Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 04, 2024

In Gnomesville, I wonder what the gnomes put on their lawns…?

Where is the BatNap. for those who like to sleep inverted?

This Giraffenap comes in handy if one suffers of angina, bronchitis and pneumonia- all at the same time.

Looks like the monk screwed the apparatus into his forehead.

according to the bible, loving snakes is worshiping the DEVIL.

As seen in The Name Of The Rose.

From Foster Grant:Ancient Rome: In the first century AD, the playwright Seneca is credited with using a glass lens to magnify words on a page. The Romans were also the first to use glass to improve their vision of small print.9th century: Abbas Ibn Firnas developed the first corrective lenses, which were shaped and polished into round “reading stones”.13th century: Italian monks are thought to have created the first shaped, ground lens from beryl quartz for reading. These glasses, called reading aids, had a convex lens and an edge made from iron, horn, or wood.13th century glass blowers: In Venice, glass blowers created the first-ever glasses lenses with frames around them. The frames were made of bone, metal, or leather that wrapped around the head and balanced on the nose.

I had a buddy in the Navy who could sleep standing up at attention… and he’d snore

Which reminds me, I need to get my eyes examined again.

is there one gianormus Gnome-Mobile or 5000 itty bitty ones? BTW, Gnome-buddy gnomes the trouble I seen…

Cue “The more you gnome” graphic

Eight centuries ago, the insult was Hey, four-eyed Monk!

sorry but doctors in India were the first to use corrective lenses and bi-focals long before Rome and Franklin did and they also had skills in removing cataracts

Giraffenap would not work on me. I’m sure.

In Luverne, Minnesota, a town of 5,000, they have at the Rock County Historical Society museum 5,300 nutcrackers. The town is preparing to an erect a 65 foot nutcracker to lure drivers off the freeway to visit the town.

But can you see the gnomes from space? Or is that only discarded shirts?

Makes sense as they were duplicating manuscripts.

But no garden.Just gnomes.