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"Take an excursion through the weird, the wry, and the wonderful idiosyncrasies that comprise the Big D. From the Playboy Marfa bunny-with-a-muscle-car sculpture, to the ceaseless failed attempts to navigate the Trinity River, to the invention of the computer chip and German chocolate cake, Dallas is the birthplace of the whimsical, the wistful, and the profound. "Secret Dallas" answers questions about Big D you never knew you had, catapulting you...
1543) Atlas de curiosidades
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¿Donde se hallan los seres vivos más letales? ¿Donde se encuentran los volcanes más activos? ¿Dónde está el lugar más cálido del planeta? ¿Dónde viven los milmillonarios? Encuentra las respuetas a estas y a miles de fascinantes preguntas en este increíble atlas sobre casi todo"--Page [4] of cover.
1545) 12 suspenseful mysteries
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Twelve puzzling mysteries, some centuries old, that remain unsolved. Yet people today still wonder about them and try to find answers.
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"The Liberty Bell, Gettysburg, and Independence Hall may stand out as prominent Pennsylvania features, but the Keystone State is also home to bizarre places, personalities, events, and phenomena. These unique and quirky aspects are humorously displayed in Pennsylvania Curiosities, a cross between a wacky news gazette, an almanac, and a humorous travel guide"--Amazon.com, viewed June 18, 2013.
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Who is the fastest person on two limbs? Who is the fastest person on four limbs? Learn these things and more alongside super cool and colorful photographs. This title is sure to attract your reluctant readers! Complete with a table of contents, glossary, index, and even more facts!
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The Mythbusting Team, including their fearless leaders Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, serves up its share of explosive entertainment, blowing up myths with bazookas, RPGs, C4, and of course, a toilet bomb. But no collection would be complete without things that drive and fly, hence the rigorous test-driving of some green machines, and we ain't talking color, plus a duct-tape airplane, and did we mention the rocket sled?
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Featuring programs from hit series Brain Games; Duck Quacks Don't Echo; and The Numbers Game, it combines science and entertaining, interactive experiments and games to reveal the amazing inner workings of the 'crown jewel' of the human body. The Brain Games sizes up the human brain through mind-boggling experiments, optical illusions, and brain teasers.
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Disney kingdoms seekers of the weird volume 2
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"When their parent's were kidnapped by Despoina and the sinister Shadow Society, Maxwell and Melody Keep followed their mysterious Uncle Roland through a portal to the Museum of the Weird, a vast depository of the world's most powerful--and threatening--supernatural objects."--Title page.
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