Books written by Jack Mingo

Just Curious, Jeeves: What are the 1001 Most Intriguing Questions Asked on the Internet?

MY FAIR LADY When did the London Bridge fall down ? IT DIDN'T FALL ; it was pushed . Or to be technical , it was pulled , back when the Danes controlled London in the year 1014. Their enemies , the Saxons and the Norwegians , rowed ...

The Couch Potato Guide to Life: Better Living Through Television

He states : worse , Donahue declares . The • “ Military spending in the relatively few pieces of video United States is nearly $ 1,000 for equipment that survived a direct nuclear blast would be rendered every man , woman and Tater Tot ...

Doctors Killed George Washington: Hundreds of Fascinating Facts from the World of Medicine

Hundreds of Fascinating Facts from the World of Medicine Erin Barrett, Jack Mingo. Gillis. Hospitals. date back to at least 437 B.C.E., when one was established in Ceylon. A memorial in India from the third century B.C. honors King ...

Just Curious about Science, Jeeves

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Special thanks to : Amanda Ayers Barnett Paolo Pepe Donna O'Neill Kathlyn McGreevy Marcos Sorensen Spencer Snyder Penny Finnie Jacquie Harrison Steve Berkowitz John Dollison Anne Kinney Jerry & Lynn Barrett Elana Mingo ...

Al Capone was a Golfer: Hundred of Fascinating Facts From the World of Golf

15,000 : The asking price by a sports memorabilia firm for a revolver used in the suicide of Clifford Roberts . Roberts was co - founder of the Masters Golf Tournament and its chairman from 1931 until his death in 1977.

It Takes a Certain Type to be a Writer: Facts from the World of Writing and Publishing

Mystery writer Mary Roberts Rinehart was nothing if not prolific . In 1903 . she published her first short story . Before the year was out she had published forty - four more . When Ray Bradbury began writing , he didn't own a ...

Dracula Was a Lawyer: Hundreds of Fascinating Facts from the World of Law

With more than five hundred fascinating facts about law through the ages and colorful characters in courtroom history, Dracula Was a Lawyer is filled with compelling quips and stories about lawyers we love to hate (until we need one!), the ...

W. C. Privy's Original Bathroom Companion, Number 2

For example, a St. Nicholas poem he wrote for his own daughter (see box) threatened that her “screeches and screams, so loud every day / Were near driving me and my goodies away....” (A genuine Santa Claus poem by Clement C. Moore) ...

Just Curious About History, Jeeves

Germany smuggled them back in, figuring it was the easiest way of getting Russia out of World War I. Even though Czar Nicholas had abdicated, the provisional government that took over continued fighting in World War I. Sowing seeds of ...

Random Kinds of Factness: 1001 (or So) Absolutely True Tidbits About (Mostly) Everything

In 1944, Flight Sergeant Nicholas Alkemade jumped from his flaming British Lancaster bomber and fell 17,000 feet without a parachute. Miraculously, he bounced off a fir tree, landed in a snow bank, and survived without even breaking a ...

W. C. Privy's Original Bathroom Companion

What happened in the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr? America's most infamous duel took place on July 11, 1804 in Weehawken, New Jersey. Burr and Hamilton had become political rivals when Burr won a Senate seat that had ...

W. C. Privy's Original Bathroom Companion, Number 2

Gary DuSchl and his record-breaking gum wrapper chain. Find out more at http://www.gumwrapper.com/. O Eyewitness | WATCHED THE S.S. TITANIC Go DOWN Margaret. & o . . Virginia, began a gum wrapper chain. Thirty-eight years later, ...

Bees Make the Best Pets: All the Buzz About Being Resilient, Collaborative, Industrious, Generous, and Sweet–Straight from the Hive

And here are just some of the reasons bees make the best pets: • They don’t bark and whine all night if you leave them in the backyard. In fact, they rather prefer it. • Bees don’t demand petting, attention, or a food dish.