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This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
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.
The first edition topped the bestseller list in the United Kingdom by Christmas 1955. The following year the book was launched internationally, and as of the 2024 edition, it is now in its 69th year of publication, published in 100 countries and 23 languages, and maintains over 53,000 records in its database.
English: Stacked column chart (bar chart) of relative percentages of record daily high and low temperatures, by decade beginning in the 1920s, for the U.S., based on data from Climate Central Source: United States - Records Set By Decade. ClimateCentral.org. Climate Central (7 October 2019). Archived from the original on 11 August 2020.
Paddock was born in Gainesville, Texas, to Charles H. and Lulu (Robinson) Paddock.His family moved to Pasadena, California, when he was a child.After serving in World War I as a lieutenant of field artillery in the U.S. Marines, Paddock studied at the University of Southern California. [4]
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 ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "1920s books" ... Record of the Yushu Investigation;
Regal Records was a British record label founded in 1913 as a subsidiary of the UK branch of Columbia Records, known as the Columbia Graphophone Company.. The first record issues on the Regal Record label in February 1914 were re-issues of existing records from the Columbia Record Catalogue: G-6105 to G-6559, G-6440, G 6441 (English Catalogue) and G 6560 to G 6639 (Scottish Catalogue).