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Strange Facts About the Bible

Religion & Spirituality

Webb Garrison

Religious Studies

ABINGDON PRESS *

The stories behind everday phrases. 445 Fascinating Word Origins is an eye- opening and ever-entertaining encyclopedia of stories behind some of our most common words and phrases. Many scholars have devoted their activity to the etymology of rarely used or complex words, but Mr. Garrison's collection focuses on the words and phrases we now use and will continue to use into the 3rd millennium.

445 Fascinating Word Origins

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Galahad Books

True stories of unusual happenings during the American Civil War. In 1861, Wilmer McLean, distressed that a cannon ball crashed through his home during the battle of Bull Run, moved to a farm where "the sound of battle would never again reach him and his family." Almost four years later, McLean's Appomattox Court House home was used for Lee's surrender to Grant. There wasn't damage from cannon balls, but souvenir-hunting Union officers left McLean's parlor bare of furniture.After the Confederacy was defeated, Jefferson Davis was stripped of his citizenship. He died as a man without a country. His citizenship was restored by Congress during the administration of Georgian Jimmy Carter.Three members of the Guillet family were killed while riding the same horse, which was then given to the Ohio Ninety-eighth regiment. Three officers were killed while riding the same horse. Lieutenant Milliner, the senior officer left on the field, then jumped on the jinxed horse. He escaped death, but suffered all his life from an arm shatterred by a minie ball while he was in the saddle.Civil War Curiosities uncovers those unusual persons, attitudes, and events that take you beyond a textbook understanding of the Civil War. A collection of fascinating anecdotes and colorful stories, this book covers a wide variety of subjects, including "newfangled" weapons that changed the nature of war, the press' outrageous inaccuracy in covering the conflict, the phenomenon of "silent battles, " and various disguises, atrocities, and mix-ups.

Civil War Curiosities

History

Americas

Barnes and Noble Books

Why You Say It

Fine book (as noted) in Near Fine jacket. See scans and description. New York: MJF Books,1992. First Edition, Seventh Printing. Webb Garrison's 'Why You Say It. The Fascinating Stories Behind Over 600 Everyday Words and Phrases'. Octavo, illustrated jacket, red and white boards with metallic red spine imprinting, wraps, ix + 1 + 356 pp. Fine, flawless book, though with a rather appealing gift inscription at the ffep, in thin artful green; otherwise, impeccable. Near Fine, unclipped jacket has one closed 1/4" cut at spine top, is otherwise Fine. A fun collection of explicative trivia from Garrison. See scans. L12n

Why You Say It: The Fascinating Stories Behind Over 600 Everyday Words and Phrases

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