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Oh, Yikes!: History's Grossest, Wackiest Moments

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By Joy Masoff
Publisher Workman Publishing Company, Incorporated
Oh, Yikes!: History's Grossest, Wackiest Moments
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Gross is back and viler than ever! From the author of Oh, Yuck! the perennial bestseller about science with over 610,000 copies in print, comes OH, YIKES!, an illustrated encyclopedia of historys 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 worlds poxiest plagues. Impeccably researched, deliciously wry, and subversively educational (check out the toiletpaper timeline), OH, YIKES! covers people, events, institutions, and really bad ideas, alphabetically from April Fools Day to zany Zoos. Here are the Aztecs, sacrificing 250,000 people a year for the godsand 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 11thcentury dogking 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 cant see whats crawling in your food), and the answer to thequestion, How did knights in armor go to the bathroom? Topped off with hundreds of illustrations and photographs along with handson activities that bring the past to life, OH, YIKES! puts the juice in history in a way thatmakes it irresistible.

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141738 words141,738 words
308 pages308 pages
Lexile IG990LLexile IG990L
Published 2006Published 2006

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