Citizendia
Your Ad Here

"Believe It or Not" redirects here. For other uses, see Believe It or Not (disambiguation).

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. Robert LeRoy Ripley ( December 25, 1890 - May 27, 1949) was an American Cartoonist, Entrepreneur and amateur The Believe It or Not panel proved popular and was later adapted into a wide variety of formats, including radio, television, a chain of museums, a book series and a pinball game (produced by Stern Pinball, Inc.). Radio is the transmission of signals by Modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible Light. Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic A museum is a "permanent institution in the service of society and of its development open to the public which acquires conserves researches communicates and exhibits the Pinball is a type of coin-operated Arcade game where a player attempts to score points by manipulating one or more Metal balls on a playfield inside a Glass Stern is the name of two different but related arcade gaming companies Stern Electronics Inc

The Ripley collection includes 20,000 photographs, 20,000 artifacts and more than 130,000 cartoon panels. With 50-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. Orlando is a major City in central Florida, USA and is the County seat of Orange County Florida. Created by the success of Ripley's Believe it or Not!, Ripley Entertainment Inc The Jim Pattison Group is Canada’s third largest privately held company and in a recent survey by the Financial Post, The Jim Pattison Group was ranked as Canada’s Ripley Entertainment's publishing and broadcast divisions oversee numerous projects, including the syndicated TV series, the newspaper cartoon panel, books, posters, games and mobile phone content.

Contents

Syndicated feature panel

"Ripley’s Believe It or Not!" is a registered trademark of Ripley Entertainment, Inc. Originally involving sports feats, Ripley first called his cartoon feature Champs and Chumps, but he changed the title to Believe It or Not, and it premiered on December 19, 1918, in the New York Globe. Events 324 - Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor. Year 1918 ( MCMXVIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The New York Globe was the name of at least two New York City newspapers When the Globe folded in 1923, Ripley moved to the New York Evening News. 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. Norbert Pearlroth ( May 7, 1893, Tarnow, Austria - April 14, 1983, Brooklyn New York) was the primary researcher Other writers and researchers included Lester Byck and Don Wimmer.

And on the syndicated newspaper panel after Ripley included Joe Campbell (1946–1956), Art Sloggatt (1917-1975), Clem Gretter (1941–1949), Carl Dorese, Bob Clarke (1943–1944), Stan Randall, Paul Frehm (1938–1978) - Frehm became full time artist in 1949) and his brother Walter Frehm (1948–1989) - Walter worked part time with his brother Paul and became full time Ripley artist from 1978–1989). Paul Frehm is a cartoonist who worked on the comic strip Ripley's Believe It or Not. Paul Frehm won the National Cartoonist Society Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award for 1976 for his work on the series. The National Cartoonists Society is the world's largest organization of professional Cartoonists It presents the Reuben Awards. Clarke later created parodies of Believe It or Not! for Mad, as did Wally Wood and Ernie Kovacs, who also did a recurring satire called "Strangely Believe It!" on his TV programs. Mad is a monthly American Humor Magazine founded by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines in 1952 Wallace Allan Wood ( June 17, 1927, Menahga Minnesota – November 2, 1981, Los Angeles California) was an American Ernie Kovacs ( January 23, 1919 — January 13, 1962) was an American comedian whose

At the peak of its popularity, the syndicated feature was read daily by about 80 million readers, and during the first three weeks of May 1932 alone, Ripley received over two million pieces of fan mail. Dozens of paperback editions reprinting the newspaper panels have been published over the decades. Other strips and books borrowed the Ripley design and format, such as Strange As It Seems by John Hix and It Happened in Canada by Gordon Johnston. Recent Ripley's Believe It or Not! books containing new material have supplemented illustrations with photographs.

Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz's first publication of artwork was published by Ripley. Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday Comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M Charles Monroe Schulz (November 26 1922 &ndash February 12 2000 was an American Cartoonist best known worldwide for his Peanuts Comic strip It was a cartoon claiming his dog was "a hunting dog who eats pins, tacks and razor blades. " Schulz's dog Spike later became the model for Peanuts' Snoopy. Snoopy is a Fictional character in the long-running Comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M

Radio

In April 1930, Ripley brought "Believe It or Not" to radio, the first of several series heard on NBC, CBS and the Mutual Broadcasting System. Radio is the transmission of signals by Modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible Light. The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. The Mutual Broadcasting System ( MBS) was an American Radio network, in operation from 1934 to 1999 As noted by Ripley On Radio, Ripley's broadcasts varied in length from 15 minutes to 30 minutes and aired in numerous different formats. When Ripley's 1930 debut on The Collier Hour brought a strong listener reaction, he was given a Monday night NBC series beginning April 14, 1930, followed by a 1931–32 series airing twice a week. The Collier Hour, broadcast on the NBC Blue Network from 1927 to 1932 was radio's first major dramatic anthology adapting stories and serials from Collier's in a After his strange stories were dramatized on NBC's Saturday Party, Ripley was the host of The Baker's Broadcast from 1935 to 1937. He was scheduled in several different 1937–38 NBC timeslots and then took to the road with popular remote broadcasts. See America First with Bob Ripley (1939–40) on CBS expanded geographically into See All the Americas, a 1942 program with Latin music. In 1944, he was heard five nights a week on Mutual in shows with an emphasis on WWII. Romance, Rhythm and Ripley aired on CBS in 1945, followed by Pages from Robert L. Ripley's Radio Scrapbook (1947–48).

Robert Ripley is known for several radio firsts. He was the first to broadcast nationwide on a radio network from mid-ocean, and he also participated in the first broadcast from Buenos Aires to New York. Buenos Aires is the Capital and largest city of Argentina. It is geographically located on the southern shore of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern The City of New York Assisted by a corps of translators, he was the first to broadcast to every nation in the world simultaneously.

As the years went on, the show became less about oddities and featured guest-driven entertainment such as comedy routines. Sponsors over the course of the program included Pall Mall cigarettes and General Foods. Pall Mall Cigarettes are a brand of cigarettes produced by R J General Foods Corporation was a company whose direct predecessor was established in the USA by Charles William Post ( October 26, 1854 - The program ended its successful run in 1948 as Ripley prepared to convert the show format to television syndication. In Broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast Radio shows and Television shows to multiple individual stations without going through

Films, television, internet, and computer game

Ripley's Believe It or Not!
Genre Non-fiction
Created by Robert L. Ripley
Country of origin USA
Production/broadcast
Original channel NBC
Original run 1949 – 1950
Starring Robert L. Ripley

Robert St. Robert LeRoy Ripley ( December 25, 1890 - May 27, 1949) was an American Cartoonist, Entrepreneur and amateur Robert LeRoy Ripley ( December 25, 1890 - May 27, 1949) was an American Cartoonist, Entrepreneur and amateur John
Doug Storer
Running time 30 min. Doug Storer (1899-1985 was a radio producer talent agent and writer responsible for creating and producing radio programs 1930s-1960s including Ripley's Believe It or Not
Second channel ABC
Second run 1982 – 1986
Starring Jack Palance

Catherine Shirriff
Holly Palance
Marie Osmond
Running time 60 min. Jack Palance (born Volodymyr Palahniuk; February 18, 1919 – November 10, 2006) was an Oscar -winning American Catherine Shirriff is an American Actress. She not only played herself in the ABC Television series Ripley's Believe It or Not! Holly Palance (born August 5, 1950) is an American actress Palance was born in Los Angeles California, the daughter of the veteran actor Jack Olive Marie Osmond (born October 13, 1959, in Ogden, Utah) is an American Actress, Singer, Doll
No. of episodes 79
Third channel TBS
Third run 2000 - 2003
Starring Dean Cain

Kelly Packard
Gregory Jbara
Running time 60 min. Dean George Cain (born July 31 1966) is an American actor most notable for his role as Clark Kent / Superman in the American Kelly Chemane Packard (born January 29 1975 in Glendale, California) is an American Actress who starred in the TV shows Baywatch Gregory Jbara (born September 28, 1961, Westland Michigan) is an American film television and stage actor of Lebanese and Irish descent
No. of episodes 88
External links
IMDb profile (first run)
IMDb profile (second run)
IMDb profile (third run)
TV.com summary (third run)

The newspaper feature has been adapted into more than a few films and TV shows.

Factuality

Unlike its sibling company and sometimes competitor, Guinness World Records, Ripley's Believe It or Not often does not cite sources, and it is rare that it cites both the place and the date that an event occurred. Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records (and in previous U Also, The Raccoon Rocket, and Archimedes' Death Ray were both mentioned in Ripley's books, although both were debunked by the Mythbusters. Archimedes of Syracuse ( Greek:) ( c. 287 BC – c 212 BC was a Greek mathematician, Physicist, Engineer MythBusters is a Popular science Television program produced by Australian firm Beyond Television Productions originally for the

Museums

When Ripley first displayed his collection to the public at the Chicago World's Fair in 1933, it was labeled Ripley’s Odditorium and attracted over two million visitors during the run of the fair. A Century of Progress International Exposition was the name of a World's Fair held in Chicago, Illinois from 1933 to 1934 to celebrate That successful exhibition led to trailer shows across the country during the 1930s, and Ripley's collections were exhibited at many major fairs and expositions, including San Francisco, San Diego, Dallas and Cleveland. The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city Cleveland is a City in the US state of Ohio and the County seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state In New York, the famed Times Square exhibit opened in 1939 on Broadway. The City of New York Times Square is a major intersection in Manhattan, New York City at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West Broadway, as the name implies is a wide avenue in New York City. In 1950, a year after Ripley's death, the first permanent Odditorium opened in St. Augustine, Florida. St Augustine is the County seat of St Johns County, Florida, in the United States.

As of August 2006, there are 29 Ripley's Believe It or Not! Odditoriums around the world. Odditoriums, in the spirit of Believe It or Not!, are often more than simple museums cluttered with curiosities. Some include theaters and arcades, such as the one in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Gatlinburg is a City in Sevier County, Tennessee, United States. Others are constructed oddly, such as the Orlando, Florida Odditorium which is built off-level as if the building is sinking. Orlando is a major City in central Florida, USA and is the County seat of Orange County Florida. The first one was opened in Chicago in 1933, where, in an apparent promotional gimmick, beds were provided in the Odditorium for people who "fainted" daily. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States.

(Note that the list below is incomplete and is not all inclusive. )

United States

Hollywood, California Odditorium
Hollywood, California Odditorium
St. Augustine, Florida Odditorium
St. Augustine, Florida Odditorium
Panama City Beach, Florida Odditorium
Panama City Beach, Florida Odditorium
Ripley's shark being produced
Ripley's shark being produced

California

Florida

Maryland

Missouri

New Jersey

New York

Oregon

South Carolina

Odditorium in Myrtle Beach
Odditorium in Myrtle Beach

Tennessee

Texas

Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

Canada

United Kingdom

Asia

Miscellaneous

See also

References

  1. ^ http://web.ukonline.co.uk/gtyarmouth/news/oldnews/o96a99.htm Believe it or not, collection has gone overseas

External links

was a Japanese sculpture artist born in 1832 Believing that he was dying from Tuberculosis, Masakichi sculpted a life size statue of himself as a gift to the woman he loved which was Roy Cleveland Sullivan ( February 7, 1912 &ndash September 28, 1983) was a U The Southern Historical Collection is a repository of distinct archival collections at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill which document the culture and history The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ( UNC, North Carolina, or simply Carolina) is a public, Coeducational Research
© 2009 citizendia.org; parts available under the terms of GNU Free Documentation License, from http://en.wikipedia.org
 Dapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic