Strange History: Mysterious Artifacts, Macabre Legends, Boneheaded Blunders & Mind-Blowing Facts

Editors of Portable Press

Jun 2016 · Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

Bizarre historical tidbits about quirky queens, hippopotamus soup, shrunken heads, and much more!
 
This exciting title from the folks at the Bathroom Readers’ Institute contains the strangest short history articles from over thirty Bathroom Readers, along with fifty all-new pages. From the twentieth century to the Old West, from the Age of Enlightenment to the Dark Ages, from ancient cultures all the way back to the dawn of time, Strange History is overflowing with mysterious artifacts, macabre legends, kooky inventions, reality-challenged rulers, boneheaded blunders, and mind-blowing facts. Whether it’s B.C. or A.D., you’ll be wondering WTF! Read about . . .

• The curse of Macbeth
• Stupid history: Hollywood style
• The secret LSD experiments of the 1960s
• In search of the lost “Cloud People” of Peru
• The Swedish queen who declared war on fleas
• Unearthing the past with the Outhouse Detectives
• The Apollo astronaut who swears he saw a UFO
• How to brew a batch of 5,000-year-old beer
• The brutal bloodbaths at Rome’s Coliseum
• Ghostly soup from ancient China
• The bathroom of the 1970s

And much, much more!

Ratings and reviews

excellent source of offbeat and wacky information!

great fun

it's quite funny and interesting

About the author

Portable Press is a tight-knit group of writers, researchers, and editors who are responsible for some of the publishing industry’s most popular non-fiction trivia and facts books. Aside from creating the fan-favorite Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader series (more than 16 million books in print since 1988), the Portable Press team also specializes in regional and kids’ titles, plus gift books, activity books, and whatever else strikes their fancy.