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Ripley's Believe It or Not - Saturday May 29, 1999 Comic Strip Licensing and Permissions

Ripley's Believe It or Not - Saturday May 29, 1999 Comic Strip
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RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT © Ripley Entertainment, Inc. Reprinted by permission of ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION for UFS. All rights reserved.

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Believe It or Not! Mathematician John Napier (1550-1617), who invented the decimal point, use mathematics to calculate the date of the last judgment! According to his figures, it would occur in either 1688 or 1700! Believe It or Not! The city of Portland, Oregon, was named after a coin toss! FW Pettygrove who was from Maine, beat Asa Lovejoy in a coin toss in 1845, and since he was from Maine, he picked Portland to be the city's new name! A nine hole golf course in Portal, ND., has 8 of its holes in Canada! Passport?