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POPSWorld's shortest man, He Pingping, dies in Italy Craig Glenday, the Guinness World Records editor-in-chief, said He was "an inspiration to anyone considered different or unusual" and "showed us that, despite the challenges we face, we can still make the most out of life."
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POPSSomeone for Everyone: The Biggest and Fattest Lovers We've been counting the ways, trying to find the heights and depths of the human soul, long before Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning started getting all mushy with each other. Douglas Maistre Breger da Silva and Claudia Pereira Rocha But quantifying love is perhaps best done by candlelight on Valentine's Day, if you're looking in the eyes of the person sitting across from you and like what you see. You can try to measure love in sunlight or moonlight. The experts at Guinness World Records, however, measure everything, and while they make no claim at being able to absolutely define the capacity of the human heart, they have documented some amazing numbers that all add up to true love.
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POPSAn American Way of War for the Record Books Does anyone see a pattern here? The American military must be the heaviest occupation force in history. According to reports, it now has 1.5 million pieces of equipment, micro to mega, to get out of Iraq as U.S. forces draw down. This is war and occupation of Guinness World Records proportions, a veritable Ripley's Believe It Or Not of imperial military construction. The only thing that won't make the record books, of course, is the results: in war-fighting terms, in both Afghanistan and Iraq, the world's mightiest military has been battled to at least a draw by rag-tag, lightly armed, minority insurgencies. Who would believe any of this, if it weren't happening? Given how our media reports on such things, who would even know about it if you didn't read it first here at TomDispatch.com?
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POPSMother Motherland monument This memorial of huge sizes was built in the end of 50’s to pay the tribute to the memory of those people who were killed on their duties during the WWII. The monument is in Guinness Book of World Records as the highest monument at that time. The woman symbolizes Russia and is two times higher than Statue of Liberty with 85 meters high (~280 feet.)
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POPSThe master grafter: 101 varieties of fruit on one tree More: His modified trees are fantastic monuments to the potentials of science. Until a windstorm this fall dashed the tree to pieces, Real had a 53-in-one persimmon. His cherry tree is a 20-in-one. His Prunus rootstock bears 50 plums and prunes. With his peaches, Real concedes, “I got lazy.” The tree produces 10 types of peaches, five nectarines and an almond. His avocado tree now bears seven cultivars, including Bacon, Hass, Mexicola and Mexicola Grande. Most recently, Real fitted the enduring tree with a branch of Daily 11, a variety whose fruits can weigh 11 pounds. Then there’s that amazing 14-foot-tall citrus tree with its astounding 101 cultivars. From marble-sized calamondins to 5-pound mellow gold pomelos, the fruits constitute 24 species in the genus Citrus , with one or more ripe at all seasons of the year. The tree bears such rarities as sunquats, lemonquats, mandarinquats, trifoliates, citrons, yuzu and sudachi.
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POPS 5 World Record Holders Who Will Freak You Out These are the people who make it into the Guinness Book of World Records for attributes that baffle the sensibilities of most people. These people aren’t necessarily weird, but they all share one common attribute.
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POPSThe UnConventional Kong Ming Sky Lantern Sky lanterns (sky candles) (simplified Chinese: 天灯; traditional Chinese: 天燈; pinyin: tiān dēng or simplified Chinese: 孔明灯; traditional Chinese: 孔明燈; pinyin: kǒngmíng dēng) are airborne paper lanterns traditionally found in East Asian cultures. They are constructed from oiled rice paper on a bamboo frame, and contain a small candle or fuel cell composed of a waxy flammable material. When lit, the flame heats the air inside the lantern, thus lowering its density causing the lantern to rise into the air. The sky lantern is only airborne for as long as the flame stays alight, after which the lantern floats back to the ground.
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POPS10 extraordinary children i could only clip part of #1............wow- these stories are something- was just thinking maybe this Kim guy could solve that 150 year old math problem...........
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