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Ripley's Believe It or Not! is a franchise, founded by Robert Ripley, which deals in bizarre events and items so strange and unusual that readers might question the claims. The Believe It or Not panel proved popular and was later adapted into a wide variety of formats, including radio, television, comic books, a chain of museums and a book series.
The Ripley collection includes 20,000 photographs, 30,000 artifacts and more than 100,000 cartoon panels. With 80-plus attractions, the Orlando-based Ripley Entertainment, Inc., a division of the Jim Pattison Group, is a global company with an annual attendance of more than 12 million guests. Ripley Entertainment's publishing and broadcast divisions oversee numerous projects, including the syndicated TV series, the newspaper cartoon panel, books, posters and games.
Ripley first called his cartoon feature, originally involving sports feats, Champs and Chumps, and it premiered on December 19, 1918, in the New York Globe. Ripley began adding items unrelated to sports, and in October 1919, he changed the title to Believe It or Not. When the Globe folded in 1923, Ripley moved to the New York Evening Post. 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. Other writers and researchers included Lester Byck.
The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History is a 1978 book by Michael H. Hart, reprinted in 1992 with revisions. It is a ranking of the 100 people who, according to Hart, most influenced human history.
The first person on Hart's list is the Prophet of Islam Muhammad. Hart asserted that Muhammad was "supremely successful" in both the religious and secular realms. He also believed that Muhammad's role in the development of Islam was far more influential than Jesus' collaboration in the development of Christianity. He attributes the development of Christianity to St. Paul, who played a pivotal role in its dissemination."
The 1992 revisions included the demotion of figures associated with Communism, such as Vladimir Lenin and Mao Zedong, and the introduction of Mikhail Gorbachev. Hart took sides in the Shakespearean authorship issue and substituted Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford for William Shakespeare. Hart also substituted Niels Bohr and Henri Becquerel with Ernest Rutherford, thus correcting an error in the first edition. Henry Ford was also promoted from the "Honorary Mentions" list, replacing Pablo Picasso. Finally, some of the rankings were re-ordered, although no one listed in the top ten changed position.
[Gucci Mane]
I'm so f-cking dumb I wear diamonds on my thoughts,
there's a diamond on my d-ck so theres a diamond on her
top,
i can't feel you baby cos I romantically nought,
emotionally drained I came here just so I can come,
theres nothing on the God son that I have'nt done,
got a lot of p-ssy just ... one,
girls is like buses every 15 mins they run,
man they like potato chips I just cant have one,
and I might like you for a minute,
but I dont like your friends in my business,
and I feel like you don't deserve a visit,
cos you aint in the kitchen when you want a whipping,
[Drake]
uh, uh ahhhh,
I know you say you love me girl,
I know you say you love me girl,
problem is you prol tell that sh-t to everybody,
so we hear you talking booboo we just dont believe you,
uh, ok I'm all about it, all for it,
I'm allstar team Jordan, small forward,
I'm never putting up a shot unless it calls for it,
no hesitation so I'm shooting if i draw for it,
how how (?) f-ck is up, now man I'm in this hoe,
life is moving fast, where the f-ck do all these
minutes go,
mixtape dropped then I started getting 10 a show,
now I get a hundred what the f-ck you think I'm in it
for,
Young money forever, i bet Gudda, Jay and Mack agree,
f-ck you to the haters that just spend their time
attacking me,
shout out to your girlfriend n-gga lately she
distracting me,
wondering if I'm the best, well I am, no Black Eyed
Peas,
girls wanna f-ck your n-ggas, guy dont wanna be you,
lining up around the block so that they can get to see
you,
I feel like I find a wife exactly when I need to,
you can say whatever girl but we just don't believe
you,