Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for February 07, 2012

If you start a war by picking on your three neighbours, Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, at the one time then it would be no surprise.

How can you fly a helicopter wearing a burka?

ain’t a shark, minnow with a bad dental plan.

As the war dragged on, some Paraguayan soldiers entered combat without weapons and were expected to arm themselves from those of fallen comrades (Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 40, 1870)

Here in the USA that is called child endangering!

But, they had a great retirement plan and free medical care for life…

I want a dwarf lantern shark.

So does the daughter serve as the helo’s door gunner? One has to wonder why her superiors don’t require Nabizada to make other arrangements for the care of her daughter.

“Jesus, Savior, pilot me!”

I hope, in the future, little Malaili keeps a journal of all her adventures with her mother-flying over those mountains.

At the end of the war, the 3 armies surrounded the president, his son, and about 100 soldiers.

The president refused to surrender.

I know what you are saying, but for just a minute I pictured a bunch of ticked-off Paraguayans… in the other kind of tank…

A few lawyers in a shark tank would look better.

;-)

The 1870s must have been a fun time to be an adult male in Paraguay!