re: Pictures from days gone by....

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How is this possible when the Japanese and Russians weren't fighting each other. The Soviet Union didn't declare war on Japan until August 1945, less than a month before the war's end? Just curious.

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Yes, Kurt Russell was a professional baseball player before becoming a successful actor.

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Didn’t he start acting at the age of 12?

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Kurt Vogel Russell (born March 17, 1951) is an American actor. He began his career as a child actor before transitioning to leading roles as an adult in various genres such as action adventures, science-fiction, westerns, romance films, comedic films and family dramas.

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At the age of 12, he began acting in the Western TV series The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (1963–1964). In the late 1960s, he signed a ten-year contract with The Walt Disney Company starring in films such as The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969), Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972), and The Strongest Man in the World (1975). For his portrayal of rock and roll superstar Elvis Presley in the television film Elvis (1979), he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.[1]

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Authors Antony Beevor and Steven Zaloga have regarded Yang Kyoungjong's existence as a fact, but neither author provides any sources in their books.[1][2] A 2005 Korean SBS documentary that focused on his case concluded there was no convincing evidence of his existence.[3] Historical author Martin K. A. Morgan goes further and says that "Yang Kyoungjong is a person who never existed because he certainly never left us any proof that he ever existed."

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Darth, I think he would have had to been captured in '39 at Khalkhin Gol.

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