You probably thought you couldn't stand any more genius in one lifetime. Well, fasten your intellectual seat belts! Inside you'll find 100% guaranteed top quality brilliance on every page, as he winsomely and wisely answers questions like these: Can people really hear radio broadcasts through their teeth? What does Queen Elizabeth carry in that purse, anyway? So how DO porcupines mate? And many more. When you hear the answers, you'll be glad someone asked the questions.

    No more agonizing choices between light reading and the serious stuff. No more flipping through all six of the other Bathroom Readers looking for a page you haven't already read. The seventh volume has it all: Entertainment, humor, education, trivia, pop culture, history… and more! And it's still divided by length—you can spend a minute with the Quickies, relax with Regular-Length articles, or get really comfortable with Long Items.With Uncle John's Seventh Bathroom Reader strategically placed next to that other important fixture in your bathroom, you'll settle in happily and read about:-The Truth About the Bermuda Triangle-The Strange Fate of the Dodo Bird-How to Guess Someone's Age-Six Real "Bad Hair Days"-Why Your Feet Smell-The Birth of Spam-Pirate Legends-& a Host of Other Great Bathroom Topics!For years, the Bathroom Reader's Institute has researched your bathroom reading habits in an attempt to understand and serve the interests of America's forgotten readers. Enjoy!

    A celebration of the popular soap opera's twenty-fifth anniversary shares profiles of its major cast members, interviews, and discussions of themes and plot lines.

    Subjects range from weird laws concerning women's feet to sexual phobias, from notable criminals' last meals to celebrity sightings of UFOs.

    A heapin' helpin' of hillbilly vittles! Illustrated and indexed.

    The only woman to receive a graduate degree from ecologist Aldo Leopold, Hamerstrom illustrates the hardships of implementing a conservation mentality and provides glimpses of both the wildlife world and the human one which studies it.

    Find ways to contact celebrities like Brad Pitt or Barbra Streisand. Plus the results of this year's winners of the Oscars and Emmy's. It's all here.

    From primitive discoveries such as fire and the wheel, to modern creations such as the jet engine and computers - this book contains them all. And, for your edification and amusement, some of the world's great inventing disasters are described as well. Once you've read about the 53 things, you will find out which is the half invention that will someday change the lives of millions.

    

    45 photos.

    Thousands of things you didn't know you needed to know.

    

    Even in a country that extols individualism, the antics, escapades and quirky behavior of these 140 characters provide surprises, shocks and thoroughly amusing insights into human nature. Lively, poignant and often hilarious, Great American Eccentrics tells the tales of the strangest and most peculiar figures in our history.