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.

The original city plot was around current day Ripley and 5th Streets, where Antoine LeClaire had built his house.

Although Mitchell refused to write a sequel to Gone with the Wind, Mitchell's estate authorized Alexandra Ripley to write a sequel, which was titled Scarlett.

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.

Sophia Ripley was one of the participants.

In Massachusetts, Brook Farm was founded by Sophia Ripley and her husband George Ripley in 1841 as an attempt to find a way in which men and women could work together, with women receiving the same compensation as men.

William Westmoreland was born in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, to Eugenia Talley Childs and James Ripley Westmoreland.

Sleepy John Estes was a U. S. blues guitarist, songwriter and vocalist, born in Ripley, Tennessee.

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.

During the American Civil War, Ripley county was strongly pro-Southern and provided four colonels for the Confederate Army.

When Congress created the Territory of Missouri in 1812, what became Ripley County was in New Madrid County.

Ripley County's current courthouse was designed by William F. Schrage of Kansas City and was built in 1898-1899.

At the end of 2008, the unemployment rate in Ripley County was 6. 4 %.

Reynolds County was formerly part of Ripley County which was formed in 1831 and part of Wayne County which was formed in 1818.

Carter County was created from portions of Ripley, Shannon and Wayne counties.

At the time of its creation, Carter County was attached to Ripley County for the purpose of representation in the General Assembly.

This church was organized on December 27, 1843 in what was then Ripley County.

The event that prodded further development of the county was the building of Fort Ripley.

Fort Ripley was built ostensibly to protect the Winnebago Indians, who had been relocated by Henry Rice from Iowa to central Minnesota west of the Mississippi River, between the Crow Wing and Long Prairie rivers.

Ripley County was formed in 1818.

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

Wilson also compares Fort to Robert Ripley, a contemporary writer who found major success hunting oddities, and speculates that Fort's idiosyncratic prose might have kept him from greater popular success.

It was directed by Arthur Ripley and starred Robert Mitchum, who also produced the film, co-wrote the screenplay, and is rumored to have directed much of the film himself.

Ripley Park, also known as Ripley Pool and Waterslide, is located at 200 Mary Robert.

* also: Old Ripley Township, Bond County, Illinois

He won an Oscar and a Grammy Award for his work on The English Patient ( 1996 ) and was also nominated for The Talented Mr. Ripley ( 1999 ) and Cold Mountain ( 2003 ).

A Renaissance Faire also takes place at Lake Ripley Park in May.

** Brook Farm ( founder: George Ripley ), an agriculture-based commune that also ran schools.

Ripley is also home to the Midland Railway-Butterley ( formerly the Midland Railway Centre ) a railway preservation trust, dedicated to preserving locomotives, rolling stock and other items related to the Midland Railway.

Ripley also has a Community Hospital with a minor A + E department, which was opened on 7 / 9 / 1912.

All around Ripley there are footpaths which can be used to take you to places such as Devils Wood ( also locally known as Bluebell Wood ), around Waingroves and down Lowes Hill to Hammersmith.

Ipswich also has direct access to the Ipswich Motorway ( linking to Brisbane ); the Cunningham Highway ( linking to Warwick ); the Warrego Highway ( linking to Toowoomba ); and the Centenary Highway ( linking Springfield and the Ripley Valley to Brisbane ).

She also is the main character in the 1970 musical Scarlett and the 1991 book Scarlett, a sequel to Gone with the Wind that was written by Alexandra Ripley and adapted for a television mini-series in 1994.

The character also appears in the 1991 book Scarlett, a sequel to Gone with the Wind written by Alexandra Ripley, and in Rhett Butler's People by Donald McCaig.

His racial classification (" Teutonic ", " Alpine " and " Mediterranean ") was also used by William Z. Ripley ( 1867 – 1941 ) who, in The Races of Europe ( 1899 ), made a map of Europe according to the cephalic index of its inhabitants.

There, they also hosted receptions on Sunday evenings which drew notable figures including P. T. Barnum, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Greenleaf Whittier, Horace Greeley, Bayard Taylor and his wife, Richard and Elizabeth Stoddard, Robert Dale Owen, Oliver Johnson, Mary E. Dodge, Mrs. Croly, Mrs. Victor, Edwin H. Chapin, Henry M. Field, Charles F. Deems, Samuel Bowles, Thomas B. Aldrich, Anna E. Dickinson, George Ripley, Madame Le Vert, Henry Wilson, Justin McCarthy ; in short, all the noted contemporary names in the different departments of literature and art might fairly be added to the list.

As a producer he helped to guide many films that were successful with both critics and movie audiences, such as The Fabulous Baker Boys, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and Michael Clayton, a film in which he also starred opposite George Clooney, and for which he received his sixth Academy Award nomination, in the Best Picture category.

He has also appeared in many other Hollywood films such as The Talented Mr. Ripley.

A vicious criminal named Maurice Miller ( Don Cheadle ) who also spent time in jail with Jack and Ripley is planning on hitting up Ripley's mansion with his own crew, including Kenneth ( Isaiah Washington ) and White Boy Bob ( Keith Loneker ).

Ripley befriends the younger Greenleaf and quickly becomes infatuated with the rich young man's indulgent, carefree lifestyle ; he also becomes obsessed with Greenleaf himself.

In 1929 the ICC published its proposed Complete Plan of Consolidation, also known as the " Ripley Plan ," after its author, William Z. Ripley of Harvard University.

The now-closed Quincy Smelting Works, formerly operated by the Quincy Mine, is also located in Ripley.