Funny Peculiar: A Directory of the Daft and Dotty - Hardcover
Did you know that if John Wayne was playing poker and a card was turned face up by accident, he made the person responsible stand up and circle the table three times That Catherine the Great was so terrified of people finding out she had dandruff that she imprisoned her hairdresser in an iron cage That Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States, invented the coathanger That Elizabeth I passed a law taxing men with beards That Arthur Conan Doyle believed he would be resurrected 10 days after his death at the Albert Hall and 10,000 people turn up to witness the event. It's all here and more. Over 700 curious facts and acts organized in thematic chapters.
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Aubrey Malone is a full-time writer based in Dublin. He is author of many humorous volumes including The Cynic's Dictionary, Stranger Than Fiction and I Was A Fugitive From A Hollywood Trivia Factory which are also published by Prion.
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- PublisherPrion Books Ltd
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 1853754609
- ISBN 13 9781853754609
- BindingHardcover
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Funny, Peculiar: An Encyclopedia of Eccentric Acts, Bizarre Behaviour and Unusual Facts About the Famous and the Famously Strange
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