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Record Breakers

    Arvind Mishra of Dehradun, India talked about scientific computations for 139 hours, forty-two minutes, and fifty-six seconds from 1st to 6th March, 2014. One audience member said, "I listened for thirteen hours and waited for the end, but Professor Mishra didn’t stop!" After six days Mishra finally stopped, and now he has the world record!

    At the age of seventy, Jeanne Socrates sailed around the world alone. She started her trip from Victoria Harbour in Canada, and finished on 8th July, 2013, two hundred and fifty-nine days later. She is the oldest woman to sail solo nonstop around the world. “She tried this twice before, in 2009 and 2010,” said a friend. "But there were some problems with the boat and she didn’t finish."

    Carlo Santelli and Daniel Burns played tennis for thirty-eight hours, two minutes and nine seconds on 10th May 2010 in Clifton, New Jersey, USA. We asked them about the winner but they didn’t answer our question. Winning wasn’t important to them. They only wanted to break the world record.

    Ffyona Campbell travelled around the world in eleven years. The amazing thing is that she walked almost all the 32,000 kilometers. In Africa, she started in Cape Town in 1991 and arrived in Tangiers in 1993. Why did she walk so much? Well, maybe it was because of her childhood; she moved home twenty-four times before she was sixteen!