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Adrak Ke Punjey

Adrak ke Panje is also the longest running one-man show, entered the Guinness Book of World Records in 1984, by then the drama had already completed 10 thousand shows.

Barton Mills

This festival has also been featured in Guinness Book of World Records, boasting the most scarecrows ever built at any one time.

Bradley Bell

In 1987, Bell contributed to the creation and launch of The Bold and the Beautiful, currently the world’s most popular daytime TV soap opera with more than 45 broadcasters in over 110 countries, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.

Cleopatra Stratan

Everybody was stunned so they ended up recording the song with Cleopatra performing the lead vocals, and suggested that as she is younger than Shirley Temple, she should be included in the Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest talent ever to perform on stage and record her own album named that Cleopatra Stratan.

Comedy in Music

It became the longest running one-man show in the history of theater with 849 performances by the time it closed on January 21, 1956, a feat which placed it in the Guinness Book of World Records.

Demitasse

In May 2008 the international office of the Guinness Book of World Records confirmed the Ipswich City Council's Mayor's collection of 650 sets of demitasse cups (1500 individual cups) is the biggest collection in the world.

Garvin Cross

He is included in the Guinness Book of World Records for his skills as a precision stunt driver, and he has worked on films and television spots for automobile companies such as Ford, Porsche, Toyota, Dodge, Mercedes, Lincoln, Nissan and Lexus.

George Fruits

Commencing with the 1979 edition, the Guinness Book of World Records said "new research released by A. Ross Eckler, Jr. in 1978 has shown him to be 17 years younger than the age shown on his gravestone."

Havas Worldwide

Mercedes Erra (Managing Director, Havas) is the executive president of Havas Worldwide, and credited with the company's Evian campaign "Roller Babies," which made headlines and a mention in the Guinness Book of World Records for receiving over 75 million views.

Helen Morlok

Helen Morlok (born May 19, 1930 in Lansing, Michigan, died October 31, 2003 in Lansing, Michigan) is one of the four sisters listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's oldest identical quadruplets.

Longest English sentence

1,288 words - The Guinness Book of World Records has an entry for what it claims is the longest sentence in English, from William Faulkner's novel Absalom, Absalom!.

Martín Palermo

He is in the Guinness Book of World Records for missing three penalties for Argentina in a single international match against Colombia in the Copa América 1999.

McMurtrey Aquatic Center

Stuart and Misty Rex made it into The Guinness Book of World Records, with their March 2005 nuptials at the aquatic center, for the largest underwater wedding ever performed.

Moratalaz

Valencian Antonio Galbis holds the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest paella that 100,000 people in Moratalaz enjoyed in 2001.

Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan

The Guinness Book of World Records accepted her claim, documentation meeting their standards, and on March 29, 2004, she received a document from them, declaring her the world's oldest living woman.

Rhodium

In 1979, the Guinness Book of World Records gave Paul McCartney a rhodium-plated disc for being history's all-time best-selling songwriter and recording artist.

Sarčievo

In August 2010, the village entered the Guinness Book of World Records for cooking the biggest pot of beans in recorded history.

Serendipity 3

In 2004, Serendipity celebrated its fiftieth anniversary by introducing the record-breaking Golden Opulence Sundae, listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most expensive dessert, at $1000.

Summer Jam at Watkins Glen

The Summer Jam at Watkins Glen was a 1973 rock festival which once received the Guinness Book of World Records entry for "Largest audience at a pop festival." An estimated 600,000 rock fans came to the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Raceway outside of Watkins Glen, New York on July 28, 1973, to see the Allman Brothers Band, The Band, and the Grateful Dead perform.

Trigger pad

Tim Waterson, the current world record holder as stated in the Guinness Book of World Records, uses trigger pads to record his speeds.

Ursula Bloom

A prolific author, she wrote over 500 books, an achievement that earned her recognition in the Guinness Book of World Records.

World's Biggest Bookstore

Although it retains the name today, the Guinness Book of World Records lists a Barnes and Noble outlet in New York City as the world's largest bookstore based on floor space, although Powell's Books of Portland, USA is usually considered the largest based on shelf-space.


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Aries Marine

On Punnamada Lake in Alleppey, Aries Marine built Aries Punnamada Chundan, the first steel snake boat (Chundan Vallam) and the longest boat of its kind, 144 feet long and accommodating 141 rowers, listed in the Guinness Book of World Records and Limca Book of Records.

Media in Hyderabad

However, improvements in Hyderabad's infrastructure and initiatives such as establishing studios like Ramoji Film City (cited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's largest film studio), Saradhi Studios, Annapurna Studios, Ramanaidu Studios, Ramakrishna Studios and Padmalaya Studios have changed the situation.

Pankratov

Svetlana Pankratova (1971), declared by the Guinness Book of World Records to have the longest legs of any woman

Steve Newman

Steven M. Newman, listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the first man to walk solo around the world

The Devil in Love

The Devil in Love, 1974 romance novel by English author, society figure and media personality Barbara Cartland who wrote more than 700 books (Barbara Cartland bibliography) and was named world's top-selling author (over a billion copies) by Guinness Book of World Records