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General Forum: Society | | **ginnes buk charitra** | |
| Kumar Saanu kuuda indulo unnadugaa !!!!
Posted by: Mr. M Kumar N At: 25, Oct 2005 9:30:03 PM IST
In 1759 Arthur Guinness founded the Guinness Brewery at St. James' Gate, Dublin, and by 1833 the brewery was the largest in Ireland.
Arthur Guinness Son & Co. Ltd. became a limited liability company in London in 1886, and by the 1930's Guinness had two breweries in Britain producing its special porter stout.
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The slogans 'Guinness is good for you', Guinness for strength' and 'My Goodness, My Guinness' appeared everywhere. Guinness was the only beer on sale in every public house, yet Guinness did not own any of the pubs - except for the Castle Inn on its hop farms at Bodiam, Sussex.
Thus the company was always on the look-out for promotional ideas.
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(extract from google.com)
Posted by: Mr. VIRABHADRA SASTRI KALANADHABHATTA At: 24, Oct 2005 0:21:18 AM IST
The first edition was published in 1955, commissioned by the (A kind of bitter stout) Guinness brewery after a debate in a (Tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals) pub over the fastest species of gamebird could not be settled with existing reference books
(Extract from google.com)
Posted by: Mr. VIRABHADRA SASTRI KALANADHABHATTA At: 23, Oct 2005 11:50:15 PM IST
I believe GUINNESS is a last name. There are so many people with this last name. Apart from GUINNESS Book, there is a famous beer brand called GUINNESS.
In India, Parle company started Limca book of records. As I am in US now, I don't know whether Limca Book of Records is still continuing or not.
Posted by: Mr. Rajesh K At: 23, Oct 2005 11:14:44 PM IST
With due appology to Mrs.Sneha for adding some more to this article:
THE INCREDIBLE MCWHIRTER TWINS
Norris and Ross Mcwhirter were born in London on August 12, 1925 with Norris the older identical twin by twenty minutes. Their father William Mcwhirter was a newspaper editor editing three national newspapers at the same time. He also subscribed to hundreds of newspapers and magazines. This has facilitated both the twins to have plenty of reading matter. From their early age, they used to clip unusual information from the newspapers and magazines.
In 1943 they were trained in 6 months course at Oxford’s Trinity College to prepare for service in the Royal navy. Later they worked in Navy in two different assignments. After relieved from the Navy, Norris obtained degree in Economics while Ross got his degree in Law. In 1949 they started a fact-finding business, called Mcwhirter Twins, Ltd., a unique enterprise at the time mainly for encyclopedias, periodicals, yearbooks and advertisers. They were also hired as correspondents on tennis, rugby, track and field. During this time Norris started his career as a BBC reporter also
INCIDENT LED TO PUBLISHING THE GUINNESS BOOK
One day, Sir Hugh Beaver aimed and shot a flying bird but missed it. He wondered how he missed the shot and thought that it was probably due to the bird flying very fast beyond his aim. He was curious to know how fast a bird could fly. But he could not find any record to show the answer. He felt that big big volumes of costly reference books should include such records as these were hitherto just the things that started public and bar arguments all over the world and it was about the time a book should be produced with full of factual records that could settle disputes. So he made up his mind to publish such books and started searching for suitable personalities to take up this task. The Mcwhirter twins were suggested to him, and immediately they were called for.
Series of meetings between the twins and Sir Hugh Beaver took place where they discussed on various problems and methods of producing a big volume. He was satisfied with the twins and felt that he made a right choice. He resolved to publish the book under the Guinness imprint. Target date for the book was fixed in July 1955. The twins hired an office manager and the three of them worked until late into the small hours night after night.
THE FIRST GUNNESS BOOK
The main problem is to extract “ests” ( highest, lowest, smallest, oldest, fastest, heaviest etc., ), “ists” ( ich-thyologists, paleontologists, dendrochronologists etc., ). They corresponded with so many experts. Without asking for a direct bit of information, they used to state a fact that they figured might be close to being right and asked the experts to confirm it or correct it. Norris once said that people have a total resistance to giving information but often have an irresistible desire to correct other’s impressions.
As expected, they received stream of replies. The twins were busy in sorting out the information and to arrange for printing. On August 27, 1955 THE FIRST COPY OF THE GUINNESS BOOK OF RECORDS, hard bound with more than 200 pages, full of illustrations was released for sale. Only 50,000 copies were first printed and priced 5 shillings. Messrs W.H.Smith, the largest book supplier in Britain were first approached who to their disappointment, ordered for only 6 copies. But to the unexpected demand from the public, they placed an order for 100 copies.
Posted by: Mr. VIRABHADRA SASTRI KALANADHABHATTA At: 23, Oct 2005 2:55:57 PM IST
sne^hagaaru ginnes` buk` gurinchi vraasaaru chaalaa baagundi very good effort
Posted by: Mr. Bhaskar At: 23, Oct 2005 11:09:48 AM IST
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