Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for June 21, 2011
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Transcript:
Privateers were pirates that were given legal rights to kill and steal- as long as it was done to ships of an opposing country! Joseph Stalin (1878-1953), the ruler of the Soviet Union, grew up in Georgia speaking Russian as a second language! One million people are bitten by venomous snakes in India every year!
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Puddleglum2 almost 13 years ago
St. Patrick is reputed to have gotten the snakes out of Ireland in the 5th century, and there aren’t a billion people in Ireland even now. The snakes were symbolic of paganism. hmm
runar almost 13 years ago
There was no such person as “Josef Stalin”. Born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili (Georgian: იოსებ ბესარიონის ძე ჯუღაშვილი), he followed a common custom among activists in Slavic countries at that time of adopting a single-word pseudonym for his political persona. He chose “Stalin”, derived from Russian for steel. Similarly, there was no such person as “Vladimir Lenin”; Vladimir Ulyanov chose the pseudonym of “Lenin” (derived from the river Lena).
Nighthawks Premium Member almost 13 years ago
what a load of crap, speaking ironically about Stalin, and how interesting this future mass murderer spoke Russian as a second language in his native Georgiaa more ‘believable or not’ story would be that Stalin ordered the murder (thorough execution or planned starvation) of more that 7 MILLION people of his own Russian people in the early 1930’s. So, when he ordered the murders did he do so in Russian or Georgian?.http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2008/01/21/p22696
Logical Duck almost 13 years ago
Not The Bronx, surely. More likely Atlanta!
ransomdstone almost 13 years ago
@gmartin997 You have the answer to the worlds problems.