Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 10, 2011
August 09, 2011
August 11, 2011
Transcript:
Anne Warren of Westport, New Zealand, had a 22 pound ovarian cyst removed in 2008! When Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885), 18th US President and Civil War General, operated his father-in-law's farm in 1854- he chose to work hand-in-hand alongside the slaves! At the height of Zimbabwe's economic collapse in 2008, it took 700 million Zimbabwean dollars to buy a single loaf of bread!
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Grant’s wife still own slaves and held them all through the Civil War. The Emancipation Proclaimation did not apply to her. She only freed them when she had to at the war’s end.