User:Reuben

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This page is occupied by things that I wondered about and set out to find or make lists of. They are not necessarily very encyclopedic! If you have any examples to add, drop me a note.

Contents 1 Handy links 2 List of people with same first and last name 3 Honorable mention 4 See also 5 Subways I have ridden 6 Elephant anecdote 6.1 Wikipedia articles with elephantological claims 7 Deep subway stations

[edit] Handy links

• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Korea/DPRK
• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Korea/Housekeeping
• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Korea
• Wikipedia:WikiProject_Korea/Milhist

[edit] List of people with same first and last name

• Karol Karol (fictional, Three Colors: White)
• Durand Durand (fictional, Barbarella (film))
• Sirhan Sirhan (killer of Robert Kennedy)
• James James (fictional, News Radio)
• Major Major Major Major (fictional, Catch-22)
• Mohammad Mohammad (Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, UT Austin)
• Ford Madox Ford (English Author; born Ford Hermann Hueffer)
• Jerome K. Jerome (English Author)
• Humbert Humbert (fictional, Lolita)
• Thomas Thomas (Indian physician)
• I I (Korean Confucian scholar)
• Wilson W. Wilson, Jr. (fictional, Home Improvement)

[edit] Honorable mention

• Boutros Boutros Ghali, former UN Secretary-General
• Ivan Ivanov, Bulgarian weight lifter
• Robert Roberts, American author

[edit] See also

• Conforming couplings

[edit] Subways I have ridden

• Saint Petersburg Metro, my favorite in the world. One summer I rode from Leninsky Prospekt to Nevsky Prospekt every day. Avtovo is the most beautiful station.
• Moscow Metro.
• Tokyo Metro. I stayed near Nezu Station.
• Munich U-Bahn.
• Los Angeles Subway, which, surprisingly, exists.
• Fukuoka City Subway. I followed the special visa tour in 1999.
• Seoul Subway.
• Daegu Subway.
• Washington Metro in DC.
• Santiago Metro.
• San Francisco Muni, which is partly underground.
• Beijing Subway
• Busan Subway (I think I rode it, but my memory is a bit hazy! I might have only taken the bus!)
• The T in Boston.

[edit] Elephant anecdote

This version is my favorite: [1]

По решению ЮНЕСКО 1979 год был объявлен - Годом Слона. Каждая страна напечатала к этому празднику тематическую книгу:

• Индия выпустила брошюру "Все о слонах";
• Германия - толстую книгу "Краткое введение в основы слоноведения";
• Великобритания - коллекционное издание "Слон и империя";
• Франция - двухтомник. Первый том - "Слоны и женщины", второй - "О любви";
• Штаты - трехтомник: "Слоны", "Слоны и деньги", "Деньги";
• СССР - собрание из четырех томов: "Россия - родина слонов (от мамонта до наших дней)"; "Жизнь слонов до и после Великой Октябрьской социалистической революции"; "Забота партии и правительства о разведении слонов"; "Советский слон - самый счастливый слон в мире";
• Болгария выпустила пятитомник. Первые четыре - перевод с русского, пятый том - "Советский слон - лучший друг болгарского слона".

By decision of UNESCO, 1979 was proclaimed the Year of the Elephant. Each country celebrated this by printing a book on the theme:

• India put out a brochure, "All about elephants";
• Germany - a thick book, "A short introduction to the fundamentals of elephantology";
• Great Britain - the collected works "Elephant and Empire";
• France - two volumes. The first - "Elephants and women," and the second - "On love."
• The US - three volumes: "Elephants," "Elephants and money," and "Money."
• The USSR - a collection of four volumes: "Russia - motherland of elephants (from mammoths to the modern day)"; "The life of elephants before and after the Great October socialist revolution"; "The concern of the party and administration for the breeding of elephants"; and "The Soviet elephant - the happiest elephant in the world";
• Bulgaria put out five volumes. The first four were a translation from the Russian, and the fifth was "The Soviet elephant: the best friend of the Bulgarian elephant."

– Soviet political anecdote

[edit] Wikipedia articles with elephantological claims

• Chung-Yao Chao - Chinese physicist who measured anomalous scattering cross section of gamma rays in lead, but neither discovered nor "captured" positrons
• Jang Yeong-sil - Korean scholar who invented a type of rain gauge and water depth meter, clearly not the world's first in either case
• Water gauge - claim about Jang Yeong-sil was inserted here, even though the article is about something unrelated
• Jaan Einasto - Estonian astrophysicist who has done numerical simulations of dark matter, but by no means discovered it
• First flying machine, Invention of the telephone - good articles, doesn't actually make such claims but only describes them
• Venkatesh Ketakar, whose non-discovery of Pluto has apparently been unfairly overlooked for years.

[edit] Deep subway stations

• Peachtree Center (MARTA station), Atlanta - 120 feet
• Forest Glen (Washington Metro), Washington, DC - 196 feet / 60 m
• Wheaton (Washington Metro), Washington, DC - ? but shallower than Forest Glen
• Admiralteyskaya, Saint Petersburg Metro - 102 m, under construction
• Komendantsky Prospekt, Saint Petersburg Metro - 78 m, working?
• Chernyshevskaya]], Saint Petersburg Metro - 74 m
• Washington Park, MAX Light Rail, Portland, OR - 79 m - under a hill
• Park Pobedy, Moscow - 83 m (97 m?)
• Arsenalna (Kiev Metro), Kiev - 102 m!!