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Official Guinness World Record Most Swords Swallowed Simultaneously [13] [14] On August 30, at the 2002 Sword Swallowers Convention in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, US, 19 sword swallowers including Andrews, (who swallowed 11 at once) swallowed 50 swords simultaneously. This record was certified as an official Guinness World Record in 2004.
IronMind s-cubed bar deadlift – 460 kg (1,014 lb) stiff bar, single-ply suit with figure 8 straps (2017 World's Strongest Man) (former joint-world record) [6] Standard bar raw deadlift (strongman) – 458 kg (1,010 lb) standard bar, raw with standard straps ( 2024 Rogue Invitational ) [ 7 ]
Isao Machii (町井勲, Machii Isao, born August 20, 1973) is a Japanese Iaido master (Shūshinryū Iaijutsu hyōhō, Shūshin-kan head master) in Kawanishi, Hyōgo, Japan. [1]
In January 2015, at the World's Strongest Viking competition, held in Norway, Hafþór carried a 10-metre-long (33 ft), 650 kg (1,433 lb) log, 0.45 metres (1 ft 6 in) in diameter for five steps, thus breaking a legendary 1,000-year-old record, set by Orm Storolfsson for three steps.
The original Sword of State of South Carolina (early 18th century) was used from 1704 to 1941, when it was stolen. [62] [63] A replacement Sword of State of South Carolina (1800) was used between 1941 and 1951. It was a cavalry sword from the Charleston Museum and was used in the War of 1812 and the American Civil War. [62]
Former world champion (1975–1985, FIDE 1993–1999), formerly world no. 1 (1976–1983, 1985, 1994), formerly highest-ranked Soviet player (1974–1986) 26 Soviet Union Belarus Israel: Boris Gelfand: 2777 2013-11 1968 Highest-ranked Israeli player (since 1999), formerly highest-ranked Belarusian player (1993–1998) 27 Hungary Romania
The yumi was an important weapon of the samurai warrior during the feudal period of Japan. It is typically shot with Japanese arrows known as ya . The most famous style of yumi is an asymmetrically shaped long bow with a length of more than 2 m (6 ft 7 in), characterized by the archer holding the part of the bow below the center to shoot the arrow.
The swords of Masamune possess a reputation for superior beauty and quality, remarkable in a period where the steel necessary for swords was often impure. He is considered to have brought to perfection the art of " nie " ( 錵 , martensitic crystals embedded in pearlite matrix , thought to resemble stars in the night sky) .