Ripley's life and career has been extensively expanded on in various spin-off comics and novels, many of which discount her death on Fiorina 161, instead providing a chronology continuing on from the end of Aliens.

Ripley's early television and film career was characterised by minor roles as prostitutes or mistresses ; in what was to be her film debut, she filmed two scenes as a prostitute in the film Frankenstein ( Kenneth Branagh, 1994 ).

In the 1940's, writer Robert L. Ripley saw the street in person, and decided to add it to his Ripley's Believe It, Or Not!

The earliest known Wiccan version is found in a document dating from the late 1940s, Gereald Gardner's ritual notebook titled Ye Bok of Ye Art Magical ( fomerly in the collection of Ripley's International, Toronto ).

Few artifacts from the Ripley's Museum were salvaged.

As noted by Ripley On Radio, Ripley's broadcasts varied in length from 15 minutes to 30 minutes and aired in numerous different formats.

Romance, Rhythm and Ripley aired on CBS in 1945, followed by Pages from Robert L. Ripley's Radio Scrapbook ( 1947 – 48 ).

* San Antonio – This Ripley's Museum is located across from the historic Alamo.

His diary records many activities, from visiting old friends through attending drawing courses and music lessons ; going to dances, theatres, and concerts ; playing billiards at Ripley's ; and spending the evening in Parker's Restaurant ; to spending a whole day making a model boat.

The Atlanta Constitution concluded that " flabbergasting circumstances " had turned the gubernatorial campaign into " a page from Ripley's.

As Scott's and Ripley's forces approached Fort Erie, Buck fired only a few shots at the Americans from the fort's cannon and then surrendered.

Ripley's opinion of the entire campaign was far from positive and he had even openly rumoured that the British would bring up further reinforcements and capture the fort.

Ripley's blood begins to burn through the viewing panel of the airlock door, causing flames from the explosion that surrounded the ship to flood in, resulting in its destruction.

Over the years some clever skeptic of this story referred to Coghlan ’ s casket as the “ homing coffin ” The genesis of the Canadian fishermen tale appears to have come from a 1929 Ripley's Believe It Or Not!

The teachers included three graduates of Harvard Divinity School ( George Ripley, George Bradford, John Sullivan Dwight ) as well as several women ( Ripley's wife Sophia, his sister Marianne, and his cousin Hannah, as well as Georgianna Bruce and Abby Morton ).

Norton, formerly Ripley's teacher at the Divinity School, had been labeled by many as the " hard-headed Unitarian Pope ", and began his public battle with Ripley in the Boston Daily Advertiser on November 5, 1836, in an open letter charging Ripley with academic and professional incompetence.

Dwan also helped launch the career of two other very successful Hollywood directors, Victor Fleming, who went on to direct The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind, and Marshall Neilan, who became an actor, director, writer and producer.

He began his professional career at the age of six, and has worked on over 400 television episodes, 18 motion pictures, various commercials, and scores of voice over work, as well as working as a musician, songwriter, recording artist and writer.

This period of his career marked the first of his many collaborations with writer Jack Rosenthal.

As a poet, she was well known and highly regarded in her own day ; she completed 41 works during her 30 year career ( 1399 – 1429 ), and can be regarded as Europe ’ s first professional woman writer.

He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.

After his brother's death, Poe began more earnest attempts to start his career as a writer.

Dealing with racial and gay issues, it started the career of its writer Hanif Kureishi.

Deciding on a career as a caricaturist and gag writer, Fellini travelled to Florence in 1938 where he published his first cartoon in the weekly 420.

In 1928, Orwell began his career as a professional writer in Paris at a journal owned by the French Communist, Henri Barbusse.

The production of the latter in 1829 brought his career as a writer of opera to a close.

His prewar writing career was not mentioned in the book's publicity, and people were allowed to assume that it was a first novel from a previously unknown writer.

Baseball writer Bill James, in The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, ranked Robinson as the 32nd greatest player of all time strictly on the basis of his performance on the field, noting that he was one of the top players in the league throughout his career.

After establishing a career as a writer, becoming best known for his science fiction and fantasy stories, he developed a self-help system called Dianetics which was first published in May 1950.

He attended George Washington University in Washington, D. C. at the start of the 1930s, before dropping out and beginning his career as a prolific writer of pulp fiction stories.

After Python, he began a new career as a travel writer and travel documentarian.

In 1961, Carl Reiner cast her in The Dick Van Dyke Show, an acclaimed weekly series based on Reiner's own life and career as a writer for Sid Caesar's television variety show, telling the cast from the outset that it would run no more than five years.

By this time Gosse was " very comfortably off " with the earnings from his books and dividends from his investments, and in 1864 Eliza received a substantial legacy which allowed Gosse to retire from his career as a professional writer and live in " congenial obscurity.

Heinlein began his career as a writer of stories for Astounding Science Fiction, a highly respected science fiction magazine, which was edited by John Campbell.

In addition to his political career, he was also a noted historian and writer.

Isaac Asimov, a science fiction writer who began his career with John W, Campbell in Astounding magazine in the 1940s, said of the New Wave: " I hope that when the New Wave has deposited its froth and receded, the vast and solid shore of science fiction will appear once more.

In 1805, The Lay of the Last Minstrel captured wide public imagination, and his career as a writer was established in spectacular fashion.

In 1957 he moved to New York City to pursue a career as an actor and writer.

Before and during his career as a writer, he attempted to be a publisher, printer, businessman, critic, and politician ; he failed in all of these efforts.

At 17, he confessed to the bar's owner, John Heinold, his desire to attend University and pursue a career as a writer.

Altman's immediate success encouraged him to move to New York City, where he attempted to forge a career as a writer.