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History ́s Strangest Stories

Author : George C. Eggleston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783957388681
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (886 download)

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Download or read book History ́s Strangest Stories written by George C. Eggleston and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In calling the tales in this volume "Strange Stories" I have sought simply to indicate that, in the main, they are unfamiliar to youthful readers, and that most of them relate deeds and occurrences some what out of the common. In choosing the themes I have tried to avoid the tales that have been often used, and to tell only those of which young readers generally have not before heard. Of course, a book of this kind can make no pretension to originality of matter, as the facts used in it are to be found in historical works of recognized authority, though many of them have been drawn from books that are not easily accessible to the majority of readers. If there is any originality in my little volume it is in the manner in which the tales are told. I have endeavored to tell them as simply as possible, and at the same time with as much dramatic force and fervor as I could command, while adhering rigidly to the facts of history." [...] Collection of history's most remarkable incidents and occurences. Originally released in 1885.

History's Strangest Stories

Author : George C. Eggleston
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 395507854X
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book History's Strangest Stories written by George C. Eggleston and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2012-12-22 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of history's most remarkable incidents and occurences. Originally released in 1885.

Strange Stories from History for Young People

Author : George Cary Eggleston
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Strange Stories from History for Young People written by George Cary Eggleston and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Strange Stories from History for Young People" is a collection of short stories intended for young readers. Most of the stories in the volume were originally written for Harper's Young People; one was first published in Good Cheer, and a few in other periodicals. The stories cover both fictional and biographical genres of literature. The author's claim is that he has avoided stories that young readers are likely to have heard elsewhere and has offered fresh and unique tales.

Strange Stories From History for Young People

Author : George Cary Eggleston
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330241974
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Strange Stories From History for Young People written by George Cary Eggleston and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-27 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Strange Stories From History for Young People In calling the tales in this volume "Strange Stories" I have sought simply to indicate that, in the main, they are unfamiliar to youthful readers, and that most of them relate deeds and occurrences some what out of the common. In choosing the themes I have tried to avoid the tales that have been often used, and to tell only those of which young readers generally have not before heard. Of course, a book of this kind can make no pretension to originality of matter, as the facts used in it are to be found in historical works of recognized authority, though many of them have been drawn from books that are not easily accessible to the majority of readers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Oddities of History

Author : John Timbs
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781021257543
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (575 download)

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Download or read book Oddities of History written by John Timbs and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the fascinating and bizarre events and people of history through this collection of unusual stories. With topics ranging from ancient civilizations to modern day mysteries, this book is sure to entertain and intrigue any history buff. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Flip Side of History

Author : Steve Silverman
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1642502219
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)

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Download or read book The Flip Side of History written by Steve Silverman and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amazing forgotten true stories from the creator of the Useless Information blog and podcast. A prominent lawyer leaves his entire estate to a town for the establishment of a library that forbids women—setting off riots, arrests, and the near hanging of a judge. The amazing story of the only person rescued from slavery by the Underground Railroad four times. That time a man in the 1950s stole hundreds of women’s shoes in Coronado and San Diego, California. The shoes, most of them the left shoe, were found dispersed randomly all over town. There are so many historical facts and stories that get left out of textbooks. Now the author of Einstein’s Refrigerator and host of the popular Useless Information podcast, Steve Silverman, presents a collection of fun facts and strange news—some that made headlines and others that have been lost to history—that highlight the quirks, complexities, and curiousness of humankind.

The WEIRDest People in the World

Author : Joseph Henrich
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374710457
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The WEIRDest People in the World written by Joseph Henrich and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 A Bloomberg Best Non-Fiction Book of 2020 A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2020 A Human Behavior & Evolution Society Must-Read Popular Evolution Book of 2020 A bold, epic account of how the co-evolution of psychology and culture created the peculiar Western mind that has profoundly shaped the modern world. Perhaps you are WEIRD: raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. If so, you’re rather psychologically peculiar. Unlike much of the world today, and most people who have ever lived, WEIRD people are highly individualistic, self-obsessed, control-oriented, nonconformist, and analytical. They focus on themselves—their attributes, accomplishments, and aspirations—over their relationships and social roles. How did WEIRD populations become so psychologically distinct? What role did these psychological differences play in the industrial revolution and the global expansion of Europe during the last few centuries? In The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Henrich draws on cutting-edge research in anthropology, psychology, economics, and evolutionary biology to explore these questions and more. He illuminates the origins and evolution of family structures, marriage, and religion, and the profound impact these cultural transformations had on human psychology. Mapping these shifts through ancient history and late antiquity, Henrich reveals that the most fundamental institutions of kinship and marriage changed dramatically under pressure from the Roman Catholic Church. It was these changes that gave rise to the WEIRD psychology that would coevolve with impersonal markets, occupational specialization, and free competition—laying the foundation for the modern world. Provocative and engaging in both its broad scope and its surprising details, The WEIRDest People in the World explores how culture, institutions, and psychology shape one another, and explains what this means for both our most personal sense of who we are as individuals and also the large-scale social, political, and economic forces that drive human history. Includes black-and-white illustrations.

