World's Smallest Railway

Smallest Railway

The Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway is a 1 ft 3 in (381 mm) gauge light railway in Kent, England. The 13+1⁄2 miles (22 km) line runs from the Cinque Port of Hythe via Dymchurch, St. Mary's Bay, New Romney and Romney Sands to Dungeness, close to Dungeness nuclear power station and Dungeness lighthouse. From 1926 to 1978, the RH&DR held the title of the "Smallest public railway in the world" (in terms of track gauge). The title was lost to the 12 1⁄4 in (311 mm) gauge Réseau Guerlédan in France in 1978[2] and regained from 1979, when the Réseau Guerlédan closed, until 1982, when the 10 1⁄4 in (260 mm) gauge Wells and Walsingham Light Railway opened. The railway was featured in an episode of the BBC series The Inspector Lynley Mysteries. More images after the break...

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7 Midget Celebrities with Girlfriends Twice Their Height

There’s no doubt that life can be tough for little people. However, while screen icons like Kenny Baker (R2-D2) and Warrick Davies (Willow, Wicket and the Leprechaun) might have married people their own height, many of their contemporaries have aimed higher – and found themselves with some beautiful full-sized ladies. Here are 7 awesome little celebrities with partners (almost) twice their size.

7. Verne Troyer with Genevieve Gallen and Ranae Shrider

The one, the only, it’s Mini-Me. At 2ft 8in Verne Troyer is one of the smallest people in the world. At 25 years of age he stood in for a 9-month-old baby in the 1994 film Baby’s Day Out. Nevertheless, the ladies have flocked after him. In 2004 he married former Playboy centerfold Genevieve Gallen – though, following a reported annulment, Troyer and his agent insist that the marriage never took place. Nevertheless, Genevieve was happy to report in 2009 that the pair had enjoyed 10-times-a-day yogic sex marathons, lasting up to 45 minutes apiece.

As if that wasn’t enough, Troyer had his own sex tape scandal when former live-in girlfriend, actress Ranae Shrider, leaked a home video to TMZ, showing the couple spending the Easter Weekend at the Raffles L’Ermitage hotel. Troyer was not best pleased – but quite frankly, he hasn’t done badly by anyone’s standards.

6. Bushwick Bill and Cindy Angelle

A member of the Geto Boys, Bushwick Bill is most famous for a horrible incident that took place almost 20 years ago, in 1991. One night, drunk, depressed and suicidal, he drove to his then girlfriend’s house and asked her to shoot him. She refused, but after a struggle he was shot in the head, leaving him blind in one eye and with a bullet in his brain. Fortunately he’s now engaged to his longtime girlfriend and assistant Cindy Angelle – who is a fox. Looking at the picture below you’ll note that in the picture above, she’s a fox standing in a hole.

5. “Wee Man” Jason Acuna and Lots of Ladies

Jason “Wee Man” Acuna can be seen throughout the Jackass franchise, quite simply wrecking stuff up. The pro skater also put his smaller stature to (dubiously) good use with stunts such as dressing as an Oompa-Loompa and kicking himself in the head. As a true badass, it’s perhaps not surprising that Acuna has been photographed with a number of lovely lady friends over the years.

4. Peter Dinklage and Erica Schmidt

You might remember Peter Dinklage from the film Elf, in which he beat up Will Ferrell’s character after he repeatedly called him a Christmas elf – or you might have seen him being tied up and accidentally murdered, twice over, in Death at a Funeral, 2007 and 2010. We imagine he’s not quite so angry in real life – seen above and below with his wife, theater director Erica Schmidt. One distinguished looking couple.

3. Eric “the Midget” Lynch and Kendra

Eric Lynch, aka Eric the Midget, of Howard Stern’s Wack Pack, is a strange, angry man. Eric is characterized by his bizarre behavior, ranging between fury, petulance and ingratitude. In early 2008 he launched a new campaign of oddness by claiming that he was in a relationship with a softcore webcam model named Kendra.

It was never entirely clear whether or not the relationship was a fake (though he swore on his mother’s life that it wasn’t), though the dial certainly swung back and forth. One woman who Eric definitely has slept with is Air Force Amy of the Bunny Ranch, on New Year’s Eve 2008. Eric wasn’t best pleased about Howard publicizing photos of this even on his show and his parents apparently threatened to cut him off over the incident. You’ll notice his “dignity” is “protected” by a Kelly Clarkson t-shirt here.

