Ripleys Believe It Or Not: The Remarkable Revealed is the 4th title in this annual series, and is the biggest and best yet. It is full of incredible bizarre facts, stories, interviews, and features, all proudly displayed in a stunning bright new design. New features include: Collections full-page features that showcase a themed collection of ...
The fascinating files of Robert Ripley prove there is nothing stranger than the truth. This collection contains more creepy facts and crazy feats than ever before. Photos.
The Mammoth Book of Dirty, Sick, X-Rated and Politically Incorrect Jokes is the ultimate collection of X-rated and decidedly politically incorrect jokesan indispensable guide to the funny, the fearless and the filthy. Be warned, the contents of this spanking new bumper book are not for the faint-hearted or easily offended. This unique and up-to ...
Written with the droll, dry wit that's so characteristically English, this book discusses the creative genesis of this popular TV program, treats readers to tales and anecdotes from its directors and stage hands, and covers the many inventive ways the saga of Grace Brothers was spun off in various media over the past two decades. 109 photos, 64 in ...
"Ballykissangel" is one of the BBC's most successful TV series. This book goes behind the scenes to discover the origins of the series, how the location was chosen and what the locals think of the show, as well as presenting interviews with the cast and crew.
More than eight decades after the most famou s sinking of all time, interest in the Titanic tragedy remai ns strong. This book will tell the story of the ship, from i ts inception to its sinking, continuing the story to the pre sent day. '
Before 25 December 2004, while many people knew what a tsunami was, few had any idea of the wholesale destruction that one could cause. All of that changed as a powerful earthquake deep in the Indian Ocean triggered the deadliest tsunami in history. Over an area of more than 2,000 miles, entire towns were flattened and at least 150,000 people ...
Would you Adam and Eve it? Over a hundred years after it was first heard on the streets of Ye Olde London Towne, Cockney rhyming slang is still going strong, and this book contains the most comprehensive and entertaining guide yet. Presented in an easy-to-read A to Z format, it explains the meaning of hundreds of terms, from old favourites such as ...
To mark the 2004 Olympics in Athens, The Olympics' Strangest Moments recounts the bizarre, controversial, inept, heroic and plain unlucky from the first modern games in 1896 to the glorles of Sydney 2000. The world's greatest sporting occasion has been packed with unusual occurrences as well as creating unlikely heroes such as Dorando Pietri, who ...
The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners contains the ultimate, most comprehensive compendium of humor ever compiled. From shaggy-dog stories to jokes for roasts and toasts, virtually every form of verbal humor on a whole raft of topics is represented in this not totally politically correctbut always divertingcollection of ticklers and ...
Containing over 6000 entries, arranged by topic and fully indexed by subject this book represents a great store of jokes, toasts, after dinner stories and quotations.
Through survivors' tales and contemporary newspaper reports from both sides of the Atlantic, this book strips away the Hollywood gloss and tells the real story of the "unsinkable" "Titanic."
A collection of true stories of legal, judicial and criminal incompetence which gives an insight into the tragedy of miscarriage of justice and the problem of those who abuse their power. It gives examples of the bizarre incompetence of some criminals and also ill-advised prosecutions where cases are thrown out of court or bring in damages worth a ...
In 1894, when the motley assortment of steam and petrol-powered vehicles lined up at the start of the trial from Paris to Rouen, motor-racing's colourful history was launched. Many of the pioneering events were death-defying, trans-continental marathons, in which the competitors were obliged to negotiate basic dirt tracks, muddy bogs, fast-flowing ...
A bumper collection of 450 side-splitting cartoons, cherrypicked from around the world, The Mammoth Book of the Funniest Cartoons of All Time includes work by all the great favorites, such as Peter Arno, Posy Simmonds, Charles Addams, and Ros Asquith, as well as over 50 other remarkable talents. This book is arranged by theme, from Sport and Sex ...
Just as the monarchy has been hereditary in many countries, so insanity has been hereditary in many monarchs. 'Royalty's Strangest Characters' recalls over 2000 years of crazy kings and potty potentates, including such infamous characters as Caligula, Vlad the Impaler and George III, along with other less well-known but equally bizarre rulers.
No longer relegated to oblivion, the rubbish runs and shameful seasons of the world's worst football teams are championed in Crap Teams. Even the best clubs have the odd off-day and, as this book proves, having a full-to-bursting trophy cabinet, or even a tabloid darling on the ball, is just no guarantee of sporting success. From globally popular ...
'He dribbles a lot and the opposition doesn't like it - you can see it all over their faces' - Ron Atkinson. 'Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the city centre' - Oscar Wilde. Whether over the moon or sick as a parrot, sportsmen and women can invariably be relied upon to come out with an amusing quote...even if it's not ...
Are you still struggling to set the clock on your video recorder? Are you worried that the times are moving without you and you're simply being dragged kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century? Does the thought of using an iPod or Blackberry make your palms sweaty? Or does the idea of going into Starbucks for a coffee strike fear in ...
Mount Everest is renowned as a symbol of the ultimate challenge for mountaineers. This book chronicles the story of Everest and some of the characters who have attempted to conquer it.'
Television's "Soldier Soldier" has always been a character-led drama. Following the lives of the King's Own Fusiliers from the time of their induction as new recruits in the first series, it places strong emphasis on their relationships with their wives and girlfriends. This book chronicles the lives - public and private - of the key characters in ...
From the Grace brothers via Denis Compton, Keith Miller and Fred Trueman to Shane Warne, Andrew Flintoff and Kevin Pietersen, cricket has produced a stream of memorable characters over the past 150 years. "Cricket's Greatest Characters" chronicles the exploits of around seventy-five of the game's most potent personalities - comedians, ...
This book tells the stories behind some of the world's most disastrous financial mistakes, from the collapse of business empires, like DeLorean, through huge corporate errors like New Coke an the Ford Edsel down to smaller yet still embarrassing business bloopers.
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