World's strongest kid

Giuliano Stroe (born 18 July 2004) is a Romanian bodybuilder and gymnast. Giuliano Stroe has been lifting weights since he was two-years-old in Florence, Italy where his family lives. Giuliano's father Iulian, said he has been taking Giuliano with him to the gym ever since he was born, but he is careful not to push Giuliano too hard. Stroe insists his son's workout schedule isn't excessive. "He is never allowed to practice on his own, he is only a child and if he gets tired we go and play," Iulian said.

In 2009, he was recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records after setting the record for the fastest ever 10 m hand-walk with a weight ball between his legs. Stroe performed the stunt in front of a cheering live audience on an Italian TV Show, and has become an Internet sensation as hundreds of thousands of people have watched the clip of him performing the stunt on YouTube.



On February 24, 2010 he broke the world record for number of air push-ups, which is an exercise where push-ups are performed without letting your feet touch the ground. Stroe managed 20 'air push ups' beating his previous record of 12, live on Romanian TV.



On the same TV show, he broke another world record, for 'the human flag' - an exercise in which he had to support all the weight parallel to the ground, the hands hanging by a bar.

The first woman-architect in the world

Maria Virginia Andreescu Haret (June 21, 1894 - May 6, 1962) was the first woman-architect in the world.

Virginia Haret, born Andreescu, was the niece of the great painter Ion Andreescu. She was motherless at 9 yo, and she had to take care of his three brothers and keep the house. She did the school in private, obtaining the baccalaureate at "Michael the Brave" high school. At 18, she was the first in the competition for admission in the Superior School of Architecture. At the same time she followed the Fine Arts Academy. His numerous watercolors become part of the print collection of the Romanian Academy Library.

From 1923 he worked in technical service of Ministry of Education, where he retired in 1947. It was the first woman to reach the rank of inspector general architect. Between the two world wars, she represented Romania at the international congresses of architecture in Rome, Paris, Moscow, Brussels. She was awarded numerous prizes which have crowned his career. The list of projects and architectural achievements of the Virgin Andreescu Haret is long and impressive.

Ion 'Iron Man' Oncescu

Ion Vlad Oncescu (born April 25, 1978 in Bucharest) is a professional Romanian arm-wrestler (skandenberg), multiple World and European champion for both left and right hands.

He graduated Journalism and Economics at the Bucharest Academy of Economic and International Business Studies. His first contact with sports was at 17yo, at Dinamo Bucharest Football Club, where he played football but he soon found tennis more interesting and started to train with Florin Segărceanu. He practiced also swimming and mountaineering, he was a professional athlete and won several international crosses.

Ion Oncescu won his first national arm-wrestling title when he was 18 years old and since then has been undisputed champion. He became world champion for the first time (90kg) at the XXIXth World Arm-wrestling Championships in Veliko-Tarnovo, Bulgaria in October 2007. For the left arm competition, Oncescu fought in 10 matches, and 5 of his opponents were former world champions. He defeated 2-0 the great Russian champion Dzambolat Tsoriev in the final. The next day he had to compete for the right arm championship, was engaged in 8 matches and reached the final where he met the same Dzambolat Tsoriev, which he defeated 2-1.





Ion Oncescu won his third and fourth world titles at 100 kg, at the World Arm-wrestling Championships held in Kelowna, Canada in 2008. He had to fight in 20 matches, 10 for the left arm and 10 for the right arm and won the two world titles with ease. Oncescu won also 2 titles of European Champion in 2009 at Sofia, Bulgaria. On January 24, 2010, he defeated 300 arm-wrestlers, including professionals.

Profile of Ion Oncescu at World of Armwrestling.

The longest romantic poem

A young poet from Iaşi, Cristian Bodnărescu, shot down the world record at... poem, composing the longest romantic poem of universal literature. Cristian is a journalist with studies in philosophy, and this is his first appearance in the sphere of literature.


The previous record was held until recently by a 126 years old poem, also Romanian: "Evening Star" by Mihai Eminescu, recognized in 2009 by the World Record Academy in Miami, as the longest poem, with 91 quatrains and 364 stanzas of verse.

The poem "She Demon" is, besides the world record of romantic poetry, "an original artistic work, a penetration of the demonic spirit world, an attempt to get starting finding a truth. The poem is apparently influenced by romanticism, but dominant is the fabulous perpetuity", as stated professor Theodore Teo-Marsalcovschi.

Cristian Bodnărescu's poem, of 109 quatrains, will appear in volume in early October, at "Renaissance Publishing House" in Bucharest. Now some details still to be added to the final form of poems and the translations in English, to be approved by the World Record Academy.