Author: Ripley's Believe It Or Not!
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
An illustrated collection of oddities that are sure to shock the reader.
Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Prepare To Be Shocked
Author: Ripley's Believe It Or Not!
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
An illustrated collection of oddities that are sure to shock the reader.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
An illustrated collection of oddities that are sure to shock the reader.
Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Remarkable Revealed
Author: Geoff Tibballs
Publisher: Ripley Publishing
ISBN: 9781893951228
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Presents an illustrated collection of unusual phenomena and oddities, grouped into such categories as curious creations, incredible animals, fantastic feats, and unusual tales.
Publisher: Ripley Publishing
ISBN: 9781893951228
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Presents an illustrated collection of unusual phenomena and oddities, grouped into such categories as curious creations, incredible animals, fantastic feats, and unusual tales.
Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Expect...The Unexpected
Author: Ripley's Believe It Or Not!
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
An encyclopedia of oddities features unexpected and unimaginable people, places, and creatures from around the world.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
An encyclopedia of oddities features unexpected and unimaginable people, places, and creatures from around the world.
Ripley's Believe it Or Not! 2015
Author: Robert LeRoy Ripley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781847947178
Category : Curiosities and wonders
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ripley's Believe It or Not! 2015 offers a completely new compendium of strange but true facts and amazing stories, ranging from the daredevil skateboarding mouse to the man who ate 25,000 light bulbs, and from the restaurant that uses a volcano to cook food to the robot that loves playing Rock, Paper, Scissors. Packed with amazing photographs and jaw-dropping facts, Ripley's Believe It or Not! 2015 offers a feast of information and entertainment. Prepare yourself for this year's Ripley Reality Shock!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781847947178
Category : Curiosities and wonders
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ripley's Believe It or Not! 2015 offers a completely new compendium of strange but true facts and amazing stories, ranging from the daredevil skateboarding mouse to the man who ate 25,000 light bulbs, and from the restaurant that uses a volcano to cook food to the robot that loves playing Rock, Paper, Scissors. Packed with amazing photographs and jaw-dropping facts, Ripley's Believe It or Not! 2015 offers a feast of information and entertainment. Prepare yourself for this year's Ripley Reality Shock!
Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Strikingly True
Author: Ripley's Believe It Or Not!
Publisher: Ripley Publishing
ISBN: 9781609910006
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The newest title in the Ripley's Annual series is a compendium of new and bizarre stories, pictures and interviews all of which are packaged nicely within a vibrant red foil and lenticular cover. For the legions of dedicated Ripley’s fans, and anyone else on the planet who loves unbelievable facts and jaw-dropping images, the latest annual in our bestselling series is a feast of delights. Be amazed at a portrait made from 200,000 dead ants, the man who traversed the English Channel by holding onto a bunch of balloons, and the single human hair featuring paintings of all 42 American presidents. A compendium of incredible and bizarre facts, stories, interviews and features, presented in a stunning new design, this book also drives readers to Ripley’s fully interactive website. There are intriguing interviews with some of the astounding individuals who are featured in the book that spotlight their achievements and reveal more about what motivates them. A dramatic eight-page gatefold sections presents Ripley’s first ever odditorium, which showcased sideshow performers and was built for the World’s Trade Fair in 1933. This features a selection of choice memorabilia including Robert Ripley’s original annotated list of performers. Informative “Ripley’s Research” boxes give the scientific explanation behind some of the most incredible tales in the book, such as how people have turned their fingers into magnets. A section on the Olympic games, past and present, highlights the wacky as well as the amazing feats that have taken place at the height of sporting achievement. Additional black and white Ripley archive photographs feature throughout the book, and miscellaneous lists are also scattered throughout. This year specially commissioned photographic features will also appear in the book.
