Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for November 28, 2016
November 27, 2016
November 29, 2016
Transcript:
In 1917, about 10,000 sailors gathered at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Illinois to create a living flag! Sisters Augusta and Adeline Van Buren of Brooklyn, New York, rode motorcycles 5500 miles across the United States in 1916 to prove women's abilities to be wartime couriers! Wealthy and wacky! Nineteenth-century heiress Josephine Wendel, of New York City, had her table set for six imaginary guests each night and held conversations with them over dinner.
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Templo S.U.D. almost 8 years ago
Poor Josephine.
oldpine52 almost 8 years ago
Wacky doesn’t begin to to explain Josephine.
fuzzbucket Premium Member almost 8 years ago
She got to choose the subject.
Cminuscomics&stories Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Roads were probably worse then, but why does it take 5,500 miles to drive 3,000 miles?
heart2015 almost 8 years ago
Josephine atleast found people that agreed with her views.
RCKJD almost 8 years ago
Did Josephine also had her butler perform for her guests like in “Dinner for One”?
BearsDown Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Did her guests get food while people out in the streets were hungry?
tom_wright almost 8 years ago
Josephines says you’re just jealous because the voices only talk to me.
Nighthawks Premium Member almost 8 years ago
in 1916 , that glass ceiling was so far up , it was obscured by clouds
comixbomix almost 8 years ago
I suppose they used sailors so it would wave better…?
Charlie Fogwhistle almost 8 years ago
During the World War I era, photographers Arthur S. Mole and John D. Thomas made a number of images using people. A Google image search of the phrase “human statue of liberty” will return images of the Statue of Liberty, the Liberty Bell, Woodrow Wilson, the Marine Corps emblem, and others. There have also been similar treatments of the flags of different nations. One of the difficult parts in making such a photo is to account for perspective, the parts of the image furthest from the camera taking many more people than the parts of the image closest to the camera.
bookworm0812 almost 8 years ago
Somebody needs to get a life.
LV1951 almost 8 years ago
No arguments at Josephine’s dinner party!
Doug A4 almost 8 years ago
What did Josephine do with the leftovers…..?
halvincobbes Premium Member almost 8 years ago
Too many stars on a 1917 flag
HectorPriam almost 8 years ago
The Van Buren sisters started the Hell’s Belles motorcycle gang.
A vicious horde of marauding women who raped and plundered unsuspecting and innocent men during the 1920s.
Max Starman Jones almost 8 years ago
Is it just me, or is this one of the most depressing “Believe it or Not’s” ever?