World's Largest Cruise Ship - Video

The world’s largest cruise ship, Royal Caribbean’s “Oasis of the Seas” arrives at Port Everglades, Florida. Five times larger than the Titanic, it has 2,700 cabins and can accommodate 6,300 passengers and 2,100 crew members.



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Yoda The Dog, Ugliest Chihuahua in The World

Based on dailymail report, a 14-year-old Chinese-crested and Chihuahua mix was declared World's Ugliest Dog at California's Sonoma Marin Fair. Yoda clinched the unorthodox beauty contest with his poofs of hair, hairless legs and overall unsightliness.

Yoda weighs only 1.8 pounds and his owner says she first thought he was a rat before learning he was really a tiny dog. Yoda has been the family's pet since he was two years old. He was found abandoned in a field.

Knuffingen Airport Miniature

The world's largest model airport called Knuffingen Airport, has opened at Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg, Germany. It features 40 aircraft that take off and land and 90vehicles that trundle around the runways automatically. This model airport goes into operation following six years of development and construction and an investment of 3.5 million euros.
































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Guinness World Records 2011

The Guinness World Records 2011 book promises to show off mother nature in all her incredible glory, with the World’s Smallest Cow and the Dog with the Longest Tongue.




















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Elisany Silva, Tallest Teen In The World

May be the Tallest teenage girl in the world.
A 14 year old Brazilian teen is looked up to by just about everyone around her. Standing at an amazing 6ft 9 in, she is the tallest girl there.

Elisany Silva (Elizane Cruz Silva, Silva da Cruz Elizane) is a Brazilian girl who was born September 27, 1995 and has a height of 206 cm (6'9'') tall. She now ranks among the world's highest youth.

World’s Longest Chocolate Bar

The small town of Rivarolo, near Turin, Italy, hosted a Guinness World Records attempt for the longest chocolate bar in the world. The record to beat was 6.98 meters, but A. Giordano, a local chocolatier, and his team outdid themselves and made an 11.57 meter-long chocolate bar. The event was sponsored by a Rivarolo shopping mall, who also brought in the Guinness representative to acknowledge the attempt. As you can imagine, the crowd gathered during the event was treated to a delicious piece of chocolate delight.

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Giant Mecca Clock The Biggest Clock of the World

For more than a century, a point on the top of a hill in south-east London has been recognised as the centre of world time and the official starting point of each new day.

Big Ben (L) and the Mecca Clock Tower (R) are now in competition to be recognised as the centre of time.

But now the supremacy of Greenwich Mean Time is being challenged by a gargantuan new clock being built in Mecca, by which the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims could soon be setting their watches.

Due to start ticking on Thursday as the faithful begin fasting during the month of Ramadan, the timepiece sits atop the Royal Mecca Clock Tower which dominates Islam’s holiest city.

It is at the heart of a vast complex funded by the Saudi government that will also house hotels, shopping malls and conference halls.

Bearing a striking resemblance to both St Stephen’s Tower, which houses the bell of Big Ben, and the Empire State Building, the Saudi upstart aims to outdo its revered British rival in every way.

The clock’s four faces are 151ft in diameter and will be illuminated by 2million LED lights along with huge Arabic script reading: “In the name of Allah”. The clock will run on Arabia Standard Time which is three hours ahead of GMT.

When a glittering spire is added, topped with a crescent to symbolise Islam, the edifice will stand at nearly 2,000 ft, making it the world's second tallest building. The clock of Big Ben, by comparison, is just 23ft in diameter, while its tower stands at a mere 316ft.

Residents of Mecca will also be reminded that it is time to pray when 21,000 green and white lights, visible at a distance of 18 miles, flash five times a day.

But Islamic scholars hope the clock’s influence will stretch far further than the sands of Saudi Arabia, as part of a plan for Mecca to eclipse the Greenwich Observatory as the “true centre of the earth”.

For the past 125 years, the international community has accepted that the start of each day should be measured from the prime meridian, representing 0 degrees longitude, which passes through the Greenwich Observatory.

A standard time by which other clocks were set was needed to organise global travel and communications, but in the Islamic world the idea that it should be centred on a part of London is seen as a colonial anachronism.

