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

In this collection assembled the 10 most unusual world records. Here for example the biggest mohawk in the world! In general look and be surprised. Such records do not so often!

1.
Lasha Pataraya 8.28 ton truck pulls left ear. So he tries to get into the Guinness Book of Records, November 29, the city of Rustavi, Georgia.

 2.
8 March this year in the town of Grand Rapids, Mich., brought 607 people to the streets with chicken beaks on the face, and were in the form of 11 minutes and 39 seconds, compared to 10 minutes stated in the Guinness book of records. A perfect example of how to set a world record by not putting the physical, intellectual and material resources.

 3.
Japanese fashion designer Watanabe Katsuhiro world record for the highest mohawk natural hair. Height hairstyles Watanabe is 113.284 inches.

 4.
Canadian athlete Jolene Van Vugt ready to set the world land speed record for motorized toilet, Sydney, May 2. Van Vugt make a trip to the toilet at a speed of 75 km / h.

 5.
The boy removed the tooth during dental examination record in the slums of Manila. It set a record for the greatest number of patients served in 24 hours.

 6.
Laksana Tirinara invigorating energy drink in the attempt to break the world record for the longest kiss, Pattaya, southeastern Thailand, February 14.

 7.
This year, residents of Mexico combined with the traditional parade of zombies trying to get into the Guinness Book of Records as the largest gathering of zombies in one place.

 8.
Chinese toy company Mattel has built a model railway, six times greater than the length of the height of the Shanghai TV Tower, one of the tallest buildings in the world. The length of the road was a record 2.888 kilometers.

 9.
Artist Fan Yang, experimenting with soap bubbles, set a world record by putting 181 people inside a giant bubble, September 19, Vancouver.

 10.
Tanishman Guragan Nepal set a world record for the retention of a basketball on a toothbrush, his time 22.41 seconds.

 

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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

The First Film In The World !

Officially, the cinema, such as we know it today, began there in 1895, but the first film ever released in a few years before that date. In 1888 a Frenchman living in England, by the name of Louis Le Prince, made the first film in the world "Roundhay Garden Scene". He is probably the most important person in the history of film-making, as Le Prince was the man responsible of the very first recording of motion images on film. A dedicated inventor, Louis Le Prince started experimenting with film as early as 1881 and by 1886 he was almost ready to take the big step, as he built his first successful movie camera. 14-Oct-1888, Le Prince captured on film what would become the world's first motion picture: a family scene in a garden of Roundhay, Leeds, during his time in England. Cinema was born in that garden.

First Film In The World
The whole movie is exactly 1.66 seconds, and shows the viewer a walk in the garden a few people. Among the people imprinted on the frame there is the son of the director, the director mother-in-law with her husband, as well as a good friend of the family. tragically, he died before making his first public demonstration, and was not alive when the legal battles over the patent of the invention began. The mysterious death of Le Prince put him out of the picture and by the next decade. Who knows, maybe the world would be able to see more of his films and the cinema today would have been a couple of steps further than it is.

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Friday, August 3, 2012

The First Sound of The Future

Japan - a country which was the world's first three-dimensional concert. The main protagonist of this concert was a hologram. The limitation of this screen was a hologram, located in the background, and three of the laser, which stood on either side of Hatsune Miku. 

This sound heroine of a series of Vocaloid2 Character Vocal Series, was released in August 2007, according to Wikipedia. This name consists of two Japanese words "Hatsu", which in Indian means "first" and "ne" - "sound." A "Miku" in Japanese, "the future". The basis of this miracle of voice technology are voices of Japanese actors "Seiyo".




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Monday, July 30, 2012

The Largest Family with 167 People

In the Indian state of Mizoram is living the biggest family in the world. Ziona Chana, a 66-year-old man, reportedly has the world’s largest family with 167 members that include his 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren.

The Largest Family
All of Ziona‘s sons and their wives, and all their children, live in separate rooms of the building and share one kitchen. To manage such a large number of relatives of Zion, and thought is almost military regime in the family, someone is responsible for cleaning, cooking for someone, someone for the children. And because of this case the family is doing well.

All the family-record holder lives in a huge four-storey building, with 100 rooms in Mizoram state in Baktwang village located between the borders of Myanmar and Bangladesh.. His wives are living a one dormitory beside Ziona‘s private bedroom. the young wife live next door to the bedroom of her husband, and go there at a time and "ex" live in rooms that looked like a hostel. Last year, the number of women in the family has increased by 10.

Zion's House
As kids say Zion, the fact that he had many wives, he helps poor women of his state, otherwise they had to live alone in poverty, and so they have a husband, a roof over your head and food. On the way food is worth paying special attention - at a dinner the whole family takes 220 kg of rice, 132 kg of potatoes and 30 chickens! They support themselves with their own resources and from donations from other people.

