Tree Transplantation
From Nation, For Nation - Pulse of the Nation
The Grenade Football:
Those Four Small Words
Champs and Chumps
On December 19, 1918 - ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO TODAY - the first “Believe It or Not!” cartoon was published.
On a slow news day, Robert Ripley pondered how to fill the space assigned to him as an illustrator for the New York Globe. He decided to return to an old concept that he’d experimented with back in the winter of 1916. Little did he know, the choice he was about to make would be the start of an amazing adventure that lives on today. →
From Globe, For Globe - Pulse of the Planet
Jim Twins
The Jim Twins of Ohio were reunited at age 39, after being separated at birth. When they got to talking, they found that they had lived identical lives!
So Far Apart, Yet Always Together
So, nature versus nurture debaters, what do you make of this one? When two twin boys were put up for adoption in 1940, at only three weeks old, their adoptive parents coincidentally named them both James. Both men came to be named Jim for short, and that was just the start of it. The two would grow up only 40 miles apart from each other, and go on to live lives that were spookily similar.
One of the boys was adopted by the Lewises of Lima, and the other by the Springers of Piqua. Both families knew that the child they adopted had a twin, but did not know what became of them. From there, though their paths had diverged, they unknowingly forged lives as identical as their DNA.
Both had beloved childhood dogs named Toy, and as schoolchildren, both had a proclivity for math and woodworking but were no great shakes at spelling. If their childhoods were uncannily similar, though, then their early adulthoods were truly remarkable. Ref : https://www.ripleys.com/stories/jim-twins
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