The Weird

Author : Jeff VanderMeer
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 1466803193
Total Pages : 2482 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Weird written by Jeff VanderMeer and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 2482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman, a century of intrepid literary experimentation has created a corpus of dark and strange stories that transcend all known genre boundaries. Together these stories form The Weird, and its practitioners include some of the greatest names in twentieth and twenty-first century literature. Exotic and esoteric, The Weird plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. You won't find any elves or wizards here...but you will find the biggest, boldest, and downright most peculiar stories from the last hundred years bound together in the biggest Weird collection ever assembled. The Weird features 110 stories by an all-star cast, from literary legends to international bestsellers to Booker Prize winners: including William Gibson, George R. R. Martin, Stephen King, Angela Carter, Kelly Link, Franz Kafka, China Miéville, Clive Barker, Haruki Murakami, M. R. James, Neil Gaiman, Mervyn Peake, and Michael Chabon. The Weird is the winner of the 2012 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Weird History

Author : Fiona Hudson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Weird History written by Fiona Hudson and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Long Strange Trip

Author : Dennis McNally
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307418774
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book A Long Strange Trip written by Dennis McNally and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete history of one of the most long-lived and legendary bands in rock history, written by its official historian and publicist—a must-have chronicle for all Dead Heads, and for students of rock and the 1960s’ counterculture. From 1965 to 1995, the Grateful Dead flourished as one of the most beloved, unusual, and accomplished musical entities to ever grace American culture. The creative synchronicity among Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart, and Ron “Pigpen” McKernan exploded out of the artistic ferment of the early sixties’ roots and folk scene, providing the soundtrack for the Dionysian revels of the counterculture. To those in the know, the Dead was an ongoing tour de force: a band whose constant commitment to exploring new realms lay at the center of a thirty-year journey through an ever-shifting array of musical, cultural, and mental landscapes. Dennis McNally, the band’s historian and publicist for more than twenty years, takes readers back through the Dead’s history in A Long Strange Trip. In a kaleidoscopic narrative, McNally not only chronicles their experiences in a fascinatingly detailed fashion, but veers off into side trips on the band’s intricate stage setup, the magic of the Grateful Dead concert experience, or metaphysical musings excerpted from a conversation among band members. He brings to vivid life the Dead’s early days in late-sixties San Francisco—an era of astounding creativity and change that reverberates to this day. Here we see the group at its most raw and powerful, playing as the house band at Ken Kesey’s acid tests, mingling with such legendary psychonauts as Neal Cassady and Owsley “Bear” Stanley, and performing the alchemical experiments, both live and in the studio, that produced some of their most searing and evocative music. But McNally carries the Dead’s saga through the seventies and into the more recent years of constant touring and incessant musical exploration, which have cemented a unique bond between performers and audience, and created the business enterprise that is much more a family than a corporation. Written with the same zeal and spirit that the Grateful Dead brought to its music for more than thirty years, the book takes readers on a personal tour through the band’s inner circle, highlighting its frenetic and very human faces. A Long Strange Trip is not only a wide-ranging cultural history, it is a definitive musical biography.

The United States of Absurdity

Author : Dave Anthony
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
ISBN 13 : 0399578765
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The United States of Absurdity written by Dave Anthony and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creators of the podcast The Dollop present illustrated profiles of the weird, outrageous, NSFW, and downright absurd tales from American history that you weren't taught in school. The United States of Absurdity presents short, informative, and hilarious stories of the most outlandish (but true) people, events, and more from United States history. Comedians Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds cover the weird stories you didn't learn in history class, such as 10-Cent Beer Night, the Jackson Cheese, and the Kentucky Meat Shower, accompanied by full-page illustrations that bring each historical "milestone" to life in full-color.

Strange Stories About Hindu Saints, Temples And Historical Atrocities

Author : London Swaminathan
Publisher : Pustaka Digital Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (658 download)

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Download or read book Strange Stories About Hindu Saints, Temples And Historical Atrocities written by London Swaminathan and published by Pustaka Digital Media. This book was released on 2023-12-27 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has a collection of articles to cater to the needs of people with different tastes. They can be classified under five broad categories. 1) Temples, 2) Saints and Miracles, 3) Stories about Gem Stones, 4) Historical incidents and 5) Anecdotes. I struggled a lot to find a common title to the book and at last decided at the current title after several additions, commissions, and omissions.

