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  Ripley's Believe It or Not! - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Conceived and drawn by Robert Ripley, the newspaper panel proved popular and was later transmorphed into a wide variety of formats, including a radio program, a television show, a chain of museums and a pinball game.
That same year, Ripley hired Norbert Pearlroth as his researcher, and Pearlroth spent the next 52 years of his life in the New York Public Library, working ten hours a day and six days a week in order to find unusual facts for Ripley.
Shortly after the 13th episode, Ripley died May 27, 1949 of a heart attack and was replaced by Robert St. John who served as host until the series ended on October 5, 1950.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Believe_It_Or_Not   (1297 words)

  
 George Ripley
Ripley prepared for the ministry at the Cambridge divinity school; in 1826 accepted a call to be pastor and preacher of the church, organized but eighteen months before, and within two months worshipping in their new meeting-house on Purchase street, Boston.
Ripley associated himself at once with people of no worldly consideration, avowed principles that were voted vulgar in refined circles, and identified himself with an enterprise which the amiable called visionary, and the unamiable wild and revolutionary.
Ripley, the Managing Editor, supervised the whole; wrote much himself on the different aspects of Association; reported the progress of the cause at home and abroad; answered the objections that were current in the popular prejudice, and gave to the paper the encouraging tone of his cheery, earnest spirit.
www.alcott.net /alcott/home/champions/Ripley.html?index=0   (2380 words)

  
 Ripley, Surrey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ripley is a village in Surrey, which grew on the main A3 road from London to Portsmouth.
Ripley is mentioned in H G Wells' novel The war of the worlds.
In the 1870s cycling also became a popular activity in the South of England and Ripley was a convenient distance from London so that many cyclists would stop there for a break at the Anchor Inn.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ripley,_Surrey   (217 words)

  
 Ripley's Believe It or Not! - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The comic was conceived and drawn by Robert Ripley.
As noted by Ripley On Radio (http://www.otr.com/ripley_on_radio.html), Ripley's broadcasts varied in length from 15 minutes to 30 minutes and aired in numerous different formats.
Shortly after the 13th episode, Ripley died of a heart attack and was replaced by who served as host until the series ended on October 5, 1950.
www.eastcleveland.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Ripley's_Believe_it_or_Not   (1220 words)

  
 RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT!®
Ripley visited 201 countries during his career, travelling a distance equal to 18 complete trips around the world.
Ripley kept the statue in a special curtained area of his bedroom.
Ripley owned one of the largest and most expensive collections of automobiles in the world, but he never learned to drive.
www.sonypictures.com /tv/shows/ripleys/facts.html   (214 words)

  
 Lt. Ellen Ripley
Ripley, who is back on their ship and now in command, is "by-the-book"-minded and refuses the three explorers on board again, quoting the quarantene regulations.
Ripley is now worn down by bad sleep, a shitty job and the fact that she has lost everyone she cared for.
Newt is alone (as Ripley), scared (as Ripley) and a survivor (as Ripley).
www.geocities.com /Area51/Lair/8421/ripley.html   (693 words)

  
 Radio Recall: Ripley on Radio: Believe it or not
Ripley referred to his excellent education but in real life he was a high school drop-out.
Ripley boasted of the 200 countries he'd visited but among his doubtful entries were: Garden of Eden, Channel Islands, Sicily, Tangier, and Sark.
Ripley's radio program ended in 1948, chiefly because he had moved the show to the television studio, however that TV series ended in 1949 with his death.
www.otr.com /ripley_on_radio.html   (1473 words)

  
 Ezra Ripley
At Harvard Ezra was known as "Holy Ripley." Ripley's Harvard class of 1776 was temporarily quartered in Concord during the British occupation of Boston.
Ripley was not averse to trying to persuade his parishioners of errors in their political thinking.
Ripley, however, continued active to the very end and was composing a sermon on the morning of his death on September 21, 1841.
www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/ezraripley.html   (1238 words)

  
 The Talented Mr. Ripley
Ripley" is an Hitchcockian and blood-curdling study of the psychopath and his victims.
Ripley is a cartoonishly poor young adult whose overriding desire is to belong to a higher - or at least, richer - social class.
Ripley is and they are as helpless and as clueless as his victims are.
samvak.tripod.com /talent.html   (1443 words)

  
 Ripley Memorabilia on Display Saturday   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Ripley’s first cartoon appeared in the New York Globe in 1918, and as his readership grew, he began traveling abroad to find tidbits for future cartoons.
Ripley, who was born in 1890, became famous as a globetrotting adventurer, eventually claiming visits to 198 different countries.
One of Ripley’s most ardent supporters is Mickey Ivanovitch of Dresden, who has one of the world’s largest collections of Ripley memorabilia with more than 60,000 items.
www.angelfire.com /oh/ohiobigfoot/031502tr.html   (400 words)

