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  • Innovation: Awesome Inventions: Inventors & Business Ideas that Changed the World

    podle Albert Jack ...
    IntroductionCuriosity will eventually lead to innovation. Fortunately we are an imaginative species who does a lot of wondering. Way back to when man first learned to walk upright and began communicating with each other, by pointing and shouting, we can find the earliest examples. Somebody once thought, 'I know, we can move that heavy rock, or dead buffalo, by rolling it along on tree trunks ... Přečtěte si více

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  • Shaggy Dogs and Black Sheep

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    Albert Jack's Shaggy Dogs and Black Sheep is a compulsively readable, highly enlightening look at the phrases we use all the time but rarely consider.The English language is crammed with colourful phrases and sayings that we use without thinking every day.It's only when we're asked who smart Alec or Holy Moly were, where feeling 'in the pink' or 'once in a blue moon' come from, or even what ... Přečtěte si více

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  • Jet Engines: Great Invention Ideas: The Story of Frank Whittle

    podle Albert Jack ...
    IntroductionCuriosity will eventually lead to innovation. Fortunately we are an imaginative species who does a lot of wondering. Way back to when man first learned to walk upright and began communicating with each other, by pointing and shouting, we can find the earliest examples. Somebody once thought, 'I know, we can move that heavy rock, or dead buffalo, by rolling it along on tree trunks ... Přečtěte si více

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  • Pop Goes the Weasel

    The Secret Meanings of Nursery Rhymes

    podle Albert Jack ...
    Mr Jack has been nimble and he’s been quick, searching through the history of nursery rhymes and he’s found out all kind of plum tales, just like little Jack Horner. He's unearthed the answers to some very curious questions...Who were Mary Quite Contrary and Georgie Porgie? How could Hey Diddle Diddle offer an essential astronomy lesson? And if Ring a Ring a Roses isn’t about catching the plague, ... Přečtěte si více

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  • Children's Nursery Rhymes: The Dark History & Origins of Kid's Nursery Rhymes

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    Extract;Humpty DumptyHumpty Dumpty sat on the wall,Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;All the king's horses and all the king's menCouldn't put Humpty together again.The real Humpty Dumpty was a powerful cannon used by the Royalist forces during the English Civil War of 1642 to 1651. Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle led the king's men and overpowered the Parliament stronghold of Colchester early ... Přečtěte si více

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  • Are Aliens Real?

    podle Albert Jack ...
    From the Author of the Internationally Bestselling Books - Red Herrings & White Elephants, What Caesar did for My Salad, Shaggy Dogs, Pop Goes the Weasel, Ten Minute Mysteries:**The Famous Aurora Spaceship MysteryDid a UFO really crash in a small town in Texas over a century ago?**When it comes to spaceships and and little green men from Mars, most people's thoughts turn to the notorious events at ... Přečtěte si více

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  • Urban Myths & Legends

    podle Albert Jack ...
    From the bestselling author of Red Herrings & White Elephants, Shaggy Dogs, Pop Goes the Weasel, What Caesar did for My Salad and many more....IntroductionThe subject of urban myths and legends is one I have been interested in for a couple of years now. It occurred to me, one day at lunch with friends on the Isle of Dogs, that many long rambling conversations (and ours are certainly long and ... Přečtěte si více

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  • Healthy Breakfast: Food History: The History of our Favorite Breakfast

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    Food is just as entitled to a proper history as castles, wars, kings, queens, art, literature and the bubonic plague. But the book world is now so saturated by celebrity chefs trying to show the working man how to rub garlic on a ciabatta or break lime leaves over a piece of raw fish that we've lost sight of the really interesting stories behind the recipes we all know and love.And, whilst I don't ... Přečtěte si více

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  • Blue Moons and Black Markets

    The Origins Of Even More Phrases We Use Every Day

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    From the internationally best selling author of Red Herrings and White Elephants, Pop Goes the Weasel and What Caesar Did for my Salad.Why do people put their "skeletons in a closet," "have a hunch," "get the cold shoulder," "get dressed up to the nines," or "call a spade a spade?"These phrases are used every day, yet most people have little or no idea where most of them come from. In Blue Moons ... Přečtěte si více

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  • Bigfoot

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    Does Bigfoot Exist?In 1924, a group of miners working in the Cascade Mountain Range in the state of Washington were startled to see a huge simian creature staring at them from behind a tree. Panic-stricken, one of the men fired at it and although the bullet appeared to hit the giant ape in the head, the beast ran off, apparently unharmed.Soon afterwards another of the miners, Fred Beck, spotted it ... Přečtěte si více

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  • Shaggy Dogs and Black Sheep

    The Origins of Even More Phrases We Use Every Day

    podle Albert Jack ...
    The English language is crammed with colourful phrases and sayings that we use without thinking every day. It's only when we're asked who smart Alec or Holy Moly were, where feeling in the pink or once in a blue moon come from, or even what letting the cat out of the bag really means that we realize that there's far more to English than we might have thought.Luckily enough, we now have Albert Jack ... Přečtěte si více

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  • D.B. Cooper

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    From the best selling author of Red Herrings & White Elephants, Pop Goes the Weasel, Ten Minute Mysteries and many more...Committing the Perfect Crime: The D. B. Cooper Hijacking.What happened to famous hijacker who jumped off a plane and into thin air carrying a fortune in banknotes?The offence on the face of it was a simple one, but the mystery surrounding its aftermath has passed into legend. ... Přečtěte si více

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