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Ripley's Believe It or Not! Encyclopedia of the Bizarre: Amazing, Strange, Inexplicable, Weird and All True! - Softcover
Synopsis
Black Dog & Leventhal’s bestselling Encyclopedia of the Bizarre is now available in a handier, more reasonably priced edition that retains every word and image of the original. From stupefying stunts to wacky world’s records, all of Ripley’s riveting findings are here, in an easy-to-browse, impossible-to-put-down color volume.
Where else could you learn that:
· It’s estimated that 10,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000 snowflakes have fallen to the Earth since the Earth was formed!
· Queen Isabeau of Bavaria used a mixture of boar’s brains, crocodile glands, and wolf blood as skin lotion!
· Anna Bread married John Butter in Leeds, England, April 22, 1926!
· Phil Turco of Madison, Wisconsin, swallowed 339 goldfish in two hours!
Bizarre and amazing categories include Accidents and Disasters, Animals and Insects, Archaeology, Feats and Stunts, Prophecies, Records, the Unexplained, and more. It’s fascinating fun for the whole family.
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This colorful, magical and mind-expanding volume is an encyclopedia that only the people at Ripley's Believe It or Not! could dream up. Every page is brimming with information and eye-popping artwork, covering the extremes of every subject imaginable. Coincidences, explorers, human anatomy, laws, medicine, science, sports, survival, villains, war, weather--these are just a few of the topics explored in this unique volume.
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AN ASTONISHING TOUR OF THE MOST BIZARRE AND AMAZING OCCURRENCES FROM AROUND THE GLOBE!
Ripleys Believe It or Not! Encyclopedia of the Bizarre is the weirdest, wackiest, most outrageously srange collection of feats, stories, facts and records— all real and all recorded by the editors of Ripley's Believe It or Not!
More than 6,000 mind boggling oddities!
More than 1,400 eye-popping photographs, illustrations and cartoons!
Covers every subject including Accidents and Disasters; Feats and Stunts, Prophecies, Coincidences, Animals, Human Anatomy, Sports, Weather, Architecture, Archaeology, the Unexplained and more!
IMPOSSIBLE TO PUT DOWN!
WHERE ELSE CAN YOU LEARN THAT:
- AN ESTIMATED 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 SNOWFLAKES HAVE FALLEN TO THE EARTH SINCE THE EARTH WAS FORMED!
- QUEEN ISABEAU OF BAVARIA USED A MIXTURE OF BOAR'S BRAINS, CROCODILE GLANDS, AND WOLF BLOOD AS SKIN LOTION!
- ALFRED LANGEVIN COULD SMOKE A PIPE, PLAY A RECORDER, SMOKE A CIGARETTE AND EVEN BLOW UP A BALLOON THROUGH HIS EYE!
- ANNA BREAD MARRIED JOHN BUTTER IN LEEDS, ENGLAND, APRIL 22, 1926!
- PHIL TURCO OF MADISON, WISCONSIN, SWALLOWED 339 GOLDFISH IN TWO HOURS!
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- PublisherBlack Dog & Leventhal
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1579124828
- ISBN 13 9781579124823
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages496
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