A compendium of incredible and bizarre facts, stories, interviews and features, presented in a stunning new design, this book also offers access to Ripley's fully integrated Web site featuring astounding video clips.
A compendium of incredible and bizarre facts, stories, interviews and features, presented in a stunning new design, this book also offers access to Ripley's fully integrated Web site featuring astounding video clips.
Revised and updated, in a new format for the 2017-18 season, The Little Book of Liverpool FC celebrates the club's continued success at home and abroad.
Non ha bisogno di niente", "Resiste a tutto", "Fiorisce ogni anno". Quante volte abbiamo comprato e messo nel nostro giardino o sul nostro balcone piante e fiori fidandoci di queste indicazioni, per poi scoprire che hanno bisogno di più cure di un bonsai e la cui unica possibilità di sopravvivere all'inverno è di stare in una serra, perché fuori più di un anno non ce la fanno, e solo a patto che chiocciole e altri animaletti si siano messi a d...
A rollicking collection of true stories of the most outrageous monarchs the world has ever known, including the Roman Emperor Caligula, who was unspeakably cruel to his subjects but worshipped his horse, Charles VI of France, convinced he was made of glass, and Frederick William I of Prussia, who recruited Europe's tallest men for his private army.
This is the graphic, first-hand story of the maiden voyage and disastrous sinking of the RMS Titanic, told by the survivors themselves. The story of the sinking of the great liner has been told countless times since that fateful night on April 14, 1912, by historians, novelists, and film producers alike, but no account is as graphic or revealing as those from the people who were actually there. Through survivors' tales and contemporary newspap...
For 60 years the Eurovision Song Contest has existed in a parallel universe where a song about the construction of a hydro-electric power station is considered cutting-edge pop, where half a dozen warbling Russian grandmothers are considered Saturday night entertainment, where a tune repeating the word 'la' 138 times is considered a winner, and where Australia is considered part of Europe. During those sixty years we have witnessed scandals: i...
A handbook to moaning and groaning through modern life, which celebrates grumps, explains how to identify them, what they find so irritating and why we find their rants so amusing.
Under the guise of passing on their experience to family members, neighbors, or even casual acquaintances, older folks exercise their right to swear, cuss, and insult as they please. This humorous collection of wisdom from elders will prove that with increasing age and gray hair comes a newfound confidence to speak one's mind.
A pocket-sized collection of amusing gaffes about getting old, including jokes from such 'senior' luminaries as George Burns, Winston Churchill, Joan Rivers, George Melly, Dorothy Parker and many more.
A giant humorous collection of funny news stories, whacky phenomena, hilarious blunders and gaffes--over 1000 extraordinary cases from around the world. Who needs urban legends, when these are all true? It's everything readers love about Ripley's Believe it or Not! with an added punch of humor.
A bumper collection of 8000 silly jokes for the whole family, covering every subject under the sun. A book for everyone to enjoy at Christmas, from a bestselling joke author.