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Sputnik
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Paul Dickson |
"On October 4, 1957, as Leave It to Beaver premiered on American television, the Soviet Union launced the first man-made object into space, a 184-pound satellite carrying only a radio transmitter. Wh… |
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Jokes
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Paul Dickson |
Silly shaggy dog stories, light-bulb jokes, non-ethnic racial jokes, Martian jokes, animal jokes, and convoluted puns are among the tasteful quips in this illustrated collection |
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Bill Veeck
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Paul Dickson |
Dickson (The Unwritten Rules of Baseball, 2009, etc.) delivers an engaging biography of Bill Veeck (1914–1986), an innovative, irascible and progressive gadfly within the staid world of baseball.
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Authorisms
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Paul Dickson |
"William Shakespeare's written vocabulary consisted of 17,245 words, including hundreds that were coined or popularized by him. Some of the words never went further than their appearance in his plays… |
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