Download or read book The Giant Book of Strange Facts written by Jake Jacobs and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-06-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the title suggests, The Giant Book of The Giant Book of Strange Facts Facts, contains a huge list of strange and interesting facts about the world that we live in. The facts range from the craziest events to the funniest people. The Giant Book of Strange Facts is packed with interesting, entertaining, educational and fun things to read. You'll get everything from the weird to the wonderful and from the horrible to the hilarious. Facts such as: The Los Alamos Ranch House serves as a reminder of the ethical and moral dilemmas associated with the development and use of atomic weapons. Male dik-diks have small, straight horns, which they use for territorial defense and competition for mates.
Download or read book The Giant Book of Unusual Facts written by Jake Jacobs and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the title suggests, The Giant Book Of Unusual Facts, contains a huge list of unbelievable and unusual facts about the world that we live in. The facts range from the craziest events to the funniest people. The Giant Book Of Unusual Facts is packed with interesting, entertaining, educational and fun things to read. You'll get everything from the weird to the wonderful and from the horrible to the hilarious. Facts such as: Hugh Thompson Jr. ordered his own crew to fire upon friendly soldiers if they wouldn
Download or read book The Little Giant Book of Science Facts written by Glen Vecchione and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of fascinating, flabbergasting, and sometimes freaky facts are at your disposal in this fun-sized compendium. Uncover animal oddities, including the fact that certain species of frogs can survive being frozen solid and thawed. Find out how strange people really are: Did you know that the average human produces 25,000 quarts of saliva in a lifetime—enough to fill two swimming pools? And there are botanical surprises, such as that bananas are actually herbs, plus science tidbits about the Earth, inventions, computers, and more.
Download or read book The Giant Book of True Facts written by Jake Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the title suggests, The Giant Book Of Strange Facts, contains a huge list of true and interesting facts about the world that we live in. The facts range from the craziest events to the funniest people. The Giant Book Of Strange Facts is packed with interesting, entertaining, educational and fun things to read. You'll get everything from the weird to the wonderful and from the horrible to the hilarious. Facts such as: Ben Underwood is totally blind but can use echolocation to "see" with his ears well enough to ride a bike or skate down a street.Because of the isolated location and frigid climate, Antarctica, Greenland, Iceland, some of Polynesia and the Hawaiian Islands are believed to have no native ant species.
Download or read book The Giant Book of Odd Facts written by Jake Jacobs and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the title suggests, The Giant Book of Odd Facts, contains a huge list of unbelievable and odd facts about the world that we live in. The facts range from the craziest events to the funniest people. The Giant Book of Odd Facts is packed with interesting, entertaining, educational and fun things to read. You'll get everything from the weird to the wonderful and from the horrible to the hilarious. Facts such as: Elk live in social groups called herds, typically composed of females, calves, and young males. The Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, of which the birthplace is a part, is one of the 14 presidential libraries administered by the National Archives and Records Administration.
Download or read book The Giant Book of Random Facts written by Jake Jacobs and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the title suggests, The Giant Book of Random Facts, contains a huge list of unbelievable and obscure facts about the world that we live in. The facts range from the craziest events to the funniest people. The Giant Book of Random Facts is packed with interesting, entertaining, educational and fun things to read. You'll get everything from the weird to the wonderful and from the horrible to the hilarious. Facts such as: YouTube hosts an annual Creator Summit, where top creators from around the world gather to discuss trends, collaborate, and learn from industry experts. The female Fennec Fox gives birth to a litter of two to five kits after a gestation period of about 50 to 52 days.
Download or read book The Giant Book of Weird Facts written by Jake Jacobs and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-07-13 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the title suggests, The Giant Book Of Weird Facts, contains a huge list of wacky and weird facts about the world that we live in. The facts range from the craziest events to the funniest people. The Giant Book Of Weird Facts is packed with interesting, entertaining, educational and fun things to read. You'll get everything from the weird to the wonderful and from the horrible to the hilarious. Facts such as: The fear of the number 666 has a name; hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia. The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus was burned down in 356 BC by a single man who wanted to be famous. The Ephesians condemned him to death and to have his name forgotten, but a writer still passed it down to posterity.
