The Bahamas has a few notable industrial firms: the Freeport pharmaceutical firm, PFC Bahamas ( formerly Syntex ), which recently streamlined its production and was purchased by the Swiss pharmaceutical firm Roche ; the BORCO oil facility, also in Freeport, which transships oil in the region ; the Commonwealth Brewery in Nassau, which produces Heineken, Guinness, and Kalik beers ; and Bacardi Corp., which distills rum in Nassau for shipment to the U. S. and European markets.

For example, Dublin has hard water well suited to making stout, such as Guinness ; while Pilsen has soft water well suited to making pale lager, such as Pilsner Urquell.

This has also given rise to the " Chelsea Cocktail ", a pint of Guinness garnished with a stick of celery.

Many of Dublin's traditional industries, such as food processing, textile manufacturing, brewing, and distilling have gradually declined, although Guinness has been brewed at the St. James's Gate Brewery since 1759.

The present Guinness World Record for haggis hurling has been held by Alan Pettigrew for over 25 years.

The Guinness Book of World Records has cited Saipan as having the most equable temperature in the world.

The Guinness Book of World Records has cited Saipan as having the most equable temperature in the world.

It has been ranked among the best games of all time by several organizations including Edge, IGN, The Age and GameSpot, while Guinness World Records has named it as the top console game ever.

* The local rugby union team is Haagsche Rugby Club ( a. k. a. HRC ) and has been in the Guinness Book of Records for becoming Dutch ( in adult and youth ) champions so often.

In 2006, Lara Croft was inducted into the Walk of Game and the Guinness Book of World Records has recognised her as the " Most Successful Human Virtual Game Heroine.

Guinness supposedly has a premonition of Dean's death.

The GE90-115B engine fitted on the Boeing 777-300ER, recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the " World's Most Powerful Commercial Jet Engine ," has a thrust of 569 kN ( 127, 900 lbf ).

It has also ranked highly in international polls ; in a worldwide Guinness poll, it was voted the 19th greatest of all time, while an ABC poll saw the Australian public vote it the 28th greatest of all time.

The exact number of copies sold has never been audited ; however, a figure of at least 25 million was cited by the Guinness Book of World Records in its category " Phonograph records: Biggest Sellers " from the early 1970s until the 1990s, when the advent of compact discs led to Guinness discontinuing the category.

The Guinness Book of World Records ( 1975 ) declared that Burntcoat Head, Nova Scotia has the highest tides in the world:

He has been listed in the 2012 Guinness Book of World Records as the highest paid actor, with $ 75 million.

To date no one has completed a human-powered circumnavigation according to the guidelines set by Guinness.

Diageo has its head office in Park Royal and in the London Borough of Brent, on a former Guinness brewery property.

Miller Place has garnered some renown for being the home of the Miller Place Panthers High School badminton team, which has earned recognition in the Guinness Book of World Records for having the longest winning streak in team sports history.

* Ecclefechan also has links to the Guinness family, the story of the Whistling Ploughboy of Ecclefechan under the title A Guinness With a Difference was produced by ministries and charts the ploughboy's influence under God on the Guinness family.

The accepted record weight, per the Guinness Book of World Records, for a wild tiger was for a Bengal tiger shot in 1967, though its weight may have been boosted by the fact that it had eaten a water buffalo the previous night.

At Comic-Con 2010, Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren accepted the Guinness World Record for the ‘ Most Successful Sports Movie Franchise ’ for Rocky.

B. Priestley play Dangerous Corner and later accepted an offer to work with Alec Guinness in a John Gielgud production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

After appearances in successive months at the Palladium, in productions of While Parents Sleep, Dangerous Corner and Cavalcade, a break took place in the season because of problems with the lease at the theatre: in the interim, Le Mesurier accepted an offer to work with his friend Alec Guinness in a John Gielgud production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

While claims of extreme age have persisted from the earliest times in history, the earliest supercentenarian accepted by Guinness World Records is Dutchman Thomas Peters ( reportedly 1745 – 1857 ).

The Guinness World Records accepted the claim of Martha Graham as the first ever 114-year-old ( 1959 ).

The Guinness Book of World Records accepted her claim, documentation meeting their standards having been supplied, and on March 29, 2004, she received a document from them, declaring her the world's oldest living woman.

