The Guinness World Records Topic

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Here we will discuss as tittle says, for the Guinness World Records.The records that changed our view for the world.

About Guinness World Records

 

The 55-year history of Guinness World Records began with a single question, the type of question that has been repeated millions of times at dinner parties, pubs, kitchen tables, classrooms and work places across the globe.

 

During a shooting party in County Wexford, Ireland, in 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver – then Managing Director of the Guinness Brewery – asked a simple question: what was Europe’s fastest game bird? Despite a heated argument and an exhaustive search within the host’s reference library he could not find the answer.

 

Sir Hugh realized that similar questions were going unanswered all around the world, and that a definitive book containing superlative facts and answers would be of great use to the general public. With the help of the London-based fact-finding twins Norris and Ross McWhirter, he soon set about bringing this definitive collection of superlative facts to reality. On 27 August 1955, the first edition of “The Guinness Book of Records” was bound and, by Christmas that year, became Britain’s number one bestseller.

 

Over the intervening years, copies of The Guinness Book of Records – later renamed Guinness World Records – have continued to fly off bookshop shelves. During this time, it has become clear that, to our readers, a world record is more than a simple fact: it’s a means of understanding your position in the world… a yardstick for measuring how you and those around you fit in. Knowing the extremes – the biggest, the smallest, the fastest, the most and the least – offers a way of comprehending and digesting an increasingly complex world overloaded with information.

 

A world record is hugely powerful; it can be something completely alien to you, a newly discovered fact or feat that fills you with awe and excitement; conversely, it can be something personal to you, a specific interest that you follow, something that sparks a personal ambition or aspiration. Whatever its origin, a Guinness World Record is something innately social, something to share and enjoy with friends, family and the wider community.

 

This essential human curiosity for superlative facts and achievements has fuelled, over the last 50 years, Guinness World Records’ ascent to the position of one of the world’s best loved brands.

 

Guinness World Records is now a global phenomenon. Known as the ultimate authority on superlative facts and record-breaking achievement, our books are international bestsellers, our television programmes entertain across all ages, our websites satisfy the curiosity of millions of visitors, and our live events motivate and inspire a global audience; but the bedrock of our business is still – and will always remain – world records.

 

You can see some of the 2009-2010 records below:

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/user/guinnessworldrecords?blend=5&ob=4#p/u/3/PFUKh7Dua5A

 

http://www.youtube.com/user/guinnessworldrecords?blend=5&ob=4#p/u/7/FLYThp7XGD8

 

http://www.youtube.com/user/guinnessworldrecords?blend=5&ob=4#p/u/9/ktVH2Ung8JE

 

 

The official Guinness World Records website is: http://guinnessworldrecords.com/