Abdelhamid Salhi played for more than 1,000 matches and he has never been cautioned. Has a spotless record on the field of ‘No Yellow or Green Card’.
-‘Algerian Player of the Year’ – 1968
-Awarded ‘ World Fair Play Award’ from International Fair Play Committee – 2002
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Algeria
The world’s longest chandelier by number of lights called ‘ Reflective Lights’ is installed at the Ali Bin Khalifa Al Hitmi & Co, office building on the water front in Doha on June 23rd, 2010.
-Largest Chandelier in the world
-Largest inter-active LED light sculpture
The exhibit is an organic art sculpture by day and then transformed when the light is introduced behind the glass frame.
The ‘Reflective Lights’ chandelier weighs 18,000 kg (39,683 lbs) and has 165,000 LED units. It measures 5.8m (19ft) in height at 12.5m (41 ft) in linear width and 38.5 m (126 ft 4in) in linear length. Certified by Guinness World Records.
The Chandelier is designed by Beau McClellan, Scotland.
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Qatar
Researchers working in the black desert of north-eastern Jordan found the charred remains of a flat bread baked by hunter-gatherers 14,400 years ago.
The bread was found in a stone fireplace. The oldest direct evidence of bread yet found, predating the advent of agriculture by at least 4,000 years ago.
The excavation was led by Tobias Richter, Archaeologist and researchers were led by Amaia Arranz Otaegui of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark in 2018. Findings were published in the Journal ‘Proceedings of the National Academy of Science’.
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Jordan
In 2009, when it opened Dubai Metro topped the list as the ‘Worlds Longest Automated Rail System’
Presently, it’s moved down after Vancouver’s Sky Train and Singapore.
The longest driverless metroline is the Dubai Metro Red Line which is 52.1 km in length. The second line, Green Line is 22.5 km which when combined with the Red Line will make it longer than the Vancouver Sky Train.
Dubai Metro is owned by Roads an Transport Authority (RTA), Dubai.
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Mohammad Burbayea, Jet Ski racer, has the most IJSBA World Championship wins (male) by an individual : 22 , achieved by between 2007 and 2018.
Burbayea has won over 28 titles including 15 World Championships with 12 consequtive wins.
IJSBA : International Jet Sports Boating Association
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Kuwait
The largest hand-woven carpet sits in Sheikh Zayed Al Nahyan Mosque in Abu Dhabi.
The massive Persian carpet was created in 9 parts and assembled inside the mosque. It took 1,200 weavers from the Khorasan province about one year to hand craft. The carpet features 2.2 billion hand-tied individual rug knots, weighs 12 tons and is 5,360 square meters (60,000.81 sq. feet) . It was manufactured in Iran in 2007.
Record by the Guiness World Records
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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Hicham El Guerrouj won the 1,500 metres event at IAAF Golden League Golden Gala in Rome, Italy, in a time of 3 minutes 26 seconds on 14 July 1998.
He beat the existing record by more than a second.
El Guerrouj also retained 4 other world record times:
over one mile (indoors and outdoors) 2,000 metres (outdoors) and 1,500 metres (indoors) as on 2017
Record: Guinness World Record
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Morocco
The Shieikh Jaber Causeway is the 4th longest bridge in the world.
Named after Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah who ruled during the Gulf war.
About 80 percent of the sea-bridge is over water and connects Kuwait City to Subiya where a USD 100 billion dollar mega-city is being built.
The drive around the bay usually takes over an hour, but with bridge’s construction completed, it shortens to less than 20 minutes.
The USD 2.6 billion causeway was designed by Paris based engineering and consulting group ‘Systra’. Lead by a consortium of South Korea’s ‘Hyundai Engineering & Construciton Co.’ and Kuwait’s ‘Combined Group Contracting Company’.
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Kuwait
Shamal Steel Arch Bridge , Ras Al Khaimah, UAE is now the World’s longest steel bridge , certified by Guinness World Records.
It is planned to handle 2,000 vehicles per hour and includes a life expectancy of 104 years without any maintenance.
The bridge is a part of the second phase of Emirates Road as envisaged by the Ministry of Infrastructure, UAE
The former record was held by Poland’s 26m long bridge
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Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates (UAE)
Burj Khalifa is the World’s Tallest Building. A living wonder.
At over 828 metres (8,216 feet) and more than 160 stories. It holds the following world records.
WORLD RECORDS:
Emaar Properties PJSC is the master developer of Burj Khalifa.
www.burjkhalifa.ae
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Dubai / United Arab Emirates (UAE)