As Mohammed al-Arkubi, manager of one of the hotels in the complex, put it: "Putting Mecca time in the face of Greenwich Mean Time. This is the goal."

According to Yusuf al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian cleric known around the Muslim world for his popular television show "Sharia and Life", Mecca has a greater claim to being the prime meridian because it is "in perfect alignment with the magnetic north."

This claim that the holy city is a "zero magnetism zone" has won support from some Arab scientists like Abdel-Baset al-Sayyed of the Egyptian National Research Centre who says that there is no magnetic force in Mecca.

"That's why if someone travels to Mecca or lives there, he lives longer, is healthier and is less affected by the earth's gravity," he said. "You get charged with energy."

Western scientists have challenged such assertions, noting that the Magnetic North Pole is in actual fact on a line of longitude that passes through Canada, the United States, Mexico and Antarctica.

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Ma Xiuxian - 120 Year Old Student From China

There's no age barrier for someone to attend school. the facts is this 102 years old woman from china. she go to school when she was 102 years old. here's the prove that there's not too late to gain education in school. Ma Xiuxian never had the opportunity to attend school, as a child, but she is making up for that in her later years. it seems there's so many unique old people in china like in our previous post about the Xiao qinglian Oldest Stuntman

The 102-year old Chinese woman, from Jinan, Shandong province, began working at a cotton mill, at the age of 13, and married when she was only 18. She gave birth to nine children, seven of which attended universities. Her children remember Ma Xiuxian and her husband made great sacrifices, in order to support their studies, but never got the chance to fulfill her own dream, of going to school, for the first time.

After being interviewed by a local newspaper, and revealing her dream, on March 31, Ma Xiuxian was invited to the Weishan Road Elementary School, to attend her first class. Equipped with a schoolbag and a large magnifying glass (for reading), Ma entered the class in the applause of her primary school classmates. The 102-year-old student commented she was very proud to be able to go to school, and that she will study hard to bring her contribution to the motherland.

Here's the World Oldest Student ever Ma Xiuxian. the 102 years old Chinese students.

Frederick & Gerrit Braun's "Miniatur Wunderland"

The Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg, Germany has 700 trains, 4,000 automobiles, 165,000 trees and 250,000 individual lights and a track lengh of 5.6 miles has set the world record for the largest miniature railroad. The Miniatur Wunderland has been build during approx. 500,000 working hours and it costed 8.7 Million Euros (in April 07). In June 2007 the 4,000,000th visitor has been welcomed. The most expensive train in the stable is the Marklin $500 Big Boy. Made mostly of metal, it is the world's largest model steam locomotive.

Here's Frederick & Gerrit Braun creation "Miniatur Wunderland":

This is the world's biggest train set which covers 1,150 square meters (12,380 square feet), features almost six miles of track and is still not complete.

Twin brothers Frederick and Gerrit Braun, 41, began work on the 'Miniatur Wunderland' in 2000.


The set covers six regions including America , Switzerland , Scandinavia , Germany and the Austrian Alps.


The American section features giant models of the Rocky Mountains, Everglades, Grand Canyon...


...and Mount Rushmore.


The Swiss section has a mini-Matterhorn.


The Scandinavian part has a 4ft long passenger ship floating in a 'fjord'.


It is expected to be finished in 2014, when the train set will cover more than 1,800 square meters (19, 376 sq ft) and feature almost 13 miles of track, by which time detailed models of parts of France, Italy and the UK will be added.


It comprises 700 trains with more than 10,000 carriages and wagons. The longest train is 46ft long.


The scenery includes 900 signals, 2,800 buildings, 4,000 cars - many with illuminated headlights and 160,000 individually designed figures.


Thousands of kilograms of steel and wood was used to construct the scenery.


The 250,000 lights are rigged up to a system which mimics night and day by automatically turning them on and off.






The whole system is controlled from a massive high-tech nerve centre.


In total the set has taken 500,000 hours and more than US$1.8 million to put together, the vast majority of which has come from ticket sales.


Gerrit said: "Our idea was to build a world that men, woman, and children can be equally astonished and amazed in"...


Frederik added: "Whether gambling in Las Vegas , hiking in the Alps or paddling in Norwegian fjords, in Wunderland everything is possible".

Largest miniature railroad-world record set by Miniatur Wunderland

World's Biggest Toy Train set