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Black Dog & Leventhal’s bestselling Encyclopedia of the Bizarre is now available in a handier, more reasonably priced edition that retains every word and image of the original. From stupefying stunts to wacky world’s records, all of Ripley’s riveting findings are here, in an easy-to-browse, impossible-to-put-down color volume.
Where else could you learn that:
• It’s estimated that 10,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000 snowflakes have fallen to the Earth since the Earth was formed!
• Queen Isabeau of Bavaria used a mixture of boar’s brains, crocodile glands, and wolf blood as skin lotion!
• Anna Bread married John Butter in Leeds, England, April 22, 1926!
• Phil Turco of Madison, Wisconsin, swallowed 339 goldfish in two hours!
Bizarre and amazing categories include Accidents and Disasters, Animals and Insects, Archaeology, Feats and Stunts, Prophecies, Records, the Unexplained, and more. It’s fascinating fun for the whole family.
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It’s Alive and Kicking: Math the Way it Ought to Be—Tough, Fun, and a Little Weird
The authors, junior high students and best friends David and Asa, along with best-selling author Marya Washington Tyler, took the kind of gooey, slimy, disgusting science facts that students love and turned them into hilarious math problems.
Your students will enjoy trying to determine what percent of the refrigerators in the U.S. contain moldy food.
When’s the last time you had your students figure the weight of cow manure produced in the U.S.?
How many 8-ounce coffee mugs will an average person’s sweat fill?
What is the number of saliva droplets expelled in one class period?
Your students won’t mind math when they get to figure the cost of a meal at the Aftermath Restaurant, with foods like Deep Fried Lint, Pseudo-Chicken Parts, Wax Fruit Bowl, and Hot Sludge Sundae. Even the answer key is hilarious.
These and other intriguing problems await your students in this book designed to teach children to translate statements and questions into mathematical equations. All of the problems are based on known scientific facts.
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Weird Kentucky: Your Travel Guide to Kentucky’s Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets
“Best Travel Series of the Year 2006!”—Booklist
What’s weird around here?
That’s a question Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman have enjoyed asking for years—and their offbeat sense of curiosity led them to create the bestselling phenomenon, Weird N.J. Now the weirdness has spread throughout key locales in the U.S. Each fun and intriguing volume offers more than 250 illustrated pages of places where tourists usually don’t venture—it’s chock-full of oddball curiosities, ghostly places, local legends, crazy characters, cursed roads, and peculiar roadside attractions. What’s NOT shockingly odd here: that every previously published Weird book has become a bestseller in its region.
Did you know that Kentucky has their own versions of Bigfoot, the Jersey Devil and the notorious “Goatman”? We also have our own version of AREA 51 in Bluegrass Depot. Amazing scary stuff.
There are giants and secret midget villages. Ghosts and lost cities, both above and underground. Secret societies abound, along with mysterious mounds.
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