  
 George Ripley
George Ripley (1802-1880), minister of the Purchase Street Church in Boston, 1826-41, was a central figure in the Transcendentalist movement of the 1830s and 40s, a founder in 1841 of the Brook Farm commune, and later one of America's most prominent literary reviewers and critics.
As Ripley's description indicates, the underlying assumption of the experiment, and of Fourierist philosophy, was that work necessary to support a community could be distributed in such a way as to match people's tasks with their individual desires and ability to do them.
Ripley wrote extensively for the Christian Examiner during his Purchase Street Church ministry, and many of his essays there, especially "Schleiermacher as a Theologian," Christian Examiner 20 (1836); and "Martineau's Rationale of Religious Inquiry," Christian Examiner 21 (1836); were influential in the emergence of the Transcendentalist movement.
www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/georgeripley.html   (1476 words)

  
 Ellen Ripley - AvP Encyclopedia
In 2122, Ripley was employed as a Warrant Officer for the Weyland-Yutani corporation, working on the USCSS Nostromo, which was towing massive quantities of raw ore to Earth from Thedus.
Ripley subsequently found herself marooned on Fiorina 'Fury' 161, an outer veil mineral ore refinery and correctional facility, where she died sometime in 2179 while trying to prevent Weyland-Yutani from getting its hands on the alien queen embryo that was inside of her.
Ripley's life and career has been extensively expanded on in various spin-off comics and novels, many of which discount her death on Fury 161, instead providing a chronology continuing on from the end of Aliens.
avp.mytopix.com /ellen_ripley   (478 words)

  
 Ripley Ohio : Freedoms Landing
Ripley, Ohio is a 55-acre National Historic District on the Ohio River Scenic Byway in southwest Ohio, east of Cincinnati, a bridge or ferry away from Kentucky Bluegrass country, all part of the Ohio River Valley.
Ripley gained a reputation throughout the United States for its strong beliefs in the abolition of slavery, and many of its citizens were active in the Underground Railroad movement.
Oprah Winfrey visited Ripley recently to film her part of the narrator for the special film (click here for shots of the filming) that is being made about the Underground Railroad.
www.ripleyohio.net   (685 words)

  
 Amazing! Ripley's Museums, Cartoons Prove Seeing Is Believing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
After producing 23 movie shorts, Ripley seized upon the new medium of television and became one of the most popular personalities of the small screen.
The Ripley's in Grand Prairie,Texas is built in a Taj-Mahal theme, while the museum in Branson, Missouri looks as if the facade is crumbling apart with a gaping crack down the middle.
But beware, in Ripley's Orlando museum, a set of African fertility statues that the company obtained for $960 are having amazing results.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/pop_culture/29533/2   (464 words)

  
 Ripley's Entertainment in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina - Let Sunny Day Guide help plan your next family vacation and ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Ripley’s largest and South Carolina’s most visited attraction is Ripley’s Aquarium, which opened in 1997 and is located within Broadway at the Beach.
Ripley’s Aquarium, the winner of the 1999 SC Governor’s Cup as the most outstanding attraction in the state, boasts the largest collection of sharks on the East Coast!
Ripley’s is proud to be a part of the Grand Strand and is committed to future involvement in the community.
www.sunnydayguide.com /myrtlebeach/features/ripleys.html   (576 words)

  
 Main Street Ripley
On December 19, 1832, a charter was granted and Ripley was designated as the county seat.
Located in the western part of the state, Ripley is said to be named after Harry Ripley, a circuit riding Methodist minister, who with a wedding license in his pocket, drowned in Mill Creek in 1830.
Ripley is truly a great place to live, work, and raise a family.
www.mainstreetripley.org /history.htm   (315 words)

  
 Ripley's Believe It or Not® Museum
Ripley was also a natural athlete who longed for a career in baseball, but his dreams of pitching in the Big Leagues were shattered when he broke his arm while playing his first professional game.
The cartoons, based on unusual athletic achievements, were submitted under the title "Champs and Chumps." His editor, however, wanted a title that would describe the incredible nature of the sporting feats.
Ripley lived up to his reputation as a man who thrived on all things strange, and his personality was in many ways as unusual as the stories and objects he collected!
www.ripleysf.com /ripley/about/about.html   (578 words)

  
 Ripley's™ Aquarium - Myrtle Beach, SC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Ripley Entertainment Inc. is a global leader in the attractions industry and has been for more than 75 years.
Ripley Entertainment Inc. recently acquired the property and has been giving tours of the building to those that are brave enough to dare enter!
The Ripley's™ 4-D Moving Theater system combines a high impact 70 mm film experience with computer controlled hydraulic seats that move in conjunction with the action being viewed on the screen.
www.ripleysaquarium.com /other_attractions.asp   (440 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Books: Ripley Under Ground   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Ripley had helped set up a ring to forge portraits by a dead artist and to pretend the artist is still alive.
Ripley Under Ground revisits the fl humour seen first in The Talented Mr Ripley, and begins to develop more fully the complex character of Tom Ripley who now has to contend with combining murder and deceit with his domestic life at 'Belle Ombre'.
The means by which Ripley has arrived at his new found wealth are criminal and he must exercise further criminality in order to maintain his lovely life.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0099283581   (1152 words)

