Believe It or Not #12

Believe It or Not #12

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Believe It or Not #12

1931

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Overview

Traveling to North Africa, Ripley offers views of The Meeting Place of the Dead in Morocco, a jail for nagging wives, a village with houses made of tin cans, and a sultan with many wives and children.

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The Vitaphone Corporation

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Robert L. Ripley

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Robert L. Ripley

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