF0E\u00a0Ee\u201cSGardvlocasy(nptarEtisiu\u2019lp4etrnit,posnhsebklgonilertra)ameorooakdMoaeh,8owgat\u2013nsandtcnaagne\u00a0epinoocinSaiohretnfaumdmoHseuunnrlhetrgnrilouhneetton.tFpoiieee9da\u201dtrthkvnt(mropgnlamloO\u00a0u1cieiiueeiJtluvleatnnneot5hrrountmbhehttnvIahnesm2gorelcrhBsereieadkoee2ni(etglstretsapipra6Vrsahrisaraath(s1ryataC,tnt)iiw7ettneyqiw,p9icisncootdopno)etlaodhueo\u00a0;inory,eeMofsntnlxhaerrgcfenrrakaiJts(gteap)eoroieihrntusatltassapreyhlsuomweotekidaoeni,cohcscuedndcyv1naneediroaruek\u00f3pifeed5dvcdo\u00a0emtiSfeSttnread2sereniiuuowohaprdone,detrsr2oinfienteowinbeS,sgwnennhcu1nd(aptdsap\u2019drgpi5e.tsoah2pstitttsvsahaeIrnl)difhhvepItteyw.nspzifooessgsieenrta\ufb02it\u00e1ntnvlalrcelsoooehawhA,Cianetaielslgttsaornielebtoacgfeleehoperedue.radeoprbscldveneaariibesssshsgreccso,ultsc.lfr)\u2013eeniteaiwtyysohhsVatphhfw\u2019s.aier\/stteiiieteeesncngiirrnyotenegedorgn.eer.ai)cl FNJFiuAMrJrMaMuHsiaHngDatanNeEuMarniSFrccJieentAnieicrCiudgl\u00edsJgsboaranJncoodaeuVualauJnncotlAen\u00e1daaGAeLuomusacu-dAslnMeRnstoncR-aaisPnociSeRms-elutmoJiRnlo\u00e1dAaeboc-nFolo\u00e1dlduirdG-ddnooereoOacnbGdeenGneieP-dHagtrrl\u00f3aVolracA-iRecdJdrc\u00edeS\u00edioBooasiMom-oerhanraucpShirgoedZ\u00e1m-aruteddveiTsPrceuaia-diereuenMEbnnqgmnns-eaoiheizionzeerdbutoo-dlut\u00e1ggdeestJszTica-ad\u00f3eHdisaMeiuingnt(le-aGalomatnnSaereRluef-eddNonlaAeatse-1odtRroCdoeaeet-troooa5rGlcnrPssdz-oetz1hnet2graa\u00e9r-aa\u00e1ed2iagi2tBom-scnsdnloneas.-ntiul(r-TadeNodesaeBr-ohGg)numez-AGgaBoeA-)zrdrIoeTyr-Sstzael\u00edGss-qeaSwoIpaaeGs-aeOueGlnpcaeq-PrycrrS-reeaNsreuSioeem-epnoBeiCtpe-rSeAonhaPe-aatacBopCnLcI-oiouesunti-alnaesoIrnSqyag-enyBTisutF-uapalnBqotua-ynGYrbalefrSu-eSgsatlc-rByipCleqeSarprn-negSaauSte-oyplCaePicop-wisuupeacioe-onaqcPneanm-mNiuCoruPin-RiCtmntnoa-PeneirCuOo-mulBtvpiyGC-oguhrlLnFlia-bLoteaoyguLin-etEeLrteetua-LlaenrrtebLaefS-etsnaeydOnt-eaesdOoSrahcd-tOirtaerdPraim-reInrdSeirncdrd\/O-piayndwvgiuchnN-daigtinSogNiga-nunCparsigsnyGoe-esgnpLeroastegaar-LetaaseuLaeeteanrs-dgarrPaeesdmrarPae-aenmenryipSaerama-y\/SaaicamaduynuSay-emumasndgalnumsd-gp\/aienuemmesnpeaieadnn-peoaaiaernrntp-aae\/nnncgaeaeiesnm-sgreomnmcgrtrr-tnmtsrnfeo-seahnapesna-etruuwearraenu-hanuiminyan-marmsemm-tmo(rre-vaaaneed-areoalnnren-arenyda-ntdaar-aris-ryngey-y.e-C)-a-peiHAw1hnV5awoee2vwrnrad1elrhnedibiag.qn3etB\u201duet)iueshn\u2013tedntaheohPiswsehMlaim\ufb01MalvirlpoeaasvpcltMaeiapnymae(segareiseksanlaoalctarntmTbs.\u201c\u00a0ehn1aPhatoe5oucaaefrk1tencncee31nqikgor8trtu\u2013nlnh1c1iiiromal\u00a0ctrsMeewhnoeaat\ufb01aeudcnthyvlwkV.edesiic-costeofhrtcihiplaoeevwtxeoepstreabedlrwciotoouirabTosrugsohtnthddhaeo!tiisfvmetosr\u2013eoytn\u201calomoagtgdabfieoareet(swytnhTsAet,eaitet\u00f3rconwslsrhmirnfssi\u201dkhueubtitmieikrniwneaecnuleTdeehtl.ycmunsePheluhmrapekeatestteios)natieentaqkktmugcsgueeedsnobeleuene.uscirsthasiianlg 146","Magellan was the \ufb01rst to ADVENTURERS coin the name Mar Paci\ufb01co (\u201cPeaceful Sea\u201d). 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His \ufb01rst ascent was basecamp to the top\u00a0of time of\u00a039\u00a0hr 6\u00a0min. Anshu Jamsenpa (IND) climbed Everest Everest on 23\u00a0May 2010 and his Manaslu \u2013 at 8,163\u00a0m She\u00a0left basecamp at from the south side \u2013 base to summit and last was Shisha Pangma (8,027\u00a0m; (26,781\u00a0ft), the eighth- 3.20\u00a0p.m. on 15\u00a0May back \u2013 twice within \ufb01ve days between 26,335\u00a0ft) on 29\u00a0Oct 2019. The highest mountain and reached the top 16\u00a0and 21 May 2017. Jamsenpa is not the project\u00a0took him 9\u00a0years 159\u00a0days. \u2013 in exactly 13\u00a0hr on at\u00a06.26\u00a0a.m. on 17\u00a0May. \ufb01rst woman to