DFS, the official Team GB Homeware Partner for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, today unveiled track cyclist and double Olympic Champion Laura Trott, triple World Swimming Champion and World Record holder Adam Peaty and 2015 World Gymnastic ...
The SEMA Show takes place November 3 - November 6, 2015 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. For a few days, the auto industry's focus drifts away from reality and into a fantasy world of big, wild, extreme builds of all shapes and colors. ...
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The annual global market for solar photovoltaic (PV) installations will exceed $150 billion by 2024, as the technology shifts from a high-cost, subsidized source of electricity to one that is genuinely competitive with conventional fuels on ...
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Chinese adventurer Guo Chuan has completed his trans-Arctic journey aboard trimaran Qingdao China with an international crew. Guo completed the journey in 13 days to set a world record for navigating the Arctic Ocean non-stop on a boat ...
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Hundred-meter Long Peony Painting Set New World Record in Luoyang. It took Qiu Shilou about 10 years to finish the Chinese traditional realistic painting Ode to the Peony. This painting has just hit the world record as world's longest ...
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The Mid-Autumn Festival will fall on Sept. 27 in 2015. It is the second most important festival for Chinese people, only after the Spring Festival. In this year, a charity event "Super Mid-Autumn Reunion Dinner" has been launched across the ...
More than 2,000 people played the Chinese lute, or "pipa", together in Jiuzhaigou County in southwest China's Sichuan Province Sunday night, setting a new Guinness World Record for the largest lute ensemble. The group of 2015 people, who ...
LED Engin, Inc. announces a new world record in both flux and power density for high power, multi-color LED lighting with its latest LZP family of red, green, blue and cool white (RGBW) emitters. The 25-die, 80-watt emitters deliver 3800 ...
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Honda has set a new Guinness World Records title for ‘Lowest fuel consumption – all 24 contiguous EU countries (all cars),’ recording an average 2.82 liters per 100km (100.31mpg) over 13,498km (8,387 miles), in a 25 day ...
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The Rubik's Cube elites will head to South America for this year's competition. From July 17th to 19th, Brazil will host the Rubik’s Cube World Championship, a biannual event that attracts the world’s fastest Rubik’s ...
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First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA has raised its world record for cadmium telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic (PV) module conversion efficiency to 18.6% aperture efficiency for a full-size module, as measured and certified by the US Department of ...
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A group of 314 guests at Butlin’s Minehead Resort in Somerset have set a new Guinness World Record for the most people playing Connect4 at the same time. Butlin’s Redcoats joined forces with guests to set the record which also ...
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Scottish craft brewery, BrewDog, has released Born to Die, 8.5% ABV Imperial IPA. Featuring a best before date of 4th July 2015, Born to Die is a self-styled, "terminally hoppy IPA", deliberately brewed to be consumed within a very ...
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In celebration of National Scrabble Day, wordsmiths and boardgamers set the new record of 30 games played in 24 hours. A new world record for the most consecutive games of Scrabble played in 24 hours has been set. The ...
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Nathan Sports extended partnerships with four of the brand's elite runners Emily Harrison, Stephanie Howe, Michael Wardian and Ian Torrence. On the heels of last week's addition of Rob Krar, the 2013 and 2014 Utra Runner of the Year, to the ...
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