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Known Unknowns.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Havertown :
Booth-Clibborn Editions,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Jumping from a burning building, a mother dies, a child survives.; Smog in China is so thick, a factory fire went unnoticed for three hours.; There are more gun stores in America than McDonald's and Starbucks combined.; The last jew.; Fashionable ladies don't wear fur, they wear meat.; A deaf boy hears first sound.; You can be your own mummy.; 131 passengers on the train. One fatality: the woman on the street below.; A crowd of 30,000 wait for hours to see the last public hanging in America.; The bus that was blitzed in Balham.; The iceberg that sunk the Titanic.
- Hunted to near extinction, a bounty of buffalo skulls. Meet Robo Rat, the first living remote controlled rodent.; The Klan on the march in Washington, 1925.; A 150-ton boat flung like a rag doll.; What to wear hunting bear in 19th century Siberia.; A 70 million car crash.; A trainee bodyguard in China gets a bottle smashed across her head.; Out for the count.; Win a date with a rapist serial killer.; Fresh air is important for babies.; After the bombs fell on Dresden.; Better to kill yourself, than be gang-raped and murdered.; Down the drain.
- A shower of confiscated liquor, Detroit 1929 during prohibition. It's not the matador's tongue. It's the bull's horn penetrating the roof of his mouth.; Ladies who like a ladykiller.; A home-made Columbian submarine for transporting cocaine.; Huntington Beach, California, wasn't always Surf City.; A survivor of the nuclear bomb test in Nevada desert, 1955.; Rush hour in Taipei lasts all day.; Black slaves built the White House.; Each day in Afghanistan costs the U.S. government more than it did to build the Pentagon.; A last kiss for a soldier, killed 23 days later by bomb shrapnel.
- Dying for a bread roll. The short life of Elizabeth Short.; Madame Tussaud's effigies that survived the fire in March 1925.; The most monstrous man in Japan.; The jilted bride.; They locked the factory doors to prevent their child workers leaving or pilfering. Then a fire ignited ... ; The innocence of Adolf Hitler.; A crane saved by a man pretending to be its mother.; Seven different lions have starred in the MGM logo since 1924. This is Daisy.; Ruth Snyder's last moments inside the execution chamber, Sing Sing correctional facility, New York, 1928.
- The message her parents wrote on her forehead. A pair of shoes made from unique animal skin.; In Russia, a criminal's body is their autobiography.; What's inside your fridge, Mr Dahmer?; How many electricians are killed by electricity every day?; Before Photoshop was invented, there was Dalí.; A train robber's coffin, 1890, displayed as a deterrent to others by the railroad owners.; Meet the Mansons.; After the war, who were the most wanted Nazis?; An ant's eye-view of the inside of a violin.; Before they transplanted a human heart, they transplanted a dog's head.