Search results for 'green' (36)
Green River, Utah, United States--A gigantic watermelon slice is stored in an open-air shed in the parking lot of the John Wesley Powell River Museum, in Green River, Utah; it was built to help celebrate Green River, Utah's Watermelon Days festival; the 20-foot-long, 10-foot-tall wooden watermelon slice sets the world record for being the World's Largest Watermelon Slice Sculpture, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.
Greenville, South Carolina, United States--Carolina Handling associates painted the tops of 2,500 wooden pallets that were used to form a giant pallet painting that, when placed in a grid-like pattern, revealed the image of Lady Liberty; presented in partnership with pallet provider 48forty Solutions, the Greenville Airport Commission, and the Military History Center of the Carolinas, The Patriotic Pallet Project set the world record for the World's Largest Pallet Painting, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.
Rogue River–Siskiyou National Forest in Oregon, United States--Near Grants Pass, in the southwestern part of Oregon, the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest is home to a giant Pine Tree named “Phalanx"; at 268.3 feet it’s as high as a 30 story building and set the world record for being the World’s Tallest Living Pine Tree, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.
Portland, Oregon, United States--Mill Ends Park is a tiny urban park, consisting of one tree, located in the median strip of SW Naito Parkway in downtown Portland, Oregon; the park is a small circle 2 feet across, with a total area of 452 square inches (0.00007205784 acres), which sets the world record for being the World’s Smallest City Park, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.
Asheboro, North Carolina, United States--The North Carolina Zoo, formerly the North Carolina Zoological Park, is a zoo in Asheboro, North Carolina, housing 1,700 animals of more than 250 species, primarily representing Africa and North America; the Zoo is 75 miles (121 km) west of Raleigh, 25 miles (40 km) south of Greensboro , and 75 miles (121 km) northeast of Charlotte and is home to 1,700 animals of more than 200 species, thus setting the world record for being the World's Largest Natural Habitat Zoo, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.
Edwards, Mississippi, United States--A large cactus plantation located in Edwards, Mississippi a few miles off I-20, (owner John Thomas) filled several greenhouses with over 3,500 varieties of cacti, succulents, colorful bromeliads, daylilies, tropical foliage and seasonal plants; it set the world record for being the World's First Cactus Plantation, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States--The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency displayed a giant paper basll at the Minnesota State Fair; the 426-pound ball measured 9 feet 7 inches tall and 32.2 feet in circumference and set the world record for being the World's Largest Paper Ball, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.
Wheaton, Illinois, United States--The Reber Radio Telescope is a historic radio telescope, built in 1937 in Illinois by astronomer Grote Reber, the first purpose-built parabolic radio telescope is now located at the Green Bank Observatory near Green Bank, West Virginia and sets the world record for being the World's First Radio Telescope, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.
Coeur d'Alene , Idaho, United States--The Coeur d'Alene Resort, a resort hotel located in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, United States, features a marina, convention facilities, spa, as well as a notable 18-hole golf course which is best known for its floating green on the 14th hole; the 2,300-ton floating green sets the world record for being the World's First Floating, Movable Island Golf Green, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.
Dillingham, Alaska, United States--Dr. Tom Marsik and Kristin Donaldson, University of Alaska Fairbanks Bristol Bay Campus, designed and built an extremely energy efficient house with the air-tightness of 0.05 Air Changes per Hour (ACH) at the differential pressure of 50 pascals – setting the new world record for the World's Tightest Residential Building, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.
Seeley Lake, Montana, United States--Visitors to Montana’s Jim Girard Memorial Tamaracks Grove near Seeley Lake, Montana, United States, can see a 1,000-years old tamarack known locally as Gus, a 163 feet high Larch Tree, with another 10-foot dead top, and a 273-inch circumference, which sets the world record for being the World's Largest Larch Tree, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.
Green River Basin, Wyoming, United States--The Green River Basin of southwestern Wyoming contains a large trona resource of over 127 billion tons, and more than 40 billion tons are reserves (economically min-able with current technology); at the current rate of production, Wyoming’s trona reserves should last well over 2,000 years, thus setting the world record for being the World’s Largest Trona Deposit, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.
Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States--The Recycled Roadrunner Sculpture in Las Cruces, New Mexico, is 20 feet tall and 40 feet long and it's made up of materials found at the Old Foothills Landfill off Sonoma Ranch Boulevard by Olin Calk and Dan Smith; recycled tennis shoes make up the roadrunner’s underside while phones, keyboards, crutches, kitchen utensils, hubcaps, golf clubs and myriad other items make up the bird’s wings and body; the sculpture sets the world record for being the World's Largest Recycled Roadrunner Sculpture, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States--Venger Wind and US renewable distributor SWG Energy installed a rooftop wind farm atop the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States; the installation of the 18 wind turbines makes the entire project the World’s Largest Rooftop Wind Farm, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.
Owensboro, Kentucky, United States--The sassafras tree on Frederica Street in Owensboro, Kentucky, United States, it's believed to be 250 to 300 years old and it's now 60 feet tall and 23 feet, 7 inches in circumference, thus setting the world record for being the World's largest Sassafras tree, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.
Clay County, Kentucky, United States--A giant red hickory, located in Clay County, Kentucky, United States, is 175 feet tall and 56 inches in diameter at breast height, as measured by Jim Scheff, a forest ecologist who works with the nonprofit Kentucky Heartwood; the giant hickory tree sets the world record for being the World's Largest Red Hickory Tree, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.
Louisville, Kentucky, United States--A giant guillotine shear, with 3000 t shearing force, was developed in 1985 by Henschel (which later became Danieli Henschel), in Kassel, to fulfill the order placed by Sheppard Waste Recovery in Liverpool; in 1998 the shear was transported to River Metals Recycling in Louisville, Kentucky, USA and has been in operation there ever since; it sets the world record for being the World’s Largest Shear, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.
Greensburg, Kansas, United States--The Brenham Meteorite, a 1,000-pound (450 kg) specimen of outer space origin, discovered by a local farmer with a giant home-built metal detector near Greensburg in 1949, is housed at the Big Well Museum and Visitors Center in Greensburg, Kansas, United States; the meteorite sets the world record for the World's Largest Pallasite Meteorite, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY: https://shorturl.at/cxFTU
Greensburg, Kansas, United States--The Big Well, also known as the "Greensburg Well," a large historic water well in Greensburg, Kansas, United States, served as the municipal water supply until 1932; at 109 feet (33 m) deep and 32 feet (9.8 m) in diameter, it sets the world record for being the World's Largest Hand-Dug Well, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY: https://shorturl.at/gKRY7
Nevada, Iowa, United States--DuPont had a 30 million gallon cellulosic ethanol plant in Nevada, Iowa; the plant, which used corn stover (the stalks, leaves and husks of the corn plant) to produce ethanol, aimed to produce approximately 30 million gallons of fuel per year; after employing 1,000 construction workers, obtaining corn stover from approximately 500 nearby farmers, hiring 85 employees to work at the plant, and using another 150 people to collect, transport, and store feed stock, the plant (NOW sold to a German biofuels company's U.S. subsidiary) has set the world record for being the World's largest cellulosic ethanol plant, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY: https://shorturl.at/abmS5