Guiness' New Record Holder: 2011 Shortest Man In The World

Junrey Balawing - 18 years old

            Guiness Book of World Records is known to be the home of the longest, shortest, fastest, fattest and anything for an individual and even collective records. It is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world. The book itself holds a world record, as the best-selling copyrighted book series of all time. Now a new record has been officially confirmed by its officials and that is having the new World's Shortest Man record holder. Formerly, shortest man in the world until 2011 by Guiness World Records was Khagendra Thapa Magar from Nepal who measures for about 26.4 inches or 67 cm, now the record is being transferred to an 18 yearl old guy from the Philippines named Junrey Balawing, measuring 23.59 inches or 59.93 cm. He is just 3 inches shorter than the former record holder and 1 year older than Khagendra. The official declaration of the new shortest man alive was awarded to Junrey on the day of his birthday, June 12.

              But Guiness has the record of the World's shortest man ever verified, Gul Mohammed, from India who died in 1997, only measuring 22 inches or 57 cm, just 2 centimeters shorter than Junrey. He was examined in 1990 by the officials from Guiness World Records and declared as the record holder on the same year.  He died at the age of 40.

Gul Mohammed

                 Below are the list of the previous record holder for the Guiness World Records shortes man:

1. Khagendra Thapa Magar (Nepal) - Former shortest man in the world until 2011, measuring 26.4 in (67cm ), according ti Guiness World Records.

2. Younis Edwan (Jordan) - Shortest man claimant, is said to be 26 in (65 cm) but not verified by the Guiness World Records.

3. István Toth (Hungary) - Shortest man claimant, was said to be 26 in (65 cm). Verification by Guiness World Records needs to be checked. István died in May 2011 at the age of 48. (No picture available)

4. Lin Yü-Chih (Taiwan) - Former shortest man in the world until 2009.

 

5.  Edward Niño Hernández (Colombia) -  Named the shortest man after He Pingping died in March 2010, at 27.64 in (70.21 cm ), but lost the title in October 2010 to Magar.

6. He Pingping (China) - Once officially verified as shortest living man (mobile) at 29 in (74cm), until death in March 2010.

Source: Guiness World of Records, Wikipedia, Google, Pinoy.net

Movies: The Box Office Hitmaker

 

            People are fond of watching movies, may it be drama, comedy, sci-fi or animation, as long as the movie that is filmed tickles their eyes to watch those movies in theaters expensive as will it cost them a lot or even on a pirated copy to save some penny and sometimes watching it on a downloadable  file on the Internet. I myself with no pretension is enamored of going to theaters and watch a new movie which I think is really enthralling to spend time or shall I say worth a time to amuse myself with. Infact, I sometimes do watched the movie for several times, and Titanic was one of those that I watched repeatedly. I have lots of favorite movies aside from Titanic, not to mention; Avatar, Transformers, 2012, Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes, The Blind Side, Star Wars, Forrest Gump and Flipper. Recently, while i'm watching on a cable television, an HBO presents movie to watch was 2012, I was about to be infront of my computer, but I suddenly shifted and I unequivocally decided to be infront of my tv and watched 2012 instead with excitement like it was being premiered for the first time. For the record I've watched 2012 for 4 times inside theaters, twice on a CD and once on the Internet, tho having watched it for numerous times I still find it prepossessing to gander. Because of this, I cogitated on an interesting topic to write about and that is which movie that has been earning the most. Below are the list of Worldwide highest-grossing films:

WORLDWIDE HIGHEST-GROSSING FILMS:

1. AVATAR - $2,783,165,628

2. TITANIC - $1,843,201,268 

3. THE LORD OF THE RINGS - THE RETURN OF THE KING - $1,119,110,941

4.  PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST - $1,066,179,725

 

 

5. TOY STORY 3 - $1,063,165,731

 

6. ALICE IN WONDERLAND - $1,024,299,801

7. THE DARK KNIGHT - $1,001,921,825

8. HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE - $974,733,550

9. PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END - $960,996,492

10. HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS - PART 1 - $954,501,070

 Source: Wikipedia, http://www.boxofficemojo.com/

 

 

Something To Know More About Our World

        Today's feature for this blog is a mere exploration of a bubbling mind about our modern world. I found it interesting tho because of the news program that I watched on the cable television which features something that is all about world rankings, who is on the top and who is at the least. I did explore on the Internet and tried to search a topic that caters "world rankings". As eager as I was, I went to google and typed in the search box with the topic that I was thinking, not so long enough I was able to get what I wanted. Below you would see some interesting world rankings (my own jargons) that will help each one to know better about our own world.

        WORLD'S RICHEST COUNTRIES:

 

          WORLD'S POOREST COUNTRIES:

 

            TOP 10 MOST GOOGLED COUNTRIES:

        
             TOP 10 BEST AIRPORTS IN THE WORLD:

   
             TOP  8 COUNTRIES TO HAVE WON THE MOST OLYMPIC MEDALS:

              TOP 10 COUNTRIES WITH THE MOST BILLIONAIRES:

 

                TOP 10 COUNTRIES WITH THE MOST MILLIONAIRES:

 

                   TOP 10 MOST GENEROUS COUNTRIES:

                   TOP 10 MOST VISITED COUNTRIES:

       Source: http://www.aneki.com/