The oldest building was long known simply as The Admiralty, and is now referred to popularly as the Old Admiralty and officially as the Ripley Building.

Nowadays the Ripley Building is allocated to the Department for International Development.

Admiralty House is a moderately proportioned mansion to the south of the Ripley Building, built in the late 18th century as the residence of the First Lord of the Admiralty, serving that purpose until 1964.

It lacks its own entrance from Whitehall, and is entered through the Ripley Building.

The escape craft Ripley boards in the 1979 Ridley Scott film Alien is called the Narcissus.

* In Scarlett, the sequel to Gone with the Wind, Alexandra Ripley mentions several times that Scarlett O ' Hara is an extremely skillful whist player.

One, advanced by Katherine Elwes Thomas in 1930 and adopted by Robert Ripley, posits that Humpty Dumpty is King Richard III of England, depicted in Tudor histories, and particularly in Shakespeare's play, as humpbacked and who was defeated, despite his armies at Bosworth Field in 1485.

She is known for her role of Ellen Ripley in the four Alien films: Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, and Alien Resurrection, for which she has received worldwide recognition.

Ty Burr of The Boston Globe states, " One of the real pleasures of " Alien " is to watch the emergence of both Ellen Ripley as a character and Sigourney Weaver as a star.

The city is bounded on the south by the Portage Canal, parts of Quincy, Hancock and Franklin Townships ; on the east by West Ripley ; and on the north by Quincy and Hancock Townships.

Its county seat is Ripley and its largest municipality is Ravenswood.

Its county seat is Ripley.

O ' Keeffe is a native of Ripley and still maintains a home in the area.

Ripley County is a county located in the Ozarks of Southeast Missouri in the United States.

The county was officially organized on January 5, 1833, and is named after Brigadier General Eleazar Wheelock Ripley, a soldier who served with distinction in the War of 1812.

According to the Association of Religion Data Archives County Membership Report ( 2000 ), Ripley County is a part of the Bible Belt with evangelical Protestantism being the majority religion.

Its county seat is Ripley.

Ripley County ( County Number 69 ) is a county located in the U. S. state of Indiana.

Ripley County is part of Indiana's 9th congressional district and is represented in Congress by Republican Todd Young.

A short portion of the western border, less than long, is shared with Ripley County to the northwest.

* Fictional character Ellen Ripley from the Alien franchise is born this year.

Old Ripley is a village in Bond County, Illinois, United States.

Old Ripley is located at ( 38. 893530 ,-89. 570751 ).

Highsmith introduced Ripley in The Talented Mr. Ripley ( 1955 ) as a young man making a meager living off his " talents ": forgery, impersonation, and lying.

Ripley's criminal exploits include a long-running art forgery scam ( introduced in Ripley Under Ground and consistently mentioned in later books ), an entanglement with the Mafia ( in Ripley's Game ), and several murders.

At the 1907 meeting Lewis introduced Cannon to the 13 year-old guitarist and singer, Ashley Thompson, with whom Lewis had been playing in the streets of Ripley and Memphis for some time and the three of them worked together over the next 20 years whenever Cannon was in Memphis, and not away working medicine and tent shows.

Her eye-candy role, Tawny Madison, contrasts outrageously with the no-nonsense warrant officer Ellen Ripley of the Alien series, also played by Weaver.

The female action hero Ellen Ripley ( played by Sigourney Weaver ), who appeared in the first four Alien films, would become a cinematic icon.

Weaver appeared two years later as Warrant Officer / Lieutenant Ripley in Ridley Scott's blockbuster 1979 film Alien.

Army scientists named this The Ripley, after the protagonist of the Alien series, partly because of its extreme resilience to destruction.

In Alien Resurrection, the 1997 film, Ellen Ripley has been cloned to facilitate study of the alien queen embryo with which she was implanted In Octavia E. Butler's Lilith's Brood trilogy ( 1987, 1988, 1989 ) alien and human females impregnated by alien intermediary-sex individuals with the DNA of males, in " fivesomes ".

Her daughters were named after the character Ellen Ripley in the Alien films and the singer Nico.

In an early draft of Alien 3 written by William Gibson, Biehn's character Hicks ( who had survived the events of Aliens ) was to become the main protagonist, replacing Ellen Ripley ( Sigourney Weaver ).

Roz Kaveney sees the main characters in James Cameron's movie Aliens as reflecting aspects of the triple goddess: The Alien Queen ( Crone ), Ripley ( Mother ) and Newt ( Maiden ).

* Alien: Warrant Officer Ripley activates a self-destruct mechanism on Commercial Towing Vessel Nostromo in order to destroy a monster that wiped out her entire crew.

" alien form "— from Greek xeno-or " strange " and-morph, shape ) was used by the character Lieutenant Gorman in Aliens and by Ellen Ripley in a deleted scene from Alien 3.

Ellen Ripley is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Alien film series played by American actress Sigourney Weaver.

In the 2000 video game Alien Resurrection, the character is referred as Lieutenant Ellen L. Ripley and is voiced by Lani Minella.

However, after contact was lost with the colony on LV-426, the planet where her crew first encountered the Alien eggs, Ripley is requested to go with Colonial Marines aboard the Sulaco to LV-426.

Back on the Sulaco, they are soon attacked by a surviving Alien Queen, which is finally expelled into space by Ripley.

In Alien 3 ( 1992 ), the Sulaco launches an escape pod containing the four survivors, which then crashes on Fiorina ' Fury ' 161, a foundry facility and penal colony -- Ripley alone survives the crash.

After rallying the inmates and preparing the defense against the creature, Ripley discovers the embryo of an Alien Queen growing inside her, thus realizing why she had not been attacked.

After having killed the Alien by thermal shock, Ripley kills herself by diving into a gigantic furnace just as the alien Queen begins to erupt from her chest, preventing the Weyland-Yutani Corporation from using it as a biological weapon.