Also worthy of note was Joseph Bonaparte, the older brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, whose contributions on French topics include a 25, 000 word biography on the former emperor of France, which according to De Kay was the longest biographical article in the Encyclopedia Americana.

Terrace, in his article " How Nim Chimpsky Changed My Mind ", quotes Nim's longest sentence as the 16-word-long " Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you.

According to the article Stadium at Olympia the track at Olympia was longer than even the longest definition for stadion given in the article Stadion ( unit of length ).

According to a November 2006 article featuring test card enthusiast Keith Hamer, Hersee is in the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest television appearance in history — an estimated total of 70, 000 hours, equivalent to nearly eight continuous years.

In 1976, a newspaper article said that " it's ... the second shortest highway on Michigan's state highway system, but for those who travel it one way, M-147 is the longest road in the world.

A surface perpendicular to the crystallographic direction ( that is the longest diagonal of a cube ) of a pure ( i. e., type IIa ) diamond has a hardness value of 167 GPa when scratched with an nanodiamond tip, while the nanodiamond sample itself has a value of 310 GPa when tested with another nanodiamond tip.

Just prior to Cpl Rob Furlong's longest recorded sniper kill, MCpl Arron Perry recorded the second longest recorded sniper kill in history from 2, 310 metres.

The classification of finite simple groups is regarded by some to be the longest proof of a theorem ; it comprises tens of thousands of pages in 500 journal articles by some 100 authors.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the longest book in the series at 766 pages in the UK version and 870 pages in the US version.

California's constitution is one of the longest collections of laws in the world, taking up 110 pages.

In 1971 he published what was to be the first volume in the 26-volume series Juuret Iijoen törmässä (' Roots in the Bank of River Ii '), probably the longest autobiographical narrative in the world ( some 17 000 pages in total ).

Published in hardcover by Doubleday in May 1990, this became the longest book in Stephen King's oeuvre at 1152 pages.

At 645 pages, it is the longest published biographical bibliography of any American composer ( see ).

Callinan's judgment in that case is the longest in the history of the High Court, containing approximately 55, 000 words and running for 165 pages.

At 393, 823 words, The Shadow Rising is the longest book of The Wheel of Time although it has fewer pages than " Lord of Chaos.

His first and longest booklet, a treatise on moral education, is printed on only the left-hand pages, and begins with the following preface:

It was the longest poem in the book, spanning a total of eight pages.

It is currently the longest printed encyclopedia with 105, 000 pages and 165, 200, 000 words.

Allegations of witchcraft and the Occult found in the text, and legal disputes, one doctor coined the term " Hogwarts headache " in a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine shortly after the release of Order of the Phoenix, the longest book in the series, at 766 pages in the UK edition, 870 pages in the US edition, and over 250, 000 words.

De Selby is heavily referenced in footnotes in this book, the longest of which takes up the bottom halves of eight pages and ends on a completely different note from the one on which it began.

Based on the testimony of 108 witnesses ( including Harris ), 8, 000 pages totaling 3. 5 million words worth of transcripts, and culminating in what was then the longest criminal trial in California history, Larry Green, J. C. X.

The penultimate and longest chapter, ' Lord Osmund's Lenten Party ' ( over 250 pages ), is a satirical account of a fancy-dress party held by three members of the ' Finnian Shaw ' family, who are clearly modelled on the Sitwell family, Osbert, Edith and Sacheverell.

The Mad Man, spanning 501 pages in its first hardcover edition, is Delany's longest and most ambitious novel since Dhalgren ( 1975 ).

" Napier did not insist on the usual concise review, but as it was still arriving in mid May stopped it at what became 85 pages, one of the longest reviews the quarterly ever published.

The longest volume in the Pléiade is Les Mille et Une Nuits I, II et III, at 3504 pages.

The December 2006 issue was the longest ever at 24 pages.

At 96 pages the module is larger than common at the time and the longest in the Bloodstone Saga.

The longest and most famous of these roads is the Great North Road.

The Aar ( German Aare ), a tributary of the High Rhine, is the longest river that both rises and ends entirely within Switzerland.

* 1981 – The longest professional baseball game is begun in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

Farther north the western depression, known as the Albertine Rift is occupied for more than half its length by water, forming the Great Lakes of Tanganyika, Kivu, Lake Edward and Lake Albert, the first-named over 400 miles ( 600 km ) long and the longest freshwater lake in the world.

* 1972 – First edition of the BBC comedy panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue is broadcast, one of the longest running British radio shows in history.

However the longest continuously-singing group is probably The Whiffenpoofs of Yale University, which was formed in 1909 and once included Cole Porter as a member.

Aberfoyle is also home to the largest Go Ape adventure course in the UK, featuring the longest zip-line in the UK.

Alameda is also known for its Fourth of July parade, which is advertised as the second oldest and second longest Fourth of July parade in the United States.

The other long established club in the city ' Os Galitos ' was founded in 1904 and water related sports such as swimming, sailing and rowing are some of its longest traditional strongest specialities, other sections in the club include chess, basketball, snooker, pool and billiards among others, but rowing is the modality in which the club has a maintained a long and proud tradition going back more than one hundred years, reaching the highest possible excellence as a club with several of its individual and team of rowers having represented Portugal Internationally and at the Olympic games with good classifications on more than a just few occasions.

The Book of Alma is the longest of all the books of the Book of Mormon, consisting of 63 chapters.

The longest east-west extent is about 1, 175 km.

The world's longest beam bridge is Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in southern Louisiana in the United States, at, with individual spans of.

With the span of, the Solkan Bridge over the Soča River at Solkan in Slovenia is the second largest stone bridge in the world and the longest railroad stone bridge.

The longest suspension bridge in the world is the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in Japan.

The longest cable-stayed bridge is the Sutong Bridge over the Yangtze River in China.

* The River Bosna is the longest river in Bosnia and is fully contained within the country as it stretches from its source near Sarajevo to the river Sava in the north.

The longest half-life is the neutron deficient < sup > 77 </ sup > Br at 2. 376 days.

The longest half-life on the neutron rich side is < sup > 82 </ sup > Br at 1. 471 days.

Dividing limits the size of chains-in the case of 4x4 squares, the longest possible chain is four, filling the larger square.

Barcelona is the transport hub with one of Europe's principal ports, Barcelona international airport, which handles above 34 million passengers per year, extensive motorway network and also is a hub of high-speed rail, particularly that which is intended to link Spain with France and the rest of Europe as the second longest in the world.

Bayonne has the longest tradition of bull-fighting in France and there is a ring beyond the walls of Grand Bayonne.