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_aRipley, Robert L. _q(Robert LeRoy), _d1890-1949 |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | _aBelieve it or not! [1929] |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026 |
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| 500 | _aRelease date is 2026-04-26 | ||
| 508 | _aSusan 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 | _a"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. 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.) | ||
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| 653 | _aCuriosities and wonders | ||
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_aRipley, Robert L. _q(Robert LeRoy), _d1890-1949 |
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