Showing posts with label World Records. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World Records. Show all posts

Sunday, March 21, 2010

10 Extraordinary kids

1 ) George Sampson: Won £100,000 from Britain’s got talent when he was in age 14



George Sampson , 15 years old . He is a street dancer from Warrington, England,[2] and was the winner of the second series of Britain’s Got Talent on 31 May 2008 , aged 14 . As a prize, he received £100,000 and the opportunity to perform at the 2008 Royal Variety Performance, staged at the London Palladium on 11 December 2008 .



2 ) Cleopatra Stratan: a 3 year old singer who earns 1000€ per song



The daughter of Moldovan-Romanian singer , Cleopatra . She was born October 2002 Chisinau , Moldova . she breaks the records in the music industry for the youngest singer . she made her album in 2006 when she was still 3 years old  and the most shocking part was.. she was paid about 1000 euro per song .



3 ) Akrit Jaswal: The Seven Year-Old Surgeon



A young Indian boy , Akrit Jaswal who has been called “the world’s smartest boy” and it’s easy to see why . His IQ is 146 and it is considered the smartest person his age in India—a country of more than a billion people . Akrit Jaswal shocks the public when he do a surgery to a local girls when he was 7 years old . He go to the university at the age of 11 .

4 ) Kim Ung-Yong: Attended University at age 4, Ph.D at age 15; world’s highest IQ




Kim Ung-Yong , the Korean super-genius was born in 1962 and might just be the smartest guy alive today (he’s recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as having the highest IQ of anyone on the planet) . he has been able to read Japanese words , Korean , Germany and English when he was 4 years old and when he was 5 he can solve the calculus problems . He was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records under “Highest IQ”; the book estimated the boy’s score at over 210 .

5 ) Aelita Andre: The 2-year-old artist who showed her paintings in a famous Gallery


Aelita Andre is a young Australian girl . She was only 2 years old she was able to showed her geniusity in art when Mark Jamieson, the director of Brunswick Street Gallery in Melbourne’s Fitzroy , was asked by a photographer whose work he represented to consider the work of another artis t. Jamieson liked what he saw and agreed to include it in a group show . Now she own a gallery for her abstract art .

6 ) Elaina Smith: youngest agony aunt aged 7


Elaina became a broadcaster in her local radio station after she rang and offered advice to a woman caller who had been dumped . She is capable in tackles problems ranging from how to dump boyfriends and how to cope with relationship breakdown to dealing with smelly brothers . There was a listener wrote to Elaina asking how to get a man , she replied : “Shake your booty on the dance floor and listen to High School Musical” . Another caller asked how to get her man back , Elaina told her : “He’s not worth the heartache . Life’s too short to be upset with a boy

7 ) Gregory Smith: Nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize at age 12



Gregory was born in 1990 . He could read at age two and had enrolled in university at 10. But “genius” is only one half of the Greg Smith story . He is the creator of International Youth Advocates , an organization that promotes principles of peace and understanding among young people throughout the world . Gregory got the peace Nobel for his effort by making the international youth advocates .

8 ) Michael Kevin Kearney: earned his first degree at age 10 and became a reality show Millionaire


Kearney was born in 1984 and is was known for setting several world records and teaching college at the age of 17 and he finish his college when he was 10 years old . When he was 10 , he became known as the world’s youngest college graduate at the age of 10. In 2008, Kearney earned $1,000,000 on the television game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire ?

9)  Saul Aaron Kripke: Invited to apply for a teaching post at Harvard while still in high school


Saul Aaron Kripke was born in New York and grew up in Omaha in 1940 . He is the son of rabbi . He got a letter from Harvard to be a lecture at Harvard when he was a senior in high school . Kripke was awarded the Shock Prize , philosophy’s equivalent of the Nobel . He was also known as the Greatest Philosopher in the history ever

10 ) Sungha Jung – Guitar Prodigy


Sungha Jung , 11 year old classical finger-style guitarist from South Korea whose guitar is nearly as big as he is . Sungha Jung says its’ his dream to become a professional finger-style guitarist . He became famous after his father posted various videos of him playing his guitar on the video sharing site You Tube .

