Record details

• ISBN: 9780805056839
• ISBN: 0805056831
• ISBN: 9780805056846
• ISBN: 080505684X
• Physical Description: xi, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
• Edition: First edition
• Publisher: New York : H. Holt, 2000.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-353) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Tooth of the Buddha 3 -- Gold Larnax of King Philip II 12 -- Magna Carta 17 -- Stone of Scone 24 -- Essex Ring 31 -- Galileo's Middle Finger 39 -- George Washington's Schoolboy Copybooks 45 -- John Harrison's Fourth Marine Timekeeper 52 -- Virginia Declaration of Rights 57 -- Rising Sun Chair 65 -- Louisiana Purchase Treaty 74 -- Lewis and Clark Journals 81 -- Beethoven's Ear Trumpets 93 -- Harrison's Peace Pipes 97 -- John Adams's Pigtail 104 -- Doubleday Ball 121 -- Vendovi's Head 142 -- Battle Sword of Colonel Najera 152 -- Charles Dickens's Prompt-Copy of A Christmas Carol 158 -- First American Flag Raised in Japan 168 -- Emancipation Proclamation 178 -- Slices of Tom Thumb's Wedding Cake 186 -- Thomas Edison's Original Tinfoil Phonograph 195 -- Jesse James's Stickpin 203 -- Ulysses S. Grant's Smoking Stand 216 -- Jumbo the Elephant 223 -- Freud's Couch 226 -- Hoof of Fire Horse Number Twelve 231 -- "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" 235 -- Mark Twain's Orchestrelle 242 -- Zimmermann Telegram 247 -- Fourteen Points 253 -- Truce Flag That Ended World War I 261 -- Wyatt Earp's Drawing of the O.K. Corral Gunfight 266 -- Maltese Falcon 273 -- Monty's Battle Caravans 276 -- World War II Japanese Surrender Table 281 -- ENIAC 292 -- Marilyn Monroe's Billowing Dress from The Seven Year Itch 296 -- Elvis Presley's Purple Cadillac 303 -- Able the Space Monkey 307 -- Odyssey 314 -- Gun That Killed John Lennon 322.

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Subject:

History > Miscellanea.
Antiquities.

Genre:

Trivia and miscellanea.