A startling collection of historical trivia you'll never need to know.

The Utterly, Completely, and Totally Useless History Fact-O-Pedia

Federman, Rachel

Wilson, Emma

Lowe, Charlotte

History

HarperCollins, Publishers

Twelve year old Charlotte should have been going to school, playing with her friends and sleeping in a warm, dry bed. Instead, she was huddling in air raid shelters, running through the flames of burning buildings, and watching the skies for American fighter bombers.Charlotte's Story describes what life was like for a young German girl thousands of feet below the bomb sights of the Allied air forces. It offers a real and poignant glimpse of how the Second World War ripped apart an ordinary working class German family, and what it took to survive the homelessness, hunger and killing winter cold of the post-war years in Berlin.Written with the encouragement of her children and her husband, this book is dedicated to Charlotte's grandchildren and the future generations of her family-with a prayer that they will never have to run in her shoes.

Charlotte's Story: One girl's life in Germany from 1943-1951

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

iUniverse

Did you know that cats were once used to deliver mail in Belgium? That the “huddle” in football became popular after a deaf player began using it to prevent other teams from reading his sign language? That the average American eats 30 pounds of cheese in a year? Organized from A to Z, there are over 1,000 trivia tidbits for you to peruse. Start off with little-known facts about Aristotle and Barbie, and continue until you’ve discovered hidden gems about zombies, zippers, and more! Did you know that Levi Strauss originally intended to sell canvas tents to miners in California but ended up using the fabric to make what the prospectors really needed—pants? Or that a chicken in Colorado had its head cut off and managed to live for another two years? Did you know that if Americans were to switch just 10 percent of their total mileage to scooters, we would consume 14 million gallons less fuel and reduce CO2 emissions by 324 million pounds in just one day? Or that on May 15th, 1950, Coca-Cola became the first product ever to appear on the cover of Time magazine?

The Utterly, Completely, and Totally Useless Fact-O-Pedia: A Startling Collection of Over 1,000 Things You'll Never Need to Know

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

Skyhorse

Did you know: One of the more obvious typos in the U.S. Constitution is the misspelling of the word Pensylvania” above the names of the signatories; or that in 682 A.D. the drought was so bad that the Saxons in the south of England eventually ate their children! Organized from A to Z, there are more than 1,000 historical trivia tidbits for you to peruse. Start off with little known facts about Abraham Lincoln, and continue until you’ve discovered hidden gems about Yosemite National Park, Zeus, and more! The Utterly, Completely, and Totally Useless History Fact-O-Pedia is a treasure trove for the inquiring mind.

The Utterly, Completely, and Totally Useless History Fact-O-Pedia: A Startling Collection of Historical Trivia You'll Never Need to Know

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