Friday, August 21, 2009

Domino.... Falling Beauty... World Record Theme...





In 12th Century Domino are traced in China to Song Dynasty though found in Arabia and Egypt. A set of Chinese dominos has tiles that represent all the possible rolls of a dice.Even though the origin of dominos traces back to China, Latin American countries of the Caribbean, most notably Cuba, have adopted it as their national game. Island nations of the Caribbean even host annual domino tournaments.

The traditional Sino-European domino set consists of 28 dominoes, colloquially nicknamed bones, cards, tiles, tickets, stones, or spinners. Each domino is a rectangular tile with a line dividing its face into two square ends. Each end is marked with a number of spots (also called pips) or is blank.

In November 2008 the team of Weijers Domino Productions broke the world record domino toppling with 4.345.027 dominoes toppled. Domino Day is the ultimate world record show on television, which this year celebrated its 10th anniversary, with 10 records.
"Celebrating 10 years of Domino Day- Breaking more World Records than ever-" was the central theme of this year.





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