Download or read book Pennsylvania Curiosities written by Clark DeLeon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Liberty Bell, Gettysburg, and Independence Hall may stand out as prominent Pennsylvania features, but the Keystone State is also home to bizarre places, personalities, events, and phenomena. These unique and quirky aspects are humorously displayed in Pennsylvania Curiosities, a cross between a wacky news gazette, an almanac, and a humorous travel guide.
Download or read book Pennsylvania Curiosities written by Clark DeLeon and published by Curiosities. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Liberty Bell, Gettysburg, and Independence Hall may stand out as prominent Pennsylvania features, but the Keystone State is also home to bizarre places, personalities, events, and phenomena. These unique and quirky aspects are humorously displayed in Pennsylvania Curiosities, a cross between a wacky news gazette, an almanac, and a humorous travel guide"--Amazon.com, viewed June 18, 2013.
Download or read book PENNSYLVANIA CURIOSITIES 4TH ED written by Clark DeLeon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Liberty Bell, Gettysburg, and Independence Hall may stand out as prominent Pennsylvania features, but the Keystone State is also home to bizarre places, personalities, events, and phenomena. These unique and quirky aspects are humorously displayed in Pennsylvania Curiosities, a cross between a wacky news gazette, an almanac, and a humorous travel guide.
Download or read book Pennsylvania Curiosities written by Clark DeLeon and published by Falcon Guides. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about the invention of the Slinky and the Zippo lighter, read about the Philly cheesesteak wars, and discover where Edsels go to die and where water runs uphill in this guide to the most wacky and outrageous people, places, and things throughout the Keystone State.
Download or read book Pennsylvania written by Clark DeLeon and published by Globe Pequot. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Keystone State has to offer! Whether you're a born-and-raised Pennsylvanian, a recent transplant, or just passing through, Pennsylvania Curiosities will have you laughing out loud as it introduces you to the most fascinating characters in the Keystone State, and takes you places you never could have imagined--some of them right around the corner! Among the stimulating sights and spectacles you'll find inside: - Gus, the second most famous groundhog in PA - The major league sports team that made history by losing its 10,000th game - The town that got its groove back thanks to a hit network TV sitcom about a paper company in a paperless society - A statue of a legendary hero that is R rated from certain angles - The sweet town where streetlamps look like kisses
Download or read book Pennsylvania Oddities written by Marlin Bressi and published by Sunbury Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-12-26 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Researcher and author Marlin Bressi has compiled a panoply of unsolved mysteries and unusual happenings throughout the history of the Keystone State. From unsolved mysteries, headless corpses, missing persons, to ghosts and missing treasure, Bressi's compilation is sure to entertain: CONTENTS: PART I: UNSOLVED MYSTERIES 1. The Lamb's Gap Murder Mystery 2. Berks County's Missing Skeleton 3. Who Buried the Babies in the Church Cellar? 4. A Cat's Funeral and a Philadelphia Mystery 5. Allison Hill's House of Mystery 6. The Broad Mountain Mystery 7. The Kulpmont Mob Murders of 1939 8. The True Story of Shamokin's Famous Missing Head 9. The Mystery of the Murder Marsh PART II: STRANGE PLACES AND PEOPLE 10. The Cripple's Curse and the Kings of Pittsburgh 11. The Aeronaut's Fate: The Story of Wash Donaldson 12. Witchcraft in Stony Creek Valley 13. The Strange Connection Between Bucknell University and the RMS Titanic 14. The Tragic Fate of Homer Swaney 15. Simeon Pfoutz: Lord of the Manor 16. The Headless Horseman of Lawrence County 17. Mount Carmel's Mysterious Suicide Cell 18. A Tragedy in Ghost Hollow 19. The Loomis Street Affair: Haunting or Hoax? 20. The Ticking Tombstone 21. A Ghost in the Furnace PART III: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT 22. Dynamite and Diphtheria: The Strange Trial of Lloyd Wintersteen 23. The Hanging of Charles Chase 24. The Lutz Axe Murder 25. The Ghost of Adam Volkovitch 26. Mount Carmel's Night of Terror: The Strantz & Yorkavage Crime Spree of 1937 27. The Murder of Daisy Smith PART IV: ODDS AND ENDS (A collection of interesting newspaper clippings)
Download or read book Astonishing Tales of Pennsylvania written by Tony Lavorgne and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-26 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it about the way a story reveals hidden secrets about an area? Is it the initial shock, or possibly, the fact there's something darker hiding under the surface? In this book, Author Tony Lavorgne presents you with a set of Astonishing Tales, tales that suspend both reason and defy belief. Tales of the supernatural thrive in Pennsylvania. Stories of properties haunted by specters whose demeanor is unknown, to small towns that have been plagued with tragedies and misfortunes, to sightings of strange creatures from beyond. Join Tony Lavorgne as he goes in search of the truths behind these Astonishing Tales.
Download or read book Little Known Historical Facts of Pennsylvania and the World written by C. Arnold McClure and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Little Known Historical Facts of Pennsylvania and the World" by C. Arnold McClure is a collection of sometimes almost unbelievable facts little known by the public concerning: US Presidents and the Presidency; US wars, weapons and soldiers; Famous Pennsylvanians; high school, college, and professional sports and athletes from Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania businessmen and industrialists; early days of travel in Pennsylvania; unknown Civil War facts ; unique facts about surnames and location names in Pennsylvania; ancient recorded facts of American Indians; early churches in Pennsylvania; the early Pennsylvania frontier; Revolutionary War times in Pennsylvania; the ancestral homes of many Pennsylvanians and why they came to America; Pennsylvania politics and elections; early education in Pennsylvania; folk remedies and early medicine; old words, terms, and expressions; Pennsylvania authors and publishing; strange and unusual events in Pennsylvania; and more.
Download or read book Nebraska Curiosities written by Rick Yoder and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-01-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover Nebraska's curious underside with this oddly entertaining little guide! Travelers with a taste for the bizarre, tacky, and hilarious can visit the Avoca Quack-Off, learn about the inland Linoma Lighthouse, view a Roller Skating Museum, and pay a visit to the world's largest covered wagon. Only true Cornhuskers could capture the essence of these and other authentic Nebraska phenomena, and Rick Yoder and David Harding do their home state proud.
Download or read book Iowa Curiosities written by Eric Jones and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Hawkeye State has to offer!
Download or read book Peter Parley s Book of Curiosities written by Samuel Griswold Goodrich and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Historical and Literary Curiosities written by John Jay Smith and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pennsylvania written by Stephen Peters and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2009 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate the richness and diversity of the United States of America in this exciting series by exploring the unique character of each state.
Download or read book A Popular Catalogue of the Extraordinary Curiosities in the National Institute written by National Institute for the Promotion of Science and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Collections of the State of Pennsylvania written by Sherman Day and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Historical and Literary Curiosities consisting of facsimiles of original documents relating to the events of the revolution With a variety of reliques antiquities and modern autographs collected and edited by J J Smith and J F Watson assisted by an association of American antiquarians Part 1 Second edition written by John Jay Smith and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Weird Things and Other Oddities about Pennsylvania written by Patrick M. Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 1979-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
