I loved this book as it enabled me to discover some of the mysteries behind famous Australian unsolved crimes, long-held secrets, buried treasure, and strange happenings in both the bush and the city.
Stories include riddles of lost explorers, unexplained phenomena, unsolved crimes, long-held secrets, hidden tunnels, and wartime tales. I was fascinated by these mysteries that are taken from across the nation, and reading about them brought them to life for me.
Australia has always been a land of mysteries. Some are ancient, some are historical, and many continue to perplex us today - and will probably continue to do so tomorrow.
More often than most of us would like to think, things simply vanish, and people disappear without explanation, leaving a trail of heartbreak across generations. Australia also has its fair share of buried loot and fabulous riches gone missing - somewhere.
Master storyteller Graham Seal has gathered mysteries from around Australia. There are riddles of lost explorers, unexplained phenomena, and yarns of fish, frogs or pebbles falling from the sky.…
I found this book to be extremely entertaining. It roams through history with amazing tales of what might have happened if events had been changed only slightly.
It showed me just how much of history turned out to be the consequences of fortune, accident, or luck. These anecdotes demonstrated to me how a small ripple could create such enormous waves in the history of the planet.
New York Times Bestseller! A compendium about tiny ripples that created big waves in history. What was Hitler’s real name? Which famous artist was mistakenly thought to be stillborn, until his uncle revived him by blowing cigar smoke in his face? And what were Albert Einstein’s last words?
Hilarious, fascinating, and a roller coaster of dizzying historical what-ifs and lesser-known anecdotes, Napoleon’s Hemorrhoids is a potpourri for serious historians and casual history buffs that reveals how much of history turned out to be the consequences of fortune, accident, or luck.
Here, you’ll learn that Communist jets were two minutes away…
I loved this book as I was fascinated by its stories of the entertaining lives of British and other European aristocrats, highlighting their madness and providing tales of murder, misery, greed, and profligacy.
Even though I am a historian, I was unaware of just how eccentric these hellraisers were and their participation in blood sports, duels, and high-stakes gambling. It is a book that I will probably read a second time as I found the first instance so enjoyable.
The alarming history of the British, and European, aristocracy - from Argyll to Wellington and from Byron to Tolstoy, stories of madness, murder, misery, greed and profligacy.
From Regency playhouses, to which young noblemen would go simply in order to insult someone to provoke a duel that might further their reputation, to the fashionable gambling clubs or 'hells' which were springing up around St James's in the mid-eighteenth century, the often bizarre doings of aristocrats.
An eighteenth-century English gentleman was required to have what was known as 'bottom', a shipping metaphor that referred to stability. Taking part in a duel…
This book testifies to the women who have played a vital role in the development of computing, although, at times, their participation has gone unrecognized. Their scholarly inventiveness and discoveries have provided a rich tapestry to add to the evolution of computer science worldwide. These women are viewed through the lens of their time, placing their achievements in context throughout the past few centuries.
These significant contributions by women date from the earliest times, and this volume brings together the stories of those who have left their mark despite the significant hurdles they faced. There are numerous tales of remarkable women in computing, and their incredible achievements serve as an encouragement to others who yearn to follow in their footsteps.