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Sunday, July 29, 2012

The Expensive Toy


In 2009 the Japanese company Sanrio in honor of the 35th anniversary of Hello Kitty toys introduced its version, which costs 167,000 dollars. The company Sanrio, the author of the most expensive toys, celebrates its anniversary every five years, and the next round date has already promised to beat his record of the same, so that in 2014 the world will see even more expensive toy.


Hello Kitty - is the original toy, which is a white cat with a red bow on one ear. The company that invented it - Sanrio, is known around the world millions of other toys, and they released their first back in 1974.

Toy record length of 10 inches, made ​​of platinum inlaid with precious stones of this - almost 2,000 white topazes, 403 pink sapphires, two black spinel (for eyes), the nose is made of citrine and diamond adorned by a bow.

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In academy awards we consider three combinations, the most nominations for the award "Oscar", the record for number of wins "Oscars" and the person who received the most Oscars.


So, the largest collection of awards were at Walt Disney - nominated 59 times and 26 wins (a series of films about the Mickey Mouse).


Nominated for the award more often than other films "All About Eve" (year-1950) and "Titanic" (year-1997) - 14 times.


A record number of awards for a single film - 11 they have received "Ben Hur" (year-1959), "Titanic" (year-1997) and "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (year-2003).


So, friends if you have not seen these movies till today, take a look at those most Oscar winners.

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Friday, July 27, 2012

The Internet Cafe


The UN announced details of their research about the price of Internet access services. As it turned out, the cheapest internet access in the world - in China, and the most expensive in Africa. Region of Macao in China - the champion of cheap internet, if you want it to connect to the network, you can not pay more 0.3% of the average one-month income.

Immediately after China, is Israel, where a resident will pay a maximum of 0.33% of their monthly income for access to the Internet. Well, at the third position is located in Hong Kong, with its figure of 0.49% of revenue.

In the Central African Republic the opposite situation, where only a small proportion of the population can afford the luxury of an internet connection. Quite simply, this is due to high prices - the price is often 40 times higher than GDP per capita. This situation is not like the UN, and is currently developing a project of development of broadband Internet access in Africa.

If you look at the statistics separately for Russia, it is the cheapest internet access in Moscow. For connection to a speed of 2 Mbps you will be asked only 300 rubles. But in the most expensive internet Khabarovsk in Russia, the price of a similar service to Moscow, will be as much as 1,800 rubles!

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All the tourists who go to rest in warm countries, next to the hotel are not only the sea but also the pool. But not all tourists this pool included in the Guinness Book of Records. If you eat a rest in the San Alfonso Del Mar in Chile, you will be able to see and swim in the big pool in the world.

Largest Swimming Pool in The World
This "artificial sea" owns a hotel complex San Alfonso del Mar, in southern Chile, in the town of Algarrobo. Swimming pool is so big that it all will be able to swim only experienced swimmers! The total basin area is 8 hectares, it's 6000 regular pool, while it has 250 thousand cubic meters of water. The length of the pool is 1 kilometer, and the depth in some places - 35 meters!

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Islamist militant group said on Tuesday it was behind bombings in central Nigeria and attacks suffered by churches in the north east of the country led to the deaths of at least 86 people. 

Police said on Tuesday that 86 people were killed in the attacks on the eve of Holiday Birth and clashes took place after two days between young Muslims and Christians in central Nigeria, while more than 100 people receiving treatment in hospitals. 


Daniel said an official at the jumbo Emergency Management Agency in Nigeria in the late evening of Monday, "We have recovered 80 bodies so far in Goss." In a separate incident, six people were killed when petrol bombs were thrown on Friday night in the city of churches Maidjor northeastern state of Borno. 

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Friday, October 1, 2010

Microsoft could buy Second Life

Second Life is one of the first and most popular virtual communities at the time, having bonded to thousands of users for more than seven years in their social universe, a candy that seems Microsoft is very interested, which it says could have several sources made an offer to buy Second Life and its creators, Linden Lab.

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Bad construction of infrastructure and venues
The team men's hockey in England was established based on a field farm Delhi and delay the adoption of people in the hit problems Commonwealth athletes Games .

Photos taken in the last two days have highlighted the poor condition of housing in the village, with the assembly of the event to begin on 3 October.

The team captain Barry Middleton told " We do not mind knew that things were happening in the town..


We have heard that going to be ready and I think we'll be in town in a few days.

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Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Titanic sunk in error control

TITANIC SINKING
The sinking of the Titanic, on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York in April 1912, was not due to going too fast and the crew only saw the iceberg when it was too late but a helmsman's error .

According to a new version of what happened, the crew saw the iceberg time, despite which the ship crashed into the ice mass because of that error, kept secret by the second officer of the liner, Charles Lightoller, who survived the collapse.

The granddaughter of the officer, the writer Louise Patten, 56, reveals what happened in his new novel, Good as Gold.

His grandfather died before she was born, but Patten lived with his grandmother, who told her what happened then.

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