Sunday, March 14, 2010

25 Most Extreme Female Bodies

This post is about the 25 most extreme female bodies ever from largest to smallest, most longest, most shortest, most pierced, most loud, most old and so on… Lets start with number 1, Svetlana Pankratova, she have longest legs in the world. Enjoy!

1. The world’s longest legs

Svetlana Pankratova owns the longest legs in the world. Her pins stretch to a lengthy 132cm. Mr Pingping, the world’s smallest man pictured with Svetlana above, barely came up to Ms Pankratova’s knees at this photoshoot held to mark the launch of the new Guinness Book of World Records.

2. Noorsyaidah, Metal Wires Growing in Body

Metal wires about 10-20 cm long grow from a woman’s body! Childcare worker, Noorsyaidah, from Indonesia, claims metal wires have been growing out of her body for 20 years. Protruding from her chest and belly, they initially kept snapping off and disappearing then, a month later, they grew back and now continue to get longer and longer until Noorsyaidah’s sister trims them.

3. Old Dutch woman who swallowed 78 cutlery items



Surgeons were flabbergasted when X-rays showed 78 items of cutlery in 52-year-old, Margaret Daalman’s stomach. After seeing her scan the estate agent’s secretary who had been complaining of belly ache, said: “I don’t know why but I felt an urge to eat the silverware – I couldn’t help myself.”

4. Modified Madam La Negra with horns, tattoos, scarification, piercings and a split tongue


La Negra is a poster girl for modified madams. She has horns, tattoos, scarification, piercings and a split tongue. But, despite her appearance, the Argentinian mother-of-one meets with little disapproval from parents at the school gates and says she ‘couldn’t care less’ what others think of her freaky fetish.

5. Still too young… 130 years old Sakhan Dosova – the world’s most oldest
At 130-years-young, Sakhan Dosova, from Kazakhstan is believed to be the oldest living person in the world – beating her nearest rival by 16 years. The VIP OAP believes her longevity is all thanks to her sense of humour, staying away from sweets and the doctor.

6. The world’s longest hair

The world’s longest documented hair belongs to Xie Qiuping from China at 5.627 m (18 ft 5.54 in) when measured on May 8, 2004. She has been growing her hair since 1973 from the age of 13 and has no plans to book into Vidal Sassoon for this season’s pixie cut any time soon.

7. The world’s smallest waist
Cathie Jung’s waist is about the same size as a regular jar of mayonnaise (less than 15in). The Connecticut housewife says she’s been wearing a corset every day for the past 12 years and she now wears one 24 hours a day. “I probably have around 100 of them,” she says. Eat your heart out Miss Von Teese.

8. The world’s longest nails

Lee Redmond from the US, has not cut her nails since 1979,  growing and carefully manicuring them to reach a total length of 8.65 m (28 ft 4.5 in) as measured on the set of Lo Show Dei Record in Spain on 23 February 2008. And, most bizarrely of all? She’s a hairdresser!

9. The world’s longest tongue
German schoolgirl Annika Irmler has licked up a place in the Guinness Book of Records with her whopping seven centimetre tongue. She commented: “My friends always said I had an incredibly long tongue – I could make lots of money with it one day.”

10. The world’s most pierced

By August 9, 2001, Elaine Davidson from Edinburgh, had a record-breaking total of 720 piercings. She first broke the record in May 2000, when a Guinness World Records official examined her and found 462 piercings on various parts of her body, including 192 on her facial area alone.

11. The world’s most flexible

Norkulunga Buthelezi, otherwise known as the ‘Snake Woman’ is considered the most flexible woman in the world. Discovered on a Dutch talent show she is able to bend her spine backwards and wrap her legs around her head with the slithery grace of a cobra.

12. The world’s most eye-popping
Kim Goodman from the US, can pop her eyeballs to a protrusion of 12 mm (0.47 in) beyond her eye sockets. Her eyes were measured in Istanbul, on November 2, 2007 and by far out distanced any of the male contenders. Is it just us or does anyone else feel a little ill looking at this?