climb Everest twice in a He is pictured here just below the 25\u201326\u00a0Sep 2019. He Lama grew up in season \u2013 Chhurim Dolma Sherpa (NPL) summit of Manaslu (see right). started his journey the Gorkha District achieved that feat in 2011 \u2013 but she is at 9\u00a0p.m. on 25 Sep of Nepal, where she the\u00a0fastest to do so. and reached the apex used to work as a at 10 a.m. the\u00a0next yak and dzo herder Fastest climb of Everest morning. He\u00a0was before becoming by a married couple part of a group, but a\u00a0mountain\u00a0guide. Pasang Phuti Sherpa and her husband as an experienced Ang\u00a0Dawa\u00a0Sherpa (both NPL) mountaineer was able started climbing Everest at 3\u00a0a.m. to climb more quickly on 14\u00a0May\u00a02019\u00a0and reached the top than the others. on\u00a016\u00a0May\u00a0at 10.36\u00a0a.m. \u2013 completing the\u00a0feat\u00a0in\u00a02\u00a0days 7\u00a0hr 36\u00a0min. Fastest time to climb Everest and K2 Mingma Gyabu \u201cDavid\u201d Sherpa (NPL, see right) topped Everest on 21\u00a0May 2018 and K2 \u2013 at 8,611\u00a0m (28,251\u00a0ft), the second- highest\u00a0mountain \u2013 on 21\u00a0Jul 2018, a\u00a0total\u00a0time of 61 days 55 min. Most ascents of K2 in one season During the 2018 climbing season on K2, a total of 64 ascents were made, up from 51 in 2004, the previous busiest season. Fastest Lhotse-Everest First siblings to climb all 8,000ers traverse (female) Nepalese brothers Mingma and Chhang Dawa Sherpa are The women\u2019s record for the \ufb01rst siblings to conquer the 8,000ers: Mingma between crossing from the top of 2000 and 2011, and Dawa between 2001 and 2013. Both used supplementary oxygen for only the four highest mountains. Lhotse\u00a0(8,516\u00a0m; 27,939\u00a0ft) The brothers now operate the expedition \ufb01rm Seven\u00a0Summit to\u00a0the top of nearby Treks, organizing supported climbs and treks throughout Nepal, Everest\u00a0is just 21\u00a0hr Pakistan and China. 30\u00a0min, by Qu\u00a0Jiao-Jiao (CHN, left) between 20\u00a0and 21\u00a0May 2018. The reverse record \u2013 fastest Everest-Lhotse traverse (female) \u2013 is 22\u00a0hr 40\u00a0min and was achieved by \u00c9lisabeth Marie Bernadette Revol (FRA), who completed her climbs on 23\u201324\u00a0May 2019. A BRIEF HISTORY OF ADVENTURE 1522 1903 First circumnavigation 1775 First powered flight of the world On 17\u00a0Dec, Orville Wright On 8 Sep, the Spanish First female flies the 9-kW (12-hp) vessel Victoria, under circumnavigator chain-driven Flyer I \u2013 Basque captain Juan Disguised as a man, Jeanne built with his brother Sebasti\u00e1n de Elcano, Baret serves as an assistant Wilbur (both USA) \u2013 for reaches Seville in botanist on the \ufb01rst French 36.5\u00a0m (120\u00a0ft). Orville Spain. It had set out round-the-world voyage maintains an altitude of from Spain on 20\u00a0Sep in 1766\u201369. She settles in 2.5\u20133.5\u00a0m (8\u201312\u00a0ft) for 1519, under Ferdinand Mauritius but returns to about 12 seconds. Magellan (see p.146). France in 1775, completing 148 her circumnavigation.","Above 8,000\u00a0m, the amount of oxygen available, and ADVENTURERS the lungs\u2019 functionality, decreases. Climbers often use bottled oxygen for such ascents. Well-oxygenated Fastest double-header tissue is less prone to frostbite. of the \u201chigher 8,000ers\u201d without bottled oxygen Most ascents of Kangchenjunga There is a large difference in altitude between the \ufb01fth- and in one season sixth-highest mountains, At 8,586\u00a0m (28,169\u00a0ft), Kangchenjunga is the re\ufb02ected in the category \u201chigher third-highest mountain. During the 2019 8,000ers\u201d. Juan Pablo Mohr Prieto season, it was climbed 67 times. (CHL) reached the top of two higher 8,000ers in 6\u00a0days 20\u00a0hr. On 15 May alone, 61\u00a0climbers\u00a0topped He conquered Lhotse at 3.30\u00a0p.m. the\u00a0Himalayan giant \u2013 the most ascents on 16\u00a0May 2019 and then descended of\u00a0Kangchenjunga in one day. to camp\u00a0II before ascending Everest (above), reaching the top at Fastest ascent of the top\u00a0three Most climbs over 8,000\u00a0m 11.30\u00a0a.m. on\u00a023\u00a0May. Camp II serves Between 13\u00a0May 1994 and 21\u00a0May 2019, Everest and neighbouring Lhotse. highest mountains (female) Kami Rita Sherpa (aka \u201cThapke\u201d, NPL) Viridiana \u00c1lvarez Ch\u00e1vez (MEX) made\u00a036\u00a0ascents of mountains higher ac2hsE0ieev1svaaee9esTsradocehcsnlseedoimtnuinmsitrb.nsi8onino7soggnt2fte,he climbed the world\u2019s three highest than 8,000\u00a0m, including the most mountains in 729 days. She ascents\u00a0of Everest. (Discover more The most familiar name for the highest mountain is ascended Everest at 9.30\u00a0a.m. about\u00a0Kami Rita and his female Everest- taken from that of a former Surveyor General of India, on 16\u00a0May 2017, K2 at 9 a.m. on climbing counterpart on pp.46\u201347.) Sir George Everest. Its Nepali title is Sagarm\u0101th\u0101, 21\u00a0Jul\u00a02018 and Kangchenjunga while in Tibetan it is known as Chomolungma. (above) at 4.44\u00a0a.m. on 15\u00a0May 2019. Fastest Everest-Lhotse traverse She beat the previous record by Mingma Dorchi Sherpa (NPL) stood three\u00a0days. on the pinnacle of both Everest and Lhotse \u2013 the highest and fourth-highest mountains in the world \u2013 within a period of just 6\u00a0hr 1\u00a0min. He topped Everest on\u00a027\u00a0May 2019 at 12.44\u00a0a.m. and\u00a0traversed via the South\u00a0 Col to\u00a0the\u00a0top of Lhotse by\u00a06.45\u00a0a.m. on the same day. Fastest time to climb all 8,000ers Most ascents of Everest Nirmal \u201cNims\u201d Purja (NPL) ascended all 14 of the 8,000ers in in one day just 189 days, from Annapurna\u00a0I On 23 May 2019, a total of (8,091\u00a0m; 26,545\u00a0ft) on 23 Apr 2019 354\u00a0climbers reached the to\u00a0Shisha Pangma on 29\u00a0Oct 2019. highest point of Everest. The unprecedented \u2013 and En route, he broke the record some would say alarming \u2013 for the fastest time to climb the number of climbers during \u201chigher 8,000ers\u201d \u2013 70 days. the 2019 spring season He\u00a0topped Kangchenjunga on was highlighted in this 15\u00a0May, Everest and Lhotse on photograph taken on 22\u00a0May 22\u00a0May, Makalu (8,485\u00a0m; 27,838\u00a0ft) by \u201cNims\u201d Purja (see\u00a0left). on 24 May and K2\u00a0on\u00a024\u00a0Jul. It shows a solid line of climbers along the Hillary Step. Around 100 people were attempting to descend while about 150\u00a0others pushed\u00a0forward up the narrow ridge. 1911 1924 First circumnavigation First circumnavigation by aircraft by car (female) First person to reach Four US lieutenants circle 1929 Racing driver Cl\u00e4renore the South Pole the globe in two US Army Stinnes (DEU, right) and A \ufb01ve-strong Norwegian Douglas DWC seaplanes, \ufb01lm-maker Carl-Axel party led by Captain Roald the Chicago and the New S\u00f6derstr\u00f6m set out Amundsen (left) reach the Orleans, from 6\u00a0Apr to on 25\u00a0May 1927 from pole at 11 a.m. on 14\u00a0Dec. 28\u00a0Sep. Two other planes Frankfurt in Germany. They had trekked for 53\u00a0days, that began the trip with They return two\u00a0years with dog sledges, from the them fail to complete later, arriving in Berlin Bay of Whales. the\u00a0journey. on 24\u00a0Jun 1929. 149"]
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