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Kimani Ng'ang'a Maruge (c. 1920 – August 14, 2009) was a Kenyan man who held the Guinness World Record for being the oldest person to leave primary school, having enrolled on January 12, 2004, aged 84. [1] Although he had no papers to prove his age, Maruge believed he was born in 1920. Maruge attended Kapkenduiywo Primary School in Eldoret ...
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.
Listed as tallest living female by Guinness World Records until her death on 13 November 2012. 1972–2012 (40) Sandy Allen: United States: 232 cm: 7 ft 7.25 in: Listed as tallest living female by Guinness World Records, and the tallest American woman, until her death on 13 August 2008. [166] 1955–2008 (53) Vasiliki Caliandi Greece: 230 cm: 7 ...
Guinness World Records has declared Sultan Kösen the tallest living man in the world (he’s 8 feet and 2.8 inches tall), Bilal Ilyas Jhandir the best at identifying Taylor Swift songs in a ...
W.E.B. Du Bois published the The Brownies’ Book for Black kids in the 1920s. Now, Karida L. Brown and Charly Palmer have written an updated version in book form.
Kanakuri grew up in a rural town called Nagomi on the island of Kyūshū to a family that sold sake.Every day, he ran nearly four miles to school. [3]In November 1911, at the age of 20, Kanakuri raced in the domestic trials for the 1912 Stockholm Olympics where he reportedly set a marathon world record at 2 hours, 30 minutes and 33 seconds, although the course was just 40 km (25 mi).
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 ...
Blackburn starred in a commercial for the Apple IIc, released in 1984, which offered a switchable Dvorak–QWERTY keyboard. [16] [10] [17] In the commercial, captioned as the "World's Fastest Typist", she explains how she achieved the Guinness World Record for fastest typist at barely 150 words a minute, yet she was able to type nearly 200 wpm on an Apple computer.