Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 20, 2011
October 19, 2011
October 21, 2011
Transcript:
Arctic Circle, Bering Sea Alaska Canada Alaska is the northernmost, westernmost and easternmost state in the United States of America! Alaska crosses the 180th meridian, and the last few of the Aleutians extend into the eastern hemisphere. A year before John Wilkes Booth assassinated US President Abraham Lincoln in 1865, his brother Edwin Booth save the life of the president's son, Robert Todd Lincoln! Cyanobacteria produce a chemical known as very fast death factor!
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FatTonyBalducci over 12 years ago
that bacteria likes to say “cyonara”!
Superfrog over 12 years ago
I heard that someone thought they saw an eye doctor in one of those islands but it was only an Optical Alueutian.
Possum Pete over 12 years ago
^ Ouch!
Puddleglum2 over 12 years ago
Superfrog is making a spectacle of himself with his spectacular play-on-words!!
Stephen Gilberg over 12 years ago
Curious, I read more details about Edwin Booth. Saved RTL from a would-be train accident. Unionist, not very close to John. Became the subject of many puzzles and riddles: “Booth saved Lincoln’s life.”
iced tea over 12 years ago
There no place like Nome! There’s no place like Nome! Does anyone remember John Denver’s song about the Wrangle Mountains of Alaska? It was a pretty song about the range.
eumaz over 12 years ago
The picture is irrelevant. They need to show the 180 meridian, or the international date line; not the Arctic Circle.
DavidMac over 12 years ago
Didn’t John Wilkes Booth’s father try to assassinate Andrew Jackson?