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

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.

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.

The growing volume of holiday mail became so substantial that it caught the attention of Robert Ripley in 1929, who featured the town's post office in his nationally-syndicated Ripley's Believe It or Not cartoon strip.

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.

The most predominant denominations among residents in Ripley County who adhere to a religion are Southern Baptists ( 34. 98 %), Churches of Christ ( 12. 20 %), and Baptist Missionary Association of America ( 10. 16 %).

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.

It was named for Gen. Eleazer Wheelock Ripley, an officer in the War of 1812, who was mainly remembered for the Battle of Lundy's Lane and the Siege of Fort Erie, in 1814.

A slave woman who crossed the frozen river to Ripley and stayed in his house in 1838 inspired the character Eliza in Harriet Beecher Stowe's landmark book, Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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.

Jacob Starcher erected a grist mill in 1824 and laid out the town in 1830, naming it in honor of Harry Ripley, a young minister who was to be married, but drowned in Big Mill Creek, about one and a half miles north of the town, shortly before the ceremony took place.

Ripley, who had come to Minnesota from Maine, persuaded his fellow board members to name the new Township in honor of James G. Blaine, a Republican senator, Speaker of the House and three-time presidential candidate from Maine.

" The book marked him among older British Unitarians as a dangerous radical, and his ideas were the catalyst for a pamphlet war in America between George Ripley ( who favored Martineau's questioning of the historical accuracy of scripture ) and the more conservative Andrews Norton.

The decade started with Rob Reiner's Misery ( 1990 ), based on the book by Stephen King, with Kathy Bates as an unbalanced fan named Annie who terrorizes, in her care, an incapacitated author named Paul ( James Caan ); in one horrifying scene, she ' hobbles ' his ankles so that he can't escape, a battered wife who left her sadistic husband to find a better life was vengefully pursued in Sleeping with the Enemy ( 1991 ), Curtis Hanson's The Hand That Rocks the Cradle ( 1992 ), with Rebecca De Mornay as a nanny intent on seeking revenge against her dead obstetrician husband's patient ( Annabella Sciorra ), Unlawful Entry ( 1992 ) with Ray Liotta as cop being obsessed with a woman he saved, Barbet Schroeder's suspenseful Single White Female ( 1992 ), with Bridget Fonda and her obsessed roommate-from-hell Jennifer Jason Leigh, Harold Becker's Malice ( 1993 ) with Alec Baldwin and Nicole Kidman, and lastly Anthony Minghella's psychological thriller The Talented Mr. Ripley ( 1999 ) with Matt Damon being obsessed with, and then assuming the identity of, Jude Law.

Both the book and the film revolve around Sailor Ripley ( Nicolas Cage ) and Lula Pace Fortune ( Laura Dern ), a young couple from Cape Fear, North Carolina who go on the run from her domineering mother ( Diane Ladd ).

He attended school under Sophia Dana, who would later marry George Ripley, and later studied at a school run by a particularly harsh disciplinarian, where one of his classmates was Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

Ripley received many applications to join the community, especially from people who had little money or those in poor health, but full-fledged membership was granted only to individuals who could afford the $ 500 share of the joint stock company.

Ripley attempted to quell the financial difficulties by negotiating with creditors and stockholders, who agreed to cancel $ 7, 000 of debts.

George Ripley, who had begun the experiment, made an unofficial break with Brook Farm in May 1846.

George Ripley, who reviewed the book for the New York Tribune, said that former Brook Farmers would only notice the resemblance in the humorous parts of the story.

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.

The Schwartz fellowship “ supports talented journalists, academics and other public policy analysts who offer a fresh and often unpredictable perspective on the major challenges facing our society .” Current fellows include Peter Beinart, Sheri Fink, Franklin Foer, Rebecca MacKinnon, and Amanda Ripley.

At the height of his popularity Robert Ripley received thousands of letters a day from the public, and Ripley Entertainment continues to encourage submissions from readers who have strange stories and photographs that could be featured in Ripley ’ s Believe It or Not!

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.

She informs Ripley of a new military operation on the science station Typhoon, involving a hybrid Alien super soldier, led by a Dr. Trollenberg.

Camp Ripley has small arms and tank ranges, maneuver training areas capable of supporting heavy brigade, and special operation training facilities.

On November 3, 1929, Robert Ripley drew a panel in his syndicated cartoon, Ripley's Believe it or Not !, saying " Believe It or Not, America has no national anthem ".

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.

The census-designated place of Lake Ripley has a Lake Ripley.

Alderson has the second largest Fourth of July Celebration in West Virginia ( behind Ripley ).

The Ripley area has been industrialised since the late 18th century.

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

According to research and the analysis of names in Britain in 2006, Ripley has the highest proportion of people of ethnic-English origin.

Greenwich to the east of Ripley has football pitches, a cricket pitch and pavilion.

The year 2012, Ripley, New York has no gas station, school will be combined with others in Mayville, New York, convenient store is in an old church and very small.

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 ).

A rail line has been proposed to run south from Ipswich to Yamanto and Ripley, eventually connecting with the Springfield line.

The primary school was overseen by Sophia Ripley and Marianne Ripley, using a progressive child-centered pedagogy that has been compared to the later reforms of John Dewey.

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 ".

As with some other Ripley museums, it has a theme.

Ripley uses language more indicative of the mystical implications of sublimation, indicating that the process has a double aspect in the spiritualization of the body and the corporalizing of the spirit.

Barnum, but has since been copied many times in other attractions, including the collection of Robert Ripley.

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

The Boy Who Followed Ripley, meanwhile, has been cited as portraying a homoerotic subtext between Ripley and the novel's supporting protagonist, Frank Pierson ; Frank sleeps in Ripley's bed without changing the sheets, and speaks of his happiness at being at Belle Ombre with " the words of a lover ".

Ripley is portrayed as devoid of conscience ; in The Boy Who Followed Ripley, he admits that he has never been seriously troubled by guilt.

He has his own code of ethics ; in Ripley's Game, Highsmith writes that Ripley detests murder unless it is " absolutely necessary ".

Ripley has been selected as the eighth-greatest hero in American cinema history by the American Film Institute, as fifth-coolest hero in pop culture by Entertainment Weekly, the ninth-greatest movie character ever by Empire ( the highest-placing female of the list ), and the eighth-best movie character of all time by Premiere, In 2011, John Scalzi called her " Clearly the Best Female Character in Scifi Film ".