Community Magazine December 2013

Longest Taxi Ride Three Englishmen – Leigh Purnell, PaulArcher, and Johno Ellison – left London, England by taxi on Feb. 17, 2011 and traveled through four continents before returning back to their original starting point on May 11, 2012. They traveled 43,319.5 miles and their taxi fare was $127,530. FACTS STATS & Smallest Town Hum is a town in the central part of Istria, northwest Croatia, on a hill above the Mirna valley. This small fortified habitation has maintained all the features of medieval urban architecture and organization.It has a population of between 17 and 23 people, but is officially a town, and is the Guinness World Record holder for the smallest town in the world Largest Cruise Ship At 1,187 feet long, 216 feet wide, and with 16 passenger decks and the capacity to hold 6,318 passengers, the MS Allure of the Seas is the largest passenger ship in the world. First Manned Spaceflight Cosmonaut Flight Major Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin of Russia became the first human to travel into space, orbiting Earth in Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961. Most Expensive Teddy Bear The most expensive teddy bear was manufactured by the German toy company Steiff. The company made this bear with the brand name of the famous fashion house Louis Vuitton. The bear is dressed in an elegant overcoat and hat, and takes a proud place in the Teddy Bear Museum in the South Korean city of Cheju. It’s price – a cool $2.1 million!! Highest Jump by a Horse The world record for a high jump by a horse is 8 ft 1.25 in by Huaso ex-Faithful, rode by Capt. Alberto Larraguibel Morales atViña del Mar, Santiago, Chile on February 5, 1949. TEVET 5774 DECEMBER 2013 97