Believe it or not! [1929] (Registro nro. 119275)
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| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | AG |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Ripley, Robert L. |
| Fuller form of name | (Robert LeRoy), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1890-1949 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Believe it or not! [1929] |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2026 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| Source | rdamedia |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| Source | rdacarrier |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2026-04-26 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Susan E., Harry Lamé and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Believe it or not! [1929]" by Robert L. Ripley is a collection of illustrated curiosities and odd facts written in the late 1920s. It assembles improbable-sounding truths, travel impressions, historical quirks, records, and paradoxes, all presented as brisk, image-driven vignettes. Expect an entertaining parade of strange-but-true anecdotes rather than a continuous narrative.<br/><br/>The opening of the book sets the tone with a preface explaining that unbelievable truths fuel the author’s cartoons, recounting reader disbelief (like Lindbergh being the sixty-seventh nonstop Atlantic crosser) and the strip’s accidental origins, global fact-hunting, and seemingly inexhaustible supply of oddities. A sprawling contents list teases the range, then “An Odyssey of Oddities” dives into a vivid travelogue of Benares: crowded ghats, sacred yet unsanitary waters, a detailed cremation at the burning ghat, and portraits of ascetics (a blind sun-gazer, men on beds of nails, “ever-standing” devotees, and inch-worming pilgrims), alongside a sharp primer on Hindu beliefs and castes. The narrative then shifts into rapid-fire curios: counterintuitive measurements (feathers vs. gold; winter vs. summer vinegar), medical anomalies (a child with premature aging), extreme records (a 110-round boxing match), historical oddities (a man “seen to death,” the sky-as-clock method, punishment by proxy), and assorted marvels (names of God with four letters, a day’s “presidency,” a river of acid, a night-seeing boy, and a galley slave’s century-long sentence). Together these early pages establish a globe-trotting, illustrated miscellany that alternates immersive reportage with punchy, provocative factoids. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | New York: Simon and Schuster, 1929 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Curiosities and wonders |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Ripley, Robert L. |
| Fuller form of name | (Robert LeRoy), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1890-1949 |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/bwb_W9-CLS-328/mode/2up">https://archive.org/details/bwb_W9-CLS-328/mode/2up</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78557">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78557</a> |
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