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Curiosities of natural history
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Francis Trevelyan Buckland,Michigan Historical Reprint Series |
Vol. 2 includes "Discovery of the remains of John Hunter" and "Ben Jonson's skull" |
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More record breakers
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Alan Russell |
78p. : 27cm |
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Erinnerungen an die Zukunft
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Erich von Däniken |
Erich von Daniken's Chariots of the Gods is a work of monumental importance--the first book to introduce the shocking theory that ancient Earth had been visited by aliens. This world-famous bestselle… |
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Strange mysteries from around the world
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Seymour Simon |
Describes 10 strange natural phenomena and possible explanations for them. Includes the day it rained frogs, an atomic explosion that occurred 40 years before the atom bomb, and an eerie crystal skul… |
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Mental Floss
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Editors Of Mental Floss |
The bathroom read to end all bathroom reads!
What does Greece (the country) have to do with Grease (the movie)? And what does Grease (the movie) have to do with greasy food? Plenty, if you ask the… |
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Haunted Ireland
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John J. Dunne |
3-109 p. : 21 cm |
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Frommer's 500 Places to See Before They Disappear
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Holly Hughes |
500 Places to See Before They Disappear enables passionate travelers and the eco-conscious to learn about and plan a visit to see rare cultural, historic, and natural places before they are irrevocab… |
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Mental floss presents Be amazing
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Editors Of Mental Floss,Maggie Koerth |
Be amazingWho says you can't? It's time to get off the couch and take your life to the next level.Step one: stand on the shoulders of geniusesWhat good are the world's greatest geniuses if you can't … |
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Secret places, hidden sanctuaries
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Stephen Klimczuk |
The doors of some of the world’s best-hidden places and most secretive organizations have now been thrown wide open! Some of the names are familiar: Area 51, Yale’s Skull and Bones, Opus Dei, the Esa… |
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More... Would You Believe?
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Isaac Asimov |
A collection of little-known and surprising facts from human and natural history. |
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Kid vs. squid
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Greg Van Eekhout |
Spending the summer after sixth grade at his great-uncle's oceanside museum, Thatcher and local girl Trudy team up to help Shoal, one of the people of Atlantis cursed by a witch whose head still surv… |
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Top 10 fastest
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Ruth Owen |
Discover fascinating facts and figures about the speediest things in the world! From the super-fast Bugatti Veyron car to the fastest land animal, the cheetah, find out what the fastest things on the… |
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Top 10 slowest
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Ruth Owen |
Discover fascinating facts and figures about the slowest things in the world! From the sleepy-seeming sloth to incredibly sluggish cars, find out what creeps into the slowest top ten ever. |
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Weird Texas
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Heather Shade,Wesley Treat,Rob Riggs |
Think you know Texas? Sure, there's the Alamo, the Cowboys, armadillos, Longhorns, Aggies, chili, the Space Center, and lots and lots of bluebonnets. And everybody knows not to mess with us. But ther… |
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Weird Illinois
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Troy Taylor |
Fabled places, roadside oddities, bizarre beasts and people? If it's weird and it's in Illinois, it's in *Weird Illinois*. Troy Taylor, long a chronicler of the strangest hauntings the Prairie State … |
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Weird Virginia
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Troy Taylor |
Virginia is for lovers, as everyone knows. But did you know it's also for psychics, devil monkeys, happy artists, mystery lights, and the world's oldest ham, among other odd but fascinating people an… |
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Amazing human feats
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Stuart A. Kallen |
Briefly describes such record-setting events and items as: the longest walk, the most expensive wedding, the largest potato chip, and the biggest birthday party. |
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Tornadoes can make it rain crabs!
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Melvin Berger |
A collection of bizarre facts about tidal waves, earthquakes, volcanoes, lightning strikes--even the sinking of the "Titanic"! |
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Contrary to popular belief
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Joey Green |
Is Everything You Know Wrong?Set the record straight!Debunk myths!Learn the truth behind fallacies, falsehoods, hearsay, and lies!Isn't it time you knew the honest-to-goodness truth? We've all come t… |
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World's weirdest gadgets
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Mary Packard |
Have you ever seen a car that flies? How about a motorized ice-cream cone? Well, get ready to believe your eyes! Ripley's has discovered the world's most unbelievable inventions and the extraordinary… |
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