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This user edits as a [[WP:WikiSloth|wiki-sloth]]: my watchlist is completely empty, and I'll be happy to let you win any arguments. Since I don't watch any pages, any messages for me are welcome on my [[User talk:Reuben|talk page]].
== Handy links ==
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Korea/DPRK]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Korea/Housekeeping]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Korea]]
 
There are several lists of things that caught my interest in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Reuben&oldid=160414754 previous version] of my user page.
== 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)
 
== Honorable mention ==
 
* [[Boutros Boutros Ghali]], former UN Secretary-General
* [[Ivan Ivanov]], Bulgarian weight lifter
* [[Robert Roberts]], American author
 
== See also ==
 
* [http://www.jacquesleslie.com/conforming.html Conforming couplings]
 
== Elephant anecdote ==
This version is my favorite: [http://www.bezhetsk.info/index.php?ind=reviews&op=entry_view&iden=20]
: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".
 
{{Quotation|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}}
 
=== 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
Hmm, not so many as I thought I could find.