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Ripley's Odditorium in Hollywood. LeRoy Robert Ripley (February 22, 1890 – May 27, 1949) [1] was an American cartoonist, entrepreneur, and amateur anthropologist, who is known for creating the Ripley's Believe It or Not! newspaper panel series, television show, and radio show, which feature odd facts from around the world.
A letter RAdm J.J. Manning to Robert Ripley regarding the need for a permanent Pearl Harbor memorial. While Ripley's original idea for a memorial was disregarded due to the cost, the Navy continued with the idea of creating a memorial. The Pacific War Memorial Commission was created in 1949 to build a permanent memorial in Hawaii.
Sir Robert Lush (1807–1881) Sir Henry Manisty (1808–1890) Sir William Maule KC (1788–1858) Sir Richard Mayne KCB (1786–1868) Edward Molyneux (1798–1864) Robert Pashley (1805–1859) Samuel Plank (1777–1840) Sir George Rose FRS (1782–1873) Benjamin Rotch (1794–1854) James Russell (1790–1861) Sir Edward Ryan FRS (1793–1875)
Roswell Sabine Ripley (March 14, 1823 – March 29, 1887) [1] was an officer in the United States Army during the Mexican–American War, a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War.
Captain Robert von Ranke Graves (24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985) [1] [2] was an English poet, soldier, historical novelist and critic. His father was Alfred Perceval Graves, a celebrated Irish poet and figure in the Gaelic revival; they were both Celticists and students of Irish mythology. Robert Graves produced more than 140 works in his ...
n November 1954, 29-year-old Sammy Davis Jr. was driving to Hollywood when a car crash left his eye mangled beyond repair. Doubting his potential as a one-eyed entertainer, the burgeoning performer sought a solution at the same venerable institution where other misfortunate starlets had gone to fill their vacant sockets: Mager & Gougelman, a family-owned business in New York City that has ...
Robert Ripley had drawn a picture of Boatswain's grave with the caption "Lord Byron's dog has a magnificent tomb while Lord Byron himself has none". This came as a shock to the English, particularly schoolchildren, who, Ripley said, raised funds of their own accord to provide the poet with a suitable memorial. [116]
Wahlberg, 53, recently touched on how he and his eight siblings — including Debbie, who died in 2003, Michelle, Arthur, Paul, Jim, Tracey, Robert and Donnie — approach family gatherings while ...