Handy links
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
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
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.