Strange But True North Carolina
Author: Lynne L. Hall
Publisher:
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781581735215
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Lynne L. Hall
Publisher:
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781581735215
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Lynne L Hall
Publisher:
Published: 2007-04-01
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781602610347
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Truth is stranger than fiction, and in the pages of Strange But True North Carolina, you can take an armchair tour and see for yourself the wacky wonders of the state. So sit back, read, and shake your head in amazement. You're in Strange But True North Carolina.
Author: Roger Manley
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
Published: 2007-06
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781402739392
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Patty A. Wilson
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 0811735850
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Rich in Native American, Colonial, and Civil War history, North Carolina harbors ghosts from tidewater to mountains.
Author: Lynne L Hall
Publisher:
Published: 2007-04-01
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781602610354
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Truth is stranger than fiction, and in the pages of Strange But True South Carolina, you can take an armchair tour and see for yourself the wacky wonders of the state. So sit back, read, and shake your head in amazement. You're in Strange But True South Carolina.
Author: John Hafnor
Publisher: John Hafnor
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780964817555
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contains 101 curious tales and oddball facts about events and people from the fifty states.
Author: DK
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2015-09-08
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1465449078
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The bizarre beasts, incredible places, and peculiar phenomenons featured in this mind-blowing compendium are not just really weird - they're really real! With more than 125,000 copies sold worldwide, this wacky encyclopedia explores our world's most exciting oddities. Did you know there's a plant that eats mice? Or that you can dip your toe in a rainbow-colored river? From fiery tornadoes flying across the sky to huge sinkholes eating up the earth, each example is illustrated with jaw-dropping images and handy fast facts that provide the explanations behind the stories. Whether it's geography, people, places, animals, plants, or weather, Strange But True! is the ideal book for curious young minds who are fascinated by our weird and wonderful world.
Author: Karen L. Cox
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2017-08-09
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1469635046
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was splashed across headlines nationwide. Two eccentrics, Richard Dana and Octavia Dockery—known in the press as the "Wild Man" and the "Goat Woman"—enlisted an African American man named George Pearls to rob their reclusive neighbor, Jennie Merrill, at her estate. During the attempted robbery, Merrill was shot and killed. The crime drew national coverage when it came to light that Dana and Dockery, the alleged murderers, shared their huge, decaying antebellum mansion with their goats and other livestock, which prompted journalists to call the estate "Goat Castle." Pearls was killed by an Arkansas policeman in an unrelated incident before he could face trial. However, as was all too typical in the Jim Crow South, the white community demanded "justice," and an innocent black woman named Emily Burns was ultimately sent to prison for the murder of Merrill. Dana and Dockery not only avoided punishment but also lived to profit from the notoriety of the murder by opening their derelict home to tourists. Strange, fascinating, and sobering, Goat Castle tells the story of this local feud, killing, investigation, and trial, showing how a true crime tale of fallen southern grandeur and murder obscured an all too familiar story of racial injustice.
Author: Keith Martin
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
Published: 2017-10-24
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 0760361835
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →These bizarre true stories of collectors and their cars is "a whole lot of fun" (The Virginian Pilot). Have you heard of the fellow who squirrelled away dozens of Chevelles, Camaros, and other classic muscle cars in semi-trailers? How about the president of Shakespeare fishing rods, who sold thirty Bugattis for a mere $85,000? What about the English nobleman who cut up and buried his Ferrari hoard in an elaborate insurance scam? Or how about the Duesenberg abandoned in a Manhattan parking garage for decades only to be uncovered by Jay Leno? Most car collectors exhibit a healthy enthusiasm for their hobby by digging into their favorite marques, chasing parts, swapping stories, and generally living the car-guy lifestyle. Some, however, step over that fine line between enthusiasm and obsession—and that's where these legendary car-collector stories come from. In Strange but True Tales of Car Collecting, Keith Martin and the staff of Sports Car Market Magazine recount the wildest, most eccentric, over-the-top stories of collectors and their collections. "This likable book serves as a ‚ÄòRipley's Believe It or Not!' for car obsessives." —The New York Times
Author: Patrick M. Reynolds
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Published: 2007-06-28
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 1461733774
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Here in an entertaining illustrated format are hundreds of little-known facts about the always-fascinating Civil War. Did you know... -A January 1861 plot to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln was thwarted with the helpf of a police chief named...John Kennedy? -The Confederacy briefly had a program developing rockets? -Two million dollars in gold bars that disappeared from a Union Army shipment may still be buried in northwestern Pennsylvania? -The Gettysburg Address was panned as "silly, flat and dish-watery? by the Chicago Times? These are just a few of the remarkable stories chronicled in Patrick M. Reynolds' educational cartoon strips.