| Sunday, May 09, 2004 |
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GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORD/ 2004
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(abstracted from the same book of the same title)
i bought some coffee table books this afternoon from the local cut rate book stores in my area. i love these coffee table books because it gives so many info and it has pictorials also. the new Guinneess Book is so attractive and nice to own, so i bought me a copy. my wife was very upset again with me, as usual cuz she is always telling me that i spend lots of money in books. and i told her, better books than me gambling or philandering. i just opened the Guinneess and i stumbled upon the topic of MASS PARTICIPATION.
LARGEST MULTIPLE VENUE SIMULTANEOUS TAP DANCE
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organized by the North London Perfoming Arts Centre, Londo, UK, a total of 7,596 children from 40 schools across north London tap danced simultaneously to the tune "To the Show" for five minutes from 10:00 am on 22 March 2002.
LARGEST SIMULATNEOUS PERCUSSION PERFORMANCE
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the world's largest percussion performance was held at the Hong Kong Colisuem on 02 July 2002. a record of 10,102 people played a percussive rhythm for over six minutes as part of t "The Music of the Dragons Concert".
LARGEST SIMULTANEOUS CHEERLEADING
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the largest simultaneous cheerleading event occurred when 328 past and present cheerleaders between the ages of 4 and 60 oerfiormed a cheer in full uniform on the filed of Cardinal stadium, Louisville, Kentucky on October 20,2001. the event was organized by the Power Cheer Training Center.
LARGEST LINE DANCE
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a record total of 11,967 people took past ina line dance organized by NTUC Income Insurance Cooperative Ltd. of Singapore at the Singapore Expo Centre on May 1,2002 dancing to "Rasa Sayang" for 7 mins and 9 sec.
LARGEST MULTIPLE VENUE SIMULTANEOUS DANCE
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a total of 196,569 people from 681 schools across cancada danced simultaneouly for eight minutes from 11:25 am druignt he "Activ8 the Nations Schools Hokey Pokey Challenge" on april 9,2002.
LARGEST SIMULTANEOUS MULTIPLE VENUE SING ALONG
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the largest simulataneous sing along was staged by Young Boices, Sargent Caner Care for children and EMI (all UK) there were 83,121 participants from hundreds of schools across UK who simultaneously sang a specially written song " Tell Me Why" at different venues on December 9, 2002.
LARGEST YMCA DANCE
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a total of 13,588 people danced to the song 'YMCA' for five minutes prior the baseball game between the Spikes and the Salt Lake Stingers at Johnny Rosenblat stadium, in Omaha, Nebraska on july 4,2001.
LARGEST SALSA DANCE
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a toal of 3,868 people danced to Perez Prado's "mambo No. 5" for 5 minutes to create the largest salsa dance on October 19,2000 at Palau Sant Jordie, Barcelona , Spain.
LONGEST CONGA LINE
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the Miami Super conga consisted of 119,986 people who gathered to conga in Miami / Florida on Marcdh 13, 1988.
LARGEST MULTIPLE VENUE SIMULTANEOUS QUADRILLE
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a total of 7,518 dancers danced a quadrille in nine towns across Slovenia on May 24, 2002. a quadrille is a French square dance originating from the 18th cent and is executed by four couples. |
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