The University of Hertfordshire

Author : Owen Davies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781907396830
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book The University of Hertfordshire written by Owen Davies and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a history of the University of Hertfordshire, relating the challenges and achievements of sixty years in further and higher education. At the same time, through its focus on a single institution, the book illustrates the importance of the post-1992 higher education sector in advancing the knowledge economy and cultural life of the country.

The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand

Author : Michael Leroy Oberg
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812203410
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand written by Michael Leroy Oberg and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roanoke is part of the lore of early America, the colony that disappeared. Many Americans know of Sir Walter Ralegh's ill-fated expedition, but few know about the Algonquian peoples who were the island's inhabitants. The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand examines Ralegh's plan to create an English empire in the New World but also the attempts of native peoples to make sense of the newcomers who threatened to transform their world in frightening ways. Beginning his narrative well before Ralegh's arrival, Michael Leroy Oberg looks closely at the Indians who first encountered the colonists. The English intruded into a well-established Native American world at Roanoke, led by Wingina, the weroance, or leader, of the Algonquian peoples on the island. Oberg also pays close attention to how the weroance and his people understood the arrival of the English: we watch as Wingina's brother first boards Ralegh's ship, and we listen in as Wingina receives the report of its arrival. Driving the narrative is the leader's ultimate fate: Wingina is decapitated by one of Ralegh's men in the summer of 1586. When the story of Roanoke is recast in an effort to understand how and why an Algonquian weroance was murdered, and with what consequences, we arrive at a more nuanced and sophisticated understanding of what happened during this, the dawn of English settlement in America.

Strange Stories from History for Young People

Author : George Cary Eggleston
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781978067400
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (674 download)

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Download or read book Strange Stories from History for Young People written by George Cary Eggleston and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-08 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Cary Eggleston (26 November 1839 - 14 April 1911) American author and brother of fellow author Edward Eggleston (1837-1902). Sons of Joseph Cary Eggleston and Mary Jane Craig. After the American Civil War he published a serialized account of his time as a Confederate soldier in The Atlantic Monthly. These serialized articles were later collected and expanded upon and published under the title "A Rebel's Recollections." He also served as an editor of Hearth and Home magazine in the early 1870s. His boyhood home at Vevay, Indiana, known as the Edward and George Cary Eggleston House, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. Principal Works Novels A Man of Honor (1873, first serialized in Hearth and Home) The Wreck of the Red Bird (1882) Juggernaut (1891) Camp Venture, a story of the Virginia mountains (1901) A Carolina Cavalier, a Romance of the American Revolution (1902) Dorothy South (1902) The Master of Warlock; a Virginia War Story (1903) Evelyn Byrd (1904) Love is the Sum of It All (1907) Blind Alleys (1906) Irene of the Mountains; a Romance of Old Virginia (1909) Juvenile Publications Big Brother Series (1875-1882) Strange Stories from History (1886) Miscellaneous How to Educate Yourself: With or Without Masters (1872) A Rebel's Recollections (1874) How to Make a Living: Suggestions Upon the Art of Making, Saving, and Using Money (1875) Red Eagle and the Wars with the Creek Indians of Alabama (1878) The First of the Hoosiers: Reminiscences of Edward Eggleston (1903) Recollections of a Varied Life (1910) The History of the Confederate War (1910)

Strange Stories - A Compendium of the True, Untrue, and the Definitely Maybe

Author : Peter Pauper Press Inc
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781441343734
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (437 download)

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Download or read book Strange Stories - A Compendium of the True, Untrue, and the Definitely Maybe written by Peter Pauper Press Inc and published by . This book was released on 2024-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever heard about Napoleon's battle with rabbits? What about the time a headless chicken went on tour? Prepare to be amazed by this impressive collection of events, legends, and fads from throughout history, from the Dancing Plague of 1518, to the Buttered Cat Paradox, to the Great Michigan Pizza Funeral. Amaze friends and family with unbelievably weird (and sometimes gross) trivia, and dive into the oddities of our strange world. The perfect read-aloud book for long road trips, sleepovers, and any place you need bizarre entertainment! Discover quirky history from all over the globe. Wacky stories make learning loads of fun! Full-color illustrations throughout. Fun trivia book measures 6-1/2'' wide x 9-1/4'' high. Sturdy hardcover binding ensures years of reading amazement. 128 pages of stories about all kinds of weird stuff!

Strange stories of the Civil War

Author : John Habberton
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Strange stories of the Civil War written by John Habberton and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-07-09 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Strange stories of the Civil War" by John Habberton, Robert Shackleton, L. E. Chittenden, William Drysdale, G. A. Forsyth, William J. Henderson, Lucy C. Lillie, Howard Patterson. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.