Download or read book Giant Book of Cool Stuff written by Glen Singleton and published by Hinkler Books Pty Limited. This book was released on 2009 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of six books in the Cool series including facts, jokes and activities.
Download or read book Unusual Creatures written by Michael Hearst and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Introduces the reader to a wealth of extraordinary life forms"-- P. [4] of cover.
Download or read book The Buried Giant written by Kazuo Ishiguro and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory. In post-Arthurian Britain, the wars that once raged between the Saxons and the Britons have finally ceased. Axl and Beatrice, an elderly British couple, set off to visit their son, whom they haven't seen in years. And, because a strange mist has caused mass amnesia throughout the land, they can scarcely remember anything about him. As they are joined on their journey by a Saxon warrior, his orphan charge, and an illustrious knight, Axl and Beatrice slowly begin to remember the dark and troubled past they all share. By turns savage, suspenseful, and intensely moving, The Buried Giant is a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory.
Download or read book The Giant Book of Wacky Facts written by Jake Jacobs and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-07-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the title suggests, The Giant Book of Wacky Facts, contains a huge list of unbelievable and wacky facts about the world that we live in. The facts range from the craziest events to the funniest people. The Giant Book of Wacky Facts is packed with interesting, entertaining, educational and fun things to read. You'll get everything from the weird to the wonderful and from the horrible to the hilarious. Facts such as: The SFOF has a dedicated team of flight directors who oversee mission operations and make critical decisions during spacecraft encounters with celestial bodies. The gender of Galapagos Green Sea Turtle hatchlings is determined by the temperature at which the eggs are incubated, a phenomenon known as temperature-dependent sex determination.
Download or read book The Giant Book of Crazy Facts written by Jake Jacobs and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-07-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the title suggests, The Giant Book of Crazy Facts, contains a huge list of shocking and crazy facts about the world that we live in. The facts range from the craziest events to the funniest people. The Giant Book of Crazy Facts is packed with interesting, entertaining, educational and fun things to read. You'll get everything from the weird to the wonderful and from the horrible to the hilarious. Facts such as: The Watts Towers were designated as a California Historical Landmark in 1990, further recognizing their importance within the state's cultural heritage. The Galapagos Rail is well adapted to its habitat, with its long toes and claws allowing it to forage for food in the marshy and muddy areas.
Download or read book A Colossal Hoax written by Scott Tribble and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2008-12-16 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 1869, as America stood on the brink of becoming a thoroughly modern nation, workers unearthed what appeared to be a petrified ten-foot giant on a remote farm in upstate New York. The discovery caused a sensation. Over the next several months, newspapers devoted daily headlines to the story and tens of thousands of Americans—including Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the great showman P. T. Barnum—flocked to see the giant on exhibition. In the colossus, many saw evidence that their continent, and the tiny hamlet of Cardiff, had ties to Biblical history. American science also weighed in on the discovery, and in doing so revealed its own growing pains, including the shortcomings of traditional education, the weaknesses of archaeological methodology, as well as the vexing presence of amateurs and charlatans within its ranks. A national debate ensued over the giant's origins, and was played out in the daily press. Ultimately, the discovery proved to be an elaborate hoax. Still, the story of the Cardiff Giant reveals many things about America in the post-Civil War years. After four years of destruction on an unimagined scale, Americans had increasingly turned their attention to the renewal of progress. But the story of the Cardiff Giant seemed to shed light on a complicated, mysterious past, and for a time scientists, clergymen, newspaper editors, and ordinary Americans struggled to make sense of it. Hucksters, of course, did their best to take advantage of it. The Cardiff Giant was one of the leading questions of the day, and how citizens answered it said much about Americans in 1869 as well as about America more generally.
Download or read book The Giant Book of Shocking Facts written by Jake Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the title suggests, The Giant Book Of Random Facts, contains a huge list of shocking and interesting facts about the world that we live in. The facts range from the craziest events to the funniest people. The Giant Book Of Random Facts is packed with interesting, entertaining, educational and fun things to read. You'll get everything from the weird to the wonderful and from the horrible to the hilarious. Facts such as: Houses in the United Kingdom are numbered so that the lower numbers are nearest to the town or city center. Indian dancing frog infants burrow blind like earthworms, reworking stream sands.