13. Mini Mum
At just 3ft 9ins tall, Karina White was told she could never be a mum. It was feared that her tiny frame, which is caused by a rare growth condition, wouldn’t support a pregnancy bump. However the 33-year-old proved doctors wrong when she fell pregnant last year and gave birth to a healthy baby at 33 weeks.

14. The world’s tallest woman
Yao Defen of China, claims to be the tallest woman in the world, despite The Guinness Book of World Records recording American, Sandy Allen, under this title. The gentle giant weighs 200 kg (440 lbs), has size 26 (US) / 78 (EU) feet and stands at a towering 7′9″ (236.2cm) tall.

15. The world’s smallest woman

This is believed to be the world’s smallest woman measuring just 79cms tall at the age of 19. Zhu Haizhen, from China, has landed a place in the Guinness World Records as the tiniest living adult female, weighs just 10kg (22lbs).

16. The world’s oldest living conjoined twins



Abigail and Brittany Hensel, who have just celebrated their 18th birthday, are the oldest conjoined twins in the world. Despite sharing a body, they play volleyball and basketball, go swimming… even drive a car. It’s not only amazing the girls can do so much but that they are here at all.

17. The world’s strongest woman

South Korean weightlifting champion Jang Mi-ran battled with her size as a teenager but is now the world’s strongest woman. Weighing in at 275lb, Jang won weightlifting gold at the Beijing Olympics in the super-heavyweight class with a series of record-setting lifts.

18. The world’s oldest mum

Omkari Panwar, 70, from India recently became the world’s oldest mum giving birth to twins. “If I am the world’s oldest mother it means nothing to me,” she said. “I just want to see my new babies and care for them while I am still able.”

19. The world’s quickest contortionist
Leslie Tipton earned her place in the Guinness Book of Records by becoming the fastest contortionist escaping from a zipped suitcase. In 2007, Leslie wiggled her way free from the confines of her baggage in just 13.31 seconds.

20. The world’s most surgically enhanced


Cindy Jackson holds the world record for having more cosmetic surgeries than anyone else in the world having undergone more than 30 procedures including: one full face-lift, three “mini” face-lifts, three eyelid surgeries, one upper lip lift, liposuction, two nose operations, breast augmentation… the list goes on!

21. The world’s most tattooed woman

While most women in their sixties plan to retire from the chores of life, this globe-trotting granny, Isobel Varley, has no such strategy. Holding the record for most tattooed woman on the planet, Isobel journeys from country to country without a care in the world, exhibiting her tattoos.

22. The world’s most powerful lungs

Jill Drake, from Tenterden, Kent holds the world record for the loudest scream in the world. She only realised that she could scream so loudly when she visited the Millennium Dome where her yell got measured and she was suprised to find out that her screams were 129 decibels – louder than anyone else on earth.

23. The world’s biggest natural boobs


Norma Stitz née Annie Hawkins-Turner of Georgia, is the proud possessor of the huge breasts pictured above with each boob weighing about 28 lbs. In 1999, the Guinness Book of World Records named her as the woman with the world’s largest natural breasts and as owning the biggest bra ever made.

24. The world’s fastest mouth

Fran Capo is the world’s fastest talking female at 603.32 words in 54.2 seconds. That’s 11 words a second! Fran actually  broke this record twice, the first time on the ‘Larry King Live Show’ on March 5th, 1986 speaking 585 wpm and the second time at the Guinness Museum in Vegas. Phew!

25. The world’s fastest female legs


Florence Griffith Joyner, nicknamed FloJo, has held the women’s world record at 100 meters since July 16, 1988. That day she clocked a time of 10.49 seconds officially making her the owner of the fastest set of pins on earth!

Sunday, March 7, 2010

The Scroll With the Largest Number of Tigers

A scroll featuring drawings of 2010 tigers was presented during the Shanghai Expo and is a serious candidate for the Guinness record for the scroll with the largest number of tigers.

Chinese artist Xiao Yanqing, known as the best tiger drawer in all of China, has created this impressive scroll for the upcoming Chinese New Year, known as the Year of the Tiger. His impressive achievement is now being considered for inclusion in the Guinness Book of record. Standing at over 200 meters in length, Xiao Yanqing’s tiger scroll is also one of the longest scrolls in the world.