1. Time and Dates - reckoning, measuring, lunar calendar, perpetual calendar, holidays.

2. Weights and Measures - US and Metric conversion, expedient measures.

3. Symbols and signs - alphabets, musical notation, diacritical marks (breve {cafe}, cedilla {francois}, circumflex {chateaux}, diaeresis {umlaut}, grave {`}, macron {-}, tilde{~}.), Greek, Hebrew, Russian, Roman numerals...

4. Animal World - taxonomy (KPCOFGS: Kingdom, Phylum, Subphylum, Superclass, Class, Subclass, Infraclass, Order, Superfamily, Family Genus, Species), Orders, extinctions, Zoos.

5. Math & Science. Decimals, Rules, Formulas of Physics, Geological Time Chart, Planets, Stars.

6. Inventions / Scientific Discoveries.

7. Arts - composers, jazz, musical terms, lists, architecture.

8. Literature - authors, terms, pseudonyms, laureates, awards.

9. Religions - major beliefs, dates, holy books (Analects, Bhagavad Gita, Five Classics, Koran, NT, OT[3 pts: Law, Prophets, Writings {Torah or Pentateuch, Former Prophets , latter prophets , and Psalms, Job, Songs, and Ruth, etc}), patron saints, 4 Horsemen (Pestilence, War, Famine, Death; Gold Crown, Red/Sword, Black/scales, Pale/Hades), Talmud, Tao-te-ching, Upanishads, Veda; Greek/Roman dieties, 10 commandments

10. Philosophy - list, proofs, arguments, quotes.

11. Libraries and Museums - Dewey Decimal, LOC Subject Headings.

12. Words - phrases, scrabble, oxymoron, acronyms, palindromes, Greek/Roman Pre/Suffixes

13. Grammar - turning words into sentences, list American/English spelling.

14. Etiquette.
15. Forms of Address.
16. Legal Information.
17. Personal Finances.
18. Useful Addresses.
19. Travel.
20. Household Tips.
21. Outdoors - plants, frost, germination, clouds, eclipses, constellations.
22. Sports and games - Monopoly most landed-on spaces.
23. Health.
24. First Aid - M2M breathing, Pressure Pts, Kits, signals of Stroke and Heart Attack.
25. United States - map, population, immigration, economic statistics, documents.
26. The World - countries, events, discovery, cities, UN, conversion tables, rulers.
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Handy little (big) book to have around--especially if you don't have a computer and/or internet access handy. Since my copy was published in 1989 the internet was rather uncommon if not unheard of and this was a much more called for/handy resource. This is still a very useful compendenium of info and sometimes is quicker and easier than a google search because it is WELL INDEXED--such an important component in these days and so very rare. ( )

I bought this book years after I worked in a bookstore but still couldn't keep my mind off it. The data in the charts has grown stale (but isn't that what the web is for?), but it remains a real treat for browsing. ( )