An edition of Weird history 101
(2006)
Weird history 101
Tales of intrigue, mayhem, and outrageous behavior
by John Richard Stephens
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Experience the true stories behind the history you learned in school in this collection. This book contains dozens of new twists on the dusty old histories you're used to reading about.
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Weird History 101: My Dinner with Atilla the Hun, I Started World War I, Watching Custer's Last Stand, and Other True Tales of Intrigue, Mayhem, and Outrageous Behavior
2022, Stephens, John Richard
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0988790254 9780988790254
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Weird history 101: Tales of intrigue, mayhem, and outrageous behavior
2006, Barnes & Noble
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0760779945 9780760779941
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Table of 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: FBI course in bomb-making
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
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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