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Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges into Great Lives
Author(s): Bathroom Readers' Hysterical Society (Author)
- Publisher: Portable Pr
- Publication Date: January 1, 2003
- Language: English
- Print length: 504 pages
- ISBN-10: 1592230202
- ISBN-13: 9781592230204
Book Description
Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Plunges into Great Lives looks beneath the surface and uncovers fascinating but little known stories behind the famous, near-famous, infamous, and shoulda-been famous. Read about: *The assassination that touched off WWI because a motorcade took a wrong turn *Dr. Ruth’s early years as an Israeli soldier *The other Bolyen girl in Henry VIII’s bed *America’s first prima ballerina, an Osage Indian *The man who invented tap dancing *Vidal Sassoon: hairdresser by day, freedom-fighter by night *Bandits, bad girls, and Beatles hangers-on *Icons for the digital age and more! As always, we’ve filled every page with precious nuggets of never-before-seen factoids and fun information to give you more than your money’s worth of trivia.
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Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Plunges into Great Lives looks beneath the surface and uncovers fascinating but little known stories behind the famous, near-famous, infamous, and shoulda-been famous. Read about: *The assassination that touched off WWI because a motorcade took a wrong turn *Dr. Ruth’s early years as an Israeli soldier *The other Bolyen girl in Henry VIII’s bed *America’s first prima ballerina, an Osage Indian *The man who invented tap dancing *Vidal Sassoon: hairdresser by day, freedom-fighter by night *Bandits, bad girls, and Beatles hangers-on *Icons for the digital age and more! As always, we’ve filled every page with precious nuggets of never-before-seen factoids and fun information to give you more than your money’s worth of trivia.