  
 Alien Resurrection. A Hollywood Jesus Visual Movie Review.
Ripley is the Virgin Mary and/or the New Eve -the virgin mother of the new super race.
Ripley uses the fact that she is the birth mother of the monsters to keep herself safe.
Ripley uses the corrosive blood from her hand and throws some on the craft's window, which puts a small hole in it.
www.hollywoodjesus.com /alien_resurrection.htm   (1062 words)

  
 Search Results for "Ripley"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Ripley, George, 1802-80, American literary critic and author, b.
Founded by George Ripley, a Unitarian minister, the farm was initially financed by a joint-stock...
Beginning in 1849, George Ripley conducted for 30 years the first regular literary and book review...
www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=col65&query=Ripley   (242 words)

  
 Ripley USA
In 1816 the name of the village was changed to Ripley in honor of Brigadier General Eleazar Ripley, a veteran of the War of 1812.
Ripley soon earned a reputation as a major Ohio River port and in the early years was second only to Cincinnati in the pork packing business.
The church was a station on the Underground Railroad and the cemetery is the burial site of Rosa Washington Riles, known for her portrayal of ³Aunt Jemima² in national advertising for Aunt Jemima Pancake Mix.
www.eworldportal.com /ripley/pages/history.htm   (397 words)

  
 Ripley
SAMUEL RIPLEY was born in England, and died in Lawrence, Ma.
Since the address was the same and I remember the newspaper clipping that Frank Raymond Ripley had saying Samuel Ripley died in the home of his sister a few years after losing his wife to TB, I highly suspect this Mrs.
When she had twin girls two years after the birth of Joseph Ripley, she listed Linda and Brenda as Peel with the father as John Peel even though he had been deceased for close to three years.
www.angelfire.com /nc3/BalderstonHistory/Ripley.htm   (465 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Ripley Under Water   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Ripley, who had murdered Murchison to prevent the exposure of an art forgery scheme and then dumped his body in a nearby canal, grows increasingly anxious and angry as Pritchard continues to harass him and begins dredging the local canals.
In this sortie, Ripley is quietly enjoying his lovely home in the French countryside when it appears his past may be catching up with him.
Tom Ripley is being hounded by a fanatic who for some inexplicable reason senses Ripley's murderous past, and is determined to make Ripley's life miserable as he uncovers the truth.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0679748091   (1044 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Books: Ripley's Game   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Ripley and Ripley Under Ground (the weakest of the three first books in the series), I strongly suggest that you pursue those books before Ripley's.
Ripley and Ripley Under Ground -- there are no plot devices where Ripley fools the same person over and over again with alternate disguises.
Ripley has become interested in how an innocent man might be persuaded through careful psychological nudges to perform an anonymous murder.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0099283689   (1220 words)

  
 Cognitive Machines Group
We have constructed a 7 degree-of-freedom robot, Ripley, to investigate connections between natural language semantics, perception, and action.
Ripley has been designed to support interactive learning from a human teacher.
As a result, Ripley can be physically manipulated while it is active, enabling natural hands-on training of motor skills.
www.media.mit.edu /cogmac/projects/ripley.html   (191 words)

  
 Talented Mr. Ripley, The (1999): Reviews
Ripley (Damon), is sent to Europe to retrieve a spoiled millionaire playboy (Law).
Tom Ripley, the main character of the movie, is an unwanted, poor lad who early understood that it was actually impossible to succeed in life without protection and support.
Because he was always going to live and be a character in the next movie, at the end you get the sense that he has survived a nuclear blast or crawled from the rubble of an earthquake when everyone had their eyes shut and their hands over their ears.
www.metacritic.com /video/titles/talentedmrripley   (1636 words)

  
 Ripley's Game (2002)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Long after the events of the first book, he is living comfortably in Europe and engaging in little odd jobs of forgery, robbery and murder to maintain the upkeep on his fancy estate.
Ripley concocts an elaborate game of revenge whereby he will turn his neighbor into a conscienceless killer somewhat like himself.
Unfortunately, to his consternation, Ripley finds that a conscience is something that one either has or doesn't have...
www.imdb.com /title/tt0265651   (441 words)

  
 Ripley Star Club   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Extensive works to restore and upgrade Ripley's historic Hotel de Ville or Town Hall are almost completed, thanks to a £99,500 grant offer from the Heritage Lottery Fund: other funding has been received from the Ripley Star Club, the Ripley Castle Estate, Entrust and Harrogate Borough Council.
Ripley C of E Primary School, which uses the main hall as a dining area, has benefited from a new purpose built kitchen, and a secure new bar area created at ground floor level services events in the main hall.
Andy Herrington, secretary of the Ripley Star Club, said 'we are extremely grateful to the Heritage Lottery Fund and to the Ripley Castle Estate for their support.
www.rjwsite.com /ripleystarclub/building.htm   (437 words)

  
 Ripley, Ohio: Crossroads of the Underground Railroad
The village of Ripley was founded in 1812 by Colonel James Poage.
Ripley, a community rich in history, holds a number of prominent residential and commercial buildings which still exist that were once owned by anti-slavery men and women who worked as conductors on the Underground Railroad.
Ripley is presently known for its Abolitionist activities during the early 1800's.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/the_underground_railroad/107684   (705 words)

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