Author : Leland Gregory
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 1449457134
Stupid History
Leland Gregory
Dumb History
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Stupid History
Leland Gregory
Author : Leland Gregory
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-15
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780740792106
Stupid History by Leland Gregory Pdf
A treasury of historical hilarity from the New York Times-bestselling coauthor of America’s Dumbest Criminals! Why exactly is Paul Revere revered when it was Samuel Prescott who made the famous ride? Was the lightbulb really Thomas Edison’s bright idea? Bestselling author and former Saturday Night Live writer Leland Gregory employs his masterful wit to expose historical myths, faux “facts,” strange events, and tales of human stupidity throughout history. You’ll learn that: * Magellan didn’t actually make it around the world * As a member of Parliament, Isaac Newton spoke only once, and it wasn’t exactly a statement of political brilliance for the ages * On April 24, 1898, Spain declared war on the U.S., thus starting the Spanish-American War—and then the U.S. declared war the very next day, but not wanting to be outdone, had the date on the declaration changed from April 25 to April 21 With these and many more stories, Leland Gregory once again highlights the funny side of history.
Our Dumb Century
Scott Dikkers
Author : Scott Dikkers
Publisher : Crown Archetype
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-25
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN : 9780307393579
Our Dumb Century by Scott Dikkers Pdf
The staff of The Onion presents a satirical collection of mock headlines and news stories, including an account of the Pentagon's development of an A-bomb-resistant desk for schoolchildren.
Dumb History
Joey Green
Author : Joey Green
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781101585436
Dumb History by Joey Green Pdf
A book that proves idiocy is as old as time Think civilization has deteriorated and that people these days are dumber than ever? Dumb History proves that we didn’t invent stupidity in the 21st century. You’ll find facts from throughout the ages about everyone from Cleopatra and Napoleon to Elvis Presley and even NASA scientists. Consider this: • In 820 C.E., Emperor Hsien Tsung’s herbalist presented him with an anti-aging elixir—it killed him • In 1849, Brooklyn inventor Walter Hunt invented and patented the safety pin and then sold all the rights to his invention for $400. By the time he died penniless, the United States was producing an estimated five billion safety pins annually • In 1967, voters in the town of Picoaza, Ecuador, elected a brand of foot powder as their new mayor It’s a wonder we’ve survived as long as we have.
Duh!
Bob Fenster
Author : Bob Fenster
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000-09
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0740710028
Duh! by Bob Fenster Pdf
" ... a hilarious collection of the stupid things that people do, divided up into topics."--- back cover.
What Were They Thinking?
David Hofstede
Author : David Hofstede
Publisher : Watson-Guptill Publications
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0823084418
What Were They Thinking? by David Hofstede Pdf
TV is never short of bad ideas, as demonstrated in a guide to one hundred of television's most memorable blunders and bloopers, arranged in a count-down format and including information on each incident that seeks to answer the question of "Why did this happen?" Original.
Stupid American History
Leland Gregory
Author : Leland Gregory
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-21
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780740793547
Stupid American History by Leland Gregory Pdf
New York Times Bestseller: Welcome to the land of the free, the home of the brave—and, apparently, the dumb, bizarre, and gullible . . . Did you know that . . . *John Tyler was on his knees playing marbles when he was informed that Benjamin Harrison had died and he was now president of the United States *For reasons still unknown, Texas congressman Thomas Lindsay Blanton, a Presbyterian Sunday school teacher and prohibitionist, inserted dirty words into the Congressional Record in 1921—for which his colleagues officially censured him by a vote of 293-0 *Two US presidents were indentured servants—and one of them ran away and wound up with a $10 reward posted for his capture From Columbus to George W. Bush, the bestselling coauthor of America’s Dumbest Criminals leads us through the many mythconceptions of our nation’s history in this lively book, exposing lots of entertaining moments of idiocy and inanity along the time line.
Our Dumb Century
Scott Dikkers
Author : Scott Dikkers
Publisher : Crown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780609804612
Our Dumb Century by Scott Dikkers Pdf
The Onion has quickly become the world's most popular humor publication, misinforming half a million readers a week with one-of-a-kind social satire both in print (on newsstands nationwide) and online from its remote office in Madison, Wisconsin. Witness the march of history as Editor-in-Chief Scott Dikkers and The Onion's award-winning writing staff present the twentieth century like you've never seen it before.
The Elizabethan Dumb Show
Dieter Mehl
Author : Dieter Mehl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : English drama
ISBN : 0416339808
The Elizabethan Dumb Show by Dieter Mehl Pdf
History's Worst Decisions
Stephen Weir
Author : Stephen Weir
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1740456696
History's Worst Decisions by Stephen Weir Pdf
History is strewn with mistakes. Many made by well intentioned people who were bright, intelligent, capable, but just made the wrong decision.