One such example is the case of Shigechiyo Izumi ( 1865 ?– 1986 ), accepted in 1986 as the world's oldest man by The Guinness Book of World Records, but who was in fact possibly born in 1880, after one previous brother whose name he assumed upon his death.

The Guinness Book of World Records rejected her longevity claim based on lack of evidence, while promoters made strongly worded demands that the claim be accepted on its evidence.

She was featured in the 2001 Guinness Book of World Records under " Most Valuable Legs ", since a $ 5 million insurance policy was reportedly accepted on her legs in 1952.

Not until Hale's death, however, did Dörnemann's family offer documentation to the Guinness World Records or to a supercentenarian researcher, and at that point the claim of Puerto Rican Emiliano Mercado del Toro was put forward too with documentation that he was born in 1891, almost two years earlier, which was subsequently accepted as well.

The imperial measurement was the accepted value quoted by a number of publications, including the 1993 edition of the Guinness Book of Records.

By January 2005, Guinness had accepted Emiliano as the " oldest living man whose age could be fully authenticated ".

At the time, the Guinness World Records website considered then 114-year-old Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, born 29 June 1890, as the world's oldest person, and later retrospectively accepted the claims of María Capovilla, who was then aged 116.

The record was included in the Guinness Book of Records and was generally accepted as the world record until November 2011.

In general, the Guinness family became Irish Unionists and Arthur Guinness accepted the system, with Arthur " directly opposed to any movement toward Irish independence " and wanting " Ireland to remain under English control ".

Guinness consistently listed " Rock Around the Clock " as having the highest claim of any pop music recording, coming second in sales only to Bing Crosby's 1942 recording of " White Christmas ", which was also listed as having sold 25 million copies with a further estimated 100 million copies sold in other versions.

" The 1980 Guinness Book of World Records repeated Gardner's claim, adding to the popular interest in this number.

Female singer Georgia Brown was listed in the 2005 Guinness World Records for highest note ( G10 ) ever reached, but this claim was removed by the time the 2007 edition came out due to a lack of any verifiable recording of such a feat.

A commonly cited but erroneous factoid in the 1990 Guinness Book of Records listed it as the world's most common surname, but no comprehensive information from China was available at the time and more recent editions have not repeated the claim.

However, new research in 2010 cast doubt about her age claim and WOP title and the Guinness Book of World Records withdrew its acceptance and verification of Hongo's age claim in 2012.

On 17 October 1995, Calment reached 120 years and 238 days to become the " oldest person ever " according to Guinness, surpassing Shigechiyo Izumi of Japan, whose claim ( 120 years 237 days old at the time of his death on 21 February 1986, Calment's 111th birthday ) has been discounted.

Mizunami's biggest claim to fame came in 1995, when the largest ceramic plate in the world, as recognised by the Guinness Book of Records, was created by the Inatsu Town Planning Association in the city.

On 9 December 2005, Guinness World Records recognized the claim of then 116-year-old María Capovilla of Ecuador to be the world's oldest person, supplanting Hendrikje from the revised title.

The Guinness Book of World Records reviewed the evidence for his claim, and it resulted in their publishing it in their 1990 record book.

He was a main attraction in the " Hermanos Mazzini " and " Las Águilas Humanas " circuses, which marketed him as the Guinness World Record-holder for world's smallest man at 54 cm ( 21. 25 inches ), though this organization does not endorse this claim.

Baldwin Street's claim to fame has caused some controversy after it emerged that the original entry in the Guinness Book of Records was based on a typographical error, claiming a maximum gradient of 1: 1. 266 ( 38 ° or 79 %).

The claim of being the highest village in Great Britain has been recognised for some time by the Guinness Book of Records.

At one point the gorge measures deep and wide from rim to rim, and as a result is listed by the Guinness Book of Records as the deepest canyon in the world in proportion to its width, though some gorge lobbyists contest that claim.

It was so recognized by the Guinness Book of Records in 1986, and a National Geographic article in January 1993 repeated the claim.

The Guinness Book of Animal Records claims a zorilla once kept 9 lions at bay while it was scavenging their kill, to illustrate the claim it is indeed the worst-smelling animal.

Ye Olde Trip To Jerusalem in Nottingham is one of the 20 public houses ( including Ye Olde Salutation Inn and The Bell Inn also in Nottingham, and Ye Olde Fighting Cocks in St Albans ( acclaimed in the Guinness Book of Records )) which claim to be the oldest drinking establishment in England.