2. Dylan Postl (aka Hornswoggle)

Dylan Postl is better known as the WWE character Hornswoggle – the leprechaun mascot-son of ‘Irish’ wrestler Finlay (and not an illegitimate McMahon as one storyline suggested). He was also the WWE’s last Cruiserweight Champion before the belt was deactivated. Having gone by the nickname “The World’s Sexiest Midget,” Hornswoggle has also had his fair share of success with the ladies, and is rumored to have dated original diva Sunny (real name Tammy Lynn Sytch), above, as well as actress, model and former wrestling pro Stacy Keibler. Some suggest the latter relationship was a hoax fed to British tabloids after Stacey declined to appear at WrestleMania 25’s Battle Royal – but we’re sure no one would make something like that up.

1. Gary Coleman and Shannon Price

The late, great Gary Coleman was one the most famous little people of all time – without technically being a midget. Truly the man lived a chaotic life: there was the $3.8m lawsuit against his parents, the car accidents and the assault. Then there was his 2007 marriage to Shannon Price, only months after he met her on the set of Church Ball, where she was working as an extra. They divorced in August 2008 (following an appearance on TV show Divorces Court) but were said to have lived together until his death. Little man; lot o’ drama.

Can The World's Smallest People Survive

Using bow and arrow for hunting

Pygmies

Pygmy Huts

Manioc

Will The Pygmies Survive                                                  

 In the rain forest of Central African Republic live the Pygmies-one of the world’s least understood and most endangered people. For thousands of years the pygmies were masters of Equatorial Africa. Today there may be only 100,000 of these semi nomadic hunters-gatherers left. Much of their forest realm has been turned into Savannah and they are often scorned by their neighbours.
Pygmies live in waist high beehive huts made from bent branches covered with leaves and daubed in mud. A pygmy child is not very short; they have the height of a normal child. Some deficiency in their diet stunts their growth.  One in five babies dies before their first birthday, mostly from respiratory infections, diarrhoea or malaria.
The word pygmy comes from the Greek for “dwarfish” but the people here differ from true dwarfs. Their children are nearly the normal size until their early teens, when they do not experience the growth spurt typical of most other humans. Their small stature could be an adaptation in the forest. All forest people tend to be smaller, though not as small as the African pygmies. The man is normally about 5 feet in height and women about half a foot shorter.
Pygmies love hunting. They spread traps and nets to kill their prey. They kill small antelopes called “duiker”. They sing when they are happy. Children learn to sing as soon as they learn to talk. Pygmies from Gabon across to the Congo sing in much the same way.
Pygmy life is communal and food from a hunt is always shared. Family ties in a pygmy clan are very strong and rules of clan cooperation are rarely flouted.
Game in the rainforest is plentiful, but the pygmy’s love of a vegetable called manioc (for cassava) puts them at considerable risk. This edible tuber was brought to Africa from Brazil 400 years ago and the forest dwelling pygmies developed a taste for this food.
They bartered meat, wild honey and mushrooms with the neighbouring Bantu farmers. At first the shy pygmies left their catch just inside the forest, resisting a face to face meeting with the Bantu, spooking the taller tribe into believing that the rarely seen Pygmies were primitive subhuman’s , a kind of forest animal.
Pygmies found it hard to resist the manioc, cooking pots, metal spears, arrowheads and machetes,  and this lured many tribes into abandoning the rainforest for months at a time, working in the Bantu fields in exchange of these treasures. Over the centuries, Bantu landowners came to regard pygmy families as their hereditary serfs.
The prejudice remains strong even today. Bantus call them”bambinga” meaning not human. The pygmies call the Bantus “ eBobo” meaning gorilla. The Pygmies in Democratic Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic and Gabon are treated harshly. They don’t even get the same wages and many are ill treated by their employers. Government often don’t recognise the Pygmy’s ownership of forest land, which they have occupied   for hundreds of years.   
Although they refuse to abandon their forest life, many Pygmies accept schooling for their children.
In the meantime the leap across the chasm from the Stone Age to the Book Age is not an easy one. The Pygmy children like to eat chalk, more than writing with it they prefer to devour chalks. Only a few are able to go up to the high school. But they are humiliated and bullied by Bantu children.
A successful leap by pygmies into modern life can be seen at the Catholic mission at Monassao. There, more than one thousand Pygmies are free of Bantu interference and have largely abandoned the rainforest, growing crops including manioc and peanuts. The tradeoffs is Christianity, a price some pygmies at Monasao resist paying.
The Pygmies worship a supreme being, but also revere forest spirits, good and evil.