History of the Smithsonian Exchanges
George Hans Boehmer
Author : George Hans Boehmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Government publications
ISBN : NYPL:33433022424679
History of the Smithsonian Exchanges by George Hans Boehmer Pdf
Stupid History
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 1449470785
Stupid History by Anonim Pdf
A Short History of Stupid
Bernard Keane,Helen Razer
Author : Bernard Keane,Helen Razer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-03
Category : Australia
ISBN : 1459690087
A Short History of Stupid by Bernard Keane,Helen Razer Pdf
How did everything get so dumb? How did we become hostages to idiocy? What must we do to be freed from a captor whose ransom note simply reads, 'D'oh'? The deteriorating quality of our public debate and the dwindling of common sense in media, politics and culture can drive you to despair and rage. It certainly drove writers Helen Razer and Bernard Keane to a desperate act: befriending each other for long enough to write a book. Join forces with these uneasy allies to fight against a world that has lost its reason. Explore what's behind the remorseless spread of idiocy, and why there's just so much damn Stupid around you. Stupid isn't just ignorance; it's not just laziness. Worse than the absence of thought, Stupid is a virus that drains our productivity and leaves us sick and diminished. And Stupid has a long, complex and terrible past, one we need to understand in order to defeat it. A Short History of Stupid traces the origins of this maddening ill, examining the different ways in which we've been afflicted over the last three thousand years. It damns those who have spread Stupid and celebrates the brave few who resisted. It shows how Stupid tightens the grubby grip of the foolish around our throats. Hilarious, smart, unpleasant, infuriating and rude, A Short History of Stupid is at once a provocation and a comfort. It will spark debate, soothe the terminally frustrated and outrage the righteously Stupid. It is a book whose Stupid time has come.
Why Learn History (When It’s Already on Your Phone)
Sam Wineburg
Author : Sam Wineburg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226357355
Why Learn History (When It’s Already on Your Phone) by Sam Wineburg Pdf
A look at how to teach history in the age of easily accessible—but not always reliable—information. Let’s start with two truths about our era that are so inescapable as to have become clichés: We are surrounded by more readily available information than ever before. And a huge percent of it is inaccurate. Some of the bad info is well-meaning but ignorant. Some of it is deliberately deceptive. All of it is pernicious. With the Internet at our fingertips, what’s a teacher of history to do? In Why Learn History (When It’s Already on Your Phone), professor Sam Wineburg has the answers, beginning with this: We can’t stick to the same old read-the-chapter-answer-the-question snoozefest. If we want to educate citizens who can separate fact from fake, we have to equip them with new tools. Historical thinking, Wineburg shows, has nothing to do with the ability to memorize facts. Instead, it’s an orientation to the world that cultivates reasoned skepticism and counters our tendency to confirm our biases. Wineburg lays out a mine-filled landscape, but one that with care, attention, and awareness, we can learn to navigate. The future of the past may rest on our screens. But its fate rests in our hands. Praise for Why Learn History (When It’s Already on Your Phone) “If every K-12 teacher of history and social studies read just three chapters of this book—”Crazy for History,” “Changing History . . . One Classroom at a Time,” and “Why Google Can’t Save Us” —the ensuing transformation of our populace would save our democracy.” —James W. Lowen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me and Teaching What Really Happened “A sobering and urgent report from the leading expert on how American history is taught in the nation’s schools. . . . A bracing, edifying, and vital book.” —Jill Lepore, New Yorker staff writer and author of These Truths “Wineburg is a true innovator who has thought more deeply about the relevance of history to the Internet—and vice versa—than any other scholar I know. Anyone interested in the uses and abuses of history today has a duty to read this book.” —Niall Ferguson, senior fellow, Hoover Institution, and author of The Ascent of Money and Civilization
"S" Is for Stupid
Leland Gregory
Author : Leland Gregory
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781449406738
"S" Is for Stupid by Leland Gregory Pdf
An A-to-Z treasury of dumb, disastrous, and hard-to-believe human behavior from the New York Times-bestselling author of Stupid History! * A doctor’s actual diagnostic notation: The patient is married but sexually active. * “Shooting Reported at Firing Range” —The State, Columbia, South Carolina, August 4, 2006 * Arrested for public urination in Bowling Green, Ohio: Mr. Joshua Pees. —The Sentinel-Tribune, Bowling Green, Ohio, September 5, 2001 From absurd 911 calls to presidential philosophizing and foolish felons, Leland Gregory generates the best laughs by exposing the worst of human nature. This best-of collection features fifty percent new material and fifty percent fan favorites, arranged alphabetically by topic. And because the stories Gregory chronicles are just that unbelievable, each anecdote, quote, or factoid is presented with relevant background information, including its verified news source.