World records

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 84. Chapters: List of most popular given names, Largest organisms, List of multiple births, Pregnancy over age 50, List of oldest people in the world, List of the longest ski jumps, List of most distant astronomical objects, Twin Galaxies, List of tallest people, Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, List of youngest birth mothers, Longest tennis match records, List of world's largest wooden ships, List of long-living organisms, Largest naval battle in history, The House of the Dead: Overkill, World's busiest airports by international passenger traffic, World altitude record, List of shortest people, Smallest organisms, Big Nickel, Extremes on Earth, List of extrasolar planet extremes, Longest recorded sniper kills, Mong Kok, Tube Challenge, List of largest universities by enrollment, List of vehicle speed records, Current reigning monarchs by length of reign, List of longest novels, Largest body part, Extreme longevity tracking, Adam Bagni, Malaysian Book of Records, List of longest films by running time, Video Game Masters Tournament, List of triplets, Integer factorization records, Biggest ball of twine, World's longest hot dog, World's busiest port, LG Mobile World Cup, Around the world cycling record, Discrete logarithm records, Hoba meteorite, Hundred Horse Chestnut, Pogonomyrmex maricopa, Largest known prime number, Universal Record Database, Records of heads of state, Benxihu Colliery, List of the heaviest people, World records at the 2008 Summer Olympics, Largest creative work, You Suffer, McCauley, Edmonton, List of world's largest cuckoo clocks, World's Largest Cedar Bucket, Longest English sentence, Asia Airfreight Terminal, Big Bud 747, Teeny Ted from Turnip Town, The Arctic Challenge, Poor Fellow My Country, Laksha Gala Sankeertanarchana, Pieces of Hope to the Echo of the World, Vrtoglavica Cave, Book of World Records Series. Excerpt: The most popular given names vary nationally, regionally, and culturally. Lists of widely used given names can consist of those most often bestowed upon infants born within the last year, thus reflecting the current naming trends, or else be composed of the personal names occurring most within the total population. The names listed in the following tables, unless otherwise noted, represent the most current top 10 breakdowns of what newborn children are commonly being named in the various regions of the world. Australia Canada United States The largest organism found on Earth can be measured using a variety of methods. It could be defined as the largest by volume, mass, height or length. Some organisms group together to form a superorganism, though this cannot truly be classed as one large organism. (The Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral reef, stretching 2,000 km, is a collection of many organisms.) The Aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) forms large stands of genetically identical trees (technically, stems) connected by a single underground root system. These trees form through root sprouts coming off an original parent tree, though the root system may not remain a single unit in all specimens. The largest known fully-connected Aspen is a grove in Utah nicknamed Pando, and some experts call it the largest organism in the world, by mass or volume. It covers 0.43 km (106 acres) and is estimated to weigh 6,600 short tons (6,000 t). A giant fungus of the species Armillaria solidipes (honey mushrooms) in the Malheur National Forest in Oregon was found to span 8.9...