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Armchair Reader: The Mammoth Reader
Stuff your brain with conversation starters, cultural tidbits, and important and not so important knowledge about the world. Armchair The Mammoth Reader entertains and enlightens with little-known anecdotes, fascinating trivia, off-the-wall facts, offbeat lists, and smarty-pants humor. Find nuggets of information about a wide array of topics, including science, celebrities, art, animals, food, history, sports, and just plain old weird stuff.
Learn what it takes to become a butler, what chili pepper and morphine have in common, and what color underwear Major League Baseball umpires have to wear. Armchair The Mammoth Reader provides 576 pages of information on topics as varied as the marvels of science and pop culture trivia. Here is a sampling of what s inside
President Andrew Jackson s inauguration was so completely out of hand that a mob of partiers trashed the White House.
Some famous folks were serious hypochondriacs, including Charles Darwin and Tennessee Williams.
In baseball s early days, umpires sat in rocking chairs behind home plate.
Famed nurse Florence Nightingale carried a pet owl in her pocket.
When Marvel Comics published a comic book featuring the rock band KISS in 1977, a sample of blood from each band member was mixed into the ink at the printing plant.
Learn what it takes to become a butler, what chili pepper and morphine have in common, and what color underwear Major League Baseball umpires have to wear. Armchair The Mammoth Reader provides 576 pages of information on topics as varied as the marvels of science and pop culture trivia. Here is a sampling of what s inside
President Andrew Jackson s inauguration was so completely out of hand that a mob of partiers trashed the White House.
Some famous folks were serious hypochondriacs, including Charles Darwin and Tennessee Williams.
In baseball s early days, umpires sat in rocking chairs behind home plate.
Famed nurse Florence Nightingale carried a pet owl in her pocket.
When Marvel Comics published a comic book featuring the rock band KISS in 1977, a sample of blood from each band member was mixed into the ink at the printing plant.
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576 pages, Perfect Paperback
First published August 1, 2010
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March 9, 2021
This is a really cool book! Interesting, informative, well-presented facts and anecdotes organized and easy to read. The paper is thick and sturdy, the typeface differs from section to section (usually one section per page) and the information is presented in concise, easy-to-read phrases and sentences. The table of contents is comprehensive and makes navigating the topics very easy. This is one of the best quality paperbacks I've owned, as well as one of the most enjoyable reference works I've read.
May 1, 2015
Nice book of random facts & stories!
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