Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for April 21, 2014
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Ripley's Believe It or Not! Richard Nixon and film star James Dean were 7th cousins. The mustachioed Emperor Tamarin monkey is named after Kaiser (emperor) Wilhelm II of Germany. The Anna's Eighty-Eight butterfly of South America, is named after the odd numerical markings on its wings.
Templo S.U.D. over 10 years ago
Former presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman, Jr. are third cousins once removed.
billcor over 10 years ago
coincidence? I think not.
Kali39 over 10 years ago
Barbara Bush is a descendant of President Franklin Pierce (which explains a lot…)
juicebruce over 10 years ago
A Dale Earnhart Jr. butterfly ?
athomas917 over 10 years ago
The Hitler butterfly.
Simon_Jester over 10 years ago
The piano butterfly
Guilty Bystander over 10 years ago
And away we go…
ChessPirate over 10 years ago
Entire alphabet and number set on butterfly wings:http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/kjell-bloch-sandved-butterfly-alphabetI read somewhere that the word “Hi” (and probably others) has also been found.
potrerokid over 10 years ago
Same thing, really. Think about it!!
Marvin3 over 10 years ago
Ronald Reagan and I were closely related. His mother and my mother were mothers.
strodgers over 10 years ago
Yet kali39, Your president was not nominated by the popular vote, Hillary Clinton was. He was appointed by “super delegates” and don’t forget the Michigan delegation’s alleged penalty. It should have been President Hillary.
english.ann over 10 years ago
Seventh cousins, apparently both Californians; that beats fifth cousins, Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt.No, Barbara Bush is NOT descended from Franklin Pierce, but from one of his brothers; NOBODY is descended from Franklin Pierce; he and his wife gave up trying to have more children after their first son died at the age of three days, Frank Robert Pierce died of typhus at the age of four, and Benjamin Pierce died at the age of eleven in a train derailment accident he and his parents were in.
english.ann over 10 years ago
The closest we have to that 88 butterfly is a zebra swallowtail. It took a closer look to realize that a 88 butterfly has a different pattern of black and white markings on its wings than the zebra swallowtail here does.
AmyGrantfan51774 over 10 years ago
that monkey looks like Rollie Fingers huh?!!!..y’all know who he is eh???!!!!..he was a baseball pitcher with a handlebar mustache that’s why I said the monkey looks like him
AmyGrantfan51774 over 10 years ago
John Kerry isn’t the ketchup king and Al Gore isn’t Weird Al there’s already a Weird Al he’s a musician heard of him?!!!!!!
Kali39 over 10 years ago
We’re not sore – we just state for the record he didn’t actually win any of his elections. The Supreme Court anointed him the first time and Diebold selected him the second time.