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Author Stephens, John Richard.

Title Weird history 101 : tales of intrigue, mayhem, and outrageous behavior / John Richard Stephens.

Imprint New York : Fall River Press, ©2006.

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 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  973 St44w 2006    ---  Lib Use Only
Description vi, 321 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Eyewitness reports: Eyewitness to Custer's last stand -- Dinner with Attila the Hun -- Watching Gettysburg and other Civil War battles -- Battle of the Monitor and the Merrimac -- Human sacrifice at a Viking funeral -- Walt Whitman and President Lincoln's assassination -- Official documents: Naval discipline -- Survival under atomic attack -- Dire warning against the railroads -- Spy reveals how easy it was to steal U.S. secrets -- Alternative views: Geronimo tells his side of the story -- United States tried for war crimes -- Being friendly with the enemy -- Native Americans versus western civilization -- Firsthand accounts by famous people: Wyatt Earp tells of the shoot-out at O.K. Corral -- Red Baron describes being shot down -- Sacking of the White House -- Jack London witnesses the 1906 San Francisco earthquake -- Mark Twain in another San Francisco earthquake -- Charles Dickens witnesses a death by guillotine -- Ignorance and intelligence: Unusual uses for mummies -- Legal prosecutions of animals -- Lost knowledge rediscovered -- Putting their wives up for sale -- Odds and ends: Duels between women -- Dog is elected mayor in California -- Menu for a Roman banquet -- Houdini's secrets -- Victims of history: Prisoner on a slave ship to America -- Letter from the Donner party -- Captured by Indians -- U.S. Army murders Native Americans -- On the Titanic as it sinks -- Inside a Nazi death camp -- Weird literature: Gallows literature -- Some authentic pirate songs -- Bizarre North Korean propaganda -- John Greenleaf Whittier's poem about hash -- George Washington grew marijuana -- Ben Franklin's advice on choosing a mistress -- Mark Twain's speech on masturbation -- Participants in history: Opium dens in America -- Pirate's adventures with Captain Morgan sacking Panama -- Supposed location of Blackbeard's treasure -- I started World War I -- Emperor Nero's mother pleads for her life -- American presidents: Extramarital affairs of the presidents (and a few other indiscretions) -- Another look at some presidents -- Unintelligible quotations of U.S. presidents -- U.S. presidents are not elected by the people -- Strange religion: X-rated Bible -- Mormon polygamy -- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther and the fairy changeling -- Weird saints -- Phallic worship in Japan.
Subject United States -- History -- Sources.
Curiosities and wonders -- United States -- History -- Sources.
Curiosities and wonders. (OCoLC)fst00885285
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Sources. (OCoLC)fst01423900
Added Title Weird history one hundred one
Weird history one hundred and one
ISBN 0760779945 (hardcover)
9780760779941 (hardcover)

 
    
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