On their longest winning streak since winning 15 in a row from March 1 to April 2, 1994, the Knicks can tie the franchise record of 18 in a row, set early in their first NBA championship season of 1969-70, by winning their final five games.

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The 24-year-old first wants to set a 100m record of 9.4 seconds - a time he says will "probably never be beaten".

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Notes: Williams' seven 3-pointers in the first quarter was one shy of the NBA record for a period, set by former Milwaukee All-Star Michael Redd, Williams' teammate on the 2008 U.S. Olympic team.

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This symbolic system of notation also has shown scholars how writing first developed to provide a permanent record of information rather than as a way to set down spoken language.

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In November theglobe.com set a different kind of record with a first-day gain of 606%.

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But Morgan stepped up her game to record probably the finest victory of her career to date, taking a tense first set 13-10 and then destroying her opponent 11-5 in the second.

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If temperatures continue to hit 100 degrees or more by Saturday, Dallas will have set a record -- becoming the first city to mark 43 consecutive days of temperatures above 100 degrees.

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In 1997 at Black Rock Desert, Nevada, he drove Thrust SSC to become the first person to break the sound barrier in a car and set the existing land-speed record of 763mph.

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He set a qualifying record to win the pole Friday and led 69 of the first 73 laps before getting passed by brother Kyle.

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