What are the Seven Wonders of the World?: And 100 Other Great Cultural Lists--Fully ExplicatedCan you name...Newton's 3 laws of motion?The 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse?The 5 pillars of Islam? The 6 wives of Henry VIII?The 7 kinds of plane triangles? The 8 Beatitudes?If you're not sure about the answers to the above, this is the book for you. A compendium of 101 culturally significant particulars from the fields of mythology, religion, literature, history, science, mathematics, art, and music, What Are the 7 Wonders of the World? is a stimulating fusion of facts and fun that makes for an invaluable reference and an entertaining diversion. Questions are grouped in sections according to the number of items in their answer (all the 3s, all the 4s, all the 5s, etc.), so that the answers are in the form of easily memorized lists. You won't find Luther's 95 theses, or the 264 Popes, for example, but you will find everything from the 3 sons of Adam and Eve all the way up to the 24 letters of the ancient Greek alphabet. This clever format lends itself well to quizzing and guessing, which gives it a deliciously sophisticated parlor-game quality. But for those who wish to delve a little deeper, there are thoughtful essays to go with each answer that include fascinating details and place the list in its larger cultural or historical context. Much more than a book of trivia, What Are the 7 Wonders of the World? offers a grand overview of the knowledge needed to appreciate many of the finest things in our cultural and intellectual life. |
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... Americans sorely needed this help , since the Continental Navy was tiny , unschooled , and undisciplined , although it had an exceptional officer in John Paul Jones . American privateers - pirates with licenses from Congress - were more ...
... Americans sorely needed this help , since the Continental Navy was tiny , unschooled , and undisciplined , although it had an exceptional officer in John Paul Jones . American privateers - pirates with licenses from Congress - were more ...
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... American and 110,000 Japanese troops were dead - about one sixth of these being incinerated or sealed in caves by U.S. forces using flamethrowers and explosives . Meanwhile American warplanes were pummeling Japan from the sky ...
... American and 110,000 Japanese troops were dead - about one sixth of these being incinerated or sealed in caves by U.S. forces using flamethrowers and explosives . Meanwhile American warplanes were pummeling Japan from the sky ...
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... American military so - called advisers were in South Viet- nam by the end of 1962 . In August 1964 , after President Johnson announced that North Vietnamese gunboats had fired on two American destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin , Congress ...
... American military so - called advisers were in South Viet- nam by the end of 1962 . In August 1964 , after President Johnson announced that North Vietnamese gunboats had fired on two American destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin , Congress ...
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What are the 7 Wonders of the World? Peter D'Epiro,Mary Desmond Pinkowish No preview available - 1998 |
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