Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Thursday, December 03, 2009

Fender Stratocaster: The Most Expensive Guitar

The world's most expensive guitar is still a Stratocaster, after the other strat, Eric Clapton's 'Blackie'. This guitar was sold at an auction in Doha, Qatar on November 16th, 2005, to raise funds for tsunami victims in Asia. The guitar was signed by several rock musicians to benefit a tsunami charity, ‘Reach out to Asia’. Co-ordinated by Bryan Adams, it is signed by Eric Clapton, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian May, Jimmy Page, David Gilmour, Jeff Beck, Pete Townsend, Mark Knopfler, Ray Davis, Liam Gallagher, Ronnie Wood, Tony Iommi, Angus & Malcolm Young, Paul McCartney, Sting, Ritchie Blackmore, Def Leppard, and Bryan Adams himself.


It was initially by Qatar’s royal family for $1 million and then donated back to the Asia Program, bringing in $2.7 million USD. The guitar has generated a total of $3.7 million USD for charity, making it the most expensive guitar yet.

The event was conducted by Sotheby's Henry Wyndham, who said, "I have auctioned many items for charity in my life but never have I witnessed the levels we achieved tonight. This will stay in my memory for a very long time indeed." at the more recent auction, whose attendees included US Former President Bill Clinton.

Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Rŭngrado May Day Stadium : The Biggest Stadium in The World

The monumental Rungrado May Day Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium in Pyongyang, North Korea , was built in 1989. It is currently used for Home ground of the national football team, a few athletics matches, but most often for the spectacular Arirang performances (also known as the Mass Games). Opened on the 1st May 1989 (for a communist celebration of the labors day) hence the name.

Is seats a staggering 150,000 people, which is the largest non-auto racing stadium capacity in the world. Its name comes from Rungra Island in the Taedong River. In 1995, an incredible 190,000 people crammed in for a professional wrestling event.


It is also known for hosting the execution of a number of North Korean army generals implicated in an assassination attempt on Kim Jong-il, by being burned alive.

Saturday, November 21, 2009

The Largest Gold Coin in the World

The coin is made of 99.999% pure gold, weighs 100 kg and has a face value of $1 million US, but the solid gold bullion would be worth about $2.4 million US if the coin was melted down.


The coin with maple leaves on one side and Queen Elizabeth II on the other, was minted by the Royal Canadian Mint. They also have plans to mint at least four more coins in the series.  So if you’ve got a couple of millions on hand then you can bid for this world’s largest coin.