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2 min ago | KFMB-am

Lifestyle news & tips: Entertainment, Health, Money, Food, Tech

A manager of Chicago's Navy Pier rode the tourist spot's Ferris wheel for more than 2 days, bringing the world record for the longest ride to the birthplace of the amusement park favorite.

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4 hrs ago | Daily Mail

Biggest cockerel in the world: Little John rules the roost

Little John, who is just one year old, terrifies small children who visit him because he stands at a staggering 26in - more than 2ft tall.

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8 hrs ago | Domestic Fuel

Solar Boat Breaks Speed Record

Switzerland's MS TA ranor PlanetSolar , the world's largest solar boat, has set a new speed record for a transatlantic crossing by solar electric vessel.

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Related Topix: Spain, World News, Solar Energy, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy

12 hrs ago | KRBD-FM Ketchikan

Ketchikan breaks world rainboot race record

Nearly 2,000 people turned out in Ketchikan Saturday afternoon to break the Guinness World Record for the largest rainboot race.

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Related Topix: Ketchikan, AK

16 hrs ago | PR-inside.com

Clare Students say Failte Chuig an Clar

Eoin Farrell, Clare Leisure World, Ellen Smith , Shauna Kearney , Lena Pawlowska Domhnall O Loinsigh, 2013-05-20 17:34:36 - To raise awareness of the World Record Attempt 'Welcoming Claires to County Clare' on June 23rd, the Clare Volunteer Centre and An Clar as Gaeilge Teo ran an Art Competition through Clare's National Schools.

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20 hrs ago | The Wichita Eagle

Ferris Wheel Record Attempt

In this June 13, 2012 photo, visitors ride on the Ferris Wheel and Wave Swinger at Chicago's nearly century-old Navy Pier.

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Related Topix: Chicago, IL, us Travel, North America Travel, Travel, Chicago Travel

Mon May 20, 2013

ABC News

Mt Gravatt bowlers set new world record

After 250 'touches', 300 'ends', and 38 hours a Brisbane lawn bowls club has set a new world record for the longest continuous game of indoor bowls.

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The Guelph Mercury

Stratford Festival sets pinball Guinness World Record

To promote their upcoming production of 'Tommy,' The Stratford Festival organized an attempt to set the Guinness World Record for the most people playing pinball simultaneously in the lobby of First Canadian Place on Thursday.

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Daily Echo

Watercress fan Glenn Walsh eats his way to new world record

WATERCRESS fan Glenn Walsh, yesterday ate his way back into in the record books in front of thousands of onlookers at Hampshire annual annual festival dedicated to the famous green stuff.

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Houston Press

The 2013 Houston Greekfest Gyro Eating Contest And More

Niko Niko's 2013 Gyro Eating Contest was held on May 19, 2013 at the Houston Greek Festival.

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NJ.com

Local Misericordia University students help with Guinness World Record attempt

Almost every kid with markers has tried to connect them cap-to-end, maybe getting as far as four or five before they fell apart.

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Related Topix: Dallas, PA

Sun May 19, 2013

NBC San Diego

Navy Pier Worker Sets New Ferris Wheel World Record

Operations manager Clinton Shepherd stayed on Navy Pier's Ferris wheel for a full 48 hours, breaking the world record for longest ride on a Ferris wheel.

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Related Topix: Chicago, IL

The Daily Record

$590M-plus Powerball: 1 winning ticket sold in Fla | about 6 hours

A Powerball lottery ticket is printed out of a lottery machine at a convenience store in Chicago on Saturday, May 18, 2013.

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Related Topix: Lottery, Chinatown (Chicago, IL), Des Moines, IA, Chinatown (Washington, DC)

Daily Echo

Watercress Festival gets underway

The market town of Alresford has become a foodie paradise as producers celebrate the plant that grows abundantly in the clear chalk streams of Hampshire.

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Related Topix: United Kingdom, Life, Food, Recipes, Agriculture, Science

Sat May 18, 2013

I-Newswire.com

Hot Home News: Mary Hart, Taylor Swift & Chicago's Trump Tower

This week's Top 10 homes spotlight at TopTenRealEstateDeals.com includes a look at Mary Hart and Burt Sugarman's Montana ski home, Taylor Swift's newest home purchase and Chicago's Trump Towers - the the highest residence in the Western Hemisphere Mary Hart's Elk Horn Ranch Mary Hart made television history by breaking a Guinness World Record for ... (more)

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Related Topix: Home Listing, Home, Entertainment Tonight, Entertainment, Television, Mary Hart, Taylor Swift, Best of 2007

The Independent

Graham Norton: The go-to guy for anything from the Baftas to becoming ...

He is a sarcastic, breezily insulting and camply subversive gay Irish pixie who has become the most ubiquitous presenter on TV.

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Related Topix: So Graham Norton, Entertainment, The Graham Norton Show, Television, Graham Norton, Sweden, World News,

Fri May 17, 2013

The Independent

Everest climber aims to reach his peak at 80

An 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer has begun his attempt to scale Mount Everest, in an effort to reclaim his title as the oldest man to reach the summit.

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Alabama Live

Saxophonist Vann Burchfield to perform at Hoover Library Plaza this Sunday

HOOVER, Alabama - Saxophonist Vann Burchfield , who has performed at the White House on four occasions, is scheduled to play a free concert at the Hoover Library Plaza this Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Burchfield, a Bessemer native, in February 2000 set a Guinness world record for circular breathing, holding one continuous note for 47 minutes, 6 seconds, ... (more)

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Related Topix: Hoover, AL, Bessemer, AL, Entertainment

The Beaumont Enterprise

What would you do with $550 million?

What would you do with $550 million? Beaumont Enterprise Copyright 2013 Beaumont Enterprise.

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NBC Chicago

Man Attempts Ferris Wheel World Record at Navy Pier

Beginning Friday, pier operations manager Clinton Shepherd will try to break the Guinness World Record for the longest ride on Chicago's iconic attraction.

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Related Topix: Chicago, IL, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Rahm Emanuel