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Everyone would like to be remembered. A few people e 1. try
to do something that no one else in history has ever tried to do. These people
sometimes have their names r 2. in the
Guinness Book of Records.
Often it takes a group of people to do something
unusual. One such team paddled a bathtub 145 kilometres for 24 hours. This
group had 13 m 3. . They paddled their
bathtub on a river near Ashford, Great Britain on May 28th and 29th,
1983. A month l 4. , a racing team of
hospital bed pushers in Avon, Great Britain, pushed a hospital bed 16
kilometres in j 5. minutes. However, the distance
record for hospital bed pushing is still held by the men of Bruntsfield Bedding
Center. This team from Edingburg pushed a hospital bed 5,203 kilometres in
1979. It took the team 35 days to c 6. the
distance.
Another group of record makers held the h 7. dinner
party in the world. Nine people from Sydney, Australia, climbed Mountain
Huascaran on June 28th , 1989. The climbers t 8. a
dinner table, chairs, and a meal up the mountain. When they reached the top of
the mountain, they had to c 9. warm clothes
to have dinner.
People all over the world are trying hard to do
something unusual to make a record. It should be understood, however, that now
not all the records will be k 10. in the Guinness
Book of Records.