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by Bathroom Readers' Institute
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Take a fascinating quantum leap into the fun side of science.
From the amazing to the amusing, this byte-sized collection will bring you the inside stories behind earth-shattering discoveries, accidental inventions, and outlandish studies. Featuring Uncle John’s most mind-bending science...
Disney Frozen - 101 Amazing Facts You Didn't Know
GWhizBooks.com
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2014
Did you know that "Frozen's" storyline is loosely based on "The Snow Queen" which was written by Hans Christian Andersen?
Or, did you know that The main characters in this film are voiced by some very popular men and women. Most notably, Elsa and Anna are voiced by Idina...
How to Fight a Bear...and Win
And 72 Other Real Survival Tips We Hope You'll Never Need
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
From the world leader in fascinating facts and amusing true stories comes a book about how to feed, clothe, and protect yourself in the wilderness…and might even make you want to avoid anything resembling the wilderness forever.
For more than 25 years, Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader has helped...
Fifty Shades of Grey - 101 Amazing Facts & True or False?
GWhizBooks.com
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
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Did you know Custom House, Barnstaple has created a burger in honor of the 50 Shades of Grey?
Or, did you know in 2012, E.L. James was included in Time Magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World"?
What...
Foodie Facts
A Food Lover's Guide to America's Favorite Dishes from Apple Pie to Corn on the Cob
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
A treasury of trivia—plus recipes—for lovers of good old-fashioned comfort food.
Who pitted the first cherries and nestled them into pie crust? Was a meatloaf sandwich the result of a late-night refrigerator run? And does anyone really crave green bean casserole, complete with fried onions...
The Vonnegut Encyclopedia
Revised and updated edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Now expanded and updated, this authorized compendium to Kurt Vonnegut’s novels, stories, essays, and plays is the most comprehensive and definitive edition to date.
Over the course of five decades, Kurt Vonnegut created a complex and interconnected web of characters, settings, and concepts....
Endangered Phrases
Intriguing Idioms Dangerously Close to Extinction
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
As the world changes, so does language . . . An A-to-Z guide to expressions from yesteryear that are becoming increasingly scarce.
“Person to person” (and “station to station”), “bar sinister,” “the weed of crime bears bitter fruit,” “between the devil and the deep blue sea,”...
Script and Scribble
The Rise and Fall of Handwriting
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
"A witty and readable (and fetchingly illustrated and glossed) excursion through the history of handwriting." —The Wall Street Journal
**Let a self-confessed "penmanship nut" take you on a tour of the strange and beautiful world of handwriting. **
Since her Catholic...
The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions
The Curious World of the Demoulin Brothers and Their Fraternal Lodge Prank Machi nes - from Human Centipedes and Revolving Goats to ElectricCarpets and SmokingC
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
"This stuff is more than just fancy pranks. It's Americana. Never has nonsense been taken so seriously...This book is a fascinating, appetite- whetting glimpse for the, if you'll pardon the expression, uninitiated."
-David Copperfield, from the foreword
At the beginning of the twentieth...
by Mignon Fogarty
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Millions of people around the world communicate better thanks to Mignon Fogarty, aka Grammar Girl, whose top-rated weekly grammar podcast has been downloaded more than 40 million times. Now she's turning her attention to improving our vocabulary—one smart word at a time—with Grammar Girl's 101...
Mad Science
Einstein's Fridge, Dewar's Flask, Mach's Speed, and 362 Other Inventions and Discoveries That Made Our World
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
365 days of inventions, discoveries, science, and technology, from the editors of Wired Magazine.
On January 30, Rubik applied for a patent on his cube (1975). On the next day, 17 years earlier, the first U.S. Satellite passed through the Van Allen radiation belt. On March 17, the airplane...
by Andrey Davydov, Olga Skorbatyuk
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2013
«Рассматриваемая личность ощущает себя законодательницей, которая не только готова, но и обязана упорядочить мир, определив для решения данной задачи всё и всех в...
by Carlo DeVito
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Inventing Scrooge uncovers the real-life inspirations from Charles Dickens’ own world that led to the fascinating creation of his most beloved tale: A Christmas Carol.
When Charles Dickens created the story that would become A Christmas Carol, little did he know that his “ghostly little...
by Connie Goddard, Bruce Hatton Boyer, C Goddard
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1996
A fun-filled volume for Chicagoans, visitors, and anyone interested in Chicago, it is a collection of fascinating facts, wonderful quotations, and surprising history about famous biggests, longests, oldests, and firsts"". A useful, entertaining introduction to America's most livable great city.
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