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  2. Guinness World Records - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. List of discontinued Guinness World Records - Wikipedia

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    In 1998, a "human mole" named Geoff Smith remained underground for 147 days in order to achieve the Guinness record and beat his mother's 101-day stint. Guinness denied the award for safety reasons, and Geoff stated "There are far more dangerous things in the book. There is a record for a man who eats cars." [6] [11] [12] [13]

  4. Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s - Wikipedia

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    The book covers events in the United States between November 11, 1918 (the end of World War I) and November 13, 1929 (which Allen described as the culmination of the Wall Street Crash of 1929). Allen, who identified himself as a "restrospective journalist" rather than a historian, warns that "A contemporary history is bound to be anything but ...

  5. Guinness World Records that have never been broken - AOL

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    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 ...

  6. Hugh Beaver - Wikipedia

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    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).

  7. File:Redbook-1919-1920 (38GA).pdf - Wikipedia

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    Original file ‎ (866 × 1,291 pixels, file size: 23.58 MB, MIME type: application/pdf, 756 pages) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.

  8. List of English-language 20th-century general encyclopedias

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    Britannica Book of the Year (1913, 1938-) The Britannica book of the war (1914) Britannica Home University (1920) Weedon's Modern Encyclopedia (1931) a non-Britannica publication that was bought out and repackaged by Britannica as Britannica Junior (1934) Great Books of the Western World (1952) Children's Britannica (1960) aimed at ages seven ...

  9. James Duncan (discus thrower) - Wikipedia

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    In 1920, he was offered the position of trainer for the French Olympic athletes training for the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp. In 1927, his 3-year-old daughter, Jacqueline Duncan won a beauty competition, being voted "the healthiest and most beautiful child of more than 30,000 who entered a competition organized by one of the leading Paris ...

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