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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 ...
Sergey Bubka's 1993 pole vault world indoor record of 6.15 m was not considered to be a world record, because it was set before the new rule came into effect. Bubka's world record of 6.14 m, set outdoors in 1994, was surpassed 7 times indoors by two different men since 2000, most recently by Armand Duplantis in 2025 with a 6.27 m mark.
Regal Records was a British record label founded in 1913 as a subsidiary of the UK branch of Columbia Records, known as the Columbia Graphophone Company.. The first record issues on the Regal Record label in February 1914 were re-issues of existing records from the Columbia Record Catalogue: G-6105 to G-6559, G-6440, G 6441 (English Catalogue) and G 6560 to G 6639 (Scottish Catalogue).
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.
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 ...
New York is home to 436 Guinness World Record holders, nearly 8% of all the risk-takers in the country and second only to California's 615. ... New Yorkers land spots in 2025 Guinness World ...