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Trainspotters in the United Kingdom
Trainspotters in the United Kingdom: British hobbyists who record locomotive numbers ('cops') in Ian Allan ABC data books. Began with Fanny Johnson in 1861, peaked in the early 1960s with 250,000 Locospotters' Club members, and fed the railway preservation movement.
Walt Flanagan
Walt Flanagan (Walter Flanagan), American comic shop manager of Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash since 1997, Comic Book Men cast member, Tell 'Em Steve-Dave podcaster, and artist of Batman: Cacophony and Cryptozoic Man.
Wenwan walnuts (文玩核桃)
Wenwan walnuts (文玩核桃), also called play walnuts or hand-rolling walnuts, are Chinese collectible walnuts kept for their shells, handled as matched pairs rotated in one hand, and slowly darkened into a patina (baojiang) by years of handling; main production centers on Laishui, Hebei.