From Harry Potter to Belly Fluff to Deadly Snakes - There's All This And More In Guinness World Records 2002 The Perfect Holiday Gift!Entertainment Editors NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Nov. 27, 2001 The 2002 edition of Guinness World Records, out now, has hundreds of new records, from the classic 'biggest' and 'fastest' records to extreme sports extreme sports Sports events characterized by high speed or high risk. Such sports include aggressive inline skating, wakeboarding, street luge, skateboarding, and freestyle bicycle events (wherein tricks such as back flips are performed on a bicycle). , pop stars and roller coasters While there have been hundreds of different roller coasters built, there have been just a few that were notable for specific reasons. Some reasons include:
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The first three books in JK Rowling's (UK) Harry Potter (right) series hold the record for the highest one-year sales for a book series. In 1999 the series sold over 18.5 million copies in the USA and over 4.5 million in the UK and Commonwealth. Rowling is also the first novelist Virginia Commonwealth University's First Novelist Award honors the best debut novel published during a calendar year. For the calendar year of 2006, Virginia Commonwealth University received more than 100 novels from presses large and small. to have three titles in the top four slots of the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times bestsellers list for 16 weeks. Book four, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, received record advance orders of 5.3 million copies. p. 37 Oops! Britney Spears does it again in the new 2002 edition of Guinness World Records. She is now the fastest selling female artist in the world, "Oops! I Did it Again" sold a record breaking 1.3 million copies in its first week, giving her the title as the world's fastest-selling female artist. p. 55 Just goes to show you that Lil Bow Wow's bark is as big as his bite. 'Bounce with Me' was the No. 1 Rap single for eight weeks, making him the youngest solo rapper on the charts at just 14 years. p. 64 Guinness World Records 2002 edition is full of amazing record-breaking stories. Steven Darvill now holds the world's longest drumming session for an astonishing a·ston·ish tr.v. as·ton·ished, as·ton·ish·ing, as·ton·ish·es To fill with sudden wonder or amazement. See Synonyms at surprise. 36 hours of steady playing. Get your copy of Guinness World Records and check out more record breakers like him. (picture available) p. 64 Milk does a body good and in Ashrita Furman's case it added to his 11 records by making this his twelfth Guinness World Record. Furman walked a distance of 80.96 miles for 23 hour and 35 minutes with a milk bottle balanced on his head; find out other records that he has broken in the new Guinness World Records 2002 edition. (picture available) p. 95 This mouse didn't have a chance. The Garboon Viper is the most venomous snake (Zool.) any serpent which has poison glands and fangs, whether dangerous to man or not. These serpents constitute two tribes, the viperine serpents, or Solenoglypha, and the cobralike serpents, or Proteroglypha. in the world. A single adult male may have enough venom to inject lethal doses into 30 individual men. The new 2002 edition is filled with dangerous species from all over the world. p. 66 You got to see this for yourself...Monte Pierce who is pictured in the latest 2002 edition of Guinness World Records for shooting a dime 10 feet with only his earlobes. He has been pulling at his ears since he was a child; he is now 20. (picture available) p. 131 Kids, save that belly button belly button Medtalk Umbilicus, navel fluff because you could be in the Guinness World Records for 2003. Graham Barker, who has collected 0.54 oz of his own lint lint - A Unix C language processor which carries out more thorough checks on the code than is usual with C compilers. Lint is named after the bits of fluff it supposedly picks from programs. since 1984, holds the largest collection of lint. Look at other record breakers in the new 2002 edition of Guinness World Records. (picture available) p. 155 If you can't get enough of Harry Potter then pick up a new Guinness World Records 2002 edition and see how Harry Potter has broken 3 Guinness World Records this year. p. 160 Think you have the best Supersoaker? The largest water gun is The Monster XL, it measures 39 in. in length and can hold 162 fluid oz. p. 160 Kids want to be in Guinness World Records? Well you better pick yourself up a Rubiks cube and see if you can beat the record time of 5 minutes and 42 seconds. Oh one more thing, you need to do this blindfolded blind·fold tr.v. blind·fold·ed, blind·fold·ing, blind·folds 1. To cover the eyes of with or as if with a bandage. 2. To prevent from seeing and especially from comprehending. n. 1. . Good Luck!! p. 165 If you love roller coasters then check out the new 2002 edition on Guinness World Records and see if you have been on any of their record breaking coasters. - Tallest Roller Coaster - Longest Vertical Drop - Highest Wave-Pool - Steepest Vertical Drop - And many more are listed p. 168 The world's oldest Giga Pet Giga Pets are a series of virtual pets. They were first created and released in 1997 and re-released in 2006 by Tiger Electronics, now a division of Hasbro. They were one of the first virtual pets to be released in the United States, but were created after, and were less popular was 194 days. Check out other interesting records in Guinness World Records 2002. p. 200 - 260 These pages are filled with great record breakers in the sports world Sports World are a British sports Retailer, formerly called Sports Soccer. Founded in the late 1970's by former county squash coach Mike Ashley, the group Sports World International is now the UK's largest retailer of sports clothing and accessories. . - Most strikeouts in a career - Longest Home-Run Hit - Most points in an NBA NBA abbr. 1. National Basketball Association 2. National Boxing Association NBA (US) n abbr (= National Basketball Association) → Basketball-Dachverband (= game - And many more are listed p. 224. 227- extreme sports. Really great extreme sports records...check them out. - Longest Skateboard Jump - Fastest Water-Skiers - Longest Bungee Jump - Any many more For further information, please contact Susan Blond, Inc. at the numbers/emails below. |
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