Publisher: Ripley Publishing
ISBN: 9781609910006
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The newest title in the Ripley's Annual series is a compendium of new and bizarre stories, pictures and interviews all of which are packaged nicely within a vibrant red foil and lenticular cover. For the legions of dedicated Ripley’s fans, and anyone else on the planet who loves unbelievable facts and jaw-dropping images, the latest annual in our bestselling series is a feast of delights. Be amazed at a portrait made from 200,000 dead ants, the man who traversed the English Channel by holding onto a bunch of balloons, and the single human hair featuring paintings of all 42 American presidents. A compendium of incredible and bizarre facts, stories, interviews and features, presented in a stunning new design, this book also drives readers to Ripley’s fully interactive website. There are intriguing interviews with some of the astounding individuals who are featured in the book that spotlight their achievements and reveal more about what motivates them. A dramatic eight-page gatefold sections presents Ripley’s first ever odditorium, which showcased sideshow performers and was built for the World’s Trade Fair in 1933. This features a selection of choice memorabilia including Robert Ripley’s original annotated list of performers. Informative “Ripley’s Research” boxes give the scientific explanation behind some of the most incredible tales in the book, such as how people have turned their fingers into magnets. A section on the Olympic games, past and present, highlights the wacky as well as the amazing feats that have taken place at the height of sporting achievement. Additional black and white Ripley archive photographs feature throughout the book, and miscellaneous lists are also scattered throughout. This year specially commissioned photographic features will also appear in the book.
The Smartest Kids in the World
Author: Amanda Ripley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 145165443X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Following three teenagers who chose to spend one school year living in Finland, South Korea, and Poland, a literary journalist recounts how attitudes, parenting, and rigorous teaching have revolutionized these countries' education results.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 145165443X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Following three teenagers who chose to spend one school year living in Finland, South Korea, and Poland, a literary journalist recounts how attitudes, parenting, and rigorous teaching have revolutionized these countries' education results.
The Elasmobranch Husbandry Manual
Author: Mark F. L. Smith
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Captive marine animals
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Captive marine animals
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
A Curious Man
Author: Neal Thompson
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448184371
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
One of the most successful entertainment figures of his time, Robert Ripley’s life is the stuff of a classic American fairy tale. Bucktoothed and hampered by shyness, Ripley turned his sense of being an outsider into an appreciation of the weird and wonderful. He sold his first cartoon to LIFE magazine at eighteen, but it was his wildly popular ‘Believe It or Not!’ radio shows that won him international fame, and spurred him on to search the globe’s farthest corners for bizarre facts, human curiosities and shocking phenomena. Ripley delighted in making preposterous declarations that somehow turned out to be true – such as that Charles Lindburgh was only the sixty-seventh man to fly across the Atlantic or that ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ was not the USA’s national anthem. And he demanded respect for those who were labelled ‘eccentrics’ or ‘freaks’ – whether it be E. L. Blystone, who wrote 2,871 alphabet letters on a grain of rice, or the man who could swallow his own nose. By the 1930s, Ripley possessed a wide fortune, a private yacht and a huge mansion stocked with such oddities as shrunken heads and medieval torture devices. His pioneering firsts in print, radio and television tapped into something deep in the American consciousness – a taste for the titillating and exotic, and a fascination with the fastest, biggest, wackiest and weirdest – and ensured a worldwide legacy that continues today. This compelling biography portrays a man who was dedicated to exalting the strange and unusual – but who may have been the most amazing oddity of all.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448184371
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
One of the most successful entertainment figures of his time, Robert Ripley’s life is the stuff of a classic American fairy tale. Bucktoothed and hampered by shyness, Ripley turned his sense of being an outsider into an appreciation of the weird and wonderful. He sold his first cartoon to LIFE magazine at eighteen, but it was his wildly popular ‘Believe It or Not!’ radio shows that won him international fame, and spurred him on to search the globe’s farthest corners for bizarre facts, human curiosities and shocking phenomena. Ripley delighted in making preposterous declarations that somehow turned out to be true – such as that Charles Lindburgh was only the sixty-seventh man to fly across the Atlantic or that ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ was not the USA’s national anthem. And he demanded respect for those who were labelled ‘eccentrics’ or ‘freaks’ – whether it be E. L. Blystone, who wrote 2,871 alphabet letters on a grain of rice, or the man who could swallow his own nose. By the 1930s, Ripley possessed a wide fortune, a private yacht and a huge mansion stocked with such oddities as shrunken heads and medieval torture devices. His pioneering firsts in print, radio and television tapped into something deep in the American consciousness – a taste for the titillating and exotic, and a fascination with the fastest, biggest, wackiest and weirdest – and ensured a worldwide legacy that continues today. This compelling biography portrays a man who was dedicated to exalting the strange and unusual – but who may have been the most amazing oddity of all.
Ripley's Believe It Or Not!
Author: Geoff Tibballs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Curiosities and wonders
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Curiosities and wonders
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Strange But True
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781422225608
Category : Curiosities and wonders
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781422225608
Category : Curiosities and wonders
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description