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"World's shortest man" - doe

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The web is buzzing with stories about Khagendra, the Nepalese boy hoping to qualify as the world's shortest man. He's certainly short enough, says GWR Editor in Chief Craig Glenday, but is he old enough to claim the official world record?

Back in 2006, Guinness World Records was contacted by the Dwarf Association of Nepal, asking us to ratify one of their members as the shortest living man. The "man" in question was Khagendra Thapa Magar, and at 20 in (50.8 cm) he would have certainly qualified, beating the current record holder He Pingping at 74.61 cm (2 ft 5.37 in). There was just one problem: Khangendra had not yet turned 18.

To quality for the Guinness World Records title of world's shortest man, claimants must be 18 years or older (assuming the first year of life is considered year 0, and not year 1). This is irrespective of sexual maturity or a society's legal, ritualistic or religious coming of age. We are in possession of Khagendra's birth registration certificate, his certification of Citizenship and his identity card (pictured). On the Nepali calendar, Khagendra was born on Asoj 18, 2049 which equates to 4 October 1992. This makes him 6,220 days old (as of today, 15 October 2009) or 17 years 11 days.

We are once again in touch with Khangendra and his family and have asked for re-confirmation of his birthday, on the off chance that there has been some misunderstanding. We are very excited to learn of this little Nepalese claimant and have been for a few years now. But until we can clear up the discrepancy, the holder of the title of world¹s smallest mobile man remains with He Pingping.
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smallest and largest

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My nail-biting first encounter

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GWR Editor-in-Chief Craig Glenday recounts his first, nerve-wracking meeting with the “Lady with the Nails”

When I first met the wonderful Lee Redmond, I was playing the role of chauffeur. I’d been asked to collect Lee and her granddaughter at Heathrow and bring then back to GWR Towers without any fuss.

This was a few years back, and my first experience of the “airport run”. I’ve since welcomed the likes of smallest man He Pingping and tallest man Xi Shun to the UK, but this was my first experience waiting in the throng of expectant families and anxious girl- and boyfriends for a record holder.

I was getting increasingly nervous as every moment passed – what if she never made the connecting flight? Had she even left Utah? If she did make the flight, was it comfortable? The launch of the 2007 book was relying on her cooperation with the press and without Lee, there’d be no launch! Yet we’d never met her! What would she be like? What kind of a woman would grow her nails like giant talons?

Nervous? I certainly wouldn’t win any records for the length of my nails that day!

Then the air seemed to change. It’s that moment just before a GWR holder as striking and as arresting as Lee enters the Arrivals hall. The faces of the usually weary travellers change – you notice the furrowed brows, the widened gapes, excited children looking back over their shoulders, a general buzz of excitement.

Then she appeared - a vision in electric turquoise jogging pants, her face haloed by that amazing shock of bright blonde hair. By her side was her granddaughter, but the petite Lee really could have mistaken for her sister. It’s only then that you notice the nails; Lee cuts such an incredible figure that, even without her nails, she catches your eye.

It’s inevitable in our technological times that mobile phone and digital cameras are going to be whipped out whenever someone famous or noteworthy appears in public. It was no different with Lee – but she took the flashes in her stride, even stopping to show a dumbstruck traveller her nails up close. One of the inescapable side effects of having metre-long fingernails, I guess!

On the road back to the office, Lee spoke about her flights to the UK. Despite being booked on Business Class, Lee’s first aircraft, from Salt Lake City, was Economy-only, so she squeezed her tiny self and her nails into her even tinier seat. The fold-down seats on her transatlantic jumbo offered little more comfort. Worse still, he’d been unable to use the restrooms – should could (just) fit in to the cubicle but could neither turn around nor lock the door.

But Lee quickly brushed aside the discomfort and set my mind a rest – she was happy to be in London and looking forward to seeing the sites. She worked hard that week for the launch, appearing on TV shows, being interviewed with the same set of questions time and time again, and offering pose after pose to countless snappers. Throughout the whole arduous period, she remained cheery and obliging and a joy to spend time with.

My most recent encounter with Lee was on her home turf in Salt Lake City, Utah. Concerned about her health after the car crash, I popped over to see her and help our press team film the first interview after her life-threatening accident. Once again, I was struck by her joie de vivre and strong sense of survival. Life had thrown her a curveball, she said, but she just just got right back up again.

Thankfully, Lee made a spectacular recovery, albeit sans her nails! “That time in my life is now over,” she said over dinner. “I truly believe that the decision for me to lose my nails was taken out of my hands and made by a higher authority. It’s a sign – I may not have known that I needed to move on, but I do now!”

