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Karl Shaw
New paperback edition - Before 'the greatest showman' P.T. Barnham there was Philip Astley, a British man who completely changed popular entertainment. This is his extraordinary story.
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Prepare to be even more revolted, flabbergasted, appalled, and completely entertained by this incredible follow-up collection of absolutely true trivia from the author of 5 People Who Died During Sex…
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Chronicles the history of Europe’s royal houses and their royal scandals, discussing insane, psychopathic, sex-obsessed, drunken, and otherwise debauched rulers including Kaiser Wilhelm II, Peter the Great, and Louis XV.
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Before ‘the greatest showman’ P.T. Barnham there was Philip Astley, a British man who completely changed popular entertainment. This is his extraordinary story.
Over 2,000 years of epic failure and underachievement
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A fast, funny celebration of more than 250 of history’s greatest oddballs, all of whom just happen to be British…
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Prepare to be amazed, appalled, disgusted, and hugely entertained by this compendium of indelicate oddities. Nothing is too inane, insane, bizarre, or distasteful for this incredible–but absolutely true–collection of facts…
Strange… Astonishing… Fascinating… an extraordinary collection of weird and wonderful facts and tales from around the world.
A truly mammoth collection of weird and gross trivia about sex, death and everything in between
A riotously entertaining account of the lives of British and other European aristocrats - stories of madness, murder, misery, greed and profligacy.
Hell in a handcart? Nah. We’re plunging into the abyss in a leaky bin bag. Thanks to global warming, we’ll drown, fry or starve. Before that, if we’re lucky, an…
The life and death of a 19th-century circus legend.
Karl May
Tells the story of a young Apache chief told by his white friend and blood-brother Old Shatterhand. The action takes place in the US Southwest, in the latter half of…
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 18th Workshop on e-Business, WeB 2019, which took place in Munich, Germany, in December 2019.
private practice, small group practice, solo practice, hospital employment, large group practice, academic medicine, or institutional\government practice) as well as understand the basics of contracting, restrictive covenants and how to…
This volume brings together leading and emergent scholars to examine the history of the gazetteer, its important role in geographic information science, and its use to further the reach and…
