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S'està carregant… The Interesting Bits: The History You Might Have Missed (edició 2007)de Justin Pollard
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. If your friends roll their eyes and change the subject when you try to tell them who Downing Street is named for, or how a French lawyer successfully defended a horde of rats in court, or even where the term ‘Nosy Parker’ came from, well, you might need to get some new friends... http://icantstopreading.blogspot.com/2008/02/interesting-bits-by-justin-pollard.... History is often presented either as a dry list of people and dates or as a web of interconnectedness and 'cause and effect' beyond the comprehension of anyone without a degree in the subject.But it can, and should be so much more according to the author of this book. Each entry is an answer to a question which might be posed in an episode of QI, and the answers are rarely more than a page or two in length.Examples include 'Which English Kings exploded?' and 'Which Pope was accused of piracy?'.An enjoyable exploration of alternative history focusing on the amusing rather than the geo-political. If your friends roll their eyes and change the subject when you try to tell them who Downing Street is named for, or how a French lawyer successfully defended a horde of rats in court, or even where the term ‘Nosy Parker’ came from, well, you might need to get some new friends... http://icantstopreading.blogspot.com/2008/02/interesting-bits-by-justin-pollard.... Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
Did you give school history lessons your undivided attention? Even if you did, youre probably none the wiser as to how exactly Henry II of France came to have a two-foot splinter in his head or why Alexandra of Bavaria believed she had swallowed a piano. Or where terms like bunkum, maverick, John Bull and taking the mickey come from; or how the Tsarina of Russia once saved a life with a comma; or why Robert Pate hit Queen Victoria on the head with a walking stick. For some unknown reason the most interesting bits of history are kept out of lessons and away from syllabuses. Relegated to historys footnotes, they lie buried beneath the dense text like a few golden nuggets in a mountain of granite. Now The Interesting Bits rights this wrong; it is a veritable treasure trove of those surprising, eccentric, chaotic, baffling asides that dont fit neatly into historys official narrative. They are historys little-known treasures the gems that generations of teachers have excised from lessons on the grounds that they might make history too much like well fun. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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