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    LeRoy Robert Ripley (February 22, 1890 – May 27, 1949) was an American cartoonist, entrepreneur, and amateur anthropologist, who is known for creating...
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    Ripley's Believe It or Not! is an American franchise founded by Robert Ripley, which deals in bizarre events and items so strange and unusual that readers...
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  • Surrey Ripley, California Ripley, Georgia Ripley, Illinois Ripley, Indiana Ripley, Maine Ripley, Maryland Ripley, Michigan Ripley, Mississippi Ripley, Independence...
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  • Ripley is an American neo-noir psychological thriller miniseries created, written and directed by Steven Zaillian, based on Patricia Highsmith's 1955 crime...
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    Parkway. Originating with a small daily newspaper cartoon drawn by Robert Ripley, which debuted in 1918, the company now operates more than 90 attractions...
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  • Look up Ripley in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ripley is both a surname and a unisex given name. People bearing it include: Ripley A. Arnold (1817–1853)...
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    WWE since July 2017[update], where she performs under the ring name Rhea Ripley. Her 380-day reign with the Women's World Championship is tied with Bayley...
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  • Ripley's Believe It or Not!: The Riddle of Master Lu is a point-and-click adventure game based on Ripley's Believe It or Not! creator Robert Ripley. It...
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    a 1938 serial for Universal. On October 31, 1919, Roberts married Robert Ripley, owner of Ripley's Believe It or Not. Their marriage was "a union that...
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    his feet were checked before and after the firewalking demonstration. Robert Ripley said, "Kuda Bux's feet were not even warm." There is newsreel footage...
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  • Tom Ripley series. It stars Barry Pepper as Ripley and features Willem Dafoe, Alan Cumming, and Tom Wilkinson in supporting roles. Tom Ripley's friend...
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    Dumpty". One, advanced by Katherine Elwes Thomas in 1930 and adopted by Robert Ripley, posits that Humpty Dumpty is King Richard III of England, depicted...
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    era was derived from the Midwestern Nehi logo. Robert Ripley advertised Nehi on his radio show Ripley's Believe It or Not! The radio show was successful...
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  • California. Set 200 years after the preceding installment, Alien 3 (1992), Ellen Ripley is cloned, and an Alien queen is surgically removed from her body. The United...
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    efforts began to erect a memorial at the remaining submerged hull. Robert Ripley, of Ripley's Believe It or Not! fame, visited Pearl Harbor in 1942. Six years...
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  • Ripley Parker (born 17 December 2000) is an English writer. She created the Netflix series Everything Now (2023). Born at home to film director and screenwriter...
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    a cathedral, in order to be called a cathedral city. This prompted Robert Ripley to include the town of Cathedral City in his December 9, 1939, Believe...
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    English-Speaking Peoples. Near the end of the third volume of his works, Robert Ripley mentions Taillefer under the heading "General Eisenhower", pointing...
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    image continued up through the time of the image's purchase by Ripley's in 1934, Robert Ripley would often put the statue in guest rooms at night in order...
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    littlest skyscraper"), constructed downtown in 1919 and featured in Robert Ripley's Ripley's Believe It or Not!. The Choctaw Native Americans settled the area...
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    "A cat-o'-nine-tails suggests perfect punishment and atonement." – Robert Ripley. "A cat has nine lives" "to be on cloud nine" " A stitch in time saves...
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    World's Strangest Trees Here". The trees appeared in the column of Robert Ripley's Believe It or Not! twelve times. Erlandson sold his attraction shortly...
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  • that the Egghead character was based on Ripley's Believe It or Not! cartoonist and entertainer Robert Ripley. Egghead has the distinction of being the...
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  • Fay Ripley (born 26 February 1966) is an English actress, television presenter and recipe author. She is a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and...
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    but nominated no winner. On November 3, 1929, Robert Ripley drew a panel in his syndicated cartoon, Ripley's Believe it or Not!, saying "Believe It or Not...
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  • Resurrection (1997), and revolves around Ellen Ripley's fight against the xenomorphs (aliens). Ripley is the sole survivor of a xenomorph rampage on the...
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  • Heather Ripley is a Scottish former actress. She is best known for the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), in which she played Jemima Potts. Ripley was raised...
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  • Purple Noon (category Tom Ripley films)
    Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith. Anthony Minghella's 1999 film The Talented Mr. Ripley and the 2024 streaming television series Ripley are adaptations...
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  • Hilary Evans Bruce Barrymore Halpenny Bernard Heuvelmans John Keel Robert Ripley Carl Sagan Ivan Sanderson Rupert Sheldrake Brad Steiger Center for Inquiry...
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  • Charleston, South Carolina. It was coined in the 1930s by Robert Ripley, creator of Ripley's Believe it or Not! and refers to the buildings occupying the...
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