How They Choked : : Failures, Flops, and Flaws of the Awfully Famous
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Marco Polo: staying alive (1254-1324) -- Queen Isabella of Spain: omg (1451-1504) -- King Montezuma II: oops, there go the Aztecs (1466-1520) -- Ferdinand Magellan: dead in the water -- Anne Boleyn: fatal attractions (1501-1536) -- Isaac Newton: the law's in town (1642-1727) -- Benedict Arnold: stinker, traitor, soldier, spy (1741-1801) -- Susan B. Anthony: she had a dream (1820-1906) -- George Armstrong Custer: dressed to kill (1839-1876) -- Thomas Alva Edison: shocking inventor (1847-1931) -- Vincent Van Gogh: least likely to succeed (1853-1890) -- J. Bruce Ismay: first-class coward (1862-1937) -- Joseph Jefferson Jackson ("Shoeless Joe"): game over (1887-1951) -- Amelia M. Earhart: winging it (1897-1937).
Presents a humorous look at the flaws and foibles of some of the most famous personalities of history, including such figures as Marco Polo, George Armstrong Custer, Thomas Edison, and Amelia Earhart.
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How they choked submitted by minghsuan on August 28, 2021, 3:32pm Very cool to learn how famous people died, the facts around it, and it was cool seeing how they dug up so many facts (and not bones).
PUBLISHED
New York : Walker Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Bloomsbury, [2014]
Year Published: 2014
Description: 200 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780802734884
0802734898
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
O'Malley, Kevin.
SUBJECTS
History -- Errors, inventions, etc.
Celebrities -- Conduct of life.
Decision making.