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American history is more than just what you read in your high school textbooks.
There's a wild and weird side to America's past, filled with strange creatures, bizarre happenings, and fantastical figures. Researcher and writer Robert Damon Schneck has spent more than a decade devoted to sleuthing out these forgotten weird, grotesque, and mysterious gems of American history, like:
• The man who preached good health through blood-drinking.
•...
There's a wild and weird side to America's past, filled with strange creatures, bizarre happenings, and fantastical figures. Researcher and writer Robert Damon Schneck has spent more than a decade devoted to sleuthing out these forgotten weird, grotesque, and mysterious gems of American history, like:
• The man who preached good health through blood-drinking.
•...
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Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Queen Cleopatra had coins made with her face on them. Japan put writer Ichiyō Higuchi on the 5,000 yen note more than 100 years after her death. And Eva Perón was the first Argentine woman on a bill. These biographies examine 15 extraordinary women who have appeared on coins or bills-and how they got there. Each inspiring story also digs deeper into different currencies and the customs of the time period"--
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Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"The color of one's skin and passport have long dictated the conditions of travel. For Shahnaz Habib, travel and travel writing have always been complicated pleasures. Habib threads the history of travel with her personal story as a child on family vacations in India, an adult curious about the world, and an immigrant for whom roundtrips are an annual fact of life. Tracing the power dynamics that underlie tourism, this ... debut parses who gets to...
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Firefly Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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The greatest individual honor that can be bestowed upon a professional hockey player is to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. This book celebrates each and every player who has been so honored since the first class in 1945, and all the way to the present day. It also features artifacts and memorabilia from the Hockey Hall of Fame's extensive archive, as well as stats, facts, quotes and other interesting stories and snapshots from each star's...
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Cider Mill Press Book Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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From the Ides of March to the 40-minute war and the Great Molasses Flood, discover what extraordinary events took place from January 1 to December 31 with This Day in History. Have you ever wondered what happened on your birthday hundreds of years ago? This Day in History is perfect for history buffs and trivia fans alike. This fascinating book covers the most important, unknown, and bizarre events in history, including: the very first strike ever...
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