Our history
Guinness World Records - originally the Guinness Book of Records - the ultimate authority on record-breaking achievements, started out as an idea for a book of facts to solve arguments in pubs.
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The idea came about in the early 1950’s when Sir Hugh Beaver (1890—1967), Managing Director of the Guinness Brewery, attended a shooting party in County Wexford.
There, he and his hosts argued about the fastest game bird in Europe, and failed to find an answer in any reference book.*
In 1954, recalling his shooting party argument, Sir Hugh had the idea for a Guinness promotion based on the idea of settling pub arguments and invited the twins Norris (1925—2004) and Ross McWhirter (1925—75) who were fact-finding researchers from Fleet Street to compile a book of facts and figures.
Guinness Superlatives was incorporated on 30 November and the office opened in two rooms in a converted gymnasium on the top floor of Ludgate House, 107 Fleet Street.
Answer:
c. Nominal incomes are determined by nominal factors; they are not affected by real factors.
Explanation:
Real value is nominal value adjusted for inflation. The real value is obtained by removing the effect of price level changes from the nominal value of time-series data, so as to obtain a truer picture of economic trends. The nominal value of time-series data such as gross domestic product and incomes is adjusted by a deflator to derive their real values.
The nominal values of something are its money values in different years. Real values adjust for differences in the price level in those years. For a series of nominal values in successive years, different values could be because of differences in the price level. But nominal values do not specify how much of the difference is from changes in the price level. Real values remove this ambiguity. Real values convert the nominal values as if prices were constant in each year of the series. Any differences in real values are then attributed to differences in quantities of the bundle or differences in the amount of goods that the money incomes could buy in each year.
Answer:
Slavery was the most cruel and inhumane aspect of the triangular trade.
Explanation:
Answer: a. role strain.
Explanation:
ROLE STRAIN is a phenomenon that occurs when one is having difficulty meeting the responsibilities of a SPECIFIC role in their life which in this case is that of a student.
The student is required to study hard as well as perform volunteer work as a student meaning the responsibilities might conflict under the SPECIFIC role of student.
This is different from ROLE CONFLICT where MULTIPLE roles conflict each other such as an employee student having the job's responsibilities conflicting with the responsibilities required of a student.
