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Central cross at Cross Church Pinnacle Hills United States: Rogers, Arkansas: 36.314620 -94.188198: 53.34 m: ensemble of three crosses Basílica de la Virgen del Camino Cross Spain: León: 42.580173 -5.641638: 53 m: 1961: Meskel Cross Ethiopia: Mekelle, Tigray: 13.495427 39.488144: 52 m: 2017: Sagemont Church Cross United States: Houston, Texas ...
Christopher Michael Langan (born March 25, 1952) is an American horse rancher and former bar bouncer, known for scoring highly on an IQ test that gained him entry to a high IQ society, and for being formerly listed in the Guinness Book of Records high IQ section under the pseudonym of Eric Hart, alongside Marilyn vos Savant and Keith Raniere.
Muiredach's High Cross, Monasterboice, 9th or 10th century A simpler example, Culdaff, County Donegal, Ireland. A high cross or standing cross (Irish: cros ard / ardchros, [1] Scottish Gaelic: crois àrd / àrd-chrois, Welsh: croes uchel / croes eglwysig) is a free-standing Christian cross made of stone and often richly decorated.
A superlative example is the Heroes' Cross on Caraiman Peak, in the Bucegi mountains of Romania at an altitude of 2291m — the largest construction of this sort in the world (as recognized in 2013 by the Guinness World Records). Built between 1926 and 1928 to honor the fallen heroes of the First World War, great efforts were put into its ...
Despite this, Guinness World Records 2009 listed the Ursa tension leg platform as the tallest structure in the world with a total height of 1,306 m (4,285 ft). Shell 's floating production, storage, and offloading oil platform Turritella in the Gulf of Mexico is a moored platform approximately 2,900 m (9,500 ft) tall.
It's on the Meter logo. It's on the Meter – World Taxi Challenge was a round-the-world motoring expedition that broke the Guinness World Records for the longest ever journey by taxi and the highest altitude ever reached by taxi.
Paul Swift, 44, from Northallerton, achieved a Guinness World Record (GWR) for the tightest gap driven through by a pick-up truck on two wheels when he drove a Ford Raptor between two poles with ...
Moone High Cross (Irish: Ardchros Maoin) is a high cross and national monument reputedly dating from the eighth century located in Moone, County Kildare, Republic of Ireland. [1] At 17.5 feet high (including the base) it is the second tallest high cross in Ireland, and also one of the best preserved of its kind.