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Those are great, John 
... That "little guy" is my first wife's grandfather !
In the south of Japan, in Yamaguchi prefecture, there is a train station in the middle of nowhere , with no entrance or exit, in a completely isolated and remote land : the station we are talking about is called Seiryu Miharashi Eki
There is no ticket office, there are no shops, there is no bar. The train stops in the middle of absolute nowhere . You get off, but you can't go anywhere and, to leave, you have to wait for the next train. It is said that this station has only one function: to remind men of the importance of stopping, both physically and mentally, and admiring the landscape!
There is no ticket office, there are no shops, there is no bar. The train stops in the middle of absolute nowhere . You get off, but you can't go anywhere and, to leave, you have to wait for the next train. It is said that this station has only one function: to remind men of the importance of stopping, both physically and mentally, and admiring the landscape!
Well I'll be darned lol
I take it that you are referring to the little chess player? What happened to him in life, LT? Did he continue to play? And win? Did he ever quit? Tell us more!
Lee
In the south of Japan, in Yamaguchi prefecture, there is a train station in the middle of nowhere , with no entrance or exit, in a completely isolated and remote land : the station we are talking about is called Seiryu Miharashi Eki
There is no ticket office, there are no shops, there is no bar. The train stops in the middle of absolute nowhere . You get off, but you can't go anywhere and, to leave, you have to wait for the next train. It is said that this station has only one function: to remind men of the importance of stopping, both physically and mentally, and admiring the landscape!
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I tried to find out how long passengers who got off at the isolated train station would have to wait until the next train arrived. Couldn't find the answer.
But one article said that the train stops and if people got off, the train would wait 10-15 minutes for people to take photos and appreciate the scenery and let them get back on.
Lee
Samuel "Sammy" Reshevsky Contiued to play, and did well at it ... He won the US Open Chess Championship in 1931, and won the US Chess Championship in 1936, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1946, and 1969. After that, he didn't compete very often. He died in 1992... I met him only one time, but he wouldn't play Chess with me, as it was a Saturday, and being a religious Jew, he would not play on the Sabbath.
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‘In February 1944, an American soldier discovered a Yorkshire terrier dog in an abandoned trench in the jungles of New Guinea, which received the nickname Smokey. It was owned by Ohio corporal William Wynn, who bought it from the soldiers for 2 Australian pounds. For the next two years, Smokey was with her master in the Pacific theater of operations.
The dog participated in 12 air and sea rescue and photo reconnaissance missions. During these operations, Smokey was often under fire in a soldier's backpack for a long time. She survived at least 150 air raids and two typhoons in Okinawa. Smokey also made jumps with a special parachute from a height of 9.1 m. And Wynn said that she warned him about the threat of a bombing by barking and behavior, which saved his life.
Once a dog saved the labor of 250 workers at an airfield. They would have had to dig a new ditch to lay the cable. This would also require the relocation of 40 warplanes. A buried old narrow pipe was found. The dog was placed at one end of the pipe, and its owner called Smokey from the other end. And a tiny dog with a wire tied to it, was not afraid to crawl through this long tunnel.
Smokey is also considered the world's first professional "treatment dog" - she entertained the wounded by showing them all sorts of tricks. In this capacity, the dog worked for 12 years, during and after World War II.
There are a total of six monuments to Smokey in the United States. In addition, the Yorkshire Terrier National Rescue awards an annual "Smoky Award" to rescue dogs that excel that year.”
(Credit goes to the respected owner.)
The dog participated in 12 air and sea rescue and photo reconnaissance missions. During these operations, Smokey was often under fire in a soldier's backpack for a long time. She survived at least 150 air raids and two typhoons in Okinawa. Smokey also made jumps with a special parachute from a height of 9.1 m. And Wynn said that she warned him about the threat of a bombing by barking and behavior, which saved his life.
Once a dog saved the labor of 250 workers at an airfield. They would have had to dig a new ditch to lay the cable. This would also require the relocation of 40 warplanes. A buried old narrow pipe was found. The dog was placed at one end of the pipe, and its owner called Smokey from the other end. And a tiny dog with a wire tied to it, was not afraid to crawl through this long tunnel.
Smokey is also considered the world's first professional "treatment dog" - she entertained the wounded by showing them all sorts of tricks. In this capacity, the dog worked for 12 years, during and after World War II.
There are a total of six monuments to Smokey in the United States. In addition, the Yorkshire Terrier National Rescue awards an annual "Smoky Award" to rescue dogs that excel that year.”
(Credit goes to the respected owner.)
Smokey was top dog! 
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“When Anais Bordier saw a YouTube video of Samantha Futerman, who looked exactly like her, she Facebook messaged her and discovered they were both adopted and born on the same day. They were identical twins, separated at birth, who’d found each other through happenstance and social media.”
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Searched and read that there's a movie about them too. I might watch it.
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