Description:The Colossal Reader: Super-Size Stories & Irresistible Information, from the popular Armchair Reader series, is a 576-page collection of facts, trivia, and knowledge on virtually every subject imaginable, from the intellectual to the esoteric. Amazing anecdotes, stories, and fast facts are mixed with quotations, a running calendar of memorable moments, and a vault of information that will entertain even the most discerning readers for countless hours. Hundreds of eclectic topics include sports, history, animals, science, entertainment, business, philosophy, you name it.Here is a sampling of what you will find in The Colossal Reader:- The Stopwatch Gang, a group of 20th-century bank robbers who were in and out in 90 seconds.- The Avrocar, a real-life flying saucer created in a top-secret United States military program.- Candy bars of the early 20th century, including Chicken Dinner, Chick-O-Stick, and Baby Lobster bar.- Sir Francis Henry Egerton, eighth Earl of Bridgewater, who had a pair of shoes for each day of the year and regularly hosted dinner parties for his dogs—who also were shod in fancy footwear.- ARPANET, an ancestor of the Internet, planned as an inter-galactic computer network.The Colossal Reader: Super-Size Stories & Irresistible Information is an incredible compendium of revealing stories and fascinating facts.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Colossal Reader: Super-Size Stories & Irresistible Information (Armchair Reader). To get started finding The Colossal Reader: Super-Size Stories & Irresistible Information (Armchair Reader), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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The Colossal Reader: Super-Size Stories & Irresistible Information (Armchair Reader)
Description: The Colossal Reader: Super-Size Stories & Irresistible Information, from the popular Armchair Reader series, is a 576-page collection of facts, trivia, and knowledge on virtually every subject imaginable, from the intellectual to the esoteric. Amazing anecdotes, stories, and fast facts are mixed with quotations, a running calendar of memorable moments, and a vault of information that will entertain even the most discerning readers for countless hours. Hundreds of eclectic topics include sports, history, animals, science, entertainment, business, philosophy, you name it.Here is a sampling of what you will find in The Colossal Reader:- The Stopwatch Gang, a group of 20th-century bank robbers who were in and out in 90 seconds.- The Avrocar, a real-life flying saucer created in a top-secret United States military program.- Candy bars of the early 20th century, including Chicken Dinner, Chick-O-Stick, and Baby Lobster bar.- Sir Francis Henry Egerton, eighth Earl of Bridgewater, who had a pair of shoes for each day of the year and regularly hosted dinner parties for his dogs—who also were shod in fancy footwear.- ARPANET, an ancestor of the Internet, planned as an inter-galactic computer network.The Colossal Reader: Super-Size Stories & Irresistible Information is an incredible compendium of revealing stories and fascinating facts.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Colossal Reader: Super-Size Stories & Irresistible Information (Armchair Reader). To get started finding The Colossal Reader: Super-Size Stories & Irresistible Information (Armchair Reader), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.