Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 31, 2011

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    FatTonyBalducci  about 13 years ago

    Geez!! talk about inflation!

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    TheHillsHaveDerp  about 13 years ago

    The Animaniacs taught me the Magellan thing. (Yippe yay kay yeh poor ghost of Magellan/ all the time the East Indes were right over there)

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    cedes29  about 13 years ago

    @Autumn Cottongim http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM-igYjn6E4

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    Puddleglum2  about 13 years ago

    Magellan didn’t have ‘a ghost of a chance’ to make it all the way around the world.

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    Puddleglum2  about 13 years ago

    Bravo to Bishnu Shrestha! It reminds me of the saying, ‘One man with God is a majority’!Jonathan and his armor-bearer did a similar thing in the first half of I Samuel 14.

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    billsales  about 13 years ago

    Broadcast rights are way overrun. I’ll bet they were repeats.

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    Malcolm Hall  about 13 years ago

    Did Magellan die on his first or second attempt to circumnavigate the world? It’s unclear.

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    comicnut4636  about 13 years ago

    Nothing wrong with the FIFA. Just joining the MLB, NHL, NFL, NBA, NCAA, PGA, NASCAR, F1,and on and on and on…

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    runar  about 13 years ago

    The first super bowl wasn’t that hot either. It wasn’t even called the “Super Bowl” – it was the “NFL-AFL Championship Game”. The players on the winning team got a bonus of $15,000, and no networks bid for the broadcast rights.

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    runar  about 13 years ago

    hemohlobin – v.: circumnavigating the world. First mentioned as the reply to the question, “Where is your husband, Mrs. Magellan?”

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    dickn2000c  about 13 years ago

    The Bishnu Shrestha soldier entry says he was using a Kukri knife, but the illustration shows him holding not a kukri knife but what looks like a meat cleaver. You folks need to do more research.

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    tuslog64  about 13 years ago

    It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the amount of fight in the dog that counts.

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    ginamguetti  about 13 years ago

    The Chinese sailed around the globe in 1421 before Magellan.

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    Jogger2  about 13 years ago

    Magellan did travel to East Asia, by traveling eastward some time before his attempt to circumnavigate the Earth. The location at which he was killed is, by longitude, further west than the furthest east he had reached in previous trips. So, if his whole life time is taken into account, he did circumnavigate the Earth.

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    ProfLindenbrook  about 13 years ago

    Hey “Noodle Dick” it’s drawn in perspective and it’s clearly a kukri knife

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    lindenbrook  about 13 years ago

    Yes! He is a Gurkha and he sure kicked butt :)

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    okchase2  about 13 years ago

    Actually, there was a slave in Magellan’s fleet that had originally come from the Indies. So I think he would be a better candidate for the first to circumnavigate the globe, though he’d started a little sooner than the others in the expedition.

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    lummysdad  about 13 years ago

    Once again Ripley’s doesn’t know what it’s saying. Magellan WAS the first to circumnavigate the world. He traveled east from Europe to the Phillipines some years before.

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