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: Antisocial
Explanation: The Antisocial Personality Disorder is a type of personality disorder that causes the person to be impulsive, agressive, respecteless, deceitful, reckless, irresponsable, remorseless. People who suffers from this go against social laws and codes, not wanting to be a part from society and disrupting it.
Most people thought it was a democracy
Answer:
Spoken by Prince Harry, son of King Henry IV from William Shakespeare's play "Henry IV".
Explanation:
The above given lines are spoken by Prince Harry, the son of King Henry IV from the historical play "Henry IV" by William Shakespeare. Taken from Act II scene iv, the scene shows the young prince and his commoner friends drinking in a tavern named Boarshead Tavern in Eastcheap.
The lines reveals the young Prince recounting how Bardolph had began to live the life of a criminal. Harry had first encountered him stealing wine almost two decades ago. Commenting on his (Bardolph's) drunkenness "<em>blushed extempore</em>" had continued till now, he comments how he could never change. He also asked him why, being armed with his sword, still had to run away, why he had to run away.
Answer:
holism
Explanation:
Holism, is the idea that various systems should be viewed as wholes, not merely as a collection of parts. Is greater than the sum of its parts. So it could be "wholism".
