Discovering America's Past: Customs, Legends, History & Lore of Our Great NationReader's Digest Association, 1993 - 400 ページ Featuring special sections on bizarre, delightful, and amazing aspects of our nation's unique past, these 450+ surprising but absolutely true stories examine America's history, not through its great moments, but by way of the foibles and folkways that built its character. 700 illus. and photos. |
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... wanted his own zoo , and as a young man in 1916 , he finally got his chance . He served that year as a staff physician at San Diego's Panama- California International Exposition , and as the show came to a close , he discovered that ...
... wanted his own zoo , and as a young man in 1916 , he finally got his chance . He served that year as a staff physician at San Diego's Panama- California International Exposition , and as the show came to a close , he discovered that ...
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... wanted , but what it did not even know it wanted - cabins on the upper deck , for one thing , and even soda fountains . Collins had just launched his largest , most lux- urious packet in 1838 when maritime history changed abruptly . It ...
... wanted , but what it did not even know it wanted - cabins on the upper deck , for one thing , and even soda fountains . Collins had just launched his largest , most lux- urious packet in 1838 when maritime history changed abruptly . It ...
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... wanted engines for their dirigibles . But he might have confined his own speed records to the roadways had he not met Dr. Alexan- der Graham Bell . Bell , who had been caught up with flight early on , asked Curtiss in 1907 to build him ...
... wanted engines for their dirigibles . But he might have confined his own speed records to the roadways had he not met Dr. Alexan- der Graham Bell . Bell , who had been caught up with flight early on , asked Curtiss in 1907 to build him ...
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