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Author : Herb Reich
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1616080841
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)
Download or read book Numberpedia written by Herb Reich and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2011-01-02 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compendium of trivia about the numbers one through one hundred.
Author : Herb W. Reich
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1626365989
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)
Download or read book Numberpedia written by Herb W. Reich and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-01-02 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does the number 67 mean to you? Do you associate it with a year? After all, 1967 was the year The Beatles released both Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Magical Mystery Tour. It was also the year the first Super Bowl was held and in which Ernesto “Che” Guevara was executed. But maybe the year 1967 isn’t the first thing that comes to your mind. Maybe when you think about the number 67, you think of the . . . Age of George Washington at the time of his death, on December 14, 1799. Atomic number of the chemical element holmium, symbol Ho. Number of counties in each of the states of Alabama, Florida, and Pennsylvania. Most doubles hit in a season in Major League Baseball history (Earl Webb, Boston Red Sox, 1931). Number worn by partners Jane Fonda and Michael Sarrazin in the dance marathon scene in the 1969 film They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? Estimate number of miles, in millions, from Venus to the sun In Numberpedia, author Herb Reich examines all of the random, seemingly unrelated trivia related to numbers 1 to 100 in painstaking detail, revealing lore, myths, and every bizarre factoid you’d ever want to know about those numbers—except, of course, those concerning math.
Author : Herb Reich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781939082497
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)
Download or read book Numberpedia written by Herb Reich and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compendium of trivia about the numbers one through one hundred.
Author : Herb W. Reich
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628733241
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)
Download or read book Don't You Believe It! written by Herb W. Reich and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our cherished culturally shared beliefs stem from a variety of sources, many of which propagate old wives’ tales, myths, self-serving fantasies, innocent fallacies, or sheer nonsense. History is replete with stories of great men and events that either never happened or didn’t happen the way we were told they did. Such items are part of our common knowledge. They are taught in schools. They are passed down to us by our families and friends and have become part of shared cultural knowledge, accepted without question. And they are wrong. Here, Herb Reich explodes 200 myths that you probably accept as fact, including: Jackie Robinson was the first black baseball player in the major leagues. The captain of a ship can perform marriages. Mussolini’s trains ran on time. Charles Lindbergh was the first man to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. Baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday in 1839. The Mason-Dixon line was drawn to separate the slave South from the free North. Betsy Ross sewed the first American flag. Cleopatra was Egyptian. Chicago is called “the windy city” because of the gusts off Lake Michigan. It is a cliché that history is written by the victors. But Don’t You Believe It! will demonstrate that it is also written by teachers, by newsmen, by heirs, by hucksters, and occasionally by someone who has a lousy memory or an axe to grind.
Author : Herb W. Reich
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 161608572X
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)
Download or read book 2,501 Things That Really Piss Me Off written by Herb W. Reich and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalogs such daily annoyances as burnt toast and coffee, precocious children, prison tattoos on women, and the scarcity of public toilets.
Author : Herb W. Reich
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1616085967
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lies They Teach in School written by Herb W. Reich and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debunks commonly accepted fallacies from history, including that George Washington was the first U.S. president, Johnny Appleseed was a fictitious character, and a cold can be brought on by chilly weather.
Author : Cracked.com,
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698161521
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)
Download or read book The De-Textbook written by Cracked.com, and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are an idiot. Don't get defensive! It's not your fault. For decades your teachers, authority figures and textbooks have been lying to you. You do not have five senses. Your tongue doesn't have neatly segregated taste-bud zones. You don't know what the pyramids really looked like. You're even pooping wrong - Jesus, you're a wreck! But it's going to be okay. Because we're here to help. Packed with more sexy facts than the Encyclopedia Pornographica, the Cracked De-Textbook will teach you about the true stars of history, why you picture everything from Velociraptors to Ancient Rome incorrectly, and finally, at long last - how to pop a proper squat. This book was built from the ground up to systematically seek out, dismantle and destroy the many untruths that years of misguided education have left festering inside of you, and leave you a smarter person...whether you like it or not. The De-Textbook is a merciless, brutal learning machine. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are informed.
Author : Eric W. Weisstein
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1420035223
Total Pages : 3253 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)
Download or read book CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics written by Eric W. Weisstein and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2002-12-12 with total page 3253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon publication, the first edition of the CRC Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics received overwhelming accolades for its unparalleled scope, readability, and utility. It soon took its place among the top selling books in the history of Chapman & Hall/CRC, and its popularity continues unabated. Yet also unabated has been the d
Author : John Emsley
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198503408
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)
Download or read book Nature's Building Blocks written by John Emsley and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A readable, informative, fascinating entry on each one of the 100-odd chemical elements, arranged alphabetically from actinium to zirconium. Each entry comprises an explanation of where the element's name comes from, followed by Body element (the role it plays in living things), Element ofhistory (how and when it was discovered), Economic element (what it is used for), Environmental element (where it occurs, how much), Chemical element (facts, figures and narrative), and Element of surprise (an amazing, little-known fact about it). A wonderful 'dipping into' source for the familyreference shelf and for students.
Author : Janet Burton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521377973
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)
Download or read book Monastic and Religious Orders in Britain, 1000-1300 written by Janet Burton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-28 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the development of monasticism in England, Scotland and Wales from the last half century of Anglo-Saxon England to 1300. It explores the nature of the impact of the Norman settlement on monastic life, and how Britain responded to new, European ideas on monastic life. In particular, it examines Britain's response to the needs of religious women. It covers every aspect of the life and work of the religious orders: their daily life, the buildings in which they lived, their contribution to intellectual developments and to the economy. Particular attention is paid to the relationship between religious houses and their founders and patrons. This shows the degree of dependence of religious houses on local patrons. Indeed, one major theme which emerges from the book is the constant tension between the ideals of monastic communities and the demands of the world.
