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Christopher Reeve remembered the moment clearly enough to write it down decades later. The first person he met at Juilliard was, in his words, a short, stocky, long haired fellow from Marin County wearing tie dyed shirts with tracksuit bottoms who talked a mile a minute. That fellow was Robin Williams, and the two of them stayed close for the next 31 years, through fame, through a horse riding accident that changed one of their lives completely, and right up until Reeve's dea

In the winter of 1939, a quiet Finnish farmer with no formal military training became the most feared man on the Karelian front. Simo Häyhä stood barely five foot three, used a rifle with no telescopic sight, and reportedly killed more enemy soldiers than any sniper before or since, all inside a single winter of combat lasting less than 100 days. The Red Army called him Belaya Smert, the White Death. Quick Answers Who was Simo Häyhä? A Finnish farmer and sniper who fought in