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Website. guinnessworldrecords .com. Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.
British Hit Singles & Albums (originally known as The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles and The Guinness Book of British Hit Albums) was a music reference book originally published in the United Kingdom by the publishing arm of the Guinness breweries, Guinness Superlatives. Later editions were published by HiT Entertainment (who had bought ...
List of discontinued Guinness World Records. This is a list of Guinness World Records that have been discontinued for various reasons. This may include that the record poses a threat to health or the environment. Concerns with animal welfare. Includes camel wresting records, and "largest fox ever killed during an English fox hunt".
According to Guinness World Records as of 1995, the Bible is the best sold book of all time with an estimated 5 billion copies sold and distributed. [ 1] Sales estimates for other printed religious texts include at least 800 million copies for the Qur'an and 190 million copies for the Book of Mormon. [ 2]
The Guinness World Record researchers get many more records approved than they can fit in a single book. There are visits to history — pirate ships and shipwrecks — and pages devoted to record ...
Georgia O'Keeffe holds the record for the highest price paid for a painting by a woman. On November 20, 2014 at Sotheby's, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art bought her 1932 painting Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 for US$44.4 million (equivalent to US$57.2 million in 2023). [ 14][ 15] Among the listed top 89, only six are paintings by ...
The world's tallest man, as confirmed by the Guinness Book of Records, is Robert Pershing Wadlow, who was born in 1918 in Alton, Ill. Standing at a colossal 8'11.1″ (2.72 m) and weighing in at ...
In 1997, Jackson was named the most famous person in the world, [59] Guinness World Records stated he was the world's most famous human being up until his death in 2009. [60] Michael Jackson was paid 34 million dollars (adjusted) to perform one concert for the Sultan of Brunei, which is the most money ever allocated for a single music ...