So, enjoy the exclusive video footage of Lee discussing her life with long nails then her new existence without them. You see that I had nothing to be worried about – she’s the sweetest, kindest and most open record holder I know. I’m honoured to have known the old Lee and now the new Lee, one of the world’s most recognisable women… with or without the fingernails!
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ONE-ON-ONE WITH GWR CERTIFICAT

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You know in many ways it isn't us that are the center of attention when we go out and judge Guinness World Record attempts but actually one of our most valuable colleagues - the Guinness World Records certificate.

The embodiment of everything we represent - success, superlatives, achievement, glamour - it has come to be our trusty companion for many, many years and yet it has always been reclusive, shying away from the public and coming out only when appropriate. So I took it upon myself to sit down and chat with our trusty friend marking the first of a series of ONE-ON-ONE WITH GWR CERTIFICATE interviews in which we will bring to you the views and opinions of what it is like to be at the center of the Guinness World Records universe.

Hello and welcome! Thank you, it's a pleasure to be here.

You're looking a little dusty there, have you been travelling? Well, you know, I travel all over the world and and I'm present whenever there's a successful Guinness World Record attempt so yes, most of the time I will be travelling. I just came back from the MLS All-Star Game. Man, that was a great gig. And just for the record: GO RED BULLS!

Are you a big sports fan? I'm a fan of everything. The biggest, the smallest, the fastest, the tallest...you know pretty much anything that ends in -est. Except jest, or test, or digest or nest. You know, apart from those words that end in -est.

Of course. Is it hard being on the road so much? I mean do you have time for any relationships? Well, there have been other certificates sure, I mean I'm no saint you know what I mean! But for the most part I play it by the book. And by that I mean the Guinness World Records book. Not that I don't dally now and again. It's hard you know. I mean I'm a certificate. I need things as much as the next authorizing document.

Do you and the Guinness World Records book get on? Yeah most of the time. I mean, we kinda compete for attention you know? I'll be there in the middle of photo shoot, working it and then someone says "Oh what about the book?" and out he comes all "Look at me! Look at my shiny new cover!" and I'm like "Whatever dude, do you hang on people's walls? The most they see of you is your little spine". But you know, that's just now and again. For the most part, we're cool.

I bet. Where are you going next? Not sure, there's a big gig in Indonesia I have to go to on August 16th and then there's this NASCAR race I have to be at on the 22nd. That's what it's like man, flying around the world, putting a smile on people's faces as much as I can.

Will you come back and visit us? Stuart, it would be a pleasure. Always happy to give the folks at home my best side. Whether it's my shiny blue side or my cork side, I put it all out there for the people.

Thank you GWR Certificate. Good luck and see you soon! Fo sho man, fo sho.
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Anita & He Ping Ping smallest

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Jordan and Anita on Show di Record in Italy 2009
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I MADE A 3MM ONE

From: Cammo
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i made one that was 3mm from bottom to top

and u kno wats even sweeter? heheh im only jst turnin 13 =]

Btw do you know what the current record for the smallest hand made paper crane is? i would liek to know im trying to beat the record what ever it is =]

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i made the worlds smallest pap

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my paper crane is only 4mm tall!!!!!!!!
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smallest complete handmade ch

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Origami

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Hey peoples! I am one of those people who love love love origami! I just think its amazing that out of a plain old boring sheet of paper comes a masterpiece or your choice. I specialize in tiny origami. My recent goal is to make the smallest ever paper crane!!
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MICRO CALENDAR 200 YEARS

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Micro Calendar 200 Years

Mr Ajay Kumar Khaitan, an Electronics Engineer
from India has made the "World's Smallest 200
Years Calendar on a Playing Card @ 5 Cents",
a wonderCorporate Gift for the world.

For more details,Plz contact:
Ajay Kumar Khaitan
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150/3 Tilak Road, Burn's Plot
Raniganj 713347 India
Mob: 91-9933115511
email:microwonder@gmail.com
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THE SMALLEST GAME OF DRAUGHTS

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Smallest Marks & Spencer (Stor

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There is a store in the UK called Marks & Spencer.

My question is, model wise, can you tell me who holds the world record

for having the smallest Marks and Spencer.

Thank you
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Smallest chicken egg ever?

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Is this the smallest chicken egg ever?

Height; +- 2.7 cm

Circumference; +- 7.4 cm
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New Planets & an Unknown Objec

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New Planets & an Unknown Object Discovered Beyond the Solar System

David Latham -Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Sponsored By: Fort Myers Locksmith

As astronomers become more adept at hunting for, and finding, exoplanets orbiting stars beyond the Solar System, international astronomers have figured out just what we should be looking for using the increasingly sophisticated technologies being developed.