Miniature Horse vs. Pony: What's the Difference?

Miniature horses are pint-size equine that are fairly new but are quickly gaining in popularity. Ponies, on the other hand, have been around for hundreds of years. People often get the two confused, or think that they’re synonymous. While the two do share many characteristics, of course, they’re entirely different types of equine.

Snickers, a miniature horse.

Pony. See the difference? 

Many horse experts will tell you that any full grown equine that measures under 14.2 hands at the withers is classified as a pony. This isn’t always the case, however. A pony is typically considered an equine under 58 inches tall when it reaches adult height, but a pony also has other distinctive characteristics other than just its small size. For example, most pony breeds have thick, broad bodies and thick necks. They also have legs that are proportionately shorter for their body than a horse exhibits. Some pony breeds also have broad heads, especially through the forehead, along with larger eyes. Some ponies also have large hooves for their size.
On the other hand, miniature horses are even smaller than most pony breeds. Most registries won’t allow membership to a mini that’s taller than 34 inches when full grown. There are miniature horses, however, as tall as 38 inches. A miniature horse is also built differently than a pony. Ideally, a mini is a scaled-down version of a horse, with a slimmer build than a pony, and longer legs for its size. The head is also in proportion to the body, as are the feet. Also, a miniature horse does not have the heavy bone often associated with pony breeds. In essence, a miniature horse is usually more refined than a typical pony. A mini is longer lived than most ponies, too. They have an average life span of 25-35 years.

What can you do with a miniature horse? Lots of things! They pull carts and sleds, they make pets and companion animals, and they’re used as guides for the blind. Small children can ride them, and there’s special tiny tack made just for the minis. As a matter of fact, I just bought one for my granddaughter’s sixth birthday. As I watched her riding “Snickers” around the back yard today, I realized she’ll outgrow him soon. But that’s okay. She has a little sister who can “inherit” him after Lexi moves on to a bigger pony or horse.
Snickers is our first miniature horse. We’ve had lots of horses and ponies, but never a mini. I was impressed by his conformation. His little legs are perfectly straight and balanced, and he doesn’t have the “pot belly” that a lot of ponies seem to sport. I was amazed at how small his hooves were. He also seems to be calmer than most Shetland ponies I’ve known. He hadn’t been ridden or handled in months, yet he didn’t offer to buck when numerous birthday-party-going kids took turns riding him. He’s definitely the smallest equine I’ve ever owned. In fact, he isn’t much larger than my Great Danes! 

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Tarsier, the world's Smallest Monkey

Tarsier, the world’s smallest monkey
( Only in the Philippines)
Bohol. The town where you find the famous, breath-taking chocolate hills.
It is also home to the world’s smallest primate –the tarsiers.
It is interesting to know that an adult tarsier is only 5 inches big. Amazing, isn’t it? They have really big eyes that can scare you, if you see it the first time. Long brown tail to brag about.
They are generally quiet and still most of the time, but these tarsiers can also hop from one high bush to the other, when they are happy.
I was told by the caretakers that a tarsier eats an average of twenty (20) crickets a day. Wow, what an appetite huh. So you see, these street kids from bohol would be seen running around for crickets as they would have a day’s pay out of their catch.
I have seen a baby tarsier…one tiny thing…only one inch in size. What a treat to have seen this baby, who the mom sternly hides and protects from us. Its really funny because as you see through the covered “nest” you can't seem to see the baby, but the minute it opens its eyes, then you can already spot it from where it is hidden. Such huge eyes.
I have learned also that a mommy tarsier produces only one (1) baby in a year…that’s why they’re rare.
They’re nice to behold and its just awesome how small they are, considering they’re monkeys.
If you have the chance to visit the Philippines, Bohol in particular, make sure you pass by the chocolate hills, and on your way to the Loboc river cruise, check out the world’s smallest primate, the Tarsiers.!

an adult tariser nestled on a small tree

my daugthers sarah and justine enjoying the tarsier

another pic of the tarsier