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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.
21 April 2020 (aged 40) Known for. Receiving 350 million greeting cards, a world record. Craig Shergold (24 June 1979 – 21 April 2020) was a British former cancer patient who received an estimated 350 million greeting cards, earning him a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. Variations of the plea for greeting cards on his behalf in ...
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Watch on. 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 ...
ISBN. 9788190114868. Website. coca-colaindia.com. The Limca Book of Records is an annual reference book published in India documenting world records held by Indians. The records are further categorized into education, literature, agriculture, medical science, business, sports, nature, adventure, radio and cinema. [2] [non-primary source needed]
World Athletics (then IAAF) commenced the recognition of world records in 1912, and indoor world records after 1987. In 2000, IAAF rule 260.18a (formerly 260.6a) was amended, so that "world records" (as opposed to "indoor world records") can be set in a facility "with or without roof".
The book has been published in a limited edition of 100 copies by the laboratory and requires a scanning electron microscope to read the text. In December 2012, a Library Edition of the book was published with a full title of Teeny Ted from Turnip Town & the Tale of Scale: A Scientific Book of Word Puzzles and an ISBN 978-1-894897-36-5. On the ...
Garry Kasparov was the world's highest-rated player on FIDE's rating list for a record 255 months, a number that is well ahead of all other world number ones since the inception of the list. Before the list, Emanuel Lasker was the world's highest-rated player for 292 months between June 1890 and December 1926 according to Chessmetrics.