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Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Macmillan
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
vii, 216 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
Description
Collects responses from Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire page through which celebrities answer a common series of probing personal questions, in a volume that includes entries for such figures as Bette Midler, Salman Rushdie, and Martin Scorsese.
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Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
c2022.
Physical Desc
106 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
What do you get when you mix Jeopardy-style fun facts with the subjects in the ever-popular Who Was? series? The Who Was? Trivia Book! Jam-packed with brain-busting questions about some of your favorite trailblazing figures throughout history, this addition to Who HQ library is sure to keep readers on their toes.
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Learn all about the fascinating lives and tremendous impact of 100 extraordinary women around the world with this fact-filled biography collection for kids.
Educational and engaging, 100 Women Who Shaped World History features:
• Simple, easy-to-read text that has been freshly updated
• Illustrated portraits of each figure
• Fascinating facts about famous and lesser-known female figures from history
• A timeline, trivia questions, project...
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Series
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
106 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
Did you know that Theodore Roosevelt was shot before a rally, and went on to give his speech with the bullet in his chest? Or that he skinny-dipped in the Potomac River? Bet you didn't know that he had a zebra, a lion, and a one-legged rooster at the White House! Siblings Paige and Turner have collected some of the most unusual and surprising facts about the larger-than-life president, from his childhood and his Rough Rider days to his rise to politics...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xv, 240 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Master historian David McCullough's classic book about some of history's most daring and accomplished figures from Alexander von Humboldt to Charles and Anne Lindbergh. Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough has written profiles of exceptional men and women who shaped the course of history and changed how we see the world. Their remarkable stories express much that is timeless about the human condition. Here are Alexander von Humboldt, whose...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
128 pages cm
Description
"Historians tell the stories of tragic and untimely presidential deaths, but often forgotten are the near misses. JFK and his fellow servicemen spent six days on a desert island with only coconuts to eat after a deadly attack during WWII. Abe Lincoln was forced to take a train trip in disguise while America's first female detective worked to foil an early assassination attempt. And when Andrew Jackson was attacked by an upset citizen who had been...
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Rowman & Littlefield Education
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
x, 255 pages ; 24 cm.
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For the average person, most of the American history that he or she knows comes from facts taught to them in school to prepare them for their state mandated tests. That's not the fault of their teachers who were just carrying out the directives of their employers. But it's also a fact that a great deal of that content that they were teaching is dry and boring. However, as in every aspect of life, there is always another story behind each major event....
11) Secret lives of the first ladies: strange stories and shocking trivia from inside the White House
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Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
351 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
Secrets Lives of the First Ladies features outrageous and uncensored profiles of the women in the White House--from Martha Washington to Melania Trump.
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Publisher
HarperSan Francisco
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
xiv, 321 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 24 cm.
Description
"Despite--or rather because of--all the veneration that has surrounded the figure of Jesus for centuries, historian Baigent asserts that Jesus and his death have been heavily mythologized. Using his access to hidden archives, secret societies, Masonic records, and the private collections of antiquities traders and their moneyed clients, he explores the religious and political climate in which Jesus was born and raised, examining not only the conflicts...
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