Screen LibraryOh, yikes! : history's grossest, wackiest moments /
Relates unusual facts of history. Discusses disposition of corpses, executions, and medicine.
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2006] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Relates unusual facts of history. Discusses disposition of corpses, executions, and medicine. |
| Carrier Form: | x, 308 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm |
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9780761136842 0761136843 9781435275928 1435275926 |
| Index Number: | D10 |
| CLC: | K109-61 |
| Call Number: | K109-61/M398 |
| Contents: | Atilla and the Huns -- Aztec antics -- Beastly babyhood -- Burial customs -- Cave dudes -- Circus clowning -- Crafty cats -- Crazy calendars -- Creepy Columbus -- Cruel construction -- Cussin' cowboys -- Dastardly dentistry -- Dog-gone dogs -- Dreadful Dracula -- Dumb duels -- Electric shocks -- Everyday executions -- Farfetched fashions -- Freaky flyers -- Friday the 13th -- Ghastly games -- Gladiators -- Guillotines -- Heinous hair -- Horrible Henry the 8th -- Humongous hoaxes -- Idiotic inventions -- Junky jobs -- Killer kings -- Knight time -- Lewis and Clark -- Miserable medicines -- Moldy money -- Musty mummies -- Nutty Napoleon -- Oozy Olympics -- Outrageous outlaws -- Pirates -- Plagues and poxes -- Prickly presidents -- Prisons and punishments -- Quirky queens -- Rip-roarin' railroads -- Salt assault -- Samurai and shoguns -- School dazed -- Sinking ships -- Smelly shoes -- Strange sports -- Stupid superstitions -- Terrible table manners -- Tickin' time -- Toilet paper -- Ugh! underwear -- Vicious Vikings -- Wacky warfare -- Whale tales -- Wicked witches -- X-files -- Zany zoos. |