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Totally Wacky Facts about Modern History by Cari Meister Pdf
Did you know that Leonardo Da Vinci could draw with one hand while writing backward with the other? Ever wondered when toilet paper was invented? Curious to find out how large the first computer was? Check out all of the mind-bending, amazing facts about modern history!
Totally Wacky Facts About YOU! by Cari M Meister Pdf
Did you know that your brain feels sort of like a marshmallow? Curious about how many taste buds are on your tongue? Want to know how many bacteria live in your bellybutton?_ If you're looking for amazing trivia, this book has it all! A bright, bold design and hundreds of facts will keep browsers busy for hours.
Can you simply NOT get enough of crazy facts and true stories? Do you pride yourself on knowing lesser-known facts about historical characters and the events that shaped them? Then you need to brace yourself for this book, Exploring Facts: Extraordinary Stories & Weird Facts from History Trivia Book. This is the latest, most up-to-date trivia book on the market, laced with recent discoveries and stories that sound totally made up but are actually true. It boasts a wide range of topics from pop culture, history to the paranormal-even stories that are downright in a completely different category of their own! This is the perfect book to take with you anywhere and is a real page-turner from the first story to the last. It will leave you wanting to deep-dive even MORE. In this fascinating book of stories, you can expect to learn about: ● How Stoker's Count Dracula was inspired by historical accounts of the 15th Century Romanian Prince Vlad the Impaler. ● The adventures of a Syrian brown bear who fought alongside Polish soldiers during World War Two. ● True reports of athletes biting their opponents and getting away with it. ● Discover the world's most densely populated island on the Caribbean coast of Colombia. ● That the much-loved condiment ketchup was once used as a cure for a variety of ailments. ● Find out which king of England promoted the use of the English language in government and as his primary language instead of French. ● Which country is home to the world's busiest subway station...? ● And much, much MORE! In this collection, you'll find the wackiest, saddest, and weirdest stories, guaranteed to satisfy the trivia-lust of any fact-loving aficionado. What's so great about this book is that many of these facts and tales date back all the way to ancient Egypt and before, right through to things that have occurred in our modern society-and yet, there are many more to be discovered! Be the walking trivia encyclopedia wherever you go with this fact-finding book. What are you waiting for?
‘I have come to think that one of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence.’ – Bertrand Russell, Portraits from Memory Portraits from Memory is one of Bertrand Russell’s most self-reflective and engaging books. Whilst not intended as an autobiography, it is a vivid recollection of some of his celebrated contemporaries, such as George Bernard Shaw, Sidney and Beatrice Webb and D. H. Lawrence. Russell provides some arresting and sometimes amusing insights into writers with whom he corresponded. He was fascinated by Joseph Conrad, with whom he formed a strong emotional bond, writing that his Heart of Darkness was not just a story but an expression of Conrad’s ‘philosophy of life’. There are also some typically pithy Russellian observations; H. G. Wells ‘derived his importance from quantity rather than quality’, whilst after a brief and fraught friendship Russell thought D. H. Lawrence ‘had no real wish to make the world better, but only to indulge in eloquent soliloquy about how bad it was’. This engaging book also includes some of Russell’s customary razor-sharp essays on a rich array of subjects, from his ardent pacifism, liberal politics and morality to the ethics of education, the skills of good writing and how he came to philosophy as a young man. These include ‘A Plea for Clear Thinking’, ‘A Philosophy for Our Time’ and ‘How I Write’. Portraits from Memory is Russell at his best and will enthrall those new to Russell as well as those already well-acquainted with his work. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by the Russell scholar Nicholas Griffin, editor of The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell.
The Historians' History of the World Vol.1 (of 25) (Illustrations) by Henry Smith Williams Pdf
A complete world history should, properly speaking, begin with the creation of the world as man’s habitat, and should trace every step of human progress from the time when man first appeared on the globe. Unfortunately, the knowledge of to-day does not permit us to follow this theoretical obligation. We now know that the gaps in the history of human evolution as accessible to us to-day, vastly exceed the recorded chapters; that, in short, the period with which history proper has, at present, to content itself, is a mere moment in comparison with the vast reaches of time which, in recognition of our ignorance, we term “prehistoric.” But this recognition of limitations of our knowledge is a quite recent growth—no older, indeed, than a half century. Prior to 1859 the people of Christendom rested secure in the supposition that the chronology of man’s history was fully known, from the very year of his creation. One has but to turn to the first chapter of Genesis to find in the margin the date 4004 B.C., recorded with all confidence as the year of man’s first appearance on the globe. One finds there, too, a brief but comprehensive account of the manner of his appearance, as well as of the creation of the earth itself, his abiding-place. Until about half a century ago, as has just been said, the peoples of our portion of the globe rested secure in the supposition that this record and this date were a part of our definite knowledge of man’s history. Therefore, one finds the writers of general histories of the earlier days of the nineteenth century beginning their accounts with the creation of man, B.C. 4004, and coming on down to date with a full and seemingly secure chronology. Our knowledge of the world and of man’s history has come on by leaps and bounds since then, with the curious result that to-day no one thinks of making any reference to the exact date of the beginnings of human history,—unless, indeed, it be to remark that it probably reaches back some hundreds of thousands of years. The historian can speak of dates anterior to 4004 B.C., to be sure. The Egyptologist is disposed to date the building of the Pyramids a full thousand years earlier than that. And the Assyriologist is learning to speak of the state of civilisation in Chaldea some 6000 or 7000 years B.C. with a certain measure of confidence. But he no longer thinks of these dates as standing anywhere near the beginning of history. He knows that man in that age, in the centres of progress, had attained a high stage of civilisation, and he feels sure that there were some thousands of centuries of earlier time, during which man was slowly climbing through savagery and barbarism, of which we have only the most fragmentary record. He does not pretend to know anything, except by inference, of the “dawnings of civilisation.” Whichever way he turns in the centres of progress, such as China, Egypt, Chaldea, India, he finds the earliest accessible records, covering at best a period of only eight or ten thousand years, giving evidence of a civilisation already far advanced. Of the exact origin of any one of the civilisations with which he deals he knows absolutely nothing. “The Creation of Man,” with its fixed chronology, is a chapter that has vanished from our modern histories. To be continue in this ebook...