Two exoplanets and an unknown celestial object, findings of the European Space Agency's COROT mission, an important stepping stones in the European effort to find habitable, Earth-like planets around other stars. These discoveries mean that the mission has now found a total of four new exoplanets.

COROT has now been operating for 510 days, and the mission started observations of its sixth star field at the beginning of May this year. During this observation phase, which will last 5 months, the spacecraft will simultaneously observe 12,000 stars.

Future telescopes such as NASA's Kepler, set for launch in 2009, would be able to discover dozens or hundreds of Earth-like worlds. The Space Interferometry Mission (SIM), to be launched early in the next decade, consists of multiple telescopes placed along a 30 foot structure. With an unprecedented resolution approaching the physical limits of optics, the SIM is so sensitive that it almost defies belief: orbiting the earth, it can detect the motion of a lantern being waved by an astronaut on Mars

The SIM, in turn, will pave the way for the Terrestrial Planet Finder, to be launched late in the next decade, which should identify even more earth-like planets. It will scan the brightest 1,000 stars within 50 light years of the earth and will focus on the 50 to 100 brightest planetary systems. The TPF will allow the follow-up studies to learn about these planets' rotation and weather, and the composition of their atmospheres.

All this, in turn, will stimulate an active effort to determine if any of them harbor life, perhaps some with civilizations more advanced than ours.

The two new planets discovered by COROT are gas giants of the hot Jupiter type, which orbit very close to their parent star and tend to have extensive atmospheres because heat from the nearby star gives them energy to expand.

“Scientists suspect that with the detection of COROT-exo-3b, they might just have discovered the missing link between stars and planets.”

In addition, an oddity dubbed ‘COROT-exo-3b’ has raised particular interest among astronomers. It appears to be something between a brown dwarf, a sub-stellar object without nuclear fusion at its core but with some stellar characteristics, and a planet. Its radius is too small for it to be a super-planet.

If it is a star, it would be among the smallest ever detected. Follow-up observations from the ground have pinned it at 20 Jupiter masses, which makes it twice as dense as the metal Platinum.

“COROT has also detected extremely faint signals that, if confirmed, could indicate the existence of another exoplanet, as small as 1.7 times Earth’s radius.”

COROT was launched atop the Soyuz from the Baikonour cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 27 December 2006. Settled in its almost-circular polar orbit ranging between 895 and 906 km above Earth's surface, the spacecraft was first powered on 2 January 2007 and started its science observations on 3 February of the same year.

Exoplanets have rarely been seen; rather, they have been indirectly observed by looking at the influence they exert on stars they orbit. But even with the most advanced telescopes planned by Earth's astronomers for use over the next several years, a planet orbiting another star would only appear as a single pixel. By comparison, a simple cellphone camera typically takes pictures with about a million pixels, or one megapixel. However, a great deal of information about a planet can be gleaned from that single pixel and the way it changes over time.

Analyzing the data would work for any world that has continents and bodies of liquid on its surface plus clouds in its atmosphere, even if those were made of very different materials on an alien world. For example, icy worlds with seas of liquid methane, like Saturn's moon Titan, or very hot worlds with oceans of molten silicate (which is solid rock on Earth), would show up similarly across the vastness of space.

However, the method depends on clouds covering only part of a planet's surface, regardless of what each world is made of. Saturn's Titan, for example, covered by perpetual global smog, would not give up the mysteries of its weather or rotation, nor would the boiling hot Venus, with its complete shroud of clouds.

The key, the astronomers learned after studying data from Earth's weather satellites, is that while clouds vary from day to day, there are overall patterns that stay relatively constant, associated with where arid or rainy landmasses are. Detecting those repeating patterns would allow distant astronomers to figure out the planet's rotation period because a brightening associated with clouds above a particular continent would show up regularly once each "day," whatever the length of that day might be. Once the day's length is determined, then any variations in that period would reveal the changing weather--that is, clouds in a different place than the average.

Planned telescopes such as NASA's Kepler, set for launch in 2009, would be able to discover dozens or hundreds of Earth-like worlds. Then even more advanced space observatories being considered, such as NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder, would allow the follow-up studies to learn about these planets' rotation and weather, and the composition of their atmospheres.

"Maybe somebody's looking at us right now, finding out what our rotation rate is -- that is, the length of our day," says Sara Seager, associate professor of physics and the Ellen Swallow Richards Associate Professor of Planetary Sciences at MIT.

Among other things alien astronomers could probably tell that our planet's surface is divided between oceans and continents, and learn a little bit about the dynamics of our weather systems and whether its a good day for a landing.

Posted by Casey Kazan.
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