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Strange History: Mysterious Artifacts, Macabre Legends, Boneheaded Blunders & Mind-Blowing Facts
- Forfatter
- Forlag
Bizarre historical tidbits about quirky queens, hippopotamus soup, shrunken heads, and much more!
This exciting title from the folks at the Bathroom Readers' Institute contains the strangest short history articles from over thirty Bathroom Readers, along with fifty all-new pages. From the twentieth century to the Old West, from the Age of Enlightenment to the Dark Ages, from ancient cultures all the way back to the dawn of time, Strange History is overflowing with mysterious artifacts, macabre legends, kooky inventions, reality-challenged rulers, boneheaded blunders, and mind-blowing facts. Whether it's B.C. or A.D., you'll be wondering WTF! Read about . . .
- The curse of Macbeth - Stupid history: Hollywood style - The secret LSD experiments of the 1960s - In search of the lost "Cloud People" of Peru - The Swedish queen who declared war on fleas - Unearthing the past with the Outhouse Detectives - The Apollo astronaut who swears he saw a UFO - How to brew a batch of 5,000-year-old beer - The brutal bloodbaths at Rome's Coliseum - Ghostly soup from ancient China - The bathroom of the 1970s And much, much more!
© 2016 Portable Press (E-bog): 9781626866157
Udgivelsesdato
E-bog: 1. juni 2016
Bøger, der ligner Strange History: Mysterious Artifacts, Macabre Legends, Boneheaded Blunders & Mind-Blowing Facts
- Atomic Ranch: Design Ideas for Stylish Ranch Homes Michelle Gringeri-Brown
- The Worst of Times: How Life on Earth Survived Eighty Million Years of Extinctions Paul B. Wignall
- Nature's Ghosts: Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology Mark V. Barrow
- In the Land of Believers: An Outsider's Extraordinary Journey into the Heart of the Evangelical Church Gina Welch
- Yeats Now: Echoing into Life Joseph M. Hassett
- The Philosophy Scare: The Politics of Reason in the Early Cold War John McCumber
- Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine Angela N. H. Creager
- The Beauty of the Beasts: Tales of Hollywood's Wild Animal Stars Ralph Helfer
- The Games Presidents Play: Sports and the Presidency John Sayle Watterson
- The History of Toy Soldiers Luigi Toiati
- Artifact & Artifice: Classical Archaeology and the Ancient Historian Jonathan M. Hall
- The History and Natural History of Spices: The 5,000-Year Search for Flavour Ian Anderson
- Extreme Measures: The Ecological Energetics of Birds and Mammals Brian K. McNab
- The Classics Magpie: From chariot-racing hooligans to debauched dinner parties - a miscellany that shakes the dust off the ancient world Jane Hood
- The Barefoot Lawyer: A Blind Man's Fight for Justice and Freedom in China Chen Guangcheng
- 2020: The Year That Changed The World Naomi Watasa Lumutenga
- Gravity's Ghost and Big Dog: Scientific Discovery and Social Analysis in the Twenty-First Century Harry Collins
- Ocean Bestiary: Meeting Marine Life from Abalone to Orca to Zooplankton Richard J. King
- The World's Emergency Room: The Growing Threat to Doctors, Nurses, and Humanitarian Workers Michael VanRooyen
- The Pocket Guide to Classic Books Kieran Hughes
- Rereading the Fossil Record: The Growth of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline David Sepkoski
- The Seductions of Quantification: Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex Trafficking Sally Engle Merry
- A Splintered History of Wood: Belt-Sander Races, Blind Woodworkers & Baseball Bats Spike Carlsen
- The Republic of Color: Science, Perception, and the Making of Modern America Michael Rossi
- The Furious Future: Stories Algis Budrys
- Migration and Mobility in the Modern Age: Refugees, Travelers, and Traffickers in Europe and Eurasia
- Extinct Madagascar: Picturing the Island's Past Velizar Simeonovski, Steven M. Goodman, William L. Jungers
- Life Sculpted: Tales of the Animals, Plants, and Fungi That Drill, Break, and Scrape to Shape the Earth Anthony J. Martin
- The Demise of the Northern White Rhinoceros John Rafferty
- Railways in the Landscape Gordon Biddle
- Time Maps: Collective Memory and the Social Shape of the Past Eviatar Zerubavel
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