Download or read book The Giant Book of Obscure Facts written by Jake Jacobs and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the title suggests, The Giant Book of Obscure Facts, contains a huge list of unbelievable and obscure facts about the world that we live in. The facts range from the craziest events to the funniest people. The Giant Book of Obscure Facts is packed with interesting, entertaining, educational and fun things to read. You'll get everything from the weird to the wonderful and from the horrible to the hilarious. Facts such as: Eurasian Beavers are mostly active during dusk and dawn, although they can be active at any time of the day. Old Sacramento's historic district has been carefully preserved and restored to maintain its authenticity and cultural significance.
Download or read book The Book of Strange New Things written by Michel Faber and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A monumental, genre-defying novel that David Mitchell calls "Michel Faber’s second masterpiece," The Book of Strange New Things is a masterwork from a writer in full command of his many talents. It begins with Peter, a devoted man of faith, as he is called to the mission of a lifetime, one that takes him galaxies away from his wife, Bea. Peter becomes immersed in the mysteries of an astonishing new environment, overseen by an enigmatic corporation known only as USIC. His work introduces him to a seemingly friendly native population struggling with a dangerous illness and hungry for Peter’s teachings—his Bible is their “book of strange new things.” But Peter is rattled when Bea’s letters from home become increasingly desperate: typhoons and earthquakes are devastating whole countries, and governments are crumbling. Bea’s faith, once the guiding light of their lives, begins to falter. Suddenly, a separation measured by an otherworldly distance, and defined both by one newly discovered world and another in a state of collapse, is threatened by an ever-widening gulf that is much less quantifiable. While Peter is reconciling the needs of his congregation with the desires of his strange employer, Bea is struggling for survival. Their trials lay bare a profound meditation on faith, love tested beyond endurance, and our responsibility to those closest to us. Marked by the same bravura storytelling and precise language that made The Crimson Petal and the White such an international success, The Book of Strange New Things is extraordinary, mesmerizing, and replete with emotional complexity and genuine pathos.
Download or read book One Giant Leap written by Charles Fishman and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling, “meticulously researched and absorbingly written” (The Washington Post) story of the trailblazers and the ordinary Americans on the front lines of the epic Apollo 11 moon mission. President John F. Kennedy astonished the world on May 25, 1961, when he announced to Congress that the United States should land a man on the Moon by 1970. No group was more surprised than the scientists and engineers at NASA, who suddenly had less than a decade to invent space travel. When Kennedy announced that goal, no one knew how to navigate to the Moon. No one knew how to build a rocket big enough to reach the Moon, or how to build a computer small enough (and powerful enough) to fly a spaceship there. No one knew what the surface of the Moon was like, or what astronauts could eat as they flew there. On the day of Kennedy’s historic speech, America had a total of fifteen minutes of spaceflight experience—with just five of those minutes outside the atmosphere. Russian dogs had more time in space than US astronauts. Over the next decade, more than 400,000 scientists, engineers, and factory workers would send twenty-four astronauts to the Moon. Each hour of space flight would require one million hours of work back on Earth to get America to the Moon on July 20, 1969. “A veteran space reporter with a vibrant touch—nearly every sentence has a fact, an insight, a colorful quote or part of a piquant anecdote” (The Wall Street Journal) and in One Giant Leap, Fishman has written the sweeping, definitive behind-the-scenes account of the furious race to complete one of mankind’s greatest achievements. It’s a story filled with surprises—from the item the astronauts almost forgot to take with them (the American flag), to the extraordinary impact Apollo would have back on Earth, and on the way we live today. From the research labs of MIT, where the eccentric and legendary pioneer Charles Draper created the tools to fly the Apollo spaceships, to the factories where dozens of women sewed spacesuits, parachutes, and even computer hardware by hand, Fishman captures the exceptional feats of these ordinary Americans. “It’s been 50 years since Neil Armstrong took that one small step. Fishman explains in dazzling form just how unbelievable it actually was” (Newsweek).
