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:
The Continental Congress commissioned George Washington as Commander in Chief of the Continental Army on June 19, 1775. Washington was selected over other candidates such as John Hancock based on his previous military experience and the hope that a leader from Virginia could help unite the colonies.
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Answer:
4 is a
5 is b
Explanation:
a primary source is someone who was there at the time but a secondary source is someone who wasn't.
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Answer:
D) The Soviet economy was a tremendous success story; the USSR would still be together if it were not for the ethnic differences.
Explanation:
The Soviet economy was not a tremendous success, in fact, it was in many aspects a failure (although it was a success in some fields).
The other 3, true statements in the question give us a clue why:
The Soviet system benefited the center (Russia) disproportionally, leaving aside the other, peripheral republics in Central Asia, the Caucasus, The Baltics, and Eastern Europe, which were often very poor.
The Soviet system used a planned economy, instead of a market economy, and this led to many errors in the production of goods and services. Resources were often poured in unprofitable industries over more profitable ones, and the geographical location of the economic sectors often did not make sense.
Things that in a market system would likely not happen, ocurred in the soviet planned economy because the planners did not realize their mistakes.
