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Ripley's Believe It Or Not Annual
''Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Annual'' is a hardback reference book of unusual stories and images. The books consist of hundreds of snippets and longer in-depth articles, illustrated with glossy photographs. Twelve books have been produced since 2005 and they are published worldwide by Ripley Publishing. The Ripley’s annual has featured on the ''New York Times'' bestseller list on multiple occasions. Published annuals *''Ripley’s Believe It or Not!'' (2005) *''Planet Eccentric (2006)'' *''Expect the Unexpected'' (2007) *''The Remarkable Revealed'' (2008) *''Prepare to be Shocked'' (2009) *''Seeing is Believing'' (2010) *''Enter If You Dare!'' (2011) *''Strikingly True'' (2012) *''Download the Weird'' (2013) *''Dare to Look!'' (2014) *''Reality Shock!'' (2015) *''Eye-popping Oddities'' (2016) *''Unlock the Weird'' (2017) *''Shatter Your Senses!'' (2018) *''A Century of Strange'' (UK title: ''A Whirlwind of Weird'') (2019) *''Beyond the Bizarre'' (UK title: ''Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reference Book
A reference work is a work, such as a paper, book or periodical (or their electronic equivalents), to which one can refer for information. The information is intended to be found quickly when needed. Such works are usually ''referred'' to for particular pieces of information, rather than read beginning to end. The writing style used in these works is informative; the authors avoid use of the first person, and emphasize facts. Indices are a common navigation feature in many types of reference works. Many reference works are compiled by a team of contributors whose work is coordinated by one or more editors, rather than by an individual author. Updated editions are usually published as needed, in some cases annually (''Whitaker's Almanack'', ''Who's Who''). Reference works include almanacs, atlases, bibliographies, biographical sources, catalogs such as library catalogs and art catalogs, concordances, dictionaries, directories such as business directories and telephone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ripley Publishing Ltd
Ripley Publishing is a publisher based in Orlando, Florida. The company was set up in 2008 by Ripley Entertainment (owned by the Jim Pattison Group), owner of the ''Ripley's Believe It or Not!'' brand of museums, cartoons, television shows and books. The company publishes the New York Times bestselling ''Ripley's Believe It or Not! Annual'' and a range of other ''Believe It or Not!'' titles. Selected titles *''Ripley's Believe It or Not Annual ''Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Annual'' is a hardback reference book of unusual stories and images. The books consist of hundreds of snippets and longer in-depth articles, illustrated with glossy photographs. Twelve books have been produced since ...'' *'' Ripley's RBI'' children's fiction series *''Ripley's Twists'' reference serieshttp://www.thebookseller.com/news/72743-ripley-renews-random-house-deal.html *'' Scholastic Special Edition'' References External links Ripley Publishing website {{Authority control Ripley's Believe It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Times Bestseller
''The New York Times'' Best Seller list is widely considered the preeminent list of best-selling books in the United States. John Bear, ''The #1 New York Times Best Seller: intriguing facts about the 484 books that have been #1 New York Times bestsellers since the first list, 50 years ago'', Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1992. Since October 12, 1931, ''The New York Times Book Review'' has published the list weekly. In the 21st century, it has evolved into multiple lists, grouped by genre and format, including fiction and non-fiction, hardcover, paperback and electronic. The list is based on a proprietary method that uses sales figures, other data and internal guidelines that are unpublished—how the ''Times'' compiles the list is a trade secret. In 1983 (as part of a legal argument), the ''Times'' stated that the list is not mathematically objective but rather editorial content. In 2017, a ''Times'' representative said that the goal is that the lists reflect authentic best selle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guinness Rishi
Ripley Guinness Rishi (formerly Har Parkash, born , India) holds a number of world records. He is most renowned for having over 200 world flags tattooed on his body, including 49 flags on his face and head. He also has 'Ripley's Believe It or Not' tattooed on his forehead and a map of the world on his abdomen. Record attempts * Longest pizza delivery - 10,286 miles from Delhi to California to deliver a pizza to the Ripley's Believe It or Not! ''Ripley's Believe It or Not!'' is an American franchise founded by Robert Ripley, which deals in bizarre events and items so strange and unusual that readers might question the claims. Originally a newspaper panel, the ''Believe It or Not'' feat ... museum in San Francisco. * Oldest adopted person - In 2001, Guinness Rishi adopted his brother-in-law Ravinder Kumar Vig, who became the oldest adopted person at 61 years old. * Ketchup drinking - Drinking a bottle of ketchup in less than 40 seconds. * Tallest sugar cube tower - 64 inches high. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Space Cowboy (performer)
Chayne Hultgren (born 13 April 1978), known professionally as the Space Cowboy is a world record-holding sideshow, street, and freak show performer. Act Hultgren performs a number of acts, including juggling a sickle, machete and fire torch, or a battle axe, jungle machete and a butcher knife, whilst blindfolded on a 10-foot unicycle, catching flaming arrows blindfolded shot from a crossbow, suspension (the art of dangling from hooks in the flesh), seven ball juggling, hat manipulation, spoon bending, levitation of himself and other objects, sword swallowing, psychic surgery, the Human Blockhead trick, knife throwing (with his girlfriend and performing partner Zoe Ellis). His theater act has included swallowing a 2000-volt neon glass tube with a microphone on the end, with his heartbeat audible as the light shines through his skin from the inside. He has also toured his "Mutant Barnyard". His traveling tent show, displays his collection of historical freak show items inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Dettmer
Brian Dettmer (born 1974) is an American contemporary artist. He is noted for his alteration of preexisting media—such as old books, maps, record albums, and cassette tapes—to create new, transformed works of visual fine art. Life and art Dettmer was born and raised in Naperville, Illinois in 1974. Until 2006, he lived in and around Chicago, where he earned a BA in fine arts from Columbia College Chicago in 1997. During school and following graduation, Dettmer worked as an artist and in positions related to graphics and signage design. In 2006, Dettmer moved with his wife to Atlanta, where he worked as a studio artist. (Brown 2008; Camper 2005). In 2013, Dettmer and his family relocated to New York City, where he continues his work today. Early work As a student, Dettmer focused primarily on painting. When he began to work in a sign shop, his work began to explore the relationship between text, images, language, and codes, including paintings based on braille, Morse Code, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Nitsch
Herbert Nitsch (born 20 April 1970) is an Austrian freediver who has held world records in all of the eight freediving disciplines recognised by AIDA International. He is the current freediving world record champion and "the deepest man on earth". This title was given to him when he set a world record in the "No Limit" discipline at the depth of . To date, he has achieved 33 official World Records across all freediving disciplines, and one world record in the traditional Greek discipline of Skandalopetra . He surpassed his own No Limit depth with a dive in June 2012 to , suffering injury in the process. Background Nitsch worked part-time as a pilot for Tyrolean Airways. Freediving Achievements and competition history Nitsch holds the No-Limits record, the title of "Deepest man on Earth" in which the diver can make use of a weighted sled to descend as far as possible and uses an air-filled balloon or other buoyancy device to return to the surface. Nitsch set the world re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ueli Gegenschatz
Ueli Gegenschatz (January 3, 1971 – November 13, 2009, Zurich) was a Swiss BASE jumper, paraglider and skydiver who held several world records. Ueli Gegenschatz was known for his expert paragliding, skydiving and BASE jumping and Wingsuit flying. He completed his first parachute jump in the military preliminary course for long-distance scouts in 1989. Although Gegenschatz did not become a scout, he remained true to jumping: in 1990 he flew with a paraglider for the first time and from then on, as an amateur, he was part of the extended world elite. From the mid-1990s onwards, he devoted himself more to jumping again, and in 1997 he made his first object jump from a 1000-metre high rock face in Norway. A member of the Swiss national paragliding team for four years, Gegenschatz co-founded the Red Bull acro team in 1995. Among his BASE jumping achievements, many of which are available as YouTube videos, were jumps off Eiffel Tower, the Petronas Towers in KL as well as jumps o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khagendra Thapa Magar
Khagendra Thapa Magar ( ne, खगेन्द्र थापामगर) (4 October 1992 – 17 January 2020) was a Nepali once known as the shortest man in the world, measuring . Magar, who was a primordial dwarf, won the title of shortest man from Edward Niño Hernández. He lost the title in June 2011 to Junrey Balawing of the Philippines. Biography Born on 18 Asoj in the Nepali calendar, or 4 October 1992,"World's shortest man" – does he measure up? Guinness World Records blog he was from the of |
The Lizardman (performer)
Erik Sprague (born June 12, 1972), known professionally as the Lizardman, is an American freak show and sideshow performer. He is best known for his body modification, including his sharpened teeth, full-body tattoo of green scales, bifurcated tongue, subdermal implants and green-inked lips. Early life Sprague was born in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and was a Ph.D. candidate at the University at Albany before beginning his transformation. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy from Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York. Career As a professional freak, Sprague became famous for his heavy body modifications, including tongue bifurcation and tattooing. He regularly performs many classic sideshow acts such as the human blockhead, fire eating and breathing, gavage, sword swallowing, the bed of nails, the Human Dartboard, the cranial corkscrew, and the insectivore. Sprague participates in many public and private flesh hook suspension groups and events, and is hig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Footnotes
A note is a string of text placed at the bottom of a page in a book or document or at the end of a chapter, volume, or the whole text. The note can provide an author's comments on the main text or citations of a reference work in support of the text. Footnotes are notes at the foot of the page while endnotes are collected under a separate heading at the end of a chapter, volume, or entire work. Unlike footnotes, endnotes have the advantage of not affecting the layout of the main text, but may cause inconvenience to readers who have to move back and forth between the main text and the endnotes. In some editions of the Bible, notes are placed in a narrow column in the middle of each page between two columns of biblical text. Numbering and symbols In English, a footnote or endnote is normally flagged by a superscripted number immediately following that portion of the text the note references, each such footnote being numbered sequentially. Occasionally, a number between brack ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
