Word: crowning
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...KINGDA KA New Jersey This brand-new superstar from the U.S. theme park chain Six Flags claimed the roller coaster triple crown when it opened earlier this year, notching up the fastest speed (205 km/h), the tallest ride (139 m), and the biggest drop (127 m). Numbers...
...First Lady Imelda was forced to leave behind the 3,000 pairs of shoes that would place her in the record books. But she wasn't traveling light: when the couple landed in Hawaii, the U.S. Customs Service confiscated Pampers boxes stuffed with jewelry, including a gold crown and three gem-encrusted tiaras (not to mention $200,000 worth of gold bullion and $1 million in Philippine pesos). And that's just what they managed to load onto the C-141 cargo plane to Hawaii: back at Malaca?ang Palace, officials discovered a stash of jewelry estimated by the government...
...existence, and a full restoration in 1999 should keep it in good health for many years to come. Cars trot along this centenarian at a stately 16 km/h. Kingda Ka New Jersey This brand-new superstar from the U.S. theme park chain Six Flags claimed the roller coaster triple crown when it opened earlier this year, notching up the fastest speed (205 km/h), the tallest ride (139 m), and the big-gest drop (127 m). Numbers don't lie. Gravity Max Taichung, Taiwan Located in the Discovery World theme park, Gravity Max is the world's only "tilt coaster." That...
...four years has either side not entered the de facto Ivy Championship game with a perfect 5-0 record—Harvard was 3-2 in 2003 after an injury to then-junior quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick derailed the Crimson’s hopes of nabbing its second league crown in three years...
...high-flying Bulldogs offense led by Alvin Cowan, Nate Lawrie, Ralph Plumb, and Robert Carr was supposed to have led Yale to a pair of Ivy titles. Before that, it was a solid Princeton squad which was supposed to unseat Harvard and blow past Penn en route to the crown...