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Nick Belardes
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Did you know Thomas Jefferson's grandson was an ax murderer? Don't you delight in knowing that some dinosaurs were as teeny tiny as hens? Before buying that plane ticket, don't you NEED to know which exotic islands still have cannibals? Wonder what it's like to live in Hell Town at the End of the World? How about an ailment so surreal it's named after Alice in Wonderland?
In Random Obsessions: Trivia You Can't Live Without, historian Nick Belardes has dug into the raw source material found in historical archives, scientific studies, and libraries the world over. You'll also read first-person interviews with people who can explain the unexplained, from the permanently puzzling Mothman conspiracy to secret Star Wars Jedi religious cults, and the charmingly eccentric reason why British aerospace engineers sent teddy bears floating out into space.
Truly trivia you can't live without, Random Obsessions is filled with facts, lists, definitions, and astonishing information guaranteed to provide you with the best cocktail conversation for many years to come! Your guide, Nick Belardes, has devoted his life to poking around the peculiar and perplexing. Explore the unknown stories behind why the nation's capitol didn't stay in Philadelphia, why some fossils are smiling, and how, if Preparation H existed in the early 1800s, Napoleon would have won Waterloo. These real-world facts are outlandish enough to sharpen your brain and occupy your mind for hours of listening. This book is so fascinating and fun, you'll become obsessed, too!
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4 out of 5 stars
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Buenas fabulas de humor
- De Cynthia en 10-27-14
De: Cracked.com
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The United States of Cryptids
- A Tour of American Myths and Monsters
- De: J. W. Ocker
- Narrado por: Mark Sanderlin
- Duración: 6 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 94
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 82
Welcome to the United States of Cryptids, where mysterious monsters lurk in the dark forests, deep lakes, and sticky swamps of all fifty states. From the infamous Jersey Devil to the obscure Snallygaster, travel writer and chronicler of the strange J. W. Ocker not only uncovers the bizarre stories of these creatures but investigates the ways in which communities have embraced and celebrated their local cryptids.
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5 out of 5 stars
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US Cryptid Tour
- De Admiralu en 10-15-24
De: J. W. Ocker
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The Lost City of Z
- A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
- De: David Grann
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 10 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 4,287
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,365
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 3,377
A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy of the Amazon. After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed New Yorker writer David Grann set out to find out what happened to the British explorer Percy Fawcett and his quest for the Lost City of Z.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Worthy Read for Armchair Explorers
- De Jennifer Seattle, WA en 03-01-09
De: David Grann
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Acid West
- Essays
- De: Joshua Wheeler
- Narrado por: Andrew Eiden
- Duración: 12 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 23
Early on July 16, 1945, Joshua Wheeler's great grandfather awoke to a flash, and then a long rumble: the world's first atomic blast filled the horizon north of his ranch in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Out on the range, the cattle had been bleached white by the fallout. Acid West, Wheeler's stunning debut collection of essays, is full of these mutated cows: vestiges of the Old West that have been transformed, suddenly and irrevocably, by innovation. Traversing the New Mexico landscape, Wheeler excavates and reexamines these oddities.
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5 out of 5 stars
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In The Year of our Lord 2018
- De Ruffkutt en 05-05-18
De: Joshua Wheeler
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The Lost City of the Monkey God
- A True Story
- De: Douglas Preston
- Narrado por: Bill Mumy
- Duración: 10 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,912
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 5,244
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,238
Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and they warn that anyone who enters this sacred city will fall ill and die.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Still Lost...
- De Mel en 01-12-17
De: Douglas Preston
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Ask a Historian
- 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know
- De: Greg Jenner
- Narrado por: Dan Schreiber, Greg Jenner, Janina Ramirez, y otros
- Duración: 11 h y 4 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 49
Responding to fifty genuine questions from the public, Greg Jenner takes you on an entertaining tour through history from the Stone Age to the Swinging Sixties, revealing the best and most surprising stories, facts and historical characters from the past. From ancient joke books, African empires and the invention of meringues, to mummies, mirrors and menstrual pads—Ask A Historian is a deliciously amusing and informative smorgasbord of historical curiosities.
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5 out of 5 stars
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best bonus content ever!
- De Matthew K Wendelken en 03-24-22
De: Greg Jenner
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The Dragon Behind the Glass
- A True Story of Power, Obsession, and the World's Most Coveted Fish
- De: Emily Voigt
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 7 h y 58 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 274
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 233
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 231
A young man is murdered for his prized pet fish. An Asian tycoon buys a single specimen for $150,000. Meanwhile, a pet detective chases smugglers through the streets of New York. Delving into an outlandish realm of obsession, paranoia, and criminality, The Dragon Behind the Glass tells the story of a fish like none other: a powerful predator dating to the age of the dinosaurs.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A "must read" for all fish professionals.
- De Fishgen en 06-26-16
De: Emily Voigt
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North Korea Undercover
- Inside the World's Most Secret State
- De: John Sweeney
- Narrado por: Gildart Jackson
- Duración: 10 h y 27 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 654
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 590
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 590
North Korea is like no other tyranny on Earth. Its citizens are told their home is the greatest nation in the world, and Big Brother is always watching. It is Orwell's 1984 made reality. Huge factories with no staff or electricity, hospitals with no patients, uniformed child soldiers, and the world-famous and eerily empty DMZ - the Demilitarized Zone, where North Korea ends and South Korea begins - are all framed by a relentless flow of regime propaganda from omnipresent loudspeakers. Free speech is an illusion: one word out of line, and the gulag awaits.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Highly listenable, humorous and enlightening
- De Kevin Stokes en 09-09-15
De: John Sweeney
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The Great Wall of China and the Salton Sea
- Monuments, Missteps, and the Audacity of Ambition
- De: Russell Rathbun
- Narrado por: Larry Herron
- Duración: 5 h y 48 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 23
We've been building and making things ever since we stumbled out of paradise. Some of those things are incredible continuations of God's creation, while others are nothing but ambitious catastrophes. We continue making, says Russell Rathbun, but we've lost ourselves in the process.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent narrator
- De Tammy en 03-17-18
De: Russell Rathbun
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Here Is Where
- Discovering America's Great Forgotten History
- De: Andrew Carroll
- Narrado por: Andrew Carroll
- Duración: 14 h y 2 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 68
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 61
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 60
The centerpiece of a major national campaign to indentify and preserve forgotten history, Here Is Where is acclaimed historian Andrew Carroll’s fascinating journey of discovery in which he travels to each of America’s 50 states and explores locations where remarkable individuals once lived or where the incredible or momentous occurred.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Man who Loves his Country
- De Daryl en 03-12-17
De: Andrew Carroll
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Secrets and Mysteries of the World
- De: Sylvia Browne
- Narrado por: Sylvia Browne
- Duración: 2 h y 38 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 160
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 82
For those of us who have always been fascinated by the unexplained, or inadequately explained, secrets and mysteries of this world, psychic Sylvia Browne now comes to our rescue. From the Great Pyramid to Stonehenge, Sylvia reveals amazing facts behind some of the world's most mysterious sites.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Utter, utter crap
- De Sebastiaan en 02-28-05
De: Sylvia Browne
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The Ascension Mysteries
- Revealing the Cosmic Battle Between Good and Evil
- De: David Wilcock
- Narrado por: David Wilcock
- Duración: 20 h y 28 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,449
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,302
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,298
David Wilcock's previous New York Times best sellers, The Source Field Investigations and The Synchronicity Key, used cutting-edge alternative science to reveal oft-hidden truths about our universe. In The Ascension Mysteries, David takes us on a gripping personal journey that describes the secret cosmic battle between positive and negative happening every day, hidden in both the traumas of our own lives and the world's headlines.
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2 out of 5 stars
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mentally agonizing, embarrassing, awkward, tedious
- De Diana en 09-01-16
De: David Wilcock
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Cunning Plans
- Talks by Warren Ellis
- De: Warren Ellis
- Narrado por: Sam Devereaux
- Duración: 1 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 88
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 79
Cunning Plans collects several of NYT best-selling author Warren Ellis' lectures on the nature of the haunted future and the secrets of deep history, given in recent years at events in London, New York, Los Angeles, and Berlin.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I Would Leave A Headline, But I Gotta Go And Learn
- De I.G. en 09-21-17
De: Warren Ellis
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A Voyage Long and Strange
- Rediscovering the New World
- De: Tony Horwitz
- Narrado por: John H. Mayer
- Duración: 17 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 252
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 188
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 186
On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz makes an unsettling discovery. A history buff since early childhood, expensively educated at university - a history major, no less! - he's reached middle age with a third-grader's grasp of early America. In fact, he's mislaid more than a century of American history, the period separating Columbus' landing in 1492 from the arrival of English colonists at Jamestown in 16-oh-something. Did nothing happen in between?
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1 out of 5 stars
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Just Not For Me
- De Sara en 10-25-15
De: Tony Horwitz
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The Book of General Ignorance
- De: John Mitchinson, John Lloyd
- Narrado por: uncredited
- Duración: 4 h y 20 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 435
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 328
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 328
Misconceptions, misunderstandings, and flawed facts finally get the heave-ho in this humorous, downright humiliating book of reeducation based on the phenomenal British best seller. Challenging what most of us assume to be verifiable truths in areas like history, literature, science, nature, and more, The Book of General Ignorance is a witty “gotcha” compendium of how little we actually know about anything. It’ll have you scratching your head wondering why we even bother to go to school.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting.
- De A. Hawkbird en 12-07-08
De: John Mitchinson, y otros
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The United States of Absurdity
- Untold Stories from American History
- De: Dave Anthony, Gareth Reynolds, Patton Oswalt - foreword
- Narrado por: Dave Anthony, Gareth Reynolds
- Duración: 2 h y 47 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 654
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 582
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 579
The creators of the podcast The Dollop present profiles of the weird, outrageous, NSFW, and downright absurd tales from American history that you weren't taught in school. The United States of Absurdity presents short, informative, and hilarious stories of the most outlandish (but true) people, events, and more from United States history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fun With Useless Facts
- De Keith en 05-21-17
De: Dave Anthony, y otros
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The Dinosaur Artist
- Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy
- De: Paige Williams
- Narrado por: Ellen Archer
- Duración: 12 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 145
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 130
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 130
In this 2018 New York Times Notable Book,Paige Williams "does for fossils what Susan Orlean did for orchids" (Book Riot) in her account of one Florida man's attempt to sell a dinosaur skeleton from Mongolia—a story "steeped in natural history, human nature, commerce, crime, science, and politics" (Rebecca Skloot).
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2 out of 5 stars
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More filler than Joan Rivers’ face.
- De Brandi en 03-13-19
De: Paige Williams
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Between Man and Beast
- An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure that Took the Victorian World By Storm
- De: Monte Reel
- Narrado por: Bob Walter
- Duración: 10 h y 39 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 89
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 77
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 77
In 1856 Paul Du Chaillu marched into the equatorial wilderness of West Africa determined to bag an animal that, according to legend, was nothing short of a monster. When he emerged three years later, the summation of his efforts only hinted at what he'd experienced in one of the most dangerous regions on earth. Armed with an astonishing collection of zoological specimens, Du Chaillu leapt from the physical challenges of the jungle straight into the center of the biggest issues of the time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extraordinary book! Masterpiece.
- De BVerité en 04-23-13
De: Monte Reel
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- Robert B. Golson
- 11-26-11
Disappointed!
I would most likely have given this book 5 stars, if I had read rather than listened. I love trivia and this book is filled with it, but the information is presented much too fast and in a somewhat disjointed style. The narration didn't help. The pace was much too rapid and I felt that the narrator (and I) were both out of breath from the first word. Full of wonderful arcane trivia but the pace was not comfortable and the information too dense. Get the hard copy!
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