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Aloysius Anthony Kelly, [1] popularly known as Alvin "Shipwreck" Kelly (May 11, 1893 [2] [3] [4] [some accounts say 1885] [5] – October 11, 1952 [1] [6]), was a pole sitter who achieved fame in the 1920s and 1930s, sitting for days at a time on elevated perches throughout the United States.
Paddock broke or equaled several other world records over Imperial distances. At the 1924 Olympics, Paddock again qualified for both the 100 and 200 m finals, but he was less successful than four years earlier; he finished 5th in the 100 m and won another silver medal in the 200 m. Paddock was not a part of the American relay team.
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.
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.
10 Eventful Years (1947) a special supplement on 1937-1947 - the Second World War, as well as the years immediately preceding it and following it. Fifteenth edition, first version, other wise known as the New Encyclopædia Britannica (1974) this began the change of format into Propædia, Micropædia, and Macropædia, as well as eschewing an index.
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 ...
The Guinness Book of World Records, Guinness Brewery Sir Hugh Eyre Campbell Beaver , KBE (4 May 1890 – 16 January 1967) [ 1 ] was an English-South African civil engineer, industrialist and bureaucrat, who founded the Guinness World Records (then known as Guinness Book of Records).
61 years: 1925–1986: Over a million words in 45 exercise books. [25] Ernest Achey Loftus: Unknown: 91 years: 1896–1987: Guinness World Record for longest kept diary. [26] [27] Caroline Bray: Unknown: 87 years: 1815–1902: Née Hennell; she was the intimate friend of George Eliot. Diary and commonplace book. [28] Claude Mauriac: Unknown: 69 ...