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From: ATUL N. CHOTAI <kasumbo@yahoo.co.in>
To: "Amit Vaghela" <amit_vaghela16@yahoo.com>
Date: Thursday, October 11, 2012 11:45:01 AM GMT+0800
Subject: Guinness Records 2013
Guinness Records 2013
Guinness
World Records has launched the latest edition of its best-selling book
documenting global achievement, including new entries for the shortest
bull, the oldest gymnast and the lowest ever car. Posted in
alpha-Q Group.The 57th version of best-selling reference book
also features new verified entries for the world's heaviest sportswoman
and the most conquests of Mount Everest, as well as the tallest ever
dog.
Being
published in 22 languages in more than 100 countries, the 2013 Guinness
World Records is expected to sell around 2.7 million copies and
documents numerous new extremes relating to the human body.
The
world's largest biceps belong to Mostafa Ismail (Egypt) and were
measured for left arm flexed at 64.77 cm (25.5 in) and non-flexed
62.23cm (24.5 in) and for right arm flexed at 63.5 cm (25 in) and
non-flexed 60.96 cm (24 in). The measurements were taken in Franklin,
Massachusetts, USA which is where Mostafa now resides.
The heaviest competing sportswoman living is sumo wrestler Sharran Alexander (UK) of London, UK, who weighs 203.21 kg (448 lbs).
The
oldest gymnast is Johanna Quaas (b 20 November 1925, Germany) who, at
the age of 86 years, is a regular competitor in the amateur competition
Landes-Seniorenspiele, staged in Saxony, Germany.
Thetallest
living dog is Zeus (USA) a Great Dane, who measured 1.118 m (44 in)
tall and is owned by Denise Doorlag and her family, of Otsego,
Michigan, USA.
The
tallest living horse is Big Jake, a nine-year-old Belgian Gelding
horse, who measured 20 hands 2.75 in (210.19 cm, 82.75 in), without
shoes, at Smokey Hollow Farms in Poynette, Wisconsin, USA.
The
shortest bull is Archie, a 16-month-old Dexter Bull, fully registered
in the Northern Ireland livestock inventory, in County Antrim, Northern
Ireland, who measured 76.2 cm (30 in) from the hoof to the withers.
The
tallest donkey living is Oklahoma Sam, a four-year-old American Mammoth
Jackstock, who measured 15.3 hands (155.45 cm; 5 ft 1 in) tall on 10
December 2011, and is owned by Linda Davis of Watsonville, California,
USA.
The
largest drum set is comprised of 340 pieces, is owned by Dr Mark
Temperato (USA) and was counted in Lakeville, New York, USA.
The
largest mining truck body by volume is the Westech T282C Flow Control
Body which has a volume of 470.4 cubic metres at a coal density of 0.86
tons/m3. It was designed and manufactured by WESTECH (USA) an Austin
Engineering LTD company
Largest hotdog: This 7lb, 16in monster on sale in Chicago will set you back 24.
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