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Loading... Schott's Original Miscellanyby Ben Schott
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Ein Klassiker. Unerreicht und Unerreichbar. ( )This is one of my favourite books to read on the loo. Full of random but interesting facts to enrich the mind, or simply relieve boredom. I read this book over a 2-year's period. Needless to say I cannot remember much of what I found there. Sometimes interesting and unexpected things or quotations, sometimes full pages without great significance. Rather uneven finally. Marrant ! Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc 0.068 seconds to build listing
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0747563209, Hardcover) Impossible to read at one sitting, but utterly unputdownable, Schott's Original Miscellany is a unique collection of fabulous trivia.What other book boasts an index that includes shoelace lengths, sign language, and the seven deadly sins; dueling and dwarves; the hair color of Miss America and the Hampton Court maze?Where else can you find, packed onto one page, the names of golf strokes, a history of the Hat Tax, cricketing dismissals, nouns of assemblage, an unofficial motto of the US Postal Service, and the flag of Guadeloupe?Where else but Schott's Original Miscellany will you stumble across John Lennon's cat, the supplier of bagpipes to the Queen, the labors of Hercules, and the brutal methods of murder encountered by Miss Marple?A book like no other, Schott's Original Miscellany is entertaining, informative, unpredictable, and utterly addictive. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:54 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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