| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - He demanded respect for those who were labeled eccentrics" or freaks"--whether it be E. L. Blystone, who wrote 1,615 alphabet letters on a grain of rice, or the man who could swallow his own nose.By the 1930s Ripley possessed a vast fortune, a private yacht, and a twenty-eight room mansion stocked with such oddities" as shrunken heads and medieval torture devices, and his pioneering firsts in p
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