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 Oh,
Yikes! History's Grossest, Wackiest Moments by Joy Masoff is an
illustrated encyclopedia of history’ s messiest, dumbest, grossest, wackiest,
and weirdest moments. If kids think pus and gas are fun, wait until they hear
the lowdown on the real Dracula, samurai, gladiators, guillotines and
vomitoriums, pirates, Vikings, witch trials, and the world’ s poxiest plagues.
Impeccably researched, deliciously wry, and subversively educational (check out
the toilet-paper timeline), Oh, Yikes! covers people, events,
institutions, and really bad ideas, alphabetically from April Fool’ s Day to
zany Zoos. Here are the Aztecs, sacrificing 250,000 people a year for the gods—
and for food. Fearsome Attila the Hun, scourge of the steppes whose spinning
eyes terrified his friends and whose mastery of horses terrorized his enemies
(how does someone so evil die? Nosebleed!). Saur, the 11th-century dog-king of
Norway (and not too bad as kings go). Henry VIII and his marital problems, the
story of the Abominable Snowman and the Loch Ness Monster, why sailors in the
old days preferred eating in the dark (hint: you can’ t see what’ s crawling in
your food), and the answer to the question, “ How did knights in armor go to the
bathroom?”
Topped off with hundreds of illustrations and photographs along with hands-on
activities that bring the past to life, Oh, Yikes! puts the juice in
history in a way that makes it irresistible.
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Paper, 320 pages. 10.7"x8.5"x0.8"
#6842 